Hacker News: mkesper

New comment by mkesper in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

mkesper — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:38:19 +0000

DGX Spark does not have high memory bandwith. M3 Max (Mac Studio) features more memory bandwith than that one. See https://aimultiple.com/dgx-spark-alternatives

New comment by mkesper in "Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian"

mkesper — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:12:12 +0000

You do not have to use all resources that are under the systemd umbrella. That's just BS, sorry. And prod deployments breaking... Well I guess that never happened with those best-managed sysv init scripts? Guys, pick your fights reasonably.

New comment by mkesper in "AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide"

mkesper — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:52:43 +0000

Currently, llama.cpp clusters don't support tensor parallelism, have a look at Donato Capitella's detailed report: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PkKXm_mKCCM He also provides rocm toolboxes for Strix Halo: https://strix-halo-toolboxes.com/#about

New comment by mkesper in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

mkesper — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:19:26 +0000

But existing resources were not affected.

New comment by mkesper in "Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way"

mkesper — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:29:19 +0000

Tangentially, in theory, k3s + kubevirt + microvms sounds like the optimal combination for lightweight but isolated deployment. Does anyone have experience with that?

New comment by mkesper in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

mkesper — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:10:49 +0000

Please show sources. Maybe no one appreciates it because it's only rumors spread by enterprises massively profiting from such rumors? And about your toilet paper analogy: Every producer tried everything to improve output. You cannot just let your machines run faster. You also need input materials, workers and logistics to scale accordingly, which is often not possible.

New comment by mkesper in "Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x"

mkesper — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:30:15 +0000

Server auction still features cheap servers with ECC: https://www.hetzner.com/sb/#ecc=true

New comment by mkesper in "πFS"

mkesper — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:46:42 +0000

Outdated! Should have linked directly to https://github.com/philipl/inferencefs/ obviously.

New comment by mkesper in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

mkesper — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:31:11 +0000

It was a giant mistake to keep 'classic' (umnaintained, unpatched) yarn around. Switched to pnpm in part due to that reason.

New comment by mkesper in "AI is slowing down"

mkesper — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:02:19 +0000

Hank Green also explains 400 billions are really very much cash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcjnLc4TH4M

New comment by mkesper in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"

mkesper — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:34:39 +0000

Not at all. If you're lucky you can (after some fiddling) install a real coreboot, this site is incredibly helpful for that: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/getting-started.html

New comment by mkesper in "thunderbolt-ibverbs: We have InfiniBand at home"

mkesper — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:26:10 +0000

Kudos for the idea and being fully open to the state of this project (AI code, expect breakage)!

New comment by mkesper in "Love systemd timers"

mkesper — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:36:56 +0000

This is a GNU extension so not portable.

New comment by mkesper in "Love systemd timers"

mkesper — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:47:47 +0000

There's another big feature: You're not relying on the time zone to which the server was set (like with cron) but can explicitly specify a time zone:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

New comment by mkesper in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

mkesper — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:17:56 +0000

The Pi is really a GPU with a CPU added on so the whole system needs to be brought up by the (binary blobs for running the) GPU. Hopefully not the case in these more PC-like systems...

MOT: A tool to fight openwashing in AI

mkesper — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:32:14 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1073420/1c373bcf2b77abe0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307057

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more

mkesper — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:16:34 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1072657/394b87abd7cc215e/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208233

Points: 89

# Comments: 2

Victory after a decade preventing Radio Lockdown

mkesper — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:29:41 +0000

Article URL: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260430-01.de.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097190

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mkesper in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

mkesper — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:36:14 +0000

That was the old docker compose. Things got a lot better since they rewrote it in Golang and update it again.

New comment by mkesper in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

mkesper — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:34:20 +0000

Have a look at multi stage container builds. Your images should not need a build step at start, the result should be in the baked image. Else you become reliant on fetching packages during build etc.