Hacker News: nubskr

New comment by nubskr in "Show HN: Actionbase – A database for likes, views, follows at 1M+ req/min"

nubskr — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:20:39 +0000

Won't something like scyllaDB be a better choice for such workloads ? as long as you're fine with eventual consistency ofc

How to Do Great Work (2023)

nubskr — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:29:50 +0000

Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780410

Points: 1

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New comment by nubskr in "Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025)"

nubskr — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:04:00 +0000

Seems like sometimes the best tech stack is the one that refuses to die :))

New comment by nubskr in "Reading across books with Claude Code"

nubskr — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:02:58 +0000

I've been using Claude Code for my research notes and had the same realization, it's less about perfecting prompts and more about building tools so it can surprise you. The moment I stopped treating it like a function and started treating it like a coworker who reads at 1000 wpm, everything clicked

New comment by nubskr in "Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation"

nubskr — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:58:58 +0000

Mandiant releases rainbow tables for a 25 year old broken protocol because enterprises still won't disable it. It seems like sometimes the best security tool is just making the risk impossible to ignore.

New comment by nubskr in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

nubskr — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:57:03 +0000

That's actually the state of autonomous coding in 2026, scale the output, skip the verification.

New comment by nubskr in "Cloud RAM"

nubskr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:34:15 +0000

Until I saw this, I thought my weirdest infrastructure decision was using NFS for swap. Now I'm wondering if I can mount my browser tabs over UDP.

New comment by nubskr in "Computers that used to be human"

nubskr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:31:53 +0000

Finding out "computer" was a job title because precise calculation was so hard to find makes me feel less bad about needing a calculator for basic arithmetic.

New comment by nubskr in "GitHub: A case study in link maintenance and 404 pages (2013)"

nubskr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:28:56 +0000

so they already queried the DB to know your link is broken, but chooses not to spend more compute telling you why?

New comment by nubskr in "Kafka Inc"

nubskr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:50:58 +0000

It's fully how Max Brod saved Kafka's work by ignoring his dying wish and prague repaid him by turning Kafka into a hummus cafe.

New comment by nubskr in "Date is out, Temporal is in"

nubskr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:49:30 +0000

Temporal being immutable alone is worth whatever migration pain we're about to endure.

New comment by nubskr in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

nubskr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:48:06 +0000

The 'break it and it's gone' constraint seems weirdly empowering compared to cloud magic :/

New comment by nubskr in "FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems"

nubskr — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:52:17 +0000

Spent the last month building a FUSE mount and now I can't stop thinking about what else I can filesystem.

New comment by nubskr in "Sampling at negative temperature"

nubskr — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:15:33 +0000

So negative temperature makes LLMs output their "forbidden words" i.e. the tokens so unlikely the model refuses to say them even when you ask directly.

New comment by nubskr in "Show HN: Comet MCP – Give Claude Code a browser that can click"

nubskr — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:09:29 +0000

Another day, another MCP server. Wake me up when we stop needing a new protocol for every AI tool to talk to every other AI tool.

New comment by nubskr in "Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files"

nubskr — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:06:34 +0000

Helping my mom recover from OneDrive's "cleanup" was the closest I've come to negotiating with terrorists.

New comment by nubskr in "Vector graphics on GPU"

nubskr — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:03:12 +0000

Turns out the best GPU optimization is just being too scared of graphics drivers to do the fancy stuff, 10-15x faster and you can actually debug it.

New comment by nubskr in "Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025)"

nubskr — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:45:35 +0000

I keep telling myself I'm using the sea approach but my git history says hammer and chisel

New comment by nubskr in "Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)"

nubskr — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:37:38 +0000

most of the financial systems are just as hackable as computer systems, but most "security" startups just build compliance checkboxes and culturally appropriate hacker ethos for VC money.

New comment by nubskr in "My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed"

nubskr — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:34:08 +0000

The holy trinity of modern hardware: update servers, firmware locks, and abandoned devkits