Hacker News: metalforever

New comment by metalforever in "GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview"

metalforever — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:52:56 +0000

Finally . Very good work team !

New comment by metalforever in "How to compromise your system with a job interview"

metalforever — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:32:20 +0000

I’ve personally run into this issue of not having a working laptop in an interview setting. It’s not always money . I just don’t like getting work done on a laptop. I use a desktop. I’ve been staff+ for more than 5 years .

New comment by metalforever in "How to compromise your system with a job interview"

metalforever — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:31:15 +0000

I’m a lead engineer and have been Staff plus for more than 5 years. I’ve actually personally run into this problem (not having a working laptop for an interview). I don’t really do laptops well because it’s not a good environment to get work done in. I can see a large screen(s) desktop setup better and prefer that.

New comment by metalforever in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

metalforever — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:43:34 +0000

I am a programmer that comes from a family of coal miners. They don't actually consider that constituency, its just a game to win a swing state.

New comment by metalforever in "The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van"

metalforever — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:14:59 +0000

i have a running 80s vehicle with over 400k kilometers (its a VW T3)

New comment by metalforever in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

metalforever — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:04:26 +0000

SEEKING PART-TIME WORK | Remote

    Location: Pittsburgh, PA USA

    Remote: Yes

    Willing to relocate: No

    Résumé-CV: https://tinyurl.com/ycyw2zws

    Email: getup_ambiance338@simplelogin.com

Principal level software engineer with both startup and Alphabet experience on all levels of the stack. I am most familiar with Linux/Python environments and specialize in data pipelines, parallel distributed systems, medallion architecture delta lakes . I am seeking either a part-time opportunity working in any niche , or a full or part time opportunity working at a non profit, open source company , embedded, research, or software as a public good opportunity .

New comment by metalforever in "Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware"

metalforever — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:03:52 +0000

Thank you for making this. I was genuinely considering a solution at this abstraction level for Megadrive / Sega development .

New comment by metalforever in "It is ok to say "CSS variables" instead of "custom properties""

metalforever — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:44:51 +0000

I very often find websites broken in Safari that work in Chrome.

New comment by metalforever in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

metalforever — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:32:22 +0000

The author of the rust software did not solve the platform problem, as a result it is not a solution. Since it is not a solution, it should be reverted. It's really that simple.

New comment by metalforever in "Being poor vs. being broke"

metalforever — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:43:43 +0000

I know people without running water in their house right now in America . In fact I know multiple families in this situation .

New comment by metalforever in "Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again"

metalforever — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:04:23 +0000

Does everyone really just use vim? This one surprised me as a problem.

New comment by metalforever in "Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again"

metalforever — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:29:30 +0000

Hello, thank you for taking the time to respond.

“ IMO, languages and platforms that require IDEs, also leads to complex software that is hard to maintain. ”

The truth is that I (and probably other users) don’t always have the luxury of choice and a large portion of commercial codebases have a very large number of files. Sometimes, it is multiple codebases at once with a very large number of files .

“ Easily resolved by using apmd and it `-z` flag. I think there's a couple utility out there that you can script for monitoring battery level.”

Yeah but I don’t want to accidentally lose data if I shut the lid and accidentally forget to plug the thing in for a few days . “ One of the good strength of OpenBSD is that the cli utilities are quite nice”

I don’t want to enter and exit a cli tool in order to increase and decrease the volume . Ideally it’s a control in the top right or a keyboard mapping . What if something loud begins playing in a browser tab and I have to change the volume quickly?

New comment by metalforever in "Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again"

metalforever — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:29:55 +0000

There are a few nice to haves that would really help me out with making an open bsd transition. I thought of writing them myself because I am getting very fed up with Linux for the above reasons.

- IDE support is an issue still

- Filesystem challenging when using a laptop that runs out of battery

- MATE lacking volume and WiFi controls

- This one is just me being picky but a GUI to help me gain a better understanding of the security settings or alternatively more up to date books.

- I am not exactly sure on how to correctly use virtualization and I need it to support docker workloads at work

New comment by metalforever in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

metalforever — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:06:44 +0000

So, I was around back then and am around now as a principal and this comment doesn't really pass the reality sniff test.

Its a lot worse than this in terms of AWS cost for apps that often barely any people use. They're often incorrectly provisioned and the AWS bill ends up in the hundreds of thousands or millions and could have been a few thousand in bare metal on Hetzner with a competent sysadmnin team. No, its not harder to administer bare metal. No, its not less reliable. No, its not substantially harder to scale for most companies to do bare metal(large fortune 50 excluded).

New comment by metalforever in "Why Self-Host?"

metalforever — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:50:32 +0000

I was doing web development in 2006 and that's not how it was. Websites were not all in i-frames and they were not all insecure. Setting up a PHP dynamic website with Apache does not have to be insecure and didn't have to be back then, either.

New comment by metalforever in "Cost of AGI Delusion:Chasing Superintelligence US Falling Behind in Real AI Race"

metalforever — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:42:04 +0000

This is the reason. I logged in to basically say the same thing. I used to be this way, and give opinions, but you cause problems over time that ends up with you getting disciplined in subtle ways or fired.

New comment by metalforever in "Genode OS Framework"

metalforever — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:42:41 +0000

Hi Sculpt team, I have been watching this project for a long time. I have tried the OS on my MNT Reform. I had some confusions about how to navigate and set specific options . I was thinking a similar interface to a traditional desktop could be helpful in wrapping my head around the features . However, I did not want to impose on your vision if the Sculpt team felt strongly about their current interface. What are your thoughts ?

New comment by metalforever in "A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it"

metalforever — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:58:55 +0000

It’s honestly kind of discriminatory from a class perspective .

New comment by metalforever in "My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle"

metalforever — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 14:12:40 +0000

The homeless shelter situations in the bay area have waitlists. Some of the encampments also have waitlists (!). A lot of the homeless actually work in the bay area, some of them far away. Being in line in time to get a spot on a shelter is a task by itself and can be mutually exclusive with working. There is so much at play here you do not understand well. If we assume you are well meaning, you need to know that some politicians are not telling the truth about the true state of things.

New comment by metalforever in "My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle"

metalforever — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 14:10:49 +0000

You have no idea what is going on in the bay area homeless situation. I am not discounting your experiment, which was very interesting, but you cannot apply your experiences to the bay area homeless situation.