Hacker News: realreality

New comment by realreality in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

realreality — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:55:48 +0000

I didn't have access to a 486 until around 1999. I was making do with a hand-me-down 8088 and then a 386SX.

Back then, 10 years of technological advancement made a huge difference. Today, you can get by just fine with a 2016-era laptop.

New comment by realreality in "Yggdrasil Network"

realreality — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:27:07 +0000

I haven't noticed any bad actor traffic. Perhaps yggdrasil is still too obscure to bother attacking.

The stationary nodes are connected to several public yggdrasil peers that are geographically close by. The routing "just works", though connecting to a peer can take a few seconds, at first.

New comment by realreality in "Yggdrasil Network"

realreality — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:17:03 +0000

I share that sentiment. I've thought about combining yggdrasil with garage to create a sort of plug-and-play distributed storage pool shared with a trusted circle.

Though I wonder if the network routing would break down beyond a certain scale, or if it can be resilient against attacks. I don't know enough about the inner workings to be determine the weak points.

New comment by realreality in "Yggdrasil Network"

realreality — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:02:59 +0000

Yes. All you have to do is whitelist your clients' yggdrasil addresses in your firewall.

in pf syntax:

  table  persist file "/etc/yggdrasil-allowed"

  pass in quick on tun0 inet6 proto tcp from  to port $services

New comment by realreality in "Yggdrasil Network"

realreality — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:51:50 +0000

It's been working well for me as a kind of poor-man's tailscale, connecting several VPS and several laptops.

New comment by realreality in "FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data"

realreality — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:32:53 +0000

So, your dating photos were going to a government contractor involved with AI killer drone technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarifai#Military_work

New comment by realreality in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

realreality — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:42:03 +0000

She ran for President in 2024. Where were you?

New comment by realreality in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

realreality — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:38:44 +0000

There are tipping points, when warming accelerates and becomes irreversible.

There’s some debate in “the science” about how quickly we’ll reach that point. Limiting warming to +2°C was not a scientific position; it was political, based on what people thought was achievable. Before the Paris Agreement, 2° was not considered “safe”.

Anyway, it turns out we’re going to zoom past 2° in the next couple of decades.

New comment by realreality in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

realreality — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:26:57 +0000

Objects in Garage are broken up into 1MB (default) blocks, and compressed with zstandard. So, it would be difficult to reconstruct the files. I don't know if that was a recent change since you looked at it.

Configuration is still through the CLI, though it's fairly simple. If your usecase is similar to the way that the Deuxfleurs organization uses it -- several heterogeneous, geographically distributed nodes that are more or less set-it-and-forget-it -- then it's probably a good fit.

New comment by realreality in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

realreality — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:21:52 +0000

Garage works well for its limited feature set, but it doesn't have very active development. Apparently they're working on a management UI.

Seaweedfs is more mature and has many interfaces (S3, webdav, SFTP, REST, fuse mount). It's most appropriate for storing lots of small files.

I prefer the command line interface and data/synchronization model of Garage, though. It's easier to manage, probably because the developers aren't biting off more than they can chew.

New comment by realreality in "My Mac contacted 63 different Apple owned domains in an hour, while not is use"

realreality — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:19:58 +0000

I use a slow cellular connection and noticed some apple service (I could never figure out which one, even after installing an outgoing firewall) was aggressively uploading some large blob every time the mac woke from sleep, which made the whole connection useless for up to half an hour.

At some point, apple must've fixed this "bug", but the experience -- and apple's increasingly obtrusive software -- convinced me to switch to linux.

New comment by realreality in "Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts"

realreality — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:43:41 +0000

Where I live, permits are only given to licensed plumbers, and all work on plumbing requires a permit (though I’m sure many people ignore the rule).

New comment by realreality in "Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts"

realreality — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:40:52 +0000

You’re wasting your time fighting a straw man. I never said all regulations are bad.

The question was why plumbers are expensive. I assert that it’s not because plumbing is especially difficult.

New comment by realreality in "Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts"

realreality — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:35:23 +0000

Designing sewage infrastructure isn’t rocket science, either. If citizens in your town needed to do it, they could figure it out, regardless of their credentials.

Sometimes regulations come about to protect the public. Often, they’re enacted to protect the profits of insurance companies, banks, and other influential industries. Don’t be naive about “the systems at work and their interplay”.

New comment by realreality in "Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts"

realreality — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:49:55 +0000

Plumbers make excellent money because regulations require licensed plumbers to do the work, and plumbing unions have a financial interest in limiting the number of plumbers.

But anybody can do plumbing. It’s not rocket science.

New comment by realreality in "The first year of free-threaded Python"

realreality — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:06:29 +0000

Use `concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor` to submit jobs, and `Future.add_done_callback` to flip the transcription field when the job completes.

New comment by realreality in "Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?"

realreality — Sun, 11 May 2025 13:07:52 +0000

In 10 years, resource, energy limits, and wealth inequality will become increasingly clear to everyone, while the climate continues to warm at an accelerated rate. Social instability might preclude the existence of software engineering, aside from a tiny minority supporting the lavish lifestyles of the ultra-wealthy.

New comment by realreality in "Ask HN: Why are we all pretending everything is normal?"

realreality — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:25:24 +0000

The system was already authoritarian, if less blatant to most people. Any meaningful resistance to the power structure gets crushed, and everyone tacitly accepts that arrangement.

New comment by realreality in "Ask HN: Why are we all pretending everything is normal?"

realreality — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:22:18 +0000

Are you referring to the climate and ecological crisis, or the many cascading problems resulting from overextraction of limited resources?

There won't be any tech on a dead planet.

New comment by realreality in "Traveling with Apple Vision Pro"

realreality — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:20:48 +0000

Yes, it would be wonderful to be able to tune out the wretched poor people. Maybe a future headset will include a forcefield to actively repel potential muggers or oncoming vehicles.