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Show HN: CacheWarmer; a Way to Preload the Windows File System Cache

unquietwiki — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:28:04 +0000

I'm trying to help out an engineering team where I work, to eke out more performance from our CI/CD stack. RAM drives work, but only for certain use cases. PrimoCache does block-sector file system caching. But until now, I haven't found anything that primes the native file caching Windows does when processing data (Linux does similar behavior too).

I submitted my dilemma to Claude, and we came up with a PowerShell script to try. It did pre-cache files, but also loaded files into memory, inaccessible to other processes. I then had it restructure the attempt as a C# application, and that appears to be working. Not seeing any excessive handle usage; pre-selected files show up in RAMMap; and not having that memory usage issue that was in PowerShell.

I guess at this point, I could use some help testing it further to see if this is even something worth keeping around. I think it might be more useful on lower-mem systems, wherein cached files might get evicted more quickly from memory.

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New comment by unquietwiki in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

unquietwiki — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:24:32 +0000

Ugh... I don't use agents, but I do use AI-assistance to try to resolve problems I run into with code I use. I'm not committing for the Hell of it, and this kind of thing makes it harder for people like me to collaborate with other folks on real issues. It feels like for AI agents, there need to be the kind of guardrails in place we otherwise reserve for Human children.

(shrugs) Maybe we need to start putting some kind of "RULES.MD" file on repos, that direct AI agents to behave in certain ways. Or have GitHub and maybe other ecosystems have a default ruleset you can otherwise override?

New comment by unquietwiki in "IPv6 Insecure?"

unquietwiki — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:16:57 +0000

What the heck is this even? Its just a paragraph, with no backing evidence. And the blog has one other thing, that's a "test".

New comment by unquietwiki in "US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional"

unquietwiki — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:16:47 +0000

Well, there also seems to be concerns over testosterone levels & fertility. Combined with attempts to reduce birth control & abortion, and you come away with an expectation they intend to breed their way out of losses (returning again to the eugenics overtones). Someone was also recently quoted as saying measles outbreaks "are the cost of doing business".

New comment by unquietwiki in "US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional"

unquietwiki — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:50:16 +0000

I have a hot take that MAHA is a modern eugenics movement; that prioritizes access to the Free Market as a provider of good health and relies on Darwinian outcomes for the population at large. Everything's about avoiding autism ("feeblemindedness" anyone?), perceived physical weakness (never mind the gender-related overtones), and collective responsibility (maybe your Mom didn't eat enough of the new food pyramid, so now you're more likely to get polio, or something). There are some rather profane conclusions to be made from this belief system.

New comment by unquietwiki in "Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts"

unquietwiki — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:56:42 +0000

I think stuff like this, is trying to recreate a world that doesn't exist anymore. With whom, are you gonna go play in the woods with, that haven't already been bulldozed into housing and strip malls? Do you need to watch YouTube only on a parent's TV that's logged in, even for homework help? Some kids start working at 14 or 15: they can be trusted to work somewhere outside of home, but not online? What about Steam games? What about any games? What about hobby & fan forums, that have nothing to do with "grooming" or grabbing eyeballs? What's next, an Internet license?

New comment by unquietwiki in "Self-hosting a NAT Gateway"

unquietwiki — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:13:45 +0000

This shouldn't be mistaken for an anti-IPv6 post. There's also some steps you have to go through to enable IPv6 on your VPS networks, and there's still stuff like GitHub not handling IPv6. So, much as we need to migrate, we still have to support IPv4 connectivity for the foreseeable future.

Shoutout to Hacker News for having IPv6 support!

New comment by unquietwiki in "Self-hosting a NAT Gateway"

unquietwiki — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:09:15 +0000

Assigning an IP is ideal if you're having to whitelist traffic to/from a data center, application, or service.

New comment by unquietwiki in "The Farmer Was Replaced [video]"

unquietwiki — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:39:39 +0000

Just looked it up: looks cool & added it to wishlist. Did you happen to play "Solar 2" years back?

New comment by unquietwiki in "Genode OS Framework"

unquietwiki — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:21:02 +0000

Hey there. Came across this a while ago, but glad to see it alive & kicking. Two questions...

1. Is there going to be a disk image/installer for 25.08, or is that supposed to be self-compiled?

2. Does the OS download missing components on its own or something? The 25.04 image on the website is only 30+ MB.

Thanks!

New comment by unquietwiki in "Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime"

unquietwiki — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:44:19 +0000

The proposed remedy seems fine. What stuck out to me is the "Trump-Vance" attribution: I haven't seen something like that since the election.

New comment by unquietwiki in "6NF File Format"

unquietwiki — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 22:11:11 +0000

Looks interesting, but few comments on the forum & even a negative vote count ATM. Format kinda looks "old school" in terms of defining records, but I guess that can be a positive in some circumstances?

New comment by unquietwiki in "FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections"

unquietwiki — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:50:47 +0000

There are a LOT of ISPs on this list. I wonder what's going to happen to all the legitimate VOIP users? No more cable phone lines, effectively?

New comment by unquietwiki in "Bcachefs to be removed from mainline Linux kernel"

unquietwiki — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:02:21 +0000

Well, he already lost T'so, and I recall he's pretty high-up on the command chain. This appears to not be about technical merit anymore, vs existing as a "co-worker" with other kernel peers.

New comment by unquietwiki in "Bcachefs to be removed from mainline Linux kernel"

unquietwiki — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:34:47 +0000

I think OP is expecting that to be the outcome, given the roughly 2/3rds "Kent is (insert insinuation)" vs the 1/3rd "your stuff works, please stick around".

I worked for a guy that was looking forward to this work five years ago for a business product need. I'm glad to see it's made some headway in that time, but I have to wonder what it'd take to salvage the introduction of it to the Linux public at large. How do you even reset this mess?

New comment by unquietwiki in "AOL to discontinue dial-up internet"

unquietwiki — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:27:38 +0000

I've got in-laws that use 12yo Macs; would not surprise me in the least if a lot of older folks were still using whatever box from Best Buy or a relative they got in the late 00s.

New comment by unquietwiki in "Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub"

unquietwiki — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:19:56 +0000

I regularly see that complaint over on r/ipv6. Maybe the new guy will ask for it???

New comment by unquietwiki in "GPT-OSS-120B runs on just 8GB VRAM & 64GB+ system RAM"

unquietwiki — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:18:33 +0000

Is there a way to tune OpenWebUI or some other non-CLI interface to support this configuration? I have a rig with this exact spec, but I suspect the 20B model would be more successful.

New comment by unquietwiki in "Tiny Code Reader: a $7 QR code sensor"

unquietwiki — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:55:28 +0000

I've had a recurring idea in my head of a sensor you could mount in your car, and then be able to read QR codes from the side of the road, and get an index of all the businesses you'd be driving by for later lookup. Not sure how feasible or useful it'd actually be...

New comment by unquietwiki in "Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing"

unquietwiki — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:38:36 +0000

I think that might be billed on the sender vs the receiver. So if you're a solo creative person sharing stuff with clients, this can be one way of doing that. Also potentially useful for small businesses without an enterprise file sharing solution.