Hacker News: weystrom

New comment by weystrom in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

weystrom — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:28:41 +0000

Great hardware, but I can't stand MacOS anymore after switching to Linux on home dekstop. KDE is such a breath of fresh air after years of dealing with Apple's idiosyncrasies.

I think I'll keep my Framework 13 Pro preorder.

New comment by weystrom in "I wish you the best in the Offline"

weystrom — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:43:54 +0000

Internet is what you make of it. You don't have to algo-flood your brain and then complain about it on the same social network.

New comment by weystrom in "Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally"

weystrom — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:22:38 +0000

While I think that local LLMs are the future, i think these setups are insane. You shouldn't be trying to push the SOTA, most people underestimate how much you can get out of small LLMs.

Why ask FABLE 5000 to "summarize this email thread" when a tiny model can do the job?

Sure Codex3000 can oneshot your backlog, but why not use a subsidized subscription to do it for now? We're clearly not at the peak of these model's capabilities yet.

New comment by weystrom in "Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"

weystrom — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:18:43 +0000

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.

New comment by weystrom in "Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic"

weystrom — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:58:05 +0000

Nice UI

New comment by weystrom in "12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux"

weystrom — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:07:58 +0000

They use a gamescope[1] session to achieve this. You could potentially do the same on dekstop, but it's painful.

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

New comment by weystrom in "12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux"

weystrom — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:19:12 +0000

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.

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.

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.

New comment by weystrom in "Digitally Peeking Inside a Pack of Pokemon Cards with a CT Scanner [video]"

weystrom — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:53:04 +0000

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.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxeS6krtdwM

New comment by weystrom in "Digitally Peeking Inside a Pack of Pokemon Cards with a CT Scanner [video]"

weystrom — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:44:17 +0000

A CT technian has figured out a way to look inside a TCG booster pack and identify rare cards inside without opening it.

This potentially could change the whole collectable market, since you could fish for expensive rares and dump the "dud" packs back on the market.

Digitally Peeking Inside a Pack of Pokemon Cards with a CT Scanner [video]

weystrom — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:44:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7hkmrk63xc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743733

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by weystrom in "We have lift-off Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready"

weystrom — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:02:49 +0000

https://github.com/element-hq/ess-starter-edition-core

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.

New comment by weystrom in "GitHub was down"

weystrom — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:23:31 +0000

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.

Good opportunity to think about mirroring your repos somewhere else like Gitea or Gitlab.

New comment by weystrom in "Ask HN: What other good forums are out there?"

weystrom — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:25:02 +0000

Actually recognizing people posting is something that i dearly miss. Now you barely even notice the usernames.

New comment by weystrom in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

weystrom — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 12:27:50 +0000

Because that wasn't the deal.

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.

Screw them, I won't pay out of principle.

New comment by weystrom in "YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet"

weystrom — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:34:24 +0000

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.

They bait and switched us.

Youtube killed private video hosting. Reddit killed small thematic php-bb forums.

If people knew that they'd eventually do that, none of these platforms would be as big as they are today.

New comment by weystrom in "The Cloud Computer"

weystrom — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:07:41 +0000

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.

New comment by weystrom in "The Cloud Computer"

weystrom — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:24:06 +0000

> Everyone at Oxide makes $201,227 USD, regardless of location.

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.

New comment by weystrom in "TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe"

weystrom — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:05:30 +0000

Great video from Asianometry on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrkC-pMH_s

New comment by weystrom in "What your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far"

weystrom — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 08:30:44 +0000

Hate to be that guy, but did we?

Sure it looks different, but I'm still dragging windows on a virtual desktop.

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.

New comment by weystrom in "DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)"

weystrom — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:31:22 +0000

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.