Hacker News: mgrandl

New comment by mgrandl in "Hy3"

mgrandl — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:41:25 +0000

GLM 5.2 already matches GPT-5.4 easily.

New comment by mgrandl in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

mgrandl — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:00:32 +0000

And that is completely ignoring maintenance cost which tends to be a lot cheaper on EVs.

New comment by mgrandl in "Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025)"

mgrandl — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:32:50 +0000

I can recommend microsandbox. More mature than smolmachines. I have tried both.

https://github.com/superradcompany/microsandbox

New comment by mgrandl in "Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images"

mgrandl — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:54:17 +0000

And ostree is likely being replaced with composefs in the near future… things are moving fast in bootc!

New comment by mgrandl in "Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig"

mgrandl — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:04:17 +0000

I mean GPUI is rust and Gooey is Zig so if you wanna do a project in Zig you probably wouldn’t choose GPUI.

New comment by mgrandl in "Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog"

mgrandl — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:17:24 +0000

Isn’t go (with cgo disabled) still at least as fast to compile?

New comment by mgrandl in "Local-First and Portable CI"

mgrandl — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:03:38 +0000

Look into mise. It’s basically just, but it also installs runtimes/build deps for you. It also has lockfiles.

New comment by mgrandl in "Local-First and Portable CI"

mgrandl — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:52:55 +0000

Same but using mise. It is so nice to define all runtime/build time dependencies for both dev and production builds in one place and then have a task runner that builds everything for you!

New comment by mgrandl in "You Should Not Update Your Dependencies"

mgrandl — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:59:10 +0000

Then you haven’t looked at a lot of open source repos? A ton of them are using renovate/dependabot which are doing exactly that for you. And it is certainly good practice.

New comment by mgrandl in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

mgrandl — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:59:03 +0000

I was told the issue isn’t the physical distance of the screen to your eyes, but the distance of where your eyes are focusing? So in VR if you focus on an object a meter away it shouldn’t strain your eyes as much as a phone screen 10cm away? No idea if this is scientifically proven.

New comment by mgrandl in "Selling SaaS in Germany"

mgrandl — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:06:17 +0000

I am at a pretty good (for european standards) startup, entirely bootstrapped with no investor money. We use virtually 0 SaaS ourselves with the exception of tailscale. The pay $40/user/month pricing seems insane for what most of these things do and they are almost always trivial to selfhost. Of course if you have millions of investor money to waste, it’s a drop in the bucket.

New comment by mgrandl in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

mgrandl — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:36:04 +0000

PNPM is just as fast and much more reliable.

New comment by mgrandl in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

mgrandl — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:24:39 +0000

I would love to use it, mostly for the jj compatibility and the nice CI implementation, but I need private repos so sadly this is not yet for me.

New comment by mgrandl in "Building a custom NAS/homeserver with Fedora CoreOS"

mgrandl — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:04:55 +0000

I recently converted my NAS from plain Debian to a custom bootc image based on Fedora 43 and I love it. My entire config lives in git and can easily be updated with a push. I also moved from docker-compose for all my services to hardened quadlets which feel much more native and certainly more secure than my old setup. I would definitely recommend playing around with bootc. Very exciting tech.

Now if bootc could apply changes live without (soft)rebooting I would migrate all my machine to it in a heartbeat.

New comment by mgrandl in "The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility"

mgrandl — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:22:00 +0000

You can use Sunshine streaming on Wayland just fine. I have a headless sever with Sunshine and a Wayland desktop and can stream it remotely with great quality and minimal latency.

That said for most tasks I would still rather SSH in and use CLIs (not TUIs).

New comment by mgrandl in "Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs"

mgrandl — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:13:55 +0000

Jup that’s definitely it, not sure how I got it that wrong.

New comment by mgrandl in "Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs"

mgrandl — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:23:29 +0000

Where did you see that? I just did a deep dive into podman/quadlets/bootc/composefs and never once seen a mention of that. A google search also didn’t bring anything like that up.

New comment by mgrandl in "CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940"

mgrandl — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:53:29 +0000

Static sites are just superior and i feel like we are going to see a huge shift to SSGs once the average editors realize how much easier it is to have LLMs enter markdown maybe with a bit of html to create their blog posts/articles than to bother with a CMS.

New comment by mgrandl in "Mise-En-Place"

mgrandl — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:42:29 +0000

Yeah change tracking didn’t work at all for me. The only way it works is if I dont define outputs. Haven’t looked into it, but jdx is very receptive to PRs so you might want to open one. I assume it can’t be that hard to fix.

New comment by mgrandl in "Mise-En-Place"

mgrandl — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:36:38 +0000

It basically does replace make/just, nix, direnv in one convenient binary. It’s very pleasant to use.