Hacker News: traverseda

New comment by traverseda in "Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

traverseda — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:16:51 +0000

You can run your own github actions compatible-ish server. https://github.com/nektos/act

Personally my favorite is probably drone-ci.

I'd suggest not buying in too hard on any one of these CI systems and just writing shell scripts. Shell scripts are portable, and you can use whatever to trigger them.

New comment by traverseda in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

traverseda — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:37:01 +0000

There are plenty of nonviolent extralegal options. Ranging fron sit-ins and protests, to destruction of property, to many examples in the CIA's subtle sabotage field guide like running meetings poorly.

New comment by traverseda in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

traverseda — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:32:33 +0000

About 30% from what I could find.

New comment by traverseda in "Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps"

traverseda — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:10:59 +0000

Same way the US enforces any internet foreign policy. Make the credit card companies cut them off,make advertisers cut them off. US controls most of the ways they could make money.

New comment by traverseda in "Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices"

traverseda — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:52:59 +0000

If you're thinking about actually using it, please not it only supports redhat distros.

https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/865

New comment by traverseda in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

traverseda — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:56:08 +0000

https://traverseda.github.io/

New comment by traverseda in "Show HN: I created a tool to design and create foamcore inserts for boardgames"

traverseda — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:18:45 +0000

Lots of suggestions already, my only suggestion is that it would be nice if this could generate tabs and slots. I'm more likely to laser cut or 3D print inserts, so a tab and slot would make assembly easier.

Well that and to generate STL files for 3D printing.

New comment by traverseda in "LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted"

traverseda — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:17:10 +0000

No, the subreddit has applied custom css to do that. It's the mildly infuriating subreddit. There's also an image of a hair visible on widescreen monitors, to make you think there's a hair on your display.

New comment by traverseda in "Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries"

traverseda — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:12:57 +0000

Wait, does urlib not use semvar? Don't remove APIs on minor releases people. A major release doesn't have to be a problem or a major redesign, you can do major release 400 for all I care, just don't break things on minor releases.

Lots of things not using semvar that I always just assumed did.

New comment by traverseda in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

traverseda — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:55:17 +0000

I'd be more worried about the implicit power imbalance. It's not what can humans provide for each-other, it's what can humans provide for a handful of ultra-wealthy oligarchs.

New comment by traverseda in "Bag of words, have mercy on us"

traverseda — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:15:38 +0000

No answer I give will be satisfying to you until I could come up with a rigorous mathematical definition of understanding, which is de-facto solving the hard AI problem. So there's not really point in talking about it is there?

If you're interested in why compression is like understanding in many ways, I'd suggest reading through the wikipedia article on Kolmogorov complexity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

New comment by traverseda in "Bag of words, have mercy on us"

traverseda — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:16:54 +0000

LLMs are compression and prediction. The most efficient way to (lossfully) compress most things is by actually understanding them. Not saying LLMs are doing a good job of that, but that is the fundamental mechanism here.

New comment by traverseda in "Pebble Watch software is now open source"

traverseda — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:33:08 +0000

Yeah, but it's running on a device that has closed source blobs in it. Hell, even the linux kernel often has firmware blobs for wifi devices.

New comment by traverseda in "Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand"

traverseda — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:22:02 +0000

But they're creating the demand themselves by putting AI features that may not be creating actual value for users.

New comment by traverseda in "A file format uncracked for 20 years"

traverseda — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:30:07 +0000

ImHex will tell you if it's compressed. Do you understand data structures? Floats, all those data types?

I'd suggest looking at a format like msgpack to see what a binary data format could look like: https://msgpack.org/

Then be aware that proprietary formats are going to be a lot more complicated. Or maybe it's just zipped up json data, only way to tell is to start poking around at it.

New comment by traverseda in "Why we migrated from Python to Node.js"

traverseda — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:56:31 +0000

>We did this so we can scale.

>Python async sucks

Python async may make certain types of IO-blocked tasks simpler, but it is not going to scale a web app. Now maybe this isn't a web app, I can't really tell. But this is not going to scale to a cluster of machines.

You need to use a distributed task queue like celery.

New comment by traverseda in "Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time"

traverseda — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:30:52 +0000

How do you justify specializing in mobile development when it's very clear that you're just sharecroppers on someone else's land?

New comment by traverseda in "Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system"

traverseda — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:08:18 +0000

No one is going to walk away from that kind of alliance tomorrow, sure. Stuff like "we're going to remotely disable military equipment we've sold you" is going to have consequences though. It's not walking away from alliances, it's just focusing on more stable countries.

New comment by traverseda in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

traverseda — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:13:53 +0000

A specific women? Women in general? Is vague-posting back in vogue?

New comment by traverseda in "As Android developer verification gets ready to go, a new reason to be worried"

traverseda — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:52:31 +0000

GrapheneOS is only allowed to live because google lets it. This signals a wider ecosystem change that tells us that GrapheneOS is going to stop being usable when this generation of hardware dies. This generation or maybe the one after it.