<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: ramblurr</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ramblurr</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:38:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ramblurr" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ramblurr in "Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So like OHTTP but for UDP traffic? I suppose they are using MASQUE CONNECT-UDP?<p>They are careful to not exactly claim the same anonymity properties of Tor, though I think a lay reader will read that differently (ie, that they do have the same anonymity property as Tor).<p>That said being able to verify the inner wireguard conn to mullvad is nice. Of course you have to trust them that they aren't colluding with mullvad to share your identity/ip. But same goes for OHTTP.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:14:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807445</link><dc:creator>ramblurr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ramblurr in "How to Write with an LLM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>So give the options to a model that doesn’t have the context of your editing process.<p>> I conjured a bit of software to manage this for me[...]<p>I don't understand how the annotation application shown helps with the stated goal of preventing the model from praising you. What's the actual software assisted workflow?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:30:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752841</link><dc:creator>ramblurr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ramblurr in "How to Write with an LLM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Paperback copies in EU seem to be very expensive (90+€ on amazone.de) unfortunately.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:15:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752710</link><dc:creator>ramblurr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ramblurr in "Whoisinspace.com/"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What does this have to do with the linked page? Not a criticism...I just don't understand like I am missing context.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:23:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751942</link><dc:creator>ramblurr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751942</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ramblurr in "Orbs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Care to share more about how/what you built?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:09:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663712</link><dc:creator>ramblurr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ramblurr in "Where to for Clojure and Enterprise Web Applications"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>(as discussed in clojurian slack):<p>The argument seems to take the leap from 'Ring is the wrong abstraction for what I want to do' (fair enough) and concludes 'Ring is inadequate, and therefore Clojure has a viability problem.'<p>Ring is explicitly designed to be web-server agnostic and therefore intentionally does not expose the full Jetty/Jakarta surface. Many using ring aren't using Jetty!<p>If your app requirements are specifically EE/Jetty-centric, then bypassing Ring may be entirely reasonable, but I don't see how that becomes an argument against Ring's design, much less against Clojure’s viability for enterprise applications...when enterprise means "serious business" not "Jakarta EE".<p>There are a few actual issues with Ring's design (that are in the issue tracker) I can think of when it comes to it's ability to express valid HTTP semantics. But "it doesn't OIDC" isn't one of them (that's sort of a category error?)<p>All that said... The charitable reading of "Clojure has a larger problem for its future [...] in which we can produce enterprise-grade web applications" is one where the "we" is limited to Derek's company/team, which yea, sounds like they need more Jetty/Java EE than Ring provides. But if the "we" is the Clojure community as a whole, then I would dissent.</p>
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<p>But with a debit or credit card?</p>
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<p>Bamboo has been sketch and proprietary since the beginning. It's such a shame to see the maker community get sucked in (though I guess there is precedence wrt Fusion et.al.)</p>
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<p>Your comment is also rather vague, how is it relevant? Did you observe something interesting?</p>
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<p>Agree so much! It's so interesting all the different use cases and interpretations of those use cases people have.<p>Like this self-hosted project aims for "simple deployment"/less infra, but I can't imagine how you end up at "use Cloudflare proprietary offerings" and reconcile that with "self hosted".<p>But if you host the node app yourself and point it at your own seaweedfs/minio/garage that's still more infra than node process+SQLite file.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:15:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432649</link><dc:creator>ramblurr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ramblurr in "Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Coffi is a great library that makes Panama FFI/FFM painless without interop.  <a href="https://github.com/IGJoshua/coffi" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/IGJoshua/coffi</a><p>For example look at this arc from sqlite4clj <a href="https://github.com/andersmurphy/sqlite4clj/blob/master/src/sqlite4clj/impl/api.clj" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/andersmurphy/sqlite4clj/blob/master/src/s...</a> 
it's very elegant.<p>(Also can plug my own libvips wrapper using coffi <a href="https://github.com/outskirtslabs/vips" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/outskirtslabs/vips</a>)<p>Using FFI/FFM "vanilla" with java interop is also viable, and in my experience the SOTA models do just fine with it (with or without jextract).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:53:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262831</link><dc:creator>ramblurr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ramblurr in "A big win for Android interoperability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this ruling related to <a href="https://keepandroidopen.org/" rel="nofollow">https://keepandroidopen.org/</a> at all? It's not clear to me..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:33:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142345</link><dc:creator>ramblurr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ramblurr in "JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ironically as a Clojure developer I would really love a JDK native JSON library that we could wrap to avoid having to ship 3rd party JSON deps. Sort of like how java.net.http made things simpler.</p>
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<p>Stagnant? Both are alive and well. It's never been better to be a clojure+datomic dev.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:43:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875661</link><dc:creator>ramblurr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ramblurr in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> TLS certificates for internal services* done right<p>* "internal services" = on a single server that is publicly routable</p>
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<p>> their cost of operation is still something most people can afford: approximately $30/mo now.<p>Your definition of "most people" must be very different than the literal meaning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:06:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602670</link><dc:creator>ramblurr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602670</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ramblurr in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't forget these price increases are only for new purchases. Old rentals keep their price.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:58:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544066</link><dc:creator>ramblurr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ramblurr in "Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the second company (that I know of) that got acquired shortly after an AI pivot and re-brand. See: OpenAI to acquire Ona <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491821">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491821</a></p>
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<p>> > The bottleneck is compute and data, not the model.<p>> I disagree. It is not the model alone. It needs a system which capitalizes on it. And this is very complex. Hardware, software, architecture - it takes a lot to get it right.<p>What do you disagree with exactly?</p>
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<p>> > The Kobos don't limit what you can do with them either, you can sideload alternative e-reader software like KOReader that improves on the built-in reader functionality.<p>> This is patently false, the latest Kobo Libra Color is using secure boot which completely locks out custom development<p>Your "patently false" is not true. There are nuances here that you are glossing over or ignoring.<p>Yes, the Kobo Libra Color uses secure boot.<p>But, you can still get root and install KOReader on it.<p>What is "custom development" if you mean "boot my own operating system" because, then yes. But the 90+% of the Kobo hacking community has never meant that.<p>For most folks in the community "custom development" means being able to install/side-load applications like Plato and KOReader alongside the existing Kobo/Nickel software.<p>Yea, I agree it sucks that the new Kobo uses secureboot, but it was never an open development platform. I feel for the quill-os folks, that sucks. I'm glad they found a home with the PN as they won't get a rugpull.<p>But the Kobo is still a system where you can trivially get root on it without having to jailbreak or otherwise exploit a vulnerability.<p>And +1 for the xteink x4 (though if you're rabidly against manufactures locking down their devices, you should look at the recent xteink developments where they are only releasing unlocked devices to the western market.)</p>
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