<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: wasted_intel</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wasted_intel</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:42:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=wasted_intel" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That comparison is made on the project homepage:<p>"Not a security mechanism. No mount isolation, no PID namespace, no credential separation. Linux documents it as not intended for sandboxing."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:32:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554975</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>First thing I thought of, too. If not, I hope it’s planned. I’m all in on TUI tools, and vi keybinds are a necessary part of that for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:58:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370478</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Validity | <a href="https://www.validity.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.validity.com/</a> | Boston - Remote (US) | Full-time<p>Validity is a suite of marketing tools used to ensure data quality, drive email performance, and provide advanced campaign analytics to leading brands.<p>Our Applications team is seeking a Senior Ruby on Rails developer to help expand our product line, improve our existing products, and build the next generation of Validity tools, continuing our mission to provide exceptional support to our growing customer base.<p>We're looking for someone with:
- A strong command of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and the architecture of large web applications at scale
- Experience in taking projects from concept to completion
- Strong communication skills; the ability to communicate clearly, effectively, and with empathy both within your team and cross-functionally
- A proven track record of writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code<p>Apply here: <a href="https://validity.applytojob.com/apply/9cSl8hGG4R/Sr-Software-Engineer-Ruby" rel="nofollow">https://validity.applytojob.com/apply/9cSl8hGG4R/Sr-Software...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:25:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828248</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828248</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Original Prusa Core One 3D printer review]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.techradar.com/pro/original-prusa-core-one-3d-printer-review">https://www.techradar.com/pro/original-prusa-core-one-3d-printer-review</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889453">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889453</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:12:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.techradar.com/pro/original-prusa-core-one-3d-printer-review</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Love this. I use raw CLI commands until it hurts, and have recently embraced tools like lazygit/lazydocker to get visibility into otherwise opaque system/tree states, and it’s been a huge level-up.<p>I have several user and system level services I manage, but debugging them is tedious. Your opening line that lists common commands and their pain points really resonated with me.<p>I’m on NixOS, so editing immutable unit files directly won’t work, but the service discovery, visibility, and management will be really helpful. Nice work!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:47:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42749554</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42749554</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42749554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Ad: An Adaptable Text Editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your comment about writing a text editor library is precisely what got me started with amp ~10 years ago, where much of its core functionality was extracted here:<p><a href="https://crates.io/crates/scribe" rel="nofollow">https://crates.io/crates/scribe</a><p>Good luck with the project! Building a text editor to scratch your own itch is fun.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 05:17:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42448297</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42448297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42448297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Arch is a gateway drug to NixOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also think NixOS is more targeted towards developers. It’s one thing to learn the syntax, APIs, and abstractions of Nix/NixOS. It’s another to stack all of that on top of learning programming in general.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:38:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41074582</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41074582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41074582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Arch is a gateway drug to NixOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This doesn't mirror my experience at all. I think the biggest challenge facing NixOS is the learning curve. There's a lot thrown at you from the start, and as you start to factor your configuration into separate modules, there's a lot of complexity you have to unpack.<p>I've since migrated to a flake-based setup with machine-based variations (for my laptop and desktop), including easily swappable desktop environments. At a whim, I can switch between sway, hyprland, and gnome. This was mostly a result of me exploring/tweaking these without wanting to discard the configs; I always end up coming back to re-explore tiling WMs.<p>My experience through all of this has been great. I've even done a full re-install on both machines when the xz vulnerability was discovered and the process was effortless. That includes lanzaboote for SecureBoot, LUKS, and out-of-tree git-based flake builds for custom applications I build from source.<p>The one thing I found really helpful when starting with flakes was this repo that includes starter configs to help flatten that initial curve: <a href="https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs/tree/main">https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs/tree/main</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 22:11:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41073916</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41073916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41073916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arch is a gateway drug to NixOS]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://wastedintel.ca/2024/07/25/arch-is-a-gateway-drug-to-nixos/">https://wastedintel.ca/2024/07/25/arch-is-a-gateway-drug-to-nixos/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41072668">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41072668</a></p>
<p>Points: 31</p>
<p># Comments: 13</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 19:54:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://wastedintel.ca/2024/07/25/arch-is-a-gateway-drug-to-nixos/</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41072668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41072668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Ask HN: Arch Users – What is your long-term system maintenance routine?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh, Arch was rock solid and I was also able to keep my install going for years. However, in the few instances where I would get a new laptop or experience a drive failure, it was non-trivial to get it going again. If you're using a stock install + Gnome, it's not bad, but I had <i>lots</i> of things set up (e.g. Secure Boot, udev rules, usbguard, tiling WM, etc.) and those are all things you can declare in a NixOS + Home Manager config, have versioned, and re-establish in ~30 minutes instead of days.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 01:45:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40816999</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40816999</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40816999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Ask HN: Arch Users – What is your long-term system maintenance routine?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep, same. Thoroughly enjoyed Arch, but slowly accruing implicit config state means you'll eventually have to re-install and configure everything again. You can mitigate some of that with dotfiles and some hand-rolled scripts, but NixOS is effectively that "done right".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:28:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40811593</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40811593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40811593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Sheryl Crow: 'Resurrecting Tupac with AI Is Hateful'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I get the point you're making, but I'd argue that even when stated in a reductive fashion, the complex system that leads simple cellular automata to artistic expression is orders of magnitude more elegant and special than AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2024 16:13:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40760078</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40760078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40760078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Online harms bill would create a new hate-crime offence, impose big fines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exercising “rights and freedoms” isn’t what the people in that protest were doing. Breaking that up was the right thing to do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 04:57:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520338</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "When open becomes opaque: The changing face of open-source hardware companies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> which are OSS-compliant where required<p>This is the crux of the problem. Where Prusa is openly sharing, you have companies that are benefiting from that without reciprocating. Part of the tax you're paying when buying an i3MK4 is the continued investment in the open source/hardware contributions of the company, not just the end product. Shelling out $1k for a Bambu is your prerogative, but it does cast a vote with your wallet for a company that is more predatory than collaborative.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 19:12:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36791670</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36791670</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36791670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Litmus | Remote (USA, UK) | Full-time | <a href="https://litmus.engineering" rel="nofollow">https://litmus.engineering</a><p>Litmus' goal is to help email marketing teams send better email. To do that, we've built a suite of tools to help with the building process, allow performing QA with device/client screenshots, enable collaboration on designs with teammates, and analyze email performance post-send.<p>We're looking to hire a full-stack engineer to help add/improve features and build new products. Day to day, you can expect to write Ruby and JavaScript (Rails, vanilla JS, Vue.js, Ember, etc.). We practice CI/CD with great test coverage, are sincerely good about work/life balance, and have some exceptional benefits (e.g. 28 days of PTO + stat holidays). You can learn more about our team and how we work here:<p><a href="https://litmus.engineering/applications-team" rel="nofollow">https://litmus.engineering/applications-team</a><p>If you'd like to apply, you can see all of our open engineering positions here:<p><a href="https://litmus.engineering/careers" rel="nofollow">https://litmus.engineering/careers</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2022 20:26:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29829541</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29829541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29829541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Litmus | Remote (USA, UK) | Full time | <a href="https://litmus.com" rel="nofollow">https://litmus.com</a><p>Litmus' goal is to help email marketing teams send better email. To do that, we've built a suite of tools to help with the building process, allow performing QA with device/client screenshots, enable collaboration on designs with teammates, and analyze email performance post-send.<p>We're looking to hire two Rails developers to help add/improve features and build new products. Day to day, you can expect to write Ruby and JavaScript (vanilla, Vue.js, Ember). We practice CI/CD with great test coverage, are sincerely good about work/life balance, and have some exceptional benefits (e.g. 28 days of PTO + stat holidays).<p>Please see the listing for all of the details:<p><a href="https://grnh.se/3445d0254us" rel="nofollow">https://grnh.se/3445d0254us</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2021 19:46:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28869033</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28869033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28869033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "“C is how the computer works” is a dangerous mindset for C programmers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> it is not easy for people who just can't be bothered to take the time to make anything correctly<p>Laziness may make the problem more <i>likely</i>, but even a disciplined team working on security-critical software can make mistakes[0].<p>[0] <a href="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0777" rel="nofollow">https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0777</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:35:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742881</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Litmus | <a href="https://litmus.com" rel="nofollow">https://litmus.com</a> | Boston | Full-Time | REMOTE<p>Litmus is building a platform to help email marketers, agencies, and companies send better email. We write and maintain tools that cater to the email design process, like creating the HTML/CSS, collaborating with others on the design, verifying accuracy with email client screenshots, and analyzing campaign performance.<p>We're hiring a Rails developer (we do have Vue and Ember in use, too). You'd work alongside a team of smart, curious, and supportive people working on challenging problems. Apply here before April 6th:<p><a href="http://jobs.litmus.com/apply/6xEByC7zhC/Ruby-On-Rails-Developer" rel="nofollow">http://jobs.litmus.com/apply/6xEByC7zhC/Ruby-On-Rails-Develo...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:52:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22674748</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22674748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22674748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had the same experience with the Globe and Mail in Canada. You get ads regardless of whether or not you're a paying subscriber, and while you can sign up online, you can't cancel. It was a total pain in the ass to do that over the phone, and it's a glaringly-obvious (and misguided) retention tactic.<p>I'll never subscribe to them again. What a short-sighted way to optimize for revenue at any cost.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:06:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22129986</link><dc:creator>wasted_intel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22129986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22129986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wasted_intel in "Linux Desktop Setup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for the head's up; much appreciated!</p>
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