Hacker News: packetlost

New comment by packetlost in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

packetlost — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:13:31 +0000

I'm guessing a Pixel with GrapheneOS

New comment by packetlost in "Let’s Encrypt – Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident"

packetlost — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:19:21 +0000

I mean, what's the alternative? I struggle to come up with a solution that doesn't boil down to the same primitive operations and trust model.

New comment by packetlost in "Permacomputing Principles"

packetlost — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:07:12 +0000

I actively don't want these people infecting spaces they shouldn't be though. If that's all they care about out they should be in spaces about that

New comment by packetlost in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

packetlost — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:23:31 +0000

There are pockets of this on the internet, but you really have to go out of your way to find it

New comment by packetlost in "Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell"

packetlost — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:50:05 +0000

as a part time schemer, I also love Clojure and reach for it more often than Scheme these days.

New comment by packetlost in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

packetlost — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:08:22 +0000

Same here. I'm mildly optimistic tangled will go somewhere and be a viable replacement

New comment by packetlost in "High Performance Git"

packetlost — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:36:37 +0000

There's also commits and tags. Commits are important for understanding how branches and histories work. I was just trying to be brief, the types of objects are important and covered in that tutorial.

New comment by packetlost in "High Performance Git"

packetlost — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:06:49 +0000

Is HEAD not just a ref to a commit? There's basically only two "things" in git, refs and objects. Git internals are so easy that IMO people should start off by running through this tutorial [0] instead of learning the basics of git porcelain, it makes understanding what's going on so much easier.

[0]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects

New comment by packetlost in "Email could have been X.400 times better"

packetlost — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:19:40 +0000

Wait, are you serious? This is how it works?

New comment by packetlost in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

packetlost — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:06:03 +0000

Neutral atom too. You need fairly clean light to pump atoms into Rydberg states

New comment by packetlost in "PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux"

packetlost — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:55:03 +0000

17.0 has preview build, but yeah the readme is still mostly relevant I think

New comment by packetlost in "PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux"

packetlost — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:56:36 +0000

Note: this readme appears to be from a very old version (5.x)

New comment by packetlost in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

packetlost — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:15:53 +0000

I'm really quite confident I don't want these companies collecting face and ID scans to prove age, so no I think this being an OS problem is actually a very reasonable solution.

New comment by packetlost in "Introduction to Obsidian"

packetlost — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:43:54 +0000

This was the case before Obsidian existed, see Org-mode, vimwiki, etc.

New comment by packetlost in "Initial mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588"

packetlost — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:58:27 +0000

Fair!

New comment by packetlost in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

packetlost — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:33:41 +0000

> Maybe im too biased due to working in a particularly inefficient domain, but you would be surprised how much work can be automated in your average back office.

> Much of the operational work is following set process and anything out of that is going to up the governance chain for approval from some decision maker.

Oh that's very interesting! Thank you for the insights!

New comment by packetlost in "Initial mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588"

packetlost — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:19:56 +0000

Why is that? IME pretty much all of their software is a mess and the hardware has some bugs/issues iirc but is otherwise ok?

New comment by packetlost in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

packetlost — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:29:46 +0000

> Right now most corporations do not have their data organized and structured well enough for this to be possible, but there is a lot of heat and money in this space.

I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm not really referring to data systems at all, I'm referring to context on what problems are actually being solved by a business. LLMs very clearly do not model outcomes that don't have well-defined textual representations.

I'm not sure that I agree with white collar jobs being done for, not every process has as little consequence to getting it wrong as (most) software does.

New comment by packetlost in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

packetlost — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:04:38 +0000

> Are AI “gains” really transformative

They're transformative in the sense that will shrink the optimal team size, but I don't expect the jobs to actually go away unless these things both get substantially better at engineering (they're good at generating code but that is like 20% of engineering at best) and we have a means of giving them full business/human levels of context.

Really basic stuff gets a lot easier but the needle doesn't move much on the harder stuff. Without some sort of "memory" or continuous feedback system, these models don't learn from mistakes or successes which means humans have to be the cost function.

Maybe it's just because I'm burnt out or have a miner RSI at the moment, but it definitely saves me a bit of time as long as I don't generate a huge pile and actually read (almost) everything the models generate. The newer models are good at following instructions and pattern matching on needs if you can stub things out and/or write down specs to define what needs to happen. I'd say my hit rate is maybe 70%

New comment by packetlost in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

packetlost — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:04:49 +0000

The biggest cost is the power which is often on multi year contracts. The hardware is comparatively cheap