Hacker News: tankenmate

New comment by tankenmate in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

tankenmate — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:46:57 +0000

Sure, but what if that "known good customer" proxied access to someone else?

New comment by tankenmate in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

tankenmate — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:06:38 +0000

"means your benchmark is inaccurate by my book.", and like The Dude says "Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion, man."

Create your own benchmark, and you can say it is a subset of "U.S. large-cap equities" and "best single gauge of U.S. large-cap equities" and let the market decide who does a better job.

New comment by tankenmate in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

tankenmate — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:11:14 +0000

Sure, but then it comes down to your opinion vs the S&P board's opinion. I suspect (given that there's only been a few days of this getting into the public eye) that more people support the S&P's position vs their critics. But the trade flows will show if people get out of SPX (or SPY/VOO) in the coming days.

New comment by tankenmate in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

tankenmate — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:11:43 +0000

"The inclusion criteria prioritizes companies that extract their cashflow into profit", in almost all cases, yes. But if you want to buy into these newer stocks there are various high growth indices you can buy, no one is stopping you. If you want to buy into only one or two of those stocks then you can. It's a free market for stocks and it's a free market for indices. There's no regulation that says the S&P has to include certain stocks.

New comment by tankenmate in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

tankenmate — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:04:32 +0000

"The S&P rules exist so the index can accurately reflect the market", the rules exist to reflect a subset of the market, and the committee chooses that subset. It's their subset so they get to set the rules, you don't have to use it if you don't want to. If you don't like that subset then create your own index. Then you just need to convince others to use it.

New comment by tankenmate in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

tankenmate — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:00:07 +0000

"Because the index needs accuracy.", and I would argue that include price accuracy not just inclusion accuracy. The S&P is a benchmark that is designed to reflect a subset of the market, and giving only some companies early access to the benchmark changes the benchmark. So if you want a benchmark that's designed to include all the big stocks regardless of age, profitability, etc then go make a new benchmark. The only thing you need to do is convince others to use your benchmark.

New comment by tankenmate in "Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date""

tankenmate — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:07:37 +0000

Brings back memories of desk checking

New comment by tankenmate in "Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite"

tankenmate — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:08:44 +0000

From my perspective it is a synthesis of "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." and "but npm is the source of all the shiny shiny!".

New comment by tankenmate in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

tankenmate — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:58:55 +0000

TENEX and TOPS-20 would be nice

New Linux kernel security bug; Fragnesia

tankenmate — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:18:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/13/3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126941

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tankenmate in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

tankenmate — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:38:59 +0000

"Vibe coding a slop website drastically increases your bounce rate and reduces trust in your project."; but only for a subset of the potential audience.

This is something I learnt early in my start up career, "You are not your customer"; what you value and what your customers value may not be the same.

New comment by tankenmate in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

tankenmate — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:32:16 +0000

They will just fine them into oblivion; they are known to fine companies AUD10M to AUD50M for this sort of thing, and from 1st April this year they can now fine up to AUD100M.

Will this mean that Bambu will withdraw from the Australian market? Possibly maybe probably, but the ACCC takes a very hard stance against bait and switch.

New comment by tankenmate in "Ubuntu / Canonical Launchpad Down"

tankenmate — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:15:26 +0000

The rumour mill says that parts of Canonical's infrastructure are being DDoSed. That being said Canonical did maintenance on their PPA infrastructure 2 days ago according to their Mastodon page[0]. If it is an attack maybe this is an attempt to stop people being able to cleanly upgrade to avoid the Copy Fail / algif_aead issue?

[0] https://ubuntu.social/@launchpadstatus

Ubuntu / Canonical Launchpad Down

tankenmate — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:56:42 +0000

Article URL: https://status.canonical.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47971938

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by tankenmate in "An Update on GitHub Availability"

tankenmate — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:26:53 +0000

This sounds more like a belief, based on little more than "correlation is causation", than analysis that controls for macro-trends backed by evidence.

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.