Hacker News: waynesonfire

New comment by waynesonfire in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

waynesonfire — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:22:14 +0000

> the 662 MB used by the "Renderer" is shared between many Windows components

Fine, shutdown the weather and stock ticker apps.

New comment by waynesonfire in "That time when I failed the Microsoft interview"

waynesonfire — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:06:27 +0000

that seems very risky. it doesn't take much effort for the interviewer to spot a trickster, forfieting the interview. There is also no telling the second problem would be easier. I'd rather take my chances and hope i solve it or try to limp through with a hint.

New comment by waynesonfire in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

waynesonfire — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:08:26 +0000

Cool story bro. I used a llm to help me name a variable.

New comment by waynesonfire in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"

waynesonfire — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:24:40 +0000

I disagree. Sony can't bring back Walkmans because a Walkman won't generate the returns Sony demands. Furthermore, they refuse to open-source it so it stays hidden in a vault.

Plenty of people would lose money, break even, or God willing, make a tiny profit, diving into this problem. Regardless, it would make society a happier place.

New comment by waynesonfire in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

waynesonfire — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:20:23 +0000

Yes, you're describing a fundemental feature of DNS.

New comment by waynesonfire in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

waynesonfire — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:25:46 +0000

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not quite done right.

New comment by waynesonfire in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

waynesonfire — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:19:05 +0000

> because it is using the public ip instead of the private one.

For this edge case, the issue is not with DNS; it's that the router is not configured to allow internal clients to access the network through the public IP, vis-à-vis hairpin routing.

New comment by waynesonfire in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

waynesonfire — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:09:44 +0000

> - Run two haproxy instances,

This made me consider my haproxy architecture. I use haproxy acl rules and the use_backend directive to enforce security policy and routing. It denies http requests based on source ip address per service (host header)

I think a good middle-ground is to use a single haproxy but two frontends; one binds to the public interface and one for private. haproxy is now no longer responsible for routing, the router is.

New comment by waynesonfire in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

waynesonfire — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:36:20 +0000

because when crashing on a motorcycle, it's only the cyclists face that's turned inside out and in such a way that it's not a burden on society to treat a vegetable.

New comment by waynesonfire in "Iroh 1.0"

waynesonfire — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:38:16 +0000

Why? Because if you need to serve ads that are being blacklisted by DNS, you need something like this.

New comment by waynesonfire in "Iroh 1.0"

waynesonfire — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:05:08 +0000

why isn't your mental model to use DNS?

New comment by waynesonfire in "LLMs aren't conscious (and thinking they are is culturally dangerous)"

waynesonfire — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:01:09 +0000

Why would you think this ai slop suddenly breaks that barrier?

New comment by waynesonfire in "OCaml Onboarding: Introduction to the Dune build system"

waynesonfire — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:29:48 +0000

one day we'll get the equivelent of language server for build systems.

New comment by waynesonfire in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

waynesonfire — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:32:15 +0000

very impressived with no LLM results. If I want LLM, I don't need to use a search engine to engange with it. That's a different product.

New comment by waynesonfire in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

waynesonfire — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:29:44 +0000

> My first and only layoff

Won't be your last.

New comment by waynesonfire in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

waynesonfire — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:16:20 +0000

I was running Ubuntu 16.04; migrated to FreeBSD and I'm all in. Between 16.04 and the current version of Linux; the ecosystem shifted. It's values shifted in ways that did not align with me. This mis-alignment is what motivated me to boot-up FreeBSD. I'm glad I discovered it. I found my happy place again.

It's an incredible journey to take--whether you stick with it or not. Migrating to FreeBSD gives you new eyes into what Linux was, is, and the awesomeness of FreeBSD that is so hard to articulate; like describing the color blue. It must be taken as a whole to appreciate it; and I'm not just saying the OS, it's commands, kernel features, but, the end-to-end compute experience, over time.

If I could draw an equivelent, it would be like when Djistrka savagely destroyed the GOTO statement with a single, short, paper. It took a brilliant mind to articulate that and there has yet to be such a mind to describe the beauty of FreeBSD. So, the best I can do, is just to challenge you to try it.

New comment by waynesonfire in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

waynesonfire — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:50:42 +0000

Of course it's robbery. I don't think anyone is truly arguing it's not. The issue is that, if we don't do it, China will. Game over.

I'm surprised I hvan't seen more economist scholars exploring this topic; it's a fastincating phenomenon. I've seen folks try and re-visit history and compare what's happening with AI to some historic event--but, we've never seen anything quite like it. As much as history repeats itself; at the forefront of innvotaion it doesn't.

I suspect that there will one day be an AI tax as society tries to reclaim the value of the theft; maybe even UBI of some form. Until then, buy the stocks and ride the theft wave. The economsits are certainly exploring the K shaped economy, and this is why.

New comment by waynesonfire in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

waynesonfire — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:25:16 +0000

Ah, this makes most sense to me, the details of the compromise must have already been published,

"The attacker’s current claims of ~3,800 repositories are directionally consistent with our investigation so far."

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2056949168208552080

New comment by waynesonfire in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

waynesonfire — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:01:51 +0000

Are they required to announce that they're being hacked in real time?

New comment by waynesonfire in "Iosevka + Berkeley = Ioskeley"

waynesonfire — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:15:17 +0000

Iosevka, a free open-source alternative to Berkeley Mono.