Hacker News: skullone

New comment by skullone in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

skullone — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:23:22 +0000

My old Lenovo t420 has been running 24/7 pegged as a multi-camera DVR since 2011, no issues whatsoever. Of course the battery is removed, but I don't see many decent laptops struggling running under load for prolonged periods.

New comment by skullone in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

skullone — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:36:48 +0000

ROFL.

New comment by skullone in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

skullone — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:28:28 +0000

You might want to run your responses through your legal and HR departments. You're acting as a representative and ignoring some material claims about a significant data privacy issue. You should probably just delete your reply in fact

New comment by skullone in "Someone just converted Claude Leark from TypeScript to 100% Python"

skullone — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:01:36 +0000

Yah this is as about as dirty room as it can get

New comment by skullone in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

skullone — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:55:09 +0000

I thought I was going crazy when my new m4 seemed "fuzzier" on my external 4ks. I tried replicating settings from my old MacBook to no avail. I wonder if Apple is doing this on purpose except for their own displays.

New comment by skullone in "We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it"

skullone — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:18:23 +0000

Go seek a mental health professional and never post here again until you have been diagnosed and medicated.

New comment by skullone in "We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it"

skullone — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:17:19 +0000

ROFL

New comment by skullone in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

skullone — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:12:26 +0000

If you are buying a material amount of gear, and have your own internal accounting/finance people to establish proper etiquette in purchasing, Dell will never "lose" based on price. As customers, you can say what you're willing to spend on a solution, if you understand the BOMs and all the details and "the business rules" then Dell can be a good enough partner. We operated a hundred petabyte sized warehouse, and did it at the fraction of the cost of cloud services even factoring in engineers, networking, power and redundancy and DR.

New comment by skullone in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

skullone — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:09:02 +0000

No, MSI is not better. It pains me to say it, but Dell has the best post-purchase support on data center gear. Their servers "just work" for commodity needs, even into HPC and custom gear. Once you exceed that, there's a half dozen opencompute vendors that will go deeper with customizations and requirements.

New comment by skullone in "In Edison’s Revenge, Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC"

skullone — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:00:09 +0000

Transitioning? It already happened decades ago. Only smaller scale/generic or less proficient "we bought all Dell and HP" use AC. At large scale it's been a ton of DC for literally decades. And for 70 years in telco and network gear.

New comment by skullone in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

skullone — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:41:43 +0000

Supermicro is definitely a "you get what you pay for". We bought thousands of servers from their vertical integrations partners, had massive board and backplane problems. Took a few years but they eventually took back over $30 million dollars worth of servers, which were scrapped ultimately because the rework on them was so cost prohibitive. We lost $30M on that even after the $30M in good will refunds. Supermicro also has the lowest bios/efi/bmc/ipmi/redfish out of any vendor we have seen. Just low tier cheap ass shit by a company who can barely survive quarter to quarter without running some new scam on customers, investors, and even governments.

New comment by skullone in "MacBook Air with M5"

skullone — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:53:07 +0000

I wouldn't if I were you. Indeed there's a membrane that can keep drops away from electronics, but one big drop will find a way eventually. Doesn't even have to be a spill. Macs are infinitely fragile actually, there is zero effort spent on moisture or even dust intrusion.

New comment by skullone in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

skullone — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:50:28 +0000

You must be ignorant - the entire republican leadership is telegraphing the cancel elections

New comment by skullone in "FTX whistleblower Caroline Ellison set for early release next month"

skullone — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:41:31 +0000

But it shows that there's really no penalties for the rich to commit billions in fraud

New comment by skullone in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

skullone — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:53:02 +0000

The lightning and power boost can do up to 50amps though, the old trucks had to be running and you had to have a second or hight output alternator added. Having the battery/hybrid with their nice inverters was nice

New comment by skullone in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

skullone — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:40:52 +0000

This is a shame. Coworker got a Lightning and he loves it. He doesn't tow with it but he does field work for fiber optic stuff, usually back home every day. Runs his computers, tools, ventilation for going down manholes, he even powered a sump pump from it, without needing to haul a generator. The hybrid truck can now do the same, but it's a really nice truck

New comment by skullone in "Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends"

skullone — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:40:20 +0000

Donated! Thank you very much, NetBSD was one of my first experiences, on a Pentium 60 with a 504MB hard drive. It made me who I am today, eternally grateful to have learned from such amazing and talented people.

New comment by skullone in "WiFi signals can measure heart rate"

skullone — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:44:50 +0000

I'm so glad you say that. Resi aerial is perfect in most locations. No dig, no service boxes in front yards, under someone's unpermitted driveway pour, ample power easily, a guy in a bucket truck is all you need. Trenchless works well when it can, but even reasonable infrastructure underground is twice as expensive. I love seeing a neighborhood lit up in fiber in 2-5 days and subscribers online at 1-10Gb in soooo many places. Keeps crews busy either way :D

New comment by skullone in "UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right? (2018)"

skullone — Wed, 14 May 2025 20:02:06 +0000

Lots of words to say "use already available time libraries and use ISO time formatting". Cool story bruh. And really really terrible way to communicate one of the most beaten to death categories with that site design

New comment by skullone in "Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]"

skullone — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:05:21 +0000

Because a ton of people in office were his "clients". This country is rotten