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New comment by nikisweeting in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

nikisweeting — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:14:32 +0000

You're off by at least 3 orders of magnitude, anodization is like 1,000x~5,000x thicker (5~25µm) than the natural oxide coating (~5nm).

New comment by nikisweeting in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

nikisweeting — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:12:50 +0000

Yes but anodization implies thickness around ~5–25 micrometers (µm) for aluminum. The natural oxide coating is ~2-5 nanometers (1,000–5,000× less thick).

New comment by nikisweeting in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

nikisweeting — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:53:54 +0000

gotta add vector search! that's the main benefit of these tools imo

I want to be able to search abstract concepts like "package" or "download" or "jazz" and see everything vaguely related like emojidb does.

New comment by nikisweeting in "We're running out of benchmarks to upper bound AI capabilities"

nikisweeting — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:48:32 +0000

We can definitely make harder evals, the problem is a good eval set is indistinguishable from good training data / market edge, so no one is incentivized to share their best eval sets publicly.

New comment by nikisweeting in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

nikisweeting — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:54:56 +0000

My friend is building something similar to Little Snitch but specialized for sandboxing agents / monitoring their traffic / building rulesets to restrict traffic by "learning" from good runs. https://greywall.io/

Curious who else is working on stuff like this / what other solutions exist that are like "Little Snitch" for agent network + filesystem calls.

New comment by nikisweeting in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

nikisweeting — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:52:56 +0000

This is so cool, just bookmarked it next to https://emojidb.org/ which is what I've been using in the past for vector-based emoji search.

New comment by nikisweeting in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

nikisweeting — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:28:43 +0000

Note pnpm does not have this flag yet, please upvote this issue if you want it added: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/11224

Currently pnpm only supports setting this option via persistent config file, not per-run.

New comment by nikisweeting in "A Recipe for Steganogravy"

nikisweeting — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:47:31 +0000

I always mispell it stenography by accident, just commenting so I can find this awesome post in search later when I inevitably type it wrong!

New comment by nikisweeting in "Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had"

nikisweeting — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:31:57 +0000

I believe the full docs are here: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/blob/main/docs/manual...

New comment by nikisweeting in "Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had"

nikisweeting — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:39:32 +0000

I have found this as well, FTSE5 is convenient to have as an option, but it's not as versatile as postgres or sonic or other full-text search solutions.

Does anyone have any other favorite modern bloom-filter-based search solutions that dont need to store copies of all the documents in the search db? Ideally something that can run in WASM too so we can ship a tiny search index to the browser. I found https://github.com/tinysearch/tinysearch but haven't tried it yet.

New comment by nikisweeting in "Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had"

nikisweeting — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:37:31 +0000

Surprised no one has mentioned Turso yet!

They recently landed multi-writer support for their rust SQLite re-implementation, which is personally the biggest issue I've had with using SQLite for high concurrency applications.

`PRAGMA journal_mode = 'mvcc';`

https://docs.turso.tech/tursodb/concurrent-writes

Very excited to see if SQLite responds by adding native support, I'm hoping competition here will spur improvements on both sides.

New comment by nikisweeting in "Show HN: Mac-hardware toys, control your Mac's hardware like a modular synth"

nikisweeting — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:24:31 +0000

I built this recently to toy around with mac sensor data + hardware outputs. Because it can represent all streams as mono audio, it lets you do crazy things like this:

    accelerometer | metronome | tee >(keyboard-brightness) | speaker

Show HN: Mac-hardware toys, control your Mac's hardware like a modular synth

nikisweeting — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:42:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pirate/mac-hardware-toys

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617630

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by nikisweeting in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

nikisweeting — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:27:30 +0000

I know this is not the right place for this but if there's any chance you could send this link to someone internal at Github who knows how to fix this, that would be awesome! https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/70577

It's only semi-related in that it's a similar string thats appearing in millions of repos due to a Github feature change, but it's now polluting Google search results with tons of duplicate URLs unnecessarily. Issue has 100+ votes but has been entirely ignored by Github team.

New comment by nikisweeting in "Show HN: Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base"

nikisweeting — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:27:44 +0000

Yeah exactly like this. I like being able to approve/deny requests or "learn" from a good run and apply that policy to later runs so I can leave them unattended and know they can't access anything aside from what I approved.

New comment by nikisweeting in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

nikisweeting — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:55:52 +0000

Ah that makes sense.

New comment by nikisweeting in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

nikisweeting — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:47:45 +0000

Ripgrep is used as the defautl search backend for ArchiveBox, such a good tool. I was on ag (the-silver-searcher) for years before I switched, but haven't gone back since.

There's also RGA (ripgrep-all) which searches binary files like PDFs, ebooks, doc files: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

New comment by nikisweeting in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

nikisweeting — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:43:21 +0000

Weird, I dont have any edit option on my comment after you replied.

Maybe it's a karma-gated feature?

New comment by nikisweeting in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

nikisweeting — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:37:07 +0000

Doesn't HN prevent that? I thought edits lock upon the first reply.

New comment by nikisweeting in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

nikisweeting — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:19:54 +0000

The best part is that *.*.localhost is also supported, so you can finally just replace *.com for your prod domains with *.localhost.

ArchiveBox now uses this feature by default in the latest version to finally offer unique per-snapshot domain isolation, so we can safely replay archived JS without risking compromise of your whole archive.

Such an awesome feature, the barrier to do this used to be prohibitively high but now it "just works".