Hacker News: tankenmate

New comment by tankenmate in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

tankenmate — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:10:34 +0000

As long as this tool doesn't break "fast forward merge" and proper linear history and allows you do delete PRs unlike its GitHub progenitor then I'm happy.

I have found that a number of times GitHub's idea of "convenient" comes either from 1) not understanding git fundamentals such that it closes off possible workflows, or 2) pushing a philosophy on users, i.e. I know better than you, so I'm going to block you.

New comment by tankenmate in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

tankenmate — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:34:08 +0000

I'm so surprised that so few people have heard of Portmaster, it's been around for years and runs on Linux (and Windows if you must). And if you don't need traffic history it's free.

New comment by tankenmate in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

tankenmate — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:31:36 +0000

I use Portmaster (on Linux) and I have never seen ads (either in the app or apps that get their DNS from Portmaster) on it. About the only thing I saw different between the free version and the base level paid for version was traffic history and weekly reports (and badges on Discord if that's your kind of thing).

New comment by tankenmate in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

tankenmate — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:18:54 +0000

it's great, i really like it! i've been working on something similar for CPUs but not getting into the EE weeds (like i don't get into DRAM at all, no voltages, no slew rates, etc, etc).

it was all reasonably easy to get until you get to the sense amplifier which has an almost complete lack of explanation of why you need the required outputs, it is "clear if already known". i.e. if you've never done any electrical engineering it makes zero sense and is not the sort of thing a software developer could ever figure out with the minimal explanation.

New comment by tankenmate in "AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy"

tankenmate — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:42:53 +0000

actually i just checked, yeah, ubuntu would have to add none back to the kernel and `CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y` the config so that it can be selected at boot.

New comment by tankenmate in "AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy"

tankenmate — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:31:30 +0000

Not necessarily;

``` $ grep PREEMPT_DYNAMIC /boot/config-$(uname -r) CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y CONFIG_HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y CONFIG_HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL=y ```

if your kernel has CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC then you can go back to the pre 7.0 default by adding preempt=none to your grub config. I haven't seen any plans by Ubuntu to drop CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC from the default kernel config.

New comment by tankenmate in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

tankenmate — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:49:25 +0000

LLMs can't be held legally liable, only the people who use them.

New comment by tankenmate in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

tankenmate — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:38:23 +0000

Firefox uses randomised IDs for installed extensions, so the method highlighted won't work on Firefox. That's not to say they aren't trying other methods on Firefox.

New comment by tankenmate in "Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM"

tankenmate — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:16:52 +0000

Given their AI "hiring / onboarding" process all I can say is; couldn't have happened to a nicer company.

New comment by tankenmate in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

tankenmate — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:14:42 +0000

It already exists; cloudsmith

New comment by tankenmate in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

tankenmate — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:04:59 +0000

Jira is Australian.

New comment by tankenmate in "The three pillars of JavaScript bloat"

tankenmate — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:59:21 +0000

It's almost like Churchill's quip "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire". In other words, in some ways the JS ecosystem rushes to all the tech debt inducing "shiny shiny" and avoids all the tech debt reducing "hard work of refactoring and wisdom". It's almost like a large chunks of the JS ecosystem thrives on "the dopamine hit". Santayana's wisdom whispers behind every import.

New comment by tankenmate in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

tankenmate — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:34:09 +0000

Again looking back at the history of Unix, it used a 56 bit variant of DES encryption that used the user's password as the key. So only the first 8 characters of the password were used and the rest was silently unused, for example "password" and "password123" would have been the same password on early Unix. And although most BSDs and Linuxes moved in the mid 90s to PAM (and hence md5, etc) most SVR4s didn't move until late in the 90s. And at the other end, DES crypt() made its way into Unix in some v6s (~1977) and became widely available in the release of v7 Unix. So 8 character passwords were a thing for about 20 years.

New comment by tankenmate in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

tankenmate — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:06:14 +0000

This decision long predates Linux. It's been a staple back to the earliest days of Unix; and it isn't a weird decision if you take into consideration of multi user systems in office environments that have non trivial security considerations (for example telecoms companies), which is exactly where Unix came from.

New comment by tankenmate in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

tankenmate — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:26:49 +0000

Indeed a whole class of issues become moot if you just don't use javascript anywhere. In the browser world this is obviously difficult/impossible; I look forward to the day when WASM can run natively in a browser and doesn't need javascript at all, DOM, network, etc, etc. On the server side? Just steer clear of the javascript ecosystem altogether.

Ryzen AI Pro 400 Series Desktop CPUs for AI-Focused Computing

tankenmate — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:06:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ryzen-AI-PRO-400-Desktop-CPUs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215117

Points: 1

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New comment by tankenmate in "Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed"

tankenmate — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:48:41 +0000

And not just token usage, expensive token usage; when it comes to tokens/joule not all tokens are equal. Efficient use of MoE architectures does have an impact on tokens/joule and tokens/sec.

New comment by tankenmate in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

tankenmate — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:20:55 +0000

Isn't it just so much easier to make sure that wealth isn't concentrated in so few hands? Tax wealth, not work.

And before everyone gets upset, tax serves two purposes; 1) control inflation (it in effect burns money that was issued when the govt previously paid for things), 2) disincentivises selected behaviours. and one side effect, when the govt runs a tax deficit it increases inflation, and of course the contrapositive is also true.

New comment by tankenmate in "Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure"

tankenmate — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:53:14 +0000

There's a litany of such characters over the years; Al Dunlap comes to mind and his tenure at Consolidated Press Holdings.

New comment by tankenmate in "Anthropic is Down"

tankenmate — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:41:22 +0000

Unless of course your job is writing an agent that uses an Anthropic model.