Hacker News: monocasa

New comment by monocasa in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

monocasa — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:13:34 +0000

I mean, as someone who was in that situation as a customer, we couldn't find a great cloud option for our needs, and we ended up building our first hardware lab with a bunch of macs.

It definitely caused us to buy macs we would have rented and shared.

New comment by monocasa in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

monocasa — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:29:36 +0000

A big part of the reason is that Orion (and Apollo) reentry speeds are way higher due to the orbital mechanics involved in going to the moon and back. Today's was actually the fastest manned reentry ever attempted.

For reference the shuttle generally reentered at ~17.5K mph, and today's was 24K-25K mph.

It's not clear that we could build a craft with wings that could survive that. So then you're looking at adding fuel just to slow down, plus fuel for the weight of the wings themselves, plus fuel to carry all this extra fuel to the right place, etc.

New comment by monocasa in "CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised"

monocasa — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:48:24 +0000

A flash drive with a port on each side (one RO and the other RW) would be neat.

New comment by monocasa in "PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement"

monocasa — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:40:08 +0000

Yes.

New comment by monocasa in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

monocasa — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:35:44 +0000

> Prior to the industrial revolution, the natural world was nearly infinitely abundant. We simply weren't efficient enough to fully exploit it. That meant that it was fine for things like property and the commons to be poorly defined. If all of us can go hunting in the woods and yet there is still game to be found, then there's no compelling reason to define and litigate who "owns" those woods.

I mean, medieval Europe (speaking broadly) had pretty well defined property rights wrt hunting. In fact, the forester at the time was thought of as one of the most corrupt jobs, as they'd commonly have side hustles poaching and otherwise illegally extracting resources from the lands they enforced and kept others from utilizing in a similar way. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

New comment by monocasa in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

monocasa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:25:33 +0000

Which is why Firefox doesn't support it either.

New comment by monocasa in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

monocasa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:07 +0000

It looks like it's just because they had no way to test, and bandwidth to deal with it. But should still mostly work, once whatever issue (that sounds like app notrization) is fixed.

It seems like the better option would have been to fix whatever was blocking them just two years ago, rather than this wild rube goldberg machine of a Linux VM emulated in a browser tab.

New comment by monocasa in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

monocasa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:06:12 +0000

Gutenprint supports macos as a first class citizen, including this particular printer AFAICT.

New comment by monocasa in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

monocasa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:04:04 +0000

Oh, OK, new information, thanks!

But this driver is older than OpenPrinting's fork from Apple CUPS.

New comment by monocasa in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

monocasa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:28:20 +0000

Isn't cups a de facto apple project? What's the VM getting you?

New comment by monocasa in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

monocasa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:09:39 +0000

I've seen people use the same technique and tooling for resin pours.

New comment by monocasa in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

monocasa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:21:51 +0000

I mean, the core issue here is that proper engineering just isn't valued.

Social capital just isn't given out to people that fix things in a lot of these companies, but instead those who ship a 1.0a.

On the management/product side, the inevitable issues are problem for another quarter. On the engineering side, it's a problem for the poor shmucks who didn't get to jump to the next big thing.

Neither of those groups instructionally care about the mess they leave in their wake, and such guardrails they'd perceive as antithetical to releasing the next broken but new, fancy feature.

New comment by monocasa in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

monocasa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:26:14 +0000

Except pretty much the entire millennial generation knows about computer folders and files, as that was necessary information for graduating school.

New comment by monocasa in "AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy"

monocasa — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:14:42 +0000

I feel like using spinlocks in user space at all without kernel support like rseq is just asking for weird performance degradations.

New comment by monocasa in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

monocasa — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:30:30 +0000

No joke, I worked at a place where in our copy of system headers we had to #define near and far to nothing. That was because (despite not having supported any systems where this was applicable for more than a decade) there was a set of files that were considered too risky to make changes in that still had dos style near and far pointers that we had to compile for a more sane linear address space. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/c/what-are-near-far-and-huge-p...

Now, I'm just a simple country engineer, but a sane take on risk management probably doesn't prefer de facto editing files by hijacking keywords with template magic compared with, you know just making the actual change, reviewing it, and checking it in.

New comment by monocasa in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

monocasa — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:38:09 +0000

There's been plenty of computer security issues wrt state actors that we in the industry assume is true, without any actual evidence beyond a whistleblower saying that it happened combined with plausibility that it could have happened.

Room 641A is a good example.

And the bonus is for true information. My point was that the only reason to move the market with false information was for market manipulation.

New comment by monocasa in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"

monocasa — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:38:13 +0000

Meanwhile Europe has access to $30k EVs because they didn't stock a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs. Hell, a leapmotor to3 is almost down to $20k.

Prompt to tape out: Autonomous AI agent builds 1.5 GHz RISC-V CPU

monocasa — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:28:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/22/prompt-to-tape-out-autonomous-ai-agent-builds-1-5-ghz-risc-v-cpu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486400

Points: 4

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BIO – The Bao I/O Co-Processor

monocasa — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:52:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao/updates/bio-the-bao-i-o-co-processor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47464087

Points: 1

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New comment by monocasa in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

monocasa — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:02:33 +0000

Oh, absolutely. Straight up soviet style cloning of masks makes no sense for multitude of reasons. In addition to what you've said, China isn't banned from N7 class Nvidia architectures so could just buy those on the open market.