Hacker News: pl4nty

New comment by pl4nty in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

pl4nty — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:16:19 +0000

yaml definitions compiled to sqlite sounds pretty similar to winget, which is scaling very well. vector search is a cool idea - how much storage does it use per package?

New comment by pl4nty in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

pl4nty — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:17:46 +0000

I had to scroll too far for someone to mention third-party CI. GitHub Actions free runners have always sucked, but the third-party runner ecosystem is really strong for those who can afford it. imo the APIs are far better than the rest of the product - I suspect enterprise customers are strong-arming GitHub to keep them reliable. and there's always third-party CI like tekton if Actions' yaml is too annoying

New comment by pl4nty in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

pl4nty — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 01:46:04 +0000

there are quite a few features like this. I actually did a comparison of chromium vs edge headers yesterday, it's a lot more than a rebrand. shame the source code is proprietary

https://github.com/pl4nty/msedge/commit/96aa52634072b12fa175...

New comment by pl4nty in "How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps"

pl4nty — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 01:32:20 +0000

> windows store requires a MS account

they avoid mentioning it, but the Microsoft managed package format (MSIX) works just fine without the Microsoft Store. create an App Installer manifest, stick it on a website, and get semver-d differential updates across multiple architectures for free: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/app-installer...

msft have woefully underinvested in the ecosystem and docs though. I wish they'd fund me or others to contribute on the OSS side - electron could be far simpler and more secure with batteries-included MSIX

New comment by pl4nty in "Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US"

pl4nty — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:02:52 +0000

> Until now the only way to do that was on device

as usual, Apple's implementation is exceptional, but far from the first. see https://confidentialcomputing.io/ and its long history

New comment by pl4nty in "Every .gov Domain"

pl4nty — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:27:48 +0000

thanks for this, can't believe I've never come across it. I've been building git scraping tools for years, but didn't know it was a popular pattern

New comment by pl4nty in "Apple is open sourcing Swift Build"

pl4nty — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:29:28 +0000

this, because msft spent years and many $$$ to build an open-source ecosystem. apple hasn't done that yet, so I'm not sure why anyone would trust them

New comment by pl4nty in "Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history"

pl4nty — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:15:37 +0000

shame they paywalled JWT authn behind their expensive PaaS offering :(

forced us to use an alternative, and paywalling security features in an "open source" product didn't make us feel comfortable for a long-term investment like a db

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/68634#issuecom...

New comment by pl4nty in "Machine Learning in Production (CMU Course)"

pl4nty — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:45:58 +0000

this is really helpful, thanks. how much are third-party models changing these workflows (LLMs etc)? would you still spend as much time on feature engineering and evaluation? I'm wondering whether any saved time would be refocused on hosting, especially optimizing GPU utilization

New comment by pl4nty in "If OpenSSL were a GUI (2022)"

pl4nty — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:02:08 +0000

I host a usable web app like this, including a complete CLI via WebAssembly. it's surprisingly useful for teaching, kind of like CyberChef

https://openssl.tplant.com.au/

New comment by pl4nty in "If OpenSSL were a GUI (2022)"

pl4nty — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:59:22 +0000

I host a usable web app for this idea, including a full CLI via WebAssembly to illustrate the trade-offs

https://openssl.tplant.com.au/

New comment by pl4nty in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

pl4nty — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 01:17:35 +0000

it's not as expensive as it looks, if you don't count time. CNC alu and the display would be the biggest costs. other carrier board projects use 3d printing over CNC, but the display/bandwidth is kinda what makes this novel so a lower res wouldn't make sense

really hoping Byran's excellent writeup helps encourage others. SoMs have lowered the barrier to entry and birthed a ton of SBC/carrier communities, but most of their tribal knowledge is buried in discord servers

New comment by pl4nty in "I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too"

pl4nty — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:06:14 +0000

thanks, really appreciate that your post was concise and included examples/followups. only needed 10 minutes to style my own rss feed

New comment by pl4nty in "Setting Up an RK3588 SBC QEMU Hypervisor with ZFS on Debian"

pl4nty — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 01:55:12 +0000

mainline LTS is good enough to boot and perform well, but it's still missing media and NPU features. as someone who briefly worked on mainlining, I feel the biggest problem is Turing's deceptive marketing - rk3588 and SBCs in general just aren't powerful enough for popular inference workloads like LLMs, let alone training. and ARM (rather than x86) is still very limiting for self-hosting apps

New comment by pl4nty in "Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain"

pl4nty — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:59:28 +0000

every trufflehog post I've seen on hn has been alarmist clickbait. could've been an opportunity to discuss security tradeoffs of `sub` vs `email` and how to handle `sub` changes, but nope their take is "sub doesn't fix the problem we found"

New comment by pl4nty in "The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience"

pl4nty — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:27:54 +0000

Microsoft Store and Xbox games/updates are distributed with a proprietary P2P protocol, which also includes ISP appliances. afaik it's the largest P2P network in the world. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/do/mcc-...

Steam recently introduced LAN-based P2P to complement their significant appliance/CDN infrastructure, but idk if anyone has pulled it apart yet. and I don't think it does tunnelling like the msft network

New comment by pl4nty in "Diagram as Code"

pl4nty — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:05:49 +0000

its layout engine is the real magic for me, it allows complex diagrams that are just unreadable in graphviz or mermaid. a concise DSL and animation support are bonuses too

New comment by pl4nty in "Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting"

pl4nty — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:03:25 +0000

it's become much easier in the last few years. Talos + Flux + Renovate can be built in a day [0], and simplifies storage/backups/patching even for single-node clusters. There's also a great community, with services like kubesearch [1] providing templates for tons of apps

[0] https://github.com/onedr0p/cluster-template

[1] https://kubesearch.dev

New comment by pl4nty in "Proton launches its own version of Google Docs"

pl4nty — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:08:50 +0000

and the niche customers that do need Proton's level of privacy are often more comfortable with a selfhosted product

New comment by pl4nty in "Arm64 on GitHub Actions"

pl4nty — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 01:05:12 +0000

it's a pain, you'll need to build the images on separate jobs then merge them into a multi-arch manifest. I moved to namespace.so for remote BuildKit builds a while ago and haven't looked back. depot.dev is also good, but pretty expensive