<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: weystrom</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=weystrom</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 08:11:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=weystrom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tried making one, but I couldn't make through the camera position tracking bit, software was super unintuitive. Very interested in gaming applications for this tech, but still waiting for it to be more approachable from a layman's point of view.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:18:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193649</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice UI</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:58:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913175</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They use a gamescope[1] session to achieve this. You could potentially do the same on dekstop, but it's painful.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope">https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:07:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41869831</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41869831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41869831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, but no. Proton is the best thing that happened to Linux gaming, but sometimes it's still not good enough to get full Windows-like experience.<p>HDR still doesn't work properly, there are no codecs (Atmos, DTS:X) for my surround system, latest nvidia driver broke Microsoft Flight Sim and other games on wayland. The list goes on.<p>And as for Copilot - I'm sure I'll be able to rip it out, just like the other crap MS forcefully pushes on people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:19:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41868495</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41868495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41868495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "Digitally Peeking Inside a Pack of Pokemon Cards with a CT Scanner [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I guess the card companies will adapt somehow as well (in fact there's a follow-up video on how to discourage this technique [1]), but there's still a huge market for "vintage" cards and packs that will be affected.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxeS6krtdwM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxeS6krtdwM</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:53:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743833</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743833</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "Digitally Peeking Inside a Pack of Pokemon Cards with a CT Scanner [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A CT technian has figured out a way to look inside a TCG booster pack and identify rare cards inside without opening it.<p>This potentially could change the whole collectable market, since you could fish for expensive rares and dump the "dud" packs back on the market.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:44:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743734</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digitally Peeking Inside a Pack of Pokemon Cards with a CT Scanner [video]]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7hkmrk63xc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7hkmrk63xc</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743733">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743733</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 3</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:44:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7hkmrk63xc</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "We have lift-off Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://github.com/element-hq/ess-starter-edition-core">https://github.com/element-hq/ess-starter-edition-core</a><p>They ship a k8s operator that deploys Synapse, will try that later. Supposedly it's free up to 200 users. But it seems like there's 0 documentation past the README.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:02:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601582</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "GitHub was down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A reminder of how centralized and dependent the whole industry has become on GH, which is ironic, considering that git itself is designed to be decentralized.<p>Good opportunity to think about mirroring your repos somewhere else like Gitea or Gitlab.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:23:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251648</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "Ask HN: What other good forums are out there?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actually recognizing people posting is something that i dearly miss. Now you barely even notice the usernames.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:25:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38558261</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38558261</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38558261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because that wasn't the deal.<p>Nobody complained when YT was monopolizing online video because it was convenient and free and then they proceed to bait and switch us into paying.<p>Screw them, I won't pay out of principle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 12:27:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38332035</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38332035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38332035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because it wasn't the deal when they were consolidating the all online video content into themselves. And then once they've gotten "too big to fail", the greed rolled in.<p>They bait and switched us.<p>Youtube killed private video hosting.
Reddit killed small thematic php-bb forums.<p>If people knew that they'd eventually do that, none of these platforms would be as big as they are today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:34:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38126716</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38126716</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38126716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "The Cloud Computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Forget the numbers, just knowing that CEO is not fucking me over to build a second vacation home is Aspen would be enough for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:07:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38029459</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38029459</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38029459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "The Cloud Computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Everyone at Oxide makes $201,227 USD, regardless of location.<p>Man I would love to work for a company like that. I don't know why more people don't set their startups like that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:24:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024132</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great video from Asianometry on this topic:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrkC-pMH_s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrkC-pMH_s</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:05:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37048407</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37048407</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37048407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "What your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hate to be that guy, but did we?<p>Sure it looks different, but I'm still dragging windows on a virtual desktop.<p>You'd think there would be some innovation. For example I've always dreamed of a scrolling-timeline-like interaction with desktop, where your activities would scroll to the side when you switch to the new one and then you'd be able to "scrub back in time" to see what you were doing before.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 08:30:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503833</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503833</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And yet if I post my CV as a "Linux Systems Administrator" I will get zero replies on LinkedIn. I wish this wasn't the case though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:31:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356294</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What we need is a resurgence of specialty forums, but there's no good modern forum engine around, at least I'm not aware of one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 20:53:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36144186</link><dc:creator>weystrom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36144186</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36144186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by weystrom in "Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/">https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/</a><p>Works on all platforms, but runs much better on Linux.<p>Running this in Docker on my 2080Ti, can barely fit 13B-4bit models into 11G of VRAM, but it works fine, produces around 10-15 tokens/second most of the time. It also has an API, that you can use with something like LangChain.<p>Supports multiple ways to run the models, purely with CUDA (I think AMD support is coming too) or on CPU with llama.cpp (also possible to offload part of the model to GPU VRAM, but the performance is still nowhere near CUDA).<p>Don't expect open-source models to perform as well as ChatGPT though, they're still pretty limited in comparison. Good place to get the models is TheBloke's page - <a href="https://huggingface.co/TheBloke" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/TheBloke</a>. Tom converts popular LLM builds into multiple formats that you can use with textgen and he's a pillar of local LLM community.<p>I'm still learning how to fine-tune/train LoRAs, it's pretty finicky, but promising, I'd like to be able to feed personal data into the model and have it reliably answer questions.<p>In my opinion, these developments are way more exciting than whatever OpenAI is doing. No way I'm pushing my chatlogs into some corp datacenter, but running locally and storing checkpoints safely would achieve my end-goal of having it "impersonate" myself on the web.</p>
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<p>Cheers, I'm never donating ever again.</p>
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