Hacker News: srcreigh

New comment by srcreigh in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

srcreigh — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:51:06 +0000

Yeah. MicroVMs make hosting runners pretty straightforward. I had codex make a forgejo runner controller which pulls forgejo actions and creates kubernetes jobs for them.

It was a bit of a pain to configure firecracker with k3s.

It really can’t be understated how much easier hosting CI is with microvms as the security boundary.

New comment by srcreigh in "We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled"

srcreigh — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:12:26 +0000

It’s fascinating that in order to do this, they had to remove 50% of reads and 33% of transactions from the main DB.

New comment by srcreigh in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

srcreigh — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:31:05 +0000

An impressive number of things don’t make sense about this thought experiment. Whatever the genie says wouldn’t have much to do with the life you live afterwards, since your life changes after hearing the info. One persons careers worth of discovery work is not that much. A lot of work is dependent on the state of the world and can’t be moved into the past, even language changes. Someone could still do a craft or science or whatever afterwards— assuming life continues to have surprising complexity, the genie could only ever just scratch the surface.

New comment by srcreigh in "Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite"

srcreigh — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:45:53 +0000

Pages (especially threads while logged in) taking seconds to load definitely happened to me pre SQLite migration.

New comment by srcreigh in "Making 768 servers look like 1"

srcreigh — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:27:05 +0000

The cashapp post is actually working towards GPs point. It explains that networked storage MySQL was unreliable and expensive. They migrated to $fancytool which offers a db instance with attached local nvme.

While cashapp may actually need sharding, there are so many companies who are overpaying for shitty performing network storage databases.

Not to mention you are subject to cloud provider networking and compute allocation code. They change it. Big slow network storage DB suddenly gets even worse and you don’t have leverage to have it fixed on their end.

New comment by srcreigh in "Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel"

srcreigh — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:30:59 +0000

Mathematicians will be the ones who can tell us if the computer theorems are decent or not.

Otherwise they’ll be the ones like Erdős who pose the questions in the first place.

Either way it will always be humans who decide what matters. AI is speaking our languages, not the other way around. We’re in charge. It’s impossible for us not to be, unless we can train an AI from dolphin data or other natural phenomenon.

The AIs intelligence is tuned to us and in 300 years we’ll need new training runs for the update from human zeitgeist language and the 2200 century famous mathematicians.

New comment by srcreigh in "Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server"

srcreigh — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:10:11 +0000

Last year I released my version of this: https://pxehost.com

Pxehost is much less featureful than Bootimus, no dashboard, and only supports netboot.xyz.

I am curious how Bootimus got udp broadcast to work via Docker on arm macOS. I could not figure that out and it’s why I released pxehost as a cross platform binary.

We need a good ISO to set up new hosts to run firecracker VMs in k3s. That would be a killer homelab tool. Tooling to make custom ISOs. And some Kairos/Talos immutable image update style tooling would be great too.

The dream is to boot via PXE once per host to setup secure k8s nodes, using just Ethernet cord, ISP router, and a windows laptop or an iPhone.

New comment by srcreigh in "My automated doubt development process"

srcreigh — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:40:28 +0000

What’s your process? My experience matches yours, but then again I usually just give a few lines to codex. I imagine if I tried harder to give detailed specs as input, the agent would have a lot more room to spot flaws and kill the plan.

New comment by srcreigh in "What Is a Dickover?"

srcreigh — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:06:15 +0000

Could you or someone working on this make it easier to share the original link for a small web post? It’s difficult to the point of making me think you’re trying to force me to share the Kagi version of the url.

New comment by srcreigh in "Bitburner, programming-based incremental game"

srcreigh — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:07:38 +0000

There’s probably some new mechanics in there since years ago which would give some more fun.

New comment by srcreigh in "Bitburner, programming-based incremental game"

srcreigh — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:06:44 +0000

Yep, the game has a fun offline idle mechanic as well as just leaving it running. However you should rarely need idle, if ever.

New comment by srcreigh in "Bitburner, programming-based incremental game"

srcreigh — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:05:03 +0000

This is a fantastic game, I’ve played many hours of it. If you want a programming based video game this could be really fun for you.

New comment by srcreigh in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

srcreigh — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:17:10 +0000

It reminds me of Torvalds rants

New comment by srcreigh in "Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin"

srcreigh — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:52:31 +0000

Some more info from the link:

> MCP Bundles (.mcpb) are zip archives containing a local MCP server and a manifest.json that describes the server and its capabilities. The format is spiritually similar to Chrome extensions (.crx) or VS Code extensions (.vsix), enabling end users to install local MCP servers with a single click.

New comment by srcreigh in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

srcreigh — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:50:32 +0000

There’s also section 174, which happened to end in 2022.

New comment by srcreigh in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

srcreigh — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:07:15 +0000

Which semantic element(s) would you use to build the example from the Tailwind website?

New comment by srcreigh in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

srcreigh — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:00:27 +0000

That site is a portal back to 2011, wow. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by srcreigh in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

srcreigh — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:19:53 +0000

I've found myself using AI rhetorical styles. Mostly in PRs. The whole "not just X, Y" pattern hooked into my brain.

New comment by srcreigh in "Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw"

srcreigh — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:04:22 +0000

> Google said in research published Monday

What research? Where is it published?

New comment by srcreigh in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

srcreigh — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:13:19 +0000

I can't help but think that curl is, by nature, a relatively simple and well-contained tool. Compare to an operating system or web browser or database or billion dollar company codebase.

It makes some sense that Mythos/ChatGPT 5.5 might be that much better with complexities that curl just doesn't have because it's a basic tool.

Like yeah curl is obviously extremely fully featured as an "anything client" but it's orders of magnitude less complex than other software we rely on.