Hacker News: mkeeter

New comment by mkeeter in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

mkeeter — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:51:54 +0000

For the curious, this is technically possible in Rust using a dynamically sized type [1], but in practice is difficult and doesn't really play nice with the rest of the language. The nomicon entry concludes with "Yes, custom DSTs are a largely half-baked feature for now." [2]

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/dynamically-sized-types....

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/exotic-sizes.html

New comment by mkeeter in "Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat"

mkeeter — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:10:24 +0000

Probably because this is a post about Zig’s threaded IO, and complaints about Rust syntax is two conversational leaps away from that subject!

New comment by mkeeter in "Every fast write moves work somewhere else"

mkeeter — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:58:49 +0000

Another fun failure mode in the same vein: if you are emulating an NVMe device and declare that a write operation is successful once bytes are in memory, you will quickly find yourself buffering arbitrarily large amounts of data as "persist to disk" (SSD speed) falls behind "acknowledge writes" (RAM speed). If you do not add backpressure to your system intentionally, it will be added for you – and you may not like where it's placed!

(This also happens at the SSD level: burst writes can be very fast as data is buffered in the SSD's own RAM, then performance steady-states at the true write speed once that's saturated)

New comment by mkeeter in "Flowise is shutting down"

mkeeter — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:53:31 +0000

Flowise was acquired by Workday in August 2025 [1].

At the time, they posted "Flowise isn’t going anywhere, we’re doubling down. In fact, we’re only just getting started!" [2]

I wonder if "keep the platform running for >= 1 year post-acquisition" was part of the terms! Ah well, another one for Our Incredible Journey [3]...

[1] https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-08-14-Workday-Acquires-Flo...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/flowiseai_were-thrilled-to-sh...

[3] https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

New comment by mkeeter in "The full stack of terminals explained"

mkeeter — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:04:04 +0000

> This is a clean separation, and clean separations are worth noticing. They tend to be load-bearing.

oh hi Claude

What Bun Can Tell Us About AI, Open Source and Anthropic

mkeeter — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:15:39 +0000

Article URL: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/06/04/bun-two-lessons/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399002

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mkeeter in "Task Paralysis and AI"

mkeeter — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:50:59 +0000

Does one also get dopamine from using LLMs to write comments on Hacker News?

New comment by mkeeter in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

mkeeter — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:27:04 +0000

A repository search shows 2.2K repos with the text "A Mini Shai-Hulud has Appeared", all created within the past day:

https://github.com/search?q=A%20Mini%20Shai-Hulud%20has%20Ap...

GitHub Is Having Issues

mkeeter — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:02:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/kcf0thb1zp30

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806704

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by mkeeter in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

mkeeter — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:14:51 +0000

Cryptic Titles Are All You Need

A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

mkeeter — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:28:11 +0000

Article URL: https://ericwbailey.website/published/a-compelling-title-that-is-cryptic-enough-to-get-you-to-take-action-on-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703462

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by mkeeter in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

mkeeter — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:54:18 +0000

Fair enough, I accept "the blog post was written by someone from the 1800s" as an alternative hypothesis.

edit: For what it's worth, I also just tested the Gettysburg Address (using the "Bliss Copy" from [1]), and got a "100% Human" score.

[1] https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettys...

New comment by mkeeter in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

mkeeter — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:24:25 +0000

The review is also heavily LLM-inflected, to the point of being distracting.

GPTZero gives it a 100% chance of being AI generated, and I've found that these tools may give false negatives from a well-prompted model, but false positives are rare.

If you are looking to tune your intuition for AI-written text, here's an interesting list of their quirks (ironically provided as a Claude skill for removing those quirks from emitted text):

https://github.com/stephenturner/skill-deslop/blob/main/refe...

New comment by mkeeter in "We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it"

mkeeter — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:10:46 +0000

The "Intermediate Report" [1] lists the authors as "Robert V. and Claude (Anthropic)". Is there any reason to believe this is not AI hallucinations?

[1] https://stateofutopia.com/papers/2/intermediate-report.pdf

New comment by mkeeter in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

mkeeter — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:54:58 +0000

Congrats!

(We had one back in December; you’re in for a fun ride!)

New comment by mkeeter in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

mkeeter — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:54:07 +0000

They certainly have ambitions – the most recent changelog claims to add "Full PCB design pipeline: schematic capture, routing, DRC, Gerber export, and signal integrity simulation."

It also seems to have a physics engine, a slicer for 3D printing, an embroidery mode, and a entire ecosystem of math crates (https://tang.toys/).

Whether any of that works – or whether it's pure LLM slop – is less clear. I tried to import a trivial STEP file, and it crashed my browser tab [1]. Every commit is co-authored by Claude.

[1] https://github.com/ecto/vcad/issues/7

New comment by mkeeter in "From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story (2022)"

mkeeter — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:13:50 +0000

Not a typo, but you’re correct about the sample rate - with those settings, the scope was doing interpolation between samples.

New comment by mkeeter in "Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not"

mkeeter — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:08:44 +0000

More evidence: the user posted three well-formatted multi-sentence comments within 15 seconds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110801 (13:23:08)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110803 (13:23:15)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110804 (13:23:23)

New comment by mkeeter in "Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam"

mkeeter — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:03:00 +0000

I have received 168 support ticket emails in the past 30 mins, and Gmail has not yet learned to flag them as spam.

This is an absolute clown show.

Edit: whoops, this was incorrect! I had received over 1,000 Zendesk emails, 168 of which made it into my inbox.

New comment by mkeeter in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

mkeeter — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:15:29 +0000

Which NRTL did you end up using for certifications? Can you say more about that process?