Hacker News: maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maybebenHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:08:32 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "FreeBSD Suspend/Resume"]]>feel lucky. s3 suspend quit working on my thinkpad in -CURRENT some months ago after having worked for like a decade. i didn't notice until i pulled a molten hot slab of locked up laptop out of my bag

]]>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:50:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42689895maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42689895https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42689895<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died"]]>Huh, interesting. Are you publishing the results of that testing somewhere?

]]>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:45:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554393maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554393https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554393<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing"]]>Mac OS was awful. OS X was amazing. macOS feels like increasingly typical design-by-committee rudderless crapware by a company who wishes it didn't have to exist alongside iOS.

]]>Sat, 02 Nov 2024 02:59:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42023744maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42023744https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42023744<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "The fix for BGP's weaknesses has big issues of its own, boffins find"]]>RPKI is obviously half-baked scareware, but why anyone cares what technology the US government, much less "white house" thinks should be used is beyond me

]]>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:23:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41736525maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41736525https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41736525<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "How CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video]"]]>i mean, they also have one of the largest ceph deployments. anything is scalable with no budget.

]]>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:31:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41716342maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41716342https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41716342<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today"]]>and still not funny

]]>Sat, 28 Sep 2024 01:03:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41677041maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41677041https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41677041<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Cloudflare Network Issues Affecting Service Reachability"]]>looking forward to a lengthy blog post blaming BGP and/or some other operator

]]>Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:27:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41571672maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41571672https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41571672<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 Workstation [video]"]]>you can do two solid/high impact boards on indigo 2. each will be a separate X display

]]>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 04:12:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41296706maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41296706https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41296706<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on June 27, 2024"]]>maybe everyone in the world using the same handful of resolver addresses isn't so great for fault tolerance

]]>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 18:27:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40884933maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40884933https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40884933<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Why Linux developers do not fix reported issues or ignore bug reports"]]>I use this facility on FreeBSD (dcons) to do debugging. Works great. There's a knob to explicitly turn on DMA, though. It looks like Linux has something similar. Is that not sufficient?

]]>Fri, 31 May 2024 23:53:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40541477maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40541477https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40541477<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "TrueNAS Core: Soft EOL"]]>Good ole BSDi, always doing great for FreeBSD.

]]>Fri, 03 May 2024 21:09:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40252421maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40252421https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40252421<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?"]]>nothing from freedesktop.org

]]>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 06:07:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083859maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083859https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083859<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Would-be Tesla buyers snub company as Musk's reputation dips"]]>I have a cybertruck reservation that I think I'm going to pass on. I like Tesla the brand and the cars, but I have two now with batteries that only went ~70k miles before CAC imbalance is serious enough to risk getting stranded at a supercharger. Maybe if the $14-16k remanufactured battery they want to sell you (including core for your old battery) actually had any new cells in it I wouldn't be so salty, but as it is, I don't think I want another iPhone with wheels.

]]>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:05:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39897847maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39897847https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39897847<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Who killed the network switch? A Hubris Bug Story"]]>I look forward to scoring some beefy Milan boxes with weird rails for cheap on ebay because the firmware only loads OpenSolaris.

]]>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:11:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39833895maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39833895https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39833895<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4"]]>No mention of the planned end of 32-bit? Packrat looks interesting. Removing ports that build and work fine but are "unmaintained" is pretty irritating.

]]>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:10:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39400760maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39400760https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39400760<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "The Case for Rust in the base system"]]>I thought the plan was to separate the toolchain from world. Building LLVM twice will suck.

]]>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 19:11:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39081775maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39081775https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39081775<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance by ~40%"]]>Oof, Aironet, too. RIP kings.

Seems like they're paving the way for removal of all 16-bit PC Card support like FreeBSD.

]]>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:42:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38941714maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38941714https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38941714<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Ask HN: Which co-location providers would you recommend in the US?"]]>Don't fall for the HE $400/mo rack deal is my advice.

]]>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:16:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38277509maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38277509https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38277509<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders"]]>The vast majority of spam we get that isn't trivially rejected (DMARC, malformed HELO, etc) is from real, actual gmail. But they sure do care about _incoming_ spam.

]]>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:36:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38075427maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38075427https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38075427<![CDATA[New comment by maybeben in "Ask HN: Is your Firefox blocked by Cloudflare in recent weeks? (e.g., Gitlab)"]]>I get the CF deathloop if any of the options related to Referer are not default.

]]>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 04:57:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34953150maybebenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34953150https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34953150