Hacker News: metabrew

New comment by metabrew in "An Accidental Blackboard"

metabrew — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:11:20 +0000

This is an interesting idea.. do you use agents with more adversarial / cynical prompts whose only job is approving api calls? "You are an API approval agent on the lookout for suspicious or unusual stripe api calls...."

New comment by metabrew in "A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games"

metabrew — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:35:55 +0000

This looks great - how much of it is open source, could I host it all myself? wouldn't be interested in investing any time learning if I'm locked in to hosting on some else's hardware.

New comment by metabrew in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

metabrew — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:16:46 +0000

I tried the chatbot. jarring to see a large response come back instantly at over 15k tok/sec

I'll take one with a frontier model please, for my local coding and home ai needs..

New comment by metabrew in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

metabrew — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:16:38 +0000

this is correct :)

New comment by metabrew in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"

metabrew — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:45:13 +0000

Did this with policy based routing in my opnsense (pfsense) router a couple of weeks ago. egress via a specific tailscale exit node for a list of domains including Imgur.

Also browsing Minecraft mods/shaders was my motivation ha.

New comment by metabrew in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)"

metabrew — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:51:49 +0000

I would love to pay for youtube premium, but i have a google workspace/apps/own-domain/whatever the hell they call it now account, and loads of stuff (like youtube premium) isn't supported.

New comment by metabrew in "Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice"

metabrew — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:29:43 +0000

Will definitely need to tone down the American Corporate Alacrity for the UK market..

New comment by metabrew in "UK lawmakers vote in support of assisted dying"

metabrew — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 20:32:28 +0000

Many opponents to the bill have been very cagey about their reasons for opposing it, and eventually admit it's for nebulous "religious reasons".

Personally I'd like the right to die with dignity if I were unfortunate enough to find myself facing horrible, imminent, certain death.

I'm glad it passed and I hope it makes it into law.

New comment by metabrew in "SpacetimeDB: A new database written in Rust that replaces your server"

metabrew — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:31:18 +0000

neat! any support for efficient spatial queries?

New comment by metabrew in "Google’s smart speakers are finally smart enough to shut up"

metabrew — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 17:30:57 +0000

Using Google assistant via a home mini and nest mini has generally gotten worse, not better, over the last few years. I can't wait to bin them and replace with something else that works well with home assistant and setting timers.

New comment by metabrew in "Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser"

metabrew — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:09:39 +0000

spent so many hours playing this years ago.. great memories. too bad it doesn't seem to support inverting mouse y-axis or changing keybindings. too much muscle memory to overcome.

New comment by metabrew in "Achieving 5M persistent connections with Project Loom virtual threads"

metabrew — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 17:42:13 +0000

API for the server example looks... actually good, wow. Nice job!

Also tickled to see my erlang 1M comet blog post referenced. A lifetime ago now, pre-websockets.

New comment by metabrew in "Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?"

metabrew — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 08:36:11 +0000

When we set up user content storage of images and mp3s for Last.fm back in 2006ish we used MogileFS (from the bradfitz LJ perl days) running on our own hardware. 3/4/5/6u machines stuffed full of disks. I still think it's an elegant concept – easy to grok, easy to debug, easy to reason about. No special distributed filesystem to worry about.

Don't take this as an endorsement of the MogileFS perl codebase in 2021, but worth considering this style of storage system depending on your precise needs.

New comment by metabrew in "Cassandra as a Service on AWS/GCP"

metabrew — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 19:36:34 +0000

Interesting. Shame there's no pricing info published.

New comment by metabrew in "Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends them through the mail"

metabrew — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 20:17:39 +0000

first character has to be a letter... are they storing them unquoted in yaml files?

New comment by metabrew in "A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean"

metabrew — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 09:24:00 +0000

You're not dead until you're warm and dead, as the saying goes.

New comment by metabrew in "Hackers Can Steal a Tesla Model S in Seconds by Cloning Its Key Fob"

metabrew — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:22:53 +0000

If you have to click the key fob (the default) to unlock the car, you are safe from this attack, and don't have to upgrade your keyfobs.

A firmware update deactivated the touchless entry feature and warned about this ages ago.

IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

metabrew — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:39:58 +0000

Article URL: https://irc.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17375831

Points: 493

# Comments: 381

New comment by metabrew in "Popular Mac Developer Slams Apple for 'Sad State of Macintosh Hardware'"

metabrew — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:16:49 +0000

Mid-2012 MBP with SSD, retina, and 16gb here.

I've got an HDMI port, SD card reader, two USB ports, two thunderbolt ports, magsafe power, and a proper, reliable keyboard.

I despair at the current crop of mac hardware. If this machine dies on me before some decent mac hardware arrives, I'm not sure what i'll do - but it definitely won't involve buying a new macbook with the touchbar, stupid keyboards, and no ports.

New comment by metabrew in "How Etsy caches: hashing, Ketama, and cache smearing"

metabrew — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 00:12:56 +0000

if you delete the key near the code that sets/smears it, it's easy to just delete the range of keys: key1, key2, key3.. as needed

You can send all such commands to memcached at once, so you don't suffer more than one round-trip to multi-delete.