<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mmastrac</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mmastrac</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:21:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mmastrac" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I seriously looked at this as a way to improve the RAM situation in a QNAP 2U unit that I was having trouble sourcing RAM for. It's somewhat annoying that legit memory-over-PCIe is gated on PCIe5 and chipset support.<p>In the end I just had to bite the bullet and take a gamble on finding ECC DDR4 RAM that would work with the ancient AMD chipset...<p>This particular implementation seems to be running over too many layers to be particularly performant. Why not a custom block driver instead?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:44:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378778</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>CyberChron. If you don't need to know, don't ask.<p>And you're also assuming that all the pings are being returned by this box.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:36:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365292</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365292</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've weirdly found that I like the Google AI mode in specific cases, and I find that the hybrid is the worst of the two worlds. There are some cases where I don't know exactly what I'm looking for and I want the AI to curate results. In other cases, I know what I'm looking for and I want to read the OG source.<p>The AI popup is the worst and will hallucinate answers from Reddit comments. I specifically had it ask me a nonsense question which was literally just someone's Reddit comment suggesting a follow-on topic B to the search topic A. The AI mode will _sometimes_ be useful enough to prompt into doing the search and summarization for me and get me just enough info and some links to continue the work myself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:13:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359710</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "I made my phone slow on purpose"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The most effective rule for me is no addictive apps on my phone or laptop - browser apps only. The browser apps are _far_ less addictive and just enough friction to keep me off them for extended periods of time. As well, infinite scroll just isn't as effective in a browser and there's a real feeling of limited content running out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:08:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359635</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359635</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Last update seems to be "lawsuit was filed" with zero updates since then. That stuff tends to move slowly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 03:47:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342862</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342862</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dav2d doesn't have the same nice ring to it. I hope there's someone with a decent repo-name punning skill who'll contribute before that.<p>avi2ude? av2go?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 03:43:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342834</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>_NSAKEY part deux</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 02:48:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318400</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am certain that the max sustainable boost from AI use -- with code review and otherwise all-in -- is approximately 20% with the appropriately skilled senior engineering talent, and the token budget for any engineer should not exceed that.<p>I do not believe that engineers who are tokenmaxxing are truely productive and I have not seen any evidence whatsoever (perhaps the opposite).<p>I've personally found that with the right flow and codebase knowledge, that's achievable with sustainable levels of effort.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 18:03:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269788</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That looks vaguely breadboardish too</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:25:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253029</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253029</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did the microcode disassembly find any useful backdoors to read microcode without decapping?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 15:21:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248444</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248444</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How would that be technically feasible? Would we get IP bans?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 20:18:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241061</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241061</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "Bun's unreleased Rust port has 13,365 unsafe blocks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Remember kids, unsafe is not undefined behaviour. It just means you need to prove via unchecked English statements that your code is not UB.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 20:01:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240835</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "Deno 2.8"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I previously worked at Deno and even with all that tbh, I am not sure the http deps were the right way to go. I've really wanted to like them but package managers really have advantages.<p>I would not say npm was the right direction. I actually was a fan of JSR (didn't work on it but all my experience with it was great)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:48:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238365</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apparently more than one are in hiding, TIL. Seems appropriate for the kind of folk that do this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:55:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237589</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You realize that this is the perfect way for foreign influence to destabilize western society, right?<p>Democracy hasn't been hardened against social media and I'd prefer not to be another failed experiment like Brexit where we allow for foreign money to intentionally damage society.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:54:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237573</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's clear it's a pandering to the provincial government base, and has zero legitimacy. This all stems from a boneheaded move to unify the right in Alberta to prevent another NDP leadership term - that term being something that actually did our province some good.<p>We've unfortunately been putting up with these leaders doing this sort of thing too long and let the rural part of this province dictate far too much.<p>FWIW, I even bought myself a membership to try and do at least a small part to prevent this a decade ago, but that was impossible. People have truely lost their minds here and it's bizarre to talk to people that were once rational.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:53:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237543</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As an Albertan, I'm embarrassed that this is the image we project to the world, and sad that our punishment for collusion with foreign enemies isn't stronger or better enforced.<p>One of the "separatist" leaders is hiding from the law in Texas. He can stay there.<p>If there was any legitimacy in this process, the petition that got 150% of the votes in less time would have been addressed first rather than this sham, likely fake one, run by bad actors provably funded by foreign entities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:46:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237455</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237455</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've got an old datacenter KVM with a root password I've been unable to crack, even though it's an ancient DES one.<p>Does anyone have a good cloud-hosted password cracker? I can't seem to brute force it, no matter how long I let John the ripper run.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:30:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227839</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227839</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "Saying goodbye to asm.js"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>PNaCl was a terrible idea. It was as bad of an idea as shipping the raw sqlite interface in the browser.<p>I feel like some of the Google-sourced standards are the laziest, least-webby ones out there. There are some good ones that come from the Chrome team, but man the real stinkers are _always_ a lazy Google engineer trying to ship a half-baked clone of something native in the browser because they need it for something or other internally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 21:00:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214066</link><dc:creator>mmastrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmastrac in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I doubt my semi-monthly marketplace usage is contributing more than it costs. If everyone used just the bare minimum free feature set, the company would not be viable.</p>
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