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New comment by stock_toaster in "Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits"

stock_toaster — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:23:44 +0000

Maybe time to pursue alternative implementations[1].

[1]: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-05-24-minimal-memor...

But It Happened [video]

stock_toaster — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:37:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlQ7EoJDTQY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326511

Points: 42

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New comment by stock_toaster in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

stock_toaster — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:54:59 +0000

Seems under-reported to me (as far as PDX goes).

For reference: https://www.datacenterjournal.com/data-centers/oregon/portla...

New comment by stock_toaster in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

stock_toaster — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:46:34 +0000

Or gleam if you don’t fancy elixir.

New comment by stock_toaster in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

stock_toaster — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:42:51 +0000

Unfortunately a lot of fiction (sci-fi/fantasy) ebooks are effectively kindle exclusive these days (amazon publisher deals exclusivity), due to the near monopoly amazon has… and since they have locked things down even harder lately, it is much more difficult to export purchases to other readers.

New comment by stock_toaster in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

stock_toaster — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:31:10 +0000

I think so too, otherwise why wouldn't you put that (purported) increased capacity/output into improving your existing products or creating new ones, with the headcount that you already have?

New comment by stock_toaster in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

stock_toaster — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:02:27 +0000

I imagine layoffs are also very much "this quarter and next quarter" with regards to investor visibility.

While LLM Opex is "some future quarter" and very easy to co-mingle with other expenses.

New comment by stock_toaster in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

stock_toaster — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:34:38 +0000

My servers/VMs typically run either FreeBSD or Alpine. A Debian here or there where needed (proxmox, VPS that doesn't support Alpine, corp stuff, etc).

I've also got a couple of test systems running Chimera - going to wait until it hits stable before relying on it too much though. Experimenting a bit with AerynOS too.

New comment by stock_toaster in "We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API"

stock_toaster — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:26:44 +0000

> all they are doing here is launching a container instance separate Linux VM, vs the typical shared VM instance

This (MicroVMs) is also kind of what apple's container[1] tools do.

[1]: https://github.com/apple/container

New comment by stock_toaster in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

stock_toaster — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:52:18 +0000

> I wonder if it can really be enforced.

At the very least maybe it would make the advertising (tv, college campuses, etc) of prediction markets illegal in Minnesota?

That alone seems like a good thing.

New comment by stock_toaster in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

stock_toaster — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:56:04 +0000

I think once url matching is added (which is now on their roadmap[1]), I'll try making the switch from my current password manager.

[1]: https://proton.me/blog/pass-roadmap-spring-summer-2026

New comment by stock_toaster in "Apple-OpenAI Relationship Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight"

stock_toaster — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:58:33 +0000

Also, discovery on the OpenAI side seems like it would be especially juicy.

I am dubious that this is anything other than a marketing/bluster/distraction tactic from OpenAI though.

New comment by stock_toaster in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

stock_toaster — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:41:05 +0000

> running all performance-sensitive workloads in The Clown now

I really hope "The Clown" isn't just a typod "The Cloud".

If not, tell us more!

I'm inspired/tempted by this to rename my external "higher grunt offload" machine to "clowntown".

New comment by stock_toaster in "U.S. intelligence shows Iran retains substantial missile capabilities"

stock_toaster — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:22:28 +0000

> Suprises no one.

Well, it is maybe a surprise to at least _one_ person! /s

New comment by stock_toaster in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

stock_toaster — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:37:19 +0000

> I think the issue is that Zig lost their biggest project, which was a posterboy project for real uses of Zig.

Bun, Ghostty, and TigerBeetle are 3 popular projects that I have heard about using zig.

Going Full Time on Open Source

stock_toaster — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:48:55 +0000

Article URL: https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942850

Points: 5

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New comment by stock_toaster in "Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo"

stock_toaster — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:29:48 +0000

I could totally imagine this kind of thing being added due to AI-slop security report overload, like curl was experiencing[1].

[1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s...

New comment by stock_toaster in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

stock_toaster — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:13:58 +0000

Strongly agree. And not only that, but time has _already_ shown the continued degradation of the github experience even with users ostensibly sticking around trying to "make it better".

New comment by stock_toaster in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

stock_toaster — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:10:48 +0000

  > My version of your post reads differently:  
  > "GitHub only gets better if people who give a shit stick around to make it better"
  > Walking away would be easy.

Yeah, be careful not to gaslight yourself into trying to "tough it out" with bad vendor relationships. Sometimes you do need to know when things aren't good/healthy and it is time to walk away, as sticking around just ends up being needlessly flagellent.

Especially with corporate owned software or SaaS ecosystems!

Sounds like you made the right choice with Heroku back in the day. I feel like this is Github's Heroku moment.

New comment by stock_toaster in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

stock_toaster — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:51:25 +0000

I've been using octarine[1] recently (after having used obsidian for quite a while), but I'm definitely going to try this out.

[1]: https://octarine.app