Hacker News: mkesper

New comment by mkesper in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

mkesper — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:46:53 +0000

Come on, there were people using Gerrit instances (which had better PR UI than GH implementation) for good reasons even before GitHub became popular.

New comment by mkesper in "ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days"

mkesper — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:12:14 +0000

Article: In October, Parias was leaving his home and driving down the street when federal agents — including from ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service — used their vehicles to box him in, according to the criminal complaint.

Body-worn camera footage captures the ICE officer approaching Parias’ passenger side door and almost immediately stating that he’s going to “break the window.” As the officer smashes the window, the car begins to rev, later sending smoke billowing into the air. The officer pulls out his gun soon afterward, holding it in one hand as he smashes the window at the same time with the other.

The complaint alleged that when the rear of the car began to “fishtail,” it “caused the agents to fear that PARIAS may lose control of the Camry and hit them.” A Homeland Security Investigations agent wrote that Parias’ acceleration of the Camry “caused debris (likely rubber being shed from the tires themselves) to fly into the air, which struck some of the agents.”

New comment by mkesper in "Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones"

mkesper — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:24:05 +0000

Related, pencils for more accurately drawing skin tones: https://hautfarben.org/en/products/skin-tones-pencils

New comment by mkesper in "If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken"

mkesper — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:26:30 +0000

Disk failures don't neatly wait for idle times so investing in a special vdev (which can be added to an existing pool as the article points out) should be well worth it.

New comment by mkesper in "Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history"

mkesper — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:56:26 +0000

How do these compare to the fish builtin history search with dir awareness and completion menu? I found it quite an improvement to bash history handling but fish isn't POSIX compatible so sometimes you need to switch back and forth.

New comment by mkesper in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

mkesper — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:21:40 +0000

These feel quite different. IRGC attacked Amazon compute. Ukraine attacked several warehouses. Comparing Wildberries to Amazon is also only half the truth. Wildberries is directly part of russian war machine as soldiers need to buy essential dual-use equipment there and they even sell weapons.

New comment by mkesper in "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"

mkesper — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:11:49 +0000

Do not run Ubuntu on these old machines, use plain Debian instead (no fat desktop needed, no overhead due to braindead snap packaging etc.). Xfce4 should be fine. SSDs help and also using zswap to counter the low RAM. The last official install media for 32bit (first Intel Atoms) is bookworm but updating is no problem.

New comment by mkesper in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"

mkesper — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:40:41 +0000

Be sure not to buy any 'branded' variant, though (e.g. from Verizon etc.)!

New comment by mkesper in "Show HN: Aict – Unix coreutils that output XML/JSON, built for AI agents"

mkesper — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:19:25 +0000

Something like that would also be great for scripting, not only agents.

I Configure the Ryzen AI Halo (Strix Halo) for 10-15% Faster Local Inference [video]

mkesper — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:14:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMacAPpgXhQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919634

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mkesper in "Benchmarking 15 “E-Waste” GPUs with Modern Workloads"

mkesper — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:59:59 +0000

Have a look at Donato Capitella's video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zp8j4vO-wz0 He provides also toolboxes and benchmark tables as text (in the video description)

New comment by mkesper in "Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks"

mkesper — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:13:45 +0000

Regarding M5, this has similar size but runs Linux and is cheaper: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/m5stack/cardputerzero

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.