Hacker News: trevithick

New comment by trevithick in "Never Give Them Your Face"

trevithick — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:14:33 +0000

Yes but your approach requires parenting, which is unacceptable to many people with children.

New comment by trevithick in "The Parent Uprising Against Screen Time at School"

trevithick — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:37:38 +0000

New comment by trevithick in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

trevithick — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:12:28 +0000

I'm glad you addressed that your house-building strategy isn't feasible almost anywhere. There was an interesting article posted to HN on this topic a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31470400

New comment by trevithick in "Someone used my open source project to phish people"

trevithick — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:51:05 +0000

I would rather read an email the sender actually wrote even if it looked like your example, as opposed to AI-written. In that sense it is "better" to me.

New comment by trevithick in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

trevithick — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:07:37 +0000

Companies need to brand as "Not owned by PE" the same way health food has prominent labels on the packaging.

New comment by trevithick in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

trevithick — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:16:45 +0000

You would install a 240v circuit (in the US) like for an electric clothes dryer.

Edit: I now see the author was in an apartment and couldn't do this, so I concede this is not responsive here.

New comment by trevithick in "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"

trevithick — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:46:48 +0000

> it needs to become a real operating system semi-advanced users can use daily

No it doesn't.

New comment by trevithick in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)"

trevithick — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:14:36 +0000

I remember hearing David Simon, creator of The Wire, predicting this (fall of local news enabling unchecked corruption). Here's an article on it from nearly 20 years ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/mar/27/david-simon-wi...

> "Oh, to be a state or local official in America over the next 10 to 15 years, before somebody figures out the business model," says Simon, a former crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun. "To gambol freely across the wastelands of an American city, as a local politician! It's got to be one of the great dreams in the history of American corruption."

New comment by trevithick in "How Silicon Valley Is Turning Scientists into Exploited Gig Workers"

trevithick — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:44:51 +0000

Still bad for the scientists. They get little money and zero recognition.

New comment by trevithick in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

trevithick — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:11:08 +0000

Thank you. I heard about The Guns of August when I was looking for related books after reading A World Undone. Then I forgot about it. I never heard of March of Folly but I'll read them both.

New comment by trevithick in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

trevithick — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:54:03 +0000

How does that book fit in the timeline? It was published in 1984.

New comment by trevithick in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

trevithick — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:24:07 +0000

Thanks. I like the spirit of this.

I will not assume any liability for damage caused from running this code. Especially if you are running it as root. In fact, we both know that this will cause damage to the system, and that's why you want to try it. You have been warned.

New comment by trevithick in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

trevithick — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:15:26 +0000

I need to know more about this.

New comment by trevithick in "DIY NAS: 2026 Edition"

trevithick — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:40:16 +0000

Topton makes a lot of those router mini PCs. I have an N100 with 4 2.5Gbe ports. It has a serial port too, which is nice. It's been running great for about a year now. Then again, it's from Aliexpress, so who knows if it's even really a Topton.

New comment by trevithick in "PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator"

trevithick — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:55:20 +0000

Interesting, thanks for posting. I never heard of this either and read EDM as

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

Which kind of makes sense.

New comment by trevithick in "PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator"

trevithick — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 01:13:07 +0000

This is really cool. I'm glad people are out there making this stuff even if I'll never have a use for it.

What are the use cases for this? I'm guessing retro computing and possibly very old machines tied to very obsolete hardware that can't be virtualized (e.g. manufacturing controls).

New comment by trevithick in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

trevithick — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 12:57:56 +0000

They're referencing this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HlZhPuDYqbU

New comment by trevithick in "How to fix subsystem request failed on channel 0"

trevithick — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:54:37 +0000

Sometimes the message is different. I think it depends on the recipient server. Trying to scp to a dropbear ssh server on a router gives

   sh: /opt/libexec/sftp-server: not found
   scp: Connection closed

The -O resolution works.

New comment by trevithick in "Baby Shoggoth Is Listening"

trevithick — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:39:37 +0000

Yes. I've always planned to stay dead forever after I die. AI is not changing that.

New comment by trevithick in "Baby Shoggoth Is Listening"

trevithick — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:18:58 +0000

True, my question assumed AI "progress" and adoption follow the hype trajectory. Reality could be closer to the scenario you laid out. The bubble pops, some AI tools maybe improve things in some areas, societal disintegration gets kicked down the road a few years.