Hacker News: shmoil

New comment by shmoil in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

shmoil — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:29:55 +0000

Pretty much every tracker has bonus points for seeding, you dont need actual upload to have high ratio.

New comment by shmoil in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

shmoil — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:27:09 +0000

It sounds like you are more interested in complaining and arguing online, rather than solving your problems.

Meanwhile, I joined my first private tracker 3 years ago, and now I am in all of them (ptp, btn, etc). I do not have to worry about the ratios (cross-seed is set and forget), and after awhile you have more "upload" and "ratio" then you need for a lifetime. I barely have to seed anymore. I log in once in a while, but otherwise do not have to participate in the communities, and the selection is awesome (they basically have everything, even Mexican B movies from the 1940s, whatever floats your boat). They saturate my fiber when I download too.

But do keep complaining and arguing, you will feel better.

New comment by shmoil in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

shmoil — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:03:52 +0000

If you are basic, then Torrentleech will cover 99.999% of your needs. It costs a few $ to join (a one time fee, and you get 1 month of free VPN), or just sign up for r/opensignups, and wait until they are open for registrations (typically once per year).

If you are too old for trackers, then just sign up for usenet. You will have to pay for it though.

New comment by shmoil in "Show HN: BlastLoop, a structure-first coding method for AI agents"

shmoil — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:36:54 +0000

Looks interesting. I will try it.

New comment by shmoil in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

shmoil — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:35:41 +0000

If you are too lazy to join private trackers, at least use TraSH guides to set up quality profiles

https://trash-guides.info/

New comment by shmoil in "Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement"

shmoil — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:36:20 +0000

I do not see a way to report a bug on the page.

New comment by shmoil in "In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology"

shmoil — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:28:32 +0000

Would they have any profitable quarters if you subtracted gov subsidies and "green credit sales"?

Last I checked a few years ago, they were never truly profitable.

New comment by shmoil in "Show HN: Pacer – will your AI coding subscription last until the reset?"

shmoil — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:33:38 +0000

Why even bother with this? Just bridge the gap with DS4 for pennies, and keep working.

New comment by shmoil in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

shmoil — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:26:24 +0000

Just because that guy has no sense of humour, it does not mean we should swat his house repeatedly.

New comment by shmoil in "Integer multiplication below n log n"

shmoil — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:11:29 +0000

I laughed out loud at the n lg n ^ (1 - 2^{-182}). It is so funny.

New comment by shmoil in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

shmoil — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:11:56 +0000

I guess I am an outlier, I did not have any grapes until September, when Ontario grapes became available.

It did not feel right to buy murican grapes at full price in the middle of the summer.

New comment by shmoil in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

shmoil — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:39:39 +0000

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New comment by shmoil in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

shmoil — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:17:50 +0000

>> GPT‑6 Sol vs. GPT‑5.6 Sol

>> $4 → $2

>> $20 → $10

Do you mean 100% more expensive? GPT 6 is 100% more expensive than 5.6 per your post.

New comment by shmoil in "Can you tell which images are AI-generated?"

shmoil — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:12:24 +0000

TIME'S UP

2,050 points Best streak: 9 in a row

Hard af.

New comment by shmoil in "Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint"

shmoil — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:55:06 +0000

Can you ask it for an SVG of a bicycle riding a pelican? Thanks.

New comment by shmoil in "GitHub is having trouble counting things"

shmoil — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:42:11 +0000

>> GitHub has become unreliable, low quality software.

They are owned by Microsoft, what did you expect exactly?

New comment by shmoil in "HP ZGX Fury Is Now Orderable: GB300 Superchip, 748GB Unified Memory"

shmoil — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:29:25 +0000

3.14 kidneys.

New comment by shmoil in "Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn't use their work"

shmoil — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:31:31 +0000

Andrew Wiles gave 3 lectures, and only at the end of the last one he announced that he solved FLT. Imagine someone from the audience announced in between the second and the third lecture that they proved FLT (using his ideas, obviously).

Why is it OK if openAI does it?

New comment by shmoil in "I Let Claude Merge 38 PRs. Here's What Broke"

shmoil — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:17:01 +0000

Let me guess. Everything?

New comment by shmoil in "Finding a bug in Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra"

shmoil — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:04:56 +0000

Nah, I tried to post a long reply yesterday, but YC was glitching, so I just gave up.