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New comment by manithree in "Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI"

manithree — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:19:58 +0000

They may not right now, but the whole point of Microsoft's Copilot+ PC standard (even though it's somewhat anemic) is to run models locally. Apple Silicon with enough unified memory is capable. Not to mention modern iPhones and Pixels have fairly capable NPUs and routinely run local models. So, we may not be to the point where most normal people have the hardware to run local models, but it is rapidly approaching.

New comment by manithree in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

manithree — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:59:40 +0000

That's a lot of words to leave me completely unconvinced that Chrome is better than Firefox for an open www.

New comment by manithree in "Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It"

manithree — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:32:38 +0000

I like the idea (hate the site), but what does it do to my battery life?

New comment by manithree in "macOS Container Machines"

manithree — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:59:15 +0000

Nobody said SCO sued BSD or BSD users. USL sued BSD and UC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.....) long before the SCO lawsuits.

New comment by manithree in "Words of Type"

manithree — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:34:41 +0000

This is the kind of advertising I can appreciate. Useful, even some uncommon information showcasing purchasable products.

I'd never buy a font advertised here (I've never needed a font that wasn't free bad enough to pay money for one), but it's pull, not push, so kudos.

New comment by manithree in "L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility"

manithree — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:04:15 +0000

As a big fan of WordPerfect on my first DOS machine (286 clone), I agree. I respect authors like GRRM for sticking with WordStar, but whenever I get nostalgic and wondering about WordPerfect in DosBox, I remember I use emacs and typst. All the good things about WordPerfect, but vastly superior.

New comment by manithree in "Parallel agents in Zed"

manithree — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:43:20 +0000

Doesn't really count, but: https://gram.liten.app/

New comment by manithree in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

manithree — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:37:59 +0000

This. I ran Linux at work until last year, when it was finally disallowed. I went with locked-down Mac over locked-down Windows.

New comment by manithree in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

manithree — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:14:49 +0000

LOL. In 2007, I did a side-by-side comparison of SVN, Mercurial and git with my codebase at work (~700k LOC). I know hg got faster eventually, but I still can't believe people say "hg should have won the DVCS war" with a straight face. It was orders of magnitude slower in my tests. Like, 20 minutes to commit large xml files (yeah, I know, but that's where we were). Not just a few ms slower, unbearably slow for several things.

I liked its features better, but chose git, and that was the correct decision.

New comment by manithree in "Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers"

manithree — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:44:44 +0000

I feel bad for people who reject Windows 11 on moral grounds. They'll likely fall behind, while also having to live in a world increasingly built around something they see as immoral.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok-being-left-behind-tha...

New comment by manithree in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"

manithree — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:55:17 +0000

I remember sitting in a senior seminar class in 1989 full of CS students. We were solemnly informed by a very earnest IBM employee that we would regret having majored in computer science because IBM's CASE tools were going to kill job market. That aged like milk.

Will something come along some day that will actually drastically reduce the need for programmers/developers/software engineers? Maybe. Are we there yet? My LLM experience makes me seriously doubt it.

New comment by manithree in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

manithree — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:53:57 +0000

> Get money out of politics

If you also mean make it so Congress doesn't have a $4T slush fund to buy favors and influence every year, then I'm on board. If you think reducing the paltry sums spent on campaign contributions is going to take the money out of politics, you're bad at math.

New comment by manithree in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"

manithree — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:11:51 +0000

I lost my "Clear Creek Bike Book" in the 1980's but eventually Sheldon made me not miss it at all.

It's not as comprehensive, and more corporate than Sheldon's site, but I currently love Park Tool's youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@parktool). They shamelessly mention their tools, but they frequently give alternatives like, you can get this park tool for pushing your disc brake pads back into place, or you can just use a plastic tire tool.

New comment by manithree in "The unbearable frustration of figuring out APIs"

manithree — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:17:35 +0000

Ever used the self-hosted BitBucket (formerly Stash) API?

New comment by manithree in "Federal Prison for Writing Code"

manithree — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:40:37 +0000

Which is debatable, but not illegal. SCOTUS has said so multiple times.

New comment by manithree in "Federal Prison for Writing Code"

manithree — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:09:11 +0000

Samourai wallet has been on HN several times, but this interview with the creator just before he goes to prison for writing open source code is very interesting.

Federal Prison for Writing Code

manithree — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:09:11 +0000

Article URL: https://reason.com/podcast/2025/12/19/hes-serving-5-years-in-prison-for-bitcoin-privacy-software/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354699

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

New comment by manithree in "Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles"

manithree — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:57:55 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45449348

New comment by manithree in "The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market"

manithree — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:38:41 +0000

Yeah, I feel so much safer now that the state has protected me from the Y./s

New comment by manithree in "IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs"

manithree — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 04:21:07 +0000

Please, no. Emacs could use some interface/toolkit update, I don't deny that. And I like IDE features. I use tree-sitter, LSPs, copilot.el, copilot-chat.el, and others all day, every day.

But don't force me to turn off treemacs, and minimap like I have to do in VSCode all the time just because some useless, space-wasting eye-candy is trendy.