<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: octagons</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=octagons</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:57:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=octagons" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octagons in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Don't be scared. Fuck around a bit.<p>Damn good advice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:03:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726070</link><dc:creator>octagons</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octagons in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They’re still in step 2 of their general game plan: embrace, extend, extinguish.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:44:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616010</link><dc:creator>octagons</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octagons in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve had a good experience running Arch Linux on my “gaming” PC in the living room. It helps that I’m very comfortable with Linux internals, but I’d say I have no issues or issues that can be fixed with 2-3 clicks about 95% of the time.<p>My setup is basically Arch Linux, ProtonUp-Qt (to easily install specific versions of Proton, the compatibility layer), Steam, and the proprietary Nvidia drivers/Vulkan. I generally have no issues with Easy Anti-Cheat games like Arc Raiders, but obviously anything that requires secure boot attestation like Arena Breakout Infinite won’t play. I’ve not bothered to try setting up full secure boot as the games that require it aren’t typically in my wheelhouse.<p>I hope Linux adoption continues for my own, very self-serving, interests. I get the sense that those who primarily use their computer for gaming are the frogs slowly being boiled by Microsoft who continues to back their these customers into uncomfortable, unnecessary corners.</p>
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<p>Are there any generally available microcontrollers with this block inside?<p>“Open source” has a very different meaning when it comes to silicon.</p>
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<p>This is the general premise behind Ken Thompson’s “Reflections on Trusting Trust” and I highly recommend you read it if this is something that interests you.</p>
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<p>Oddly, “7070” seems to always return a Database Error for me. Other numbers work fine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:07:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243726</link><dc:creator>octagons</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octagons in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there evidence that shows a trend in increased violent crime committed using 3D-printed weapons?<p>I’ve certainly seen projects and models demonstrating the ability to create firearms with the help of a 3D printer, but I’m not aware of anyone using one to commit a crime…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:09:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081743</link><dc:creator>octagons</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octagons in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The wording and tone of the emails sent to Adguard reads just like phishing emails with a hint of political SMS spam. Glad to see the people behind there thinking critically and acting rationally despite such language.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:14:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937605</link><dc:creator>octagons</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octagons in "Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been running an Incus cluster of 3 fairly beefy servers for about a year now. It’s my go-to recommendation for anyone wanting to setup a new virtualized environment.<p>One of my favorite features is how you can tag different cluster members for different architectures. In the same cluster, I can have traditional dual-socket x86 servers with a dozen DIMM slots as well as Raspberry Pis. The architecture tagging lets me strategize execution of ARM-based container workloads to be only on the Pis, or opt to run them via QEMU on the x86 platforms if that makes more sense in a particular scenario. Since I deal with a lot of embedded firmware, this offers a nice, flexible platform.<p>Stephen Graeber is also a long time contributor to the LXC project and his reasoning behind this fork and other changes are quite sound. I hope the project sees continued success. Stephen’s business model of offering consulting services for Incus systems also seems quite sound.</p>
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<p>Yes, it can do both. The image server will build for both options if possible, so you have to specify “—vm” on the command line creating the domain.</p>
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<p>SS7 strikes again!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:23:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599552</link><dc:creator>octagons</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octagons in "Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my experience, anyone running Wayland is very much used to some number of applications that depend on Xwayland. Does Zathura + MuPDF not work with it?<p>Either way, if you want to show off a project, just do so…</p>
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<p>FYI - the inclusion of UWB (specifically the FiRa consortium secure ranging standard) was not part of the CCC Digital Key specification until v4.0.0, which only left its draft state very recently, at least in terms of automotive security standards.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:33:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475064</link><dc:creator>octagons</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475064</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octagons in "Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Toyota moves more slowly than many other brands because of their company culture/philosophy.<p>To your point about BEVs, Toyota started producing BEV batteries at their plant in North Carolina this year: <a href="https://www.toyota.com/usa/operations/map/tbmnc" rel="nofollow">https://www.toyota.com/usa/operations/map/tbmnc</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://toyotatimes.jp/en/spotlights/1061.html">https://toyotatimes.jp/en/spotlights/1061.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45470206">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45470206</a></p>
<p>Points: 135</p>
<p># Comments: 110</p>
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<p>Wow, this is overall great advice.<p>I am much later in my career than the audience I assume this is intended for, but I have struggled to mentor junior colleagues on many of the major bullet points here so succinctly.<p>This should be recommended reading for new college grads entering a more traditional (I.e. non-startup) work environment. Definitely keeping a bookmark of this for that reason.</p>
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<p>I was a little disappointed to discover there was only 1 degree of separation between “Benito Mussolini” and “Bread”.<p>For context: <a href="https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-is-only-one-model" rel="nofollow">https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-is-only-one-model</a></p>
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<p>That’s unfortunate. I believed Anthropic was playing the long game and betting on a smaller but more technically proficient userbase.<p>I guess I’ll be canceling my subscription largely out of principal. I doubt any open-source models are capable of handling my use case as well as Claude (typically focused on getting up to speed with various ISO/IEEE standards for the purpose of security testing) but I’m sure I’ll find a solution.</p>
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<p>I share this sentiment - I often get the sense that they struggle to prioritize their development efforts appropriately.<p>It baffles me that they don’t offer a way of creating my own JetBrains IDE from the pile of features available across their IDEs and other tools. I pay for the “all products pack” and have started to question whether it’s worth it. Even if I am working in an IDE like PyCharm, it’s not much work to also work with a pre-compiled language in the same project. The distinction between the different IDEs grows less so year over year.</p>
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<p>I’ve always used huginn[0] for these types of tasks, though the learning curve/implementation is a bit cumbersome for more trivial tasks like the proposed scenario.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/huginn/huginn" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/huginn/huginn</a></p>
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