Hacker News: marcosscriven

New comment by marcosscriven in "Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code"

marcosscriven — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:56:03 +0000

I was familiar with the concept of unsafe blocks. What I didn’t know was there were issues outside that.

New comment by marcosscriven in "Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code"

marcosscriven — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:00:43 +0000

I see you’ve been downvoted, but honestly this is news to me.

I see that repo is two years old - are there flaws in Rust that aren’t edge cases that would make it not memory safe?

New comment by marcosscriven in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

marcosscriven — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:47:24 +0000

“Changes”…

New comment by marcosscriven in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

marcosscriven — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:20:13 +0000

This reminds me of the Action Replay device you could get for the Amiga 500 in the ‘90s.

You could use a knob to slow down any game to a stop. You could also press a button to go to a console that let you change memory.

It would even figure out which bit of memory kept the number of lives of you deliberately lost a life and it could see what decremented.

New comment by marcosscriven in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

marcosscriven — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:51:56 +0000

I’ve had Proxmox on one of their AX42 servers for a year now. All of it is backed up to PBS, backed by Cloudflare R2 storage.

None of it is mission critical - but it’s certainly something I’d use in production with a few more instances.

Networking over Tailscale works flawlessly with my Proxmox nodes at home.

New comment by marcosscriven in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

marcosscriven — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:01:17 +0000

I installed Proxmox on my main desktop - with GPU passthrough I can quickly switch to a Windows desktop for the rare games that need it (mostly VR).

New comment by marcosscriven in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

marcosscriven — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:24:39 +0000

You think flying around the moon is simple?

New comment by marcosscriven in "A nearly perfect USB cable tester"

marcosscriven — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:01:05 +0000

I haven’t yet worked out why cheap 100W PD cables partially fail after about 6 months.

They can still provide some power, but between a MacBook and official Apple power supply, they’ll keep flicking between charging and not charging.

New comment by marcosscriven in "Why I love NixOS"

marcosscriven — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:05:38 +0000

I keep going in circles with thinking about trying NixOS.

I see an article like this about how great it is, think I might try it, then go down a rabbit hole of all the horror stories, and then give up before starting.

New comment by marcosscriven in "Backblaze Pricing and Product Updates"

marcosscriven — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:44:22 +0000

I do wish egress were free, it’s one of the reasons I stick with Cloudflare R2 at the moment.

New comment by marcosscriven in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

marcosscriven — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:34:07 +0000

I really like Tailscale. Recently though I’ve been having some hard-to-diagnose slowdowns even on a direct (non DERP) connection. I’m not sure if it’s something to do with MTUs or my ISP.

New comment by marcosscriven in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

marcosscriven — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:30:33 +0000

I’m sure I’ve clicked “show fewer shorts” every single time it’s shown me shorts. It seems to make zero difference.

Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers

marcosscriven — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:25:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/04/pinterest-sacks-two-engineers-for-software-identify-fired-workers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884023

Points: 21

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New comment by marcosscriven in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

marcosscriven — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:31:49 +0000

Agree with this. There are so many posts everywhere with breathless claims of AGI, and absolutely ZERO evidence of critical thought applied by the people posting such nonsense.

New comment by marcosscriven in "Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo"

marcosscriven — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:45:38 +0000

I’m talking about integrating with GitHub. Publishing to Cloudflare for instance is fine, but where do you put the images between drafting and publishing?

Or do you just check in images to GitHub and call it a day?

New comment by marcosscriven in "Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo"

marcosscriven — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:59:52 +0000

I like Hugo, but I’ve not found a nice workflow to automatically put the images on a CDN.

I was thinking of making a GitHub action that uploaded the image from a given branch, deleted it, set the URL, and finally merged only the md files to main.

New comment by marcosscriven in "FPGAs Need a New Future"

marcosscriven — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:01:22 +0000

> An FPGA, by contrast, defines data pathways specifying how signals change on each clock tick based on internal states and external inputs. In essence, we describe global per-clock-cycle behavior rather than an individual act of data manipulation per step.

I think that’s the clearest explanation of FPGAs I’ve ever seen.

New comment by marcosscriven in "GPT-5.2"

marcosscriven — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:59:10 +0000

What are your best local models, and what hardware do you run them on?

New comment by marcosscriven in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

marcosscriven — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:37:54 +0000

It says 12-15 hours of recording in the article.

New comment by marcosscriven in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

marcosscriven — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:31:20 +0000

I really don’t want to wear a battery in that form factor.

Sure a phone or watch can burst into flames, but at least you’ve got a chance of dropping it or taking it off.

I also don’t see the bother of talking to your wrist rather than your hand.