Hacker News: packetlost

New comment by packetlost in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

packetlost — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:38:49 +0000

This [0] refers to their warehouse workers, but I've heard of similar problems during the earlier 2020s engineer hiring boom (on reddit iirc)

0: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/22/amazon-wo...

New comment by packetlost in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

packetlost — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:06:43 +0000

That's true to a point, but Amazon is finding out the hard way that eventually the well of people willing to put up with bullshit runs dry and it becomes much harder to get actually good talent or workers.

Meta needs to be careful IMO. The subset of capable people willing to work for a company as demonstrably evil as them is not infinite.

New comment by packetlost in "Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0"

packetlost — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:26:29 +0000

I believe at least one of the two official Minecraft implementations use it for their map/save format.

New comment by packetlost in "Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs"

packetlost — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:51:01 +0000

The only issue is pandoc is a pretty heavy dep. A fantastic tool, but a very heavy one.

New comment by packetlost in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

packetlost — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:26:22 +0000

Not that I don't agree, but PKI relies on a trusted authority which can be compromised. If you're running a trustless system, basically any party can be compromised but the blast radius is limited to just the compromised infrastructure and money, not the entire system.

New comment by packetlost in "Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents"

packetlost — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:28:52 +0000

> "If I split a file in two I still want to be able to see blame correctly for the author of the function, not one file as freshly created and the other with a bunch of deletes." > > Now this is a good idea that I've never seen in a VCS.

There's a reason no one has done that, the VCS would have to have a semantic understanding of what it's tracking. I'm sure that's possible, but I think would see extremely limited success. Honestly, it may have even been done for proprietary languages and VCS systems that have since faded into obscurity.

I'd settle for searching the git history for a particular regex/string and then running a blame on that.

New comment by packetlost in "Who owns your ATProto identity?"

packetlost — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:36:02 +0000

> I don't want the same account I use for social for my code

Then create separate accounts?

New comment by packetlost in "There are no instances in ATProto"

packetlost — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:49:47 +0000

Based on my understanding, PLC is centralized primarily because there needs to be a global, authoritative source of truth for the current state of a given plc. You could in theory namespace a plc to a particular directory instance with a backwards reference or something, but I don't think it buys you anything when in theory you can just choose to trust a different PLC directory at the read/application layer if you really need.

At the end of the day, truly fully decentralized systems are literally impossible, there's always a centralized aspect (at least for bootstrapping) and it's usually DNS-shaped.

That being said, PLC directories are a problem that blockchains (yuck) actually solve very well: trustless, public ledgers. I would not be surprised if we see a separate implementation based on an architecture derived from such systems.

New comment by packetlost in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

packetlost — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:05:07 +0000

I get most of my electricity from solar farms through my local utility provider!

New comment by packetlost in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

packetlost — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:30:09 +0000

Companies are also much more inclined to spend money to solve a problem while hobbyists are much more likely to get enjoyment out of the process of building. I'm firmly in the latter category, having built a rather robust ZFS array on NixOS with a pretty gnarly NVMe cache hierarchy built on LVM. It was fun to do.

New comment by packetlost in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

packetlost — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:06:47 +0000

I feel like submodules could be a lot easier to work with if the git command made it easy to update all submodules in one go based on branch head for the submodule.

New comment by packetlost in "MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C"

packetlost — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:15:30 +0000

> it's kinda abandonware at this point

That's sad. I'm a fan of rxi's work, including this one.

New comment by packetlost in "Running local models is good now"

packetlost — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:08:52 +0000

Why do you like gpt-oss-120b less now? What replaced it?

New comment by packetlost in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

packetlost — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:41:44 +0000

It really isn't comparable. Sure, nixpkgs is huge, but the surface area for what you need to understand and work with is considerably smaller. They aren't even really in the same domain anyways. I was able to get very comfortable with Nix(OS) in a single weekend, but it took me months to get to a similar level with the K8s ecosystem.

New comment by packetlost in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

packetlost — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:57:56 +0000

I use NixOS with nginx + acme / caddy, coredns and no docker anywhere. It's extremely homogeneous, easy to scale out (add another flake output, deploy to a new server, update DNS records). You could easily automate some of that with more nix, but I don't bother because that's already only like 50 lines of config.

I have a strong preference for renting bare metal and it has served me extremely well.

New comment by packetlost in "Travel locally, where you are"

packetlost — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:46:52 +0000

The driftless area certainly has some truly beautiful parts, but my statement is less about the homogeneity across the entire region and more about the distance between any notable landmarks. Hills alone aren't really that interesting either and I stand by my statement that most of the Midwest is boring and flat.

New comment by packetlost in "Travel locally, where you are"

packetlost — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:26:56 +0000

The Midwest in particular is extremely homogeneous and flat, mostly plains and farmland for hundreds of miles. The West cost has more in 15 miles than the Midwest has in 100, on average. There are pockets here and there, but not enough to warrant the several hour drive it will take to get there.

Honestly, most of the US is like this. It's huge and very, very sparse.

New comment by packetlost in "Lines of code got a better publicist"

packetlost — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:28:43 +0000

And trash your short-term memory? Nah, smoking weed is straight up bad for most people.

New comment by packetlost in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

packetlost — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:40:27 +0000

That violates the worse is better principle which has held true since the inception of software.

Switching costs are real. It's not that hard to make an improvement, but it's very hard to make an improvement that justifies the cost in both money and time.

New comment by packetlost in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

packetlost — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:10:24 +0000

It was specifically broken like 4~ years ago and fixed within the last month or so.