Hacker News: vgb2k18

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory"

vgb2k18 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 03:16:13 +0000

If local isn't configured then fallback to online providers:

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt/blob/main/src%2Fage...

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Binary fuse filters: Fast and smaller than xor filters (2022)"

vgb2k18 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:54:01 +0000

Fast, but not faster than XOR filters. I was wondering if the title was a typo, but the article clarifies they sacrificed some speed for the smaller size.

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Download responsibly"

vgb2k18 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:32:38 +0000

Seems a perfect justification for using api keys. Unless I'm missing the nuance of this software model.

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

vgb2k18 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:43:11 +0000

Agreed on the madness of wide open OS defaults, I share your vision for isolation as a first-class citizen. In the mean-time (for Windows 11 users) theres Sandboxie+ fighting the good fight. I know most here will be aware of its strengths and limitations, but for any who dont (or who forgot about it), I can say its still working just as great on Windows 11 like it did on Windows 7. While its not great isolating heavy-weight dev environments (Visual Studio, Unreal Engine, etc), its almost perfect for managing isolation of all the small suff (Steam games, game emulators, YouTube downloaders , basic apps of all kinds).

New comment by vgb2k18 in "The Block Stacking Problem"

vgb2k18 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:41:59 +0000

Related: "The Best Way to Stack Blocks" Dr. Trefor Bazett (published 1 day ago)

https://youtu.be/eA0qGJMZ7vA?si=jkEmafRhisV5LWnx

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy"

vgb2k18 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:39:22 +0000

Fair point about it being less invasive than adtech sites, but my comment was just addressing the claim that piracy doesn't “track users and send a bunch of telemetry”. Torrent-trackers broadcast ip-addresses, timestamps, and torrent metadata; even if you consider it minor or mitigated by VPNs/seedboxes.

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy"

vgb2k18 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:26:15 +0000

Except for our ip address, timestamp and torrent metadata

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Search all text in New York City"

vgb2k18 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:29:21 +0000

SEO, or family friendly values (maybe both!). Related: no swearing in the first minute of YouTube videos.

New comment by vgb2k18 in "I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace"

vgb2k18 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 04:51:57 +0000

> Cerebras does say that they don't log your data or anything in general

Unil a judge says they must log everything, indefinitely

New comment by vgb2k18 in "The Promised LAN"

vgb2k18 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:50:21 +0000

Mate, my pentium 100mhz laptop played quake, carmageddon and nfs with at least 15fps in the 90's~

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Rescuing two PDP-11s from a former British Telecom underground shelter (2023)"

vgb2k18 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:50:25 +0000

It's clear in the thread that a forum user worked for BT. What was unclear was whether the site still belonged to BT and whether the employee was given official or any clearance to retrieve the parts. There was no 'we' language, all 'I', which is unusual at best. For a company of BT's scale one would expect a small team for such a recovery.

I'm curious, where is it clear in the thread that he got permission?

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Rescuing two PDP-11s from a former British Telecom underground shelter (2023)"

vgb2k18 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 07:31:10 +0000

> I'd point out of course that it appears that those folks are trespassing on private property - possibly in an environment that is quite unsafe. I hope nobody on here is daft enough to follow their lead.

Said the guy who proceeded to follow their lead. I get it he was a BT employee so may have not been trespassing, but he appeared to have a change of mind about the possibly quite unsafe environment.

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation"

vgb2k18 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:59:43 +0000

"Identify and publicly anounce" vs "assign blame", what's the difference?

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Simplest C++ Callback, from SumatraPDF"

vgb2k18 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:45:00 +0000

If you hate it when pdfs won't print because of restrictive permissions... Sumatra.

New comment by vgb2k18 in "WebGL Water (2010)"

vgb2k18 — Sat, 10 May 2025 02:50:17 +0000

What does Kiwi do different? The water appears to work well on Brave.

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Show HN: Extension for full-text browser history search"

vgb2k18 — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:33:15 +0000

IndexedDB file

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu"

vgb2k18 — Tue, 06 May 2025 20:45:45 +0000

For me it was their begging for money on install.

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Evolving OpenAI's Structure"

vgb2k18 — Tue, 06 May 2025 04:39:46 +0000

> I’d also argue that whether there is a ceiling matters less than how high it is.

How steeply the diminishing returns curve off at.

New comment by vgb2k18 in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

vgb2k18 — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:55:02 +0000

Edge has been doing this for a very long time, since well-before Windows 11 existed.

New comment by vgb2k18 in "In SSRI withdrawal, brain zaps go from overlooked symptom to center stage (2023)"

vgb2k18 — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 06:04:32 +0000

SNRI's (Cymbalta etc) induce brainzaps even worse than SSRI's. Counting out individual beads from inside the capsule is actually a thing people do to wean off gradually (and the zaps are strong even then).