Hacker News: stigz

New comment by stigz in "With One Call, Trump Alters the Fate of a Contested Power Project"

stigz — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 22:58:55 +0000

https://archive.ph/Z97N7

New comment by stigz in "Startups: Bookeeping / Accounting Tasks"

stigz — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:53:33 +0000

At my company, we have been using Ramp.

https://ramp.com

New comment by stigz in "Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl"

stigz — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:49:14 +0000

Is there any market/demand for AI companions for females (i.e. https://jaimee.ai), or has this trend of AI companions vastly for males? I suspect the latter, but curious if anyone has evidence beyond Jaimee AI of the former.

New comment by stigz in "Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything"

stigz — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:04:08 +0000

I experienced something similar. My use case is I need to summarize bank statements (sums, averages, etc.). Gemini wouldn't do it, it said too many pages. When I asked the max number of supported pages, it says max is 14 pages. Attempted on both 2.0 flash and 2.0 pro in VertexAI console.

New comment by stigz in "'The Brutalist' Director Speaks Out After AI Controversy Erupts"

stigz — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:28:48 +0000

We've been using technology to touch up movies for years. What's the big deal - just because its the AI boogey man? Accusations the director is deliberately using AI to squeeze artists out of jobs is silly, he is simply perfectecting the scene using the tools at his disposal like every director before him.

New comment by stigz in "Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf]"

stigz — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 06:05:48 +0000

This is neat. I take it these these accounting breakdowns for films are hard to come by? Would love to see more for some of my favorite films.

New comment by stigz in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

stigz — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:45:15 +0000

A firm handshake. They had no time to ink a benefits package, my dude.

New comment by stigz in "Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot"

stigz — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 21:22:23 +0000

I think Nix intention is more general purpose OS and tooling. Bottlerocket is about being just enough of an OS to run containers, and that's it.

New comment by stigz in "Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot"

stigz — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 20:45:29 +0000

That's a good point. And it sounds like it would work to me as well. I don't know the answer either.

I guess my point is the project should be providing a clear path that doesn't involve AWS instead of just stopping short.

New comment by stigz in "Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot"

stigz — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 20:37:26 +0000

This seems to still be very much an AWS/Amazon project with no clear path to becoming its own independent thing. For example, you want vulnerability scanning on the OS? Well you can use an Amazon product for that, otherwise *shrug* [1]. So I guess as long as you plan to run Bottlerocket in AWS, you're fine.

I wish the Bottlerocket team would do 1 of 2 things. Either own up that this is just an AWS project, or start to solve for things like this and actually be a product that "runs in the cloud or in your datacenter" as they suggest on their website.

[1] https://bottlerocket.dev/en/faq/#4_2

New comment by stigz in "Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk"

stigz — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 21:42:20 +0000

In a similar vein, here's an analysis of the illusion in Radiohead's Videotape I found interesting.

https://youtu.be/p_IHotHxIl8

New comment by stigz in "Show HN: Phind V2 – A GPT-4 agent that’s connected to the internet and your code"

stigz — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:33:46 +0000

One thing - Consider leaving the URL in your post blank so it routes to this HN discussion instead of your homepage. I completely missed this post of yours announcing V2 and its features until I clicked 'discuss'.

Rooting for you guys. I find myself using phind over other searches (google/chatgpt) more and more.

New comment by stigz in "Tarsnap outage postmortem"

stigz — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 06:17:46 +0000

The service is a layer on top of S3 if that helps answer things.

https://www.tarsnap.com/faq.html#is-tarsnap-reliable

New comment by stigz in "Tarsnap outage postmortem"

stigz — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 05:58:14 +0000

Why would I use your service over restic?

God bless you Colin, but reading this, it appears you're the only one in charge of the infrastructure for this service. I'm glad you're clear about no SLA, but this seems like a big liability between me and my backups.

New comment by stigz in "ServiceNow Insecure Access Control to Full Admin Takeover"

stigz — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 22:04:30 +0000

No, judging from the Disclosure Timeline at the very bottom, it appears the lengthy remediation is due to ServiceNow dragging their feet. Took them over a month, plus a followup email, just to get them to respond to the initial report.

New comment by stigz in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

stigz — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:54:30 +0000

https://www.netsplit.dev

I need to write more.

New comment by stigz in "NASA puts jet propulsion lab on blast over Psyche mission failures"

stigz — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 02:58:01 +0000

Those engineers blamed themselves for the Challenger all these years? What a shame,

New comment by stigz in "Linux security hardening and other tweaks"

stigz — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:33:54 +0000

This article starts with an Arch-based system. I think it should be noted that the Arch wiki also has its own recommendations for hardening. [1]

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Security

New comment by stigz in "Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability"

stigz — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 05:40:30 +0000

Speaking of go, it looks they will be patching this as well.

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/dRtDK7WS78g

New comment by stigz in "Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon workstation (2019)"

stigz — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 16:05:15 +0000

It's not about you, bud. Speaking at a global level it is more efficient.