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New comment by maxboone in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

maxboone — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:36:32 +0000

RAM producers aren't adding more capacity on the non-HBM side of things, so we shouldn't see a dramatic drop in pricing if AI HBM memory demand drops.

New comment by maxboone in "Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy"

maxboone — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:03:04 +0000

Probably AI in the sense of what Google DeepMind has been up to with the protein folding and other biological simulations, instead of the LLM variant of AI.

New comment by maxboone in "JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet"

maxboone — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:07:55 +0000

After the near miss from JetBlue, there was another near miss with a business jet yesterday morning: https://nos.nl/l/2594640

ATC audio: https://youtu.be/Hto6aTt-X7A?si=2J-NnaXIcOnnWIqS

New comment by maxboone in "JetBlue A320 near collision with US Military aircraft"

maxboone — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:18:58 +0000

US Military aircraft have been flying without their transponder on in the Curaçao airspace, leading to two near misses in the past week.

1. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/JBU1112/history/20251212...

2. https://nos.nl/l/2594640

JetBlue A320 near collision with US Military aircraft

maxboone — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:18:58 +0000

Article URL: https://avherald.com/h?article=5312489b&opt=0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46271706

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by maxboone in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

maxboone — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:17:36 +0000

QEMU device that exposes a vfio-user socket for a PCI endpoint controller, Linux PCI endpoint controller driver and a userspace endpoint function.

It's very unstable at the moment but plan to have it fully implemented and working by the end of next month.

Using it to build a virtualized computational storage device for research.

New comment by maxboone in "Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program"

maxboone — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:47:30 +0000

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for banana bread

New comment by maxboone in "Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program"

maxboone — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:46:38 +0000

Absolutely, and the init system does not even have to set up the filesystem and all. If you boot your machine by adding `init=/bin/bash` to the kernel command line you'll have a fairly functioning system.

Do anything necessary from there to boot your game, and record those steps in a script. When that's done you can just point your init cmdline to that script (doesn't even have to be a binary, a script with the #!/bin/bash shebang should just work).

New comment by maxboone in "Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program"

maxboone — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:42:00 +0000

Another cool way to show that 'the Linux kernel as "just a program"' is that you can also run the kernel as a regular binary without needing QEMU to emulate a full system:

- https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9/virt/uml/user_mode_linu...

New comment by maxboone in "Populism and economic prosperity"

maxboone — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:42:31 +0000

That's not the definition, the definition of populism w.r.t. this paper is well defined. It is literally on page 2:

> We benefited greatly from the fact that the academic literature of recent years has converged on a consensus definition of populism that is easily applicable across space and time and for right-wing and left-wing populists alike. According to today’s workhorse definition, populism is defined as a political style centered on the supposed struggle of “people vs. the establishment” (Mudde 2004). Populists place the narrative of “people vs. elites” at the center of their political agenda and then claim to be the sole representative of “the people.” This definition has become increasingly dominant, and is now also widely used by economists (see Section 2, and the recent survey paper by Guriev and Papaioannou, 2020). Populist leaders claim to represent the “true, common people” against the dishonest “elites,” thus separating society into two seemingly homogeneous and antagonistic groups.

Google's Wire is no longer maintained

maxboone — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:55:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/google/wire/pull/434

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45227231

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by maxboone in "How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB"

maxboone — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 11:41:23 +0000

Motherduck is the spin-off from DuckDBthat does that. But there's also: https://duckdb.org/2025/05/27/ducklake.html

You can also attach DuckDB to Apache Flight which will make it work beyond local operation.

New comment by maxboone in "Vet is a safety net for the risky curl | bash pattern"

maxboone — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:59:52 +0000

TLSA records exist, but are for the entire server rather than a single binary or script.

New comment by maxboone in "Show HN: Octelium – FOSS Alternative to Teleport, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Ngrok"

maxboone — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:36:28 +0000

Isn't the client entirely OSS? - https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale

New comment by maxboone in "The Grug Brained Developer (2022)"

maxboone — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:16:52 +0000

https://youtu.be/_K-L9uhsBLM

New comment by maxboone in "Show HN: GlassFlow – OSS streaming dedup and joins from Kafka to ClickHouse"

maxboone — Sun, 11 May 2025 14:16:50 +0000

Very cool stuff, good luck!

I didn't quickly find this in the documentation, but given that you're using the NATS Kafka Bridge, would it be a lot of work to configure streaming from NATS directly?

New comment by maxboone in "I'm running for the OSI board maybe"

maxboone — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:05:41 +0000

AOE times are pretty common in academic and CS circles, it is the standard for IEEE 802: https://www.ieee802.org/16/aoe.html

New comment by maxboone in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

maxboone — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:30:45 +0000

https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06768

It's not something that new, I like it.

New comment by maxboone in "How to use Postgres for everything"

maxboone — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 10:50:00 +0000

One of the problems I have with this is that I wonder if this doesn't majorly impact blue/green upgrades and (actual cluster, not schema) migrations.

New comment by maxboone in "Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder"

maxboone — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:09:37 +0000

Is the source available somewhere?