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New comment by nativeit in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

nativeit — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:14:11 +0000

Related topic on CuriousMarc and co.’s AGC restoration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641528

New comment by nativeit in "Apollo Guidance Computer restoration videos"

nativeit — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:53:16 +0000

I have been following this series since it began, and it's just magical for the sort of nerds who have consumed all of the surface-level documentaries and books about Apollo, especially if you have an interest in electronics engineering, computer science, or radio communications. It's a genre that's distinct to YouTube--something I fear going away every time YouTube tries to chase TikTok and Instagram trends.

Marc, Ken, and their team are national treasures. I'm absolutely blown away at the depth and breadth of what they have accomplished in this series.

New comment by nativeit in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

nativeit — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:48:05 +0000

I don't think humanity has fully reckoned with the idea of a product that can manipulate us unilaterally like this.

New comment by nativeit in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

nativeit — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:59:30 +0000

Human Cent-iPad style?

New comment by nativeit in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

nativeit — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:58:14 +0000

Speech, for example.

New comment by nativeit in "The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites"

nativeit — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:33:42 +0000

Good choice of a day to spawn this meme account.

New comment by nativeit in "The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites"

nativeit — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:29:23 +0000

Account is days old, zero karma, comment history is 100% simping for AI.

New comment by nativeit in "Apple at 50"

nativeit — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:20:19 +0000

Typing this on an iPhone 11 as well. Still feeling zero pressure to upgrade.

New comment by nativeit in "Apple at 50"

nativeit — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:19:06 +0000

I never understood the tribalism. For nearly a decade now I have used Windows, Linux, and Macs essentially daily. I have an Ubuntu desktop in my shop, a variety of Debian servers in the cloud, a Windows desktop in my office, a Mac Mini in my bedroom, a MacBook in my bag, and a handful of iPhones/iPads everywhere else. They’re useful for different applications and workflows, and it’s not that difficult to adapt to where they all feel natural. I recognize I’m the weird one though, and I rather enjoy learning new interfaces (I switch my default web browser every few years for “fun” and as a maintenance strategy (kind of like an especially opinionated factory reset).

New comment by nativeit in "Apple at 50"

nativeit — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:08:52 +0000

Nearly as bloated and stuck on the past as most 50yo Americans.

New comment by nativeit in "SpaceX files to go public"

nativeit — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:01:01 +0000

I think you have to temper the glazing a bit though.

These people and their endeavors are thoroughly, irredeemably corrupt. It’s nice you got a taste, but their impact on society has been calamitous, and will take decades to recover (if at all).

New comment by nativeit in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

nativeit — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:53:47 +0000

Isn’t this just WebKit with some user scripts anyway?

New comment by nativeit in "TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters"

nativeit — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:29:28 +0000

My very first PC was a Packard Bell with 640KB of RAM. If I’d known, I’d have saved all my RAM for retirement…

New comment by nativeit in "TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters"

nativeit — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:25:42 +0000

How much did your training cost society?

New comment by nativeit in "The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive"

nativeit — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:45:01 +0000

Em dashes are—hear me out—easy for anyone who knows how to type a hyphen twice.

New comment by nativeit in "False claims in a widely-cited paper"

nativeit — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:02:05 +0000

Don’t worry, we’re getting there. They just started dismantling what they refer to as the “administrative state”, but which largely deferred substantial questions requiring skill and non-partisan judgement to their respective experts. It was never perfect, nor free from partisan and/or economic concerns, but the replacement appears to be self-interested narcissists and sycophants and their personal fiefdoms, with precious little space for competence, logic, or integrity.

New comment by nativeit in "Apple Just Lost Me"

nativeit — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:29:33 +0000

Because folks don’t continuously talk about something that happened 14-years ago on a device that’s been off the market for nearly as long?

New comment by nativeit in "FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic"

nativeit — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:17:58 +0000

I interpreted this to be a class action to which they were a party, not something they principally launched themselves?

New comment by nativeit in "FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic"

nativeit — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:15:22 +0000

That’s a wild take. AI companies are to blame for AI coding.

New comment by nativeit in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

nativeit — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:17:15 +0000

I have been using Webmin/Virtualmin for all of my 15-years as a web host. I love it, although it can be a little idiosyncratic in places, once you know how to operate with it, you won’t ever need anything else. It’s never been the most bleeding-edge or fully-featured, but it’s also never fallen behind with security and compatibility updates, and it’s had a surge in new development lately, which is exciting. On a Debian system, it’s always been rock solid for me.

Virtualmin in particular is more targeted towards production web servers, but I think they’re both something of a happy medium between a GUI and the terminal; The interfaces are all pretty explicit about the components you’re interfacing with, and nearly all of them include the ability to pop open the conf files to edit them directly.

The extensive UI isn’t the most flashy or polished, but it’s functional and if you get bored enough (as I did) you can theme the entire thing with a single CSS file (be prepared for a lot of ‘!important’ and other things that will drive UI/X folks nuts), and make it look rather stylish.

The only downside (and this isn’t really a downside for production servers) is it’s opinionated on how some things “should” be configured. It’s not restrictive, per se, but it’s not very tolerant for “coloring outside the lines”. You can run an Apache or Nginx reverse proxy, but if you want to use Caddy or Traefik or something similar, this may not be the admin panel for you.

Myself, I just run Webmin/Virtualmin on my production servers, and use a separate server for Docker and apps, where I’ve used both Cockpit and Portainer, but generally tend to stick with the CLI. The command line will always be the best, most efficient way of interfacing with Linux. Once I’d learned enough to be comfortable, I found it becomes increasingly preferable for most common tasks.