Hacker News: tonymet

New comment by tonymet in "Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents pay the price"

tonymet — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 21:49:11 +0000

the amount of power needed by datacenters is nothing compared to generation gap. These stories cover up the root cause: in nearly every market, no baseload generation has been added for 15+ years, and is generally declining.

Rates aren't going up because of datacenters. They are going up because no investment has been made for more than 15 years, and we have been offsetting the "crunch" with creative workarounds.

New comment by tonymet in "Service degradation on Microsoft 365"

tonymet — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 19:56:07 +0000

- outlook is down

- live.com is down

- onedrive loads the UI, but all of my contents are missing

- MS Edge sync is down (503s )

Yup, major-major outage.

New comment by tonymet in "Running web sites makes me not want to"

tonymet — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:04:35 +0000

I appreciate the decision to not run proof of work challenges. They punish all customers , and they especially punish outliers with excessive challenges : long challenge factors costing minutes, challenges that are presented many times a day, or ones where the challenge interferes with multi-screen oauth steps.

I haven’t seen an installation where the operator is tracking customer impact. They check the logs and say “see , we’ve screened 80% of the AI bots”. Meanwhile , among the 80% of bot traffic is a few percent of customers who are aggressively being punished without the operator being aware.

New comment by tonymet in "Jensen Huang resigns"

tonymet — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 16:23:02 +0000

so a week ago a picture leaks and now he’s out. I’d like to know the story behind the story.

Every influential person, even middle managers, have a laundry list of “scandals” . The real question is why now and why him.

New comment by tonymet in "Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy"

tonymet — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:45:25 +0000

I understand the reluctance, but the cost equation is inverted.

Compute & storage were cheap, so renting them was expensive for many applications.

Inference is expensive. Just getting started is 4-5 figures. Why not rent it for pennies.

New comment by tonymet in "AWS Finally Built Its Own AWS Emulator"

tonymet — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:43:31 +0000

it takes more time for my AI to learn their "emulator" . And I end up with far fewer dependencies on my own.

I've been prompting the agents to build everything using stdlib

New comment by tonymet in "Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives"

tonymet — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:39:23 +0000

thanks for bringing it to my attention I'll be more careful in the future.

New comment by tonymet in "AWS Finally Built Its Own AWS Emulator"

tonymet — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:38:02 +0000

A mere 20 years too late. Now it’s faster to have AI mock your APIs for you. AI has been a boon for test coverage.

New comment by tonymet in "Protecting SSH Keys with macOS Secure Enclave"

tonymet — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:25:48 +0000

it’s a worthy experiment but I wouldn’t want hobbyists making life miserable for the rest of us.

There’s no reason the private key needs to be stored in Secure Enclave. Your passkeys are in the MacOS Keychain, encrypted using the Secure Enclave. They are decrypted when iCloud transfers them to a new machine.

A similar protocol could be used with ssh keys. Keep the keys on disk as usual, making them easy to back up. Encrypt them using the enclave. You can use the Secure Enclave to decrypt the key for backing up (with a backup-specific secret).

This way all of the protocols and tooling remains the same, except for obtaining the SSH key encryption secret from Secure Enclave. Backup, ssh login, ssh agent all use the same keys.

Do what Apple does. Making the process more difficult actually makes security worse.

New comment by tonymet in "Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy"

tonymet — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 05:30:26 +0000

i agree that's a benefit, but we've had that requirement for 40+ years and managed with cloud too.

New comment by tonymet in "$30M Raised to Redo the CPU"

tonymet — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 01:38:22 +0000

let's re-do the OS too. we only need about 10 syscalls. authorization is totally backwards (look how android runs a user per process).

New comment by tonymet in "Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy"

tonymet — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:42:12 +0000

that's a lot of ifs / whens , and the remote models work right now, and are cheap. It's not a gym membership.

New comment by tonymet in "Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy"

tonymet — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:13:21 +0000

Why so much investment in local models when the remote ones are so cheap ? Everyone was fine with remote compute & storage before AI, now they balk?

New comment by tonymet in "rVPN – stealth VPN with end-to-end encryption"

tonymet — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 22:59:39 +0000

i was needing this very thing while trying to do work from the infusion clinic with a very aggressive outbound firewall.

Does anyone have a guide on getting wireguard + stunnel set up to evade DPS firewalls?

New comment by tonymet in "rVPN – stealth VPN with end-to-end encryption"

tonymet — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 22:58:15 +0000

a vpn that bypasses deep-packet-inspection firewalls by simulating common HTTPS traffic

New comment by tonymet in "Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives"

tonymet — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 22:02:10 +0000

no it's not. they publish the APIs. IE was bad because ActiveX was proprietary and private.

New comment by tonymet in "Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives"

tonymet — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 22:01:26 +0000

Let the best API win. why hold them back?

New comment by tonymet in "Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives"

tonymet — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 21:39:21 +0000

I recommend saying "contemporary" or "suggested" for transient proposals like this. Having modern change every few years is ambiguous and cliche .

These concepts are new, so no one knows if they are any good. They're not modern -- who knows if they will even be put to use?

"contemporary", "proposed", "suggested", "compatible" are better fit. I wouldn't dare use "advanced" because many APIs and proposals actually regress earlier behavior.

New comment by tonymet in "US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028"

tonymet — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 21:20:22 +0000

do you guys live in a cave? it's easy to light things up when the power is out. it's not easy to run a computer and lan

New comment by tonymet in "I deleted all my SSH keys"

tonymet — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 19:56:07 +0000

is this for new machine installs , or periodic (daily , weekly) access?

I thought private keys were meant to be secret (not copied) and the public keys meant to be installed onto the target host.

so if you have a desktop, laptop etc, you would generate the secret once per endpoint and then copy the public keys onto targets as needed. AT scale this could be done by ldap / cloud mgmt.