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New comment by wkoszek in "A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events"

wkoszek — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:20:09 +0000

Education is the space that I'm hoping AI with unearth, and games like this could become a common part of the education. I totally see kids playing something similar for hours, learning core CS concepts and benefiting. Perhaps making a shooter would be awesome too: reclaiming memory, collecting cycles and energy and resources to train the model.

Another hope I have that we could learn math/physics that way. Having a better more visual and intuitive understanding of some math concepts would be great. Perhaps having a truck go through the plot of a function and learning about limits and maxima and minima would be great etc. Same story: playing something like this for several hours could burn in kid's/adult's mind a pattern of undersatnding calculus that would last a lifetime.

New comment by wkoszek in "Midjourney Medical"

wkoszek — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:03:35 +0000

If we scan patient every 6mo starting from age 18 lets say, you could identify the masses in the patient body and track what stays the same, whats growing etc.

New comment by wkoszek in "Midjourney Medical"

wkoszek — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:02:13 +0000

Other tests should be solved too (fecal/urine/blood). Perhaps we need more R&D in here to accelerate progress.

We already have patients trying to track their own health over longer time which is great. We then just have to make AI good enough to spot warning signs (without patients asking). Or parhaps we need to make those tests easy and cheap and regular.

New comment by wkoszek in "Midjourney Medical"

wkoszek — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:59:24 +0000

The idea here is to make scans very common and regular, hopefully from early age of the patient. It could be like a blood pressure measurement at CVS.

New comment by wkoszek in "Midjourney Medical"

wkoszek — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:55:53 +0000

All doctors say this, and that sort of drove me away from healthtech. As if there were absolutely no way to take a step in a direction of fixing it.

The faster and earlier we start to scan everyone regularly, as long as scanning methods aren't invasive, the more certainty we'll have what to warn people about and what not to tell them. Perhaps with the regular screening (imaging quarterly, if the scan is fast) you could see what is growing and what isn't.

New comment by wkoszek in "Midjourney Medical"

wkoszek — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:53:47 +0000

Yup. But it'd be good to get certainty by going to Walmart or CVS or Wholefoods and getting a scan for $30.

New comment by wkoszek in "Creating a Color Palette from an Image"

wkoszek — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:27:11 +0000

Very cool. Looks very nice. I have a small utility that I made for myself and just added your algo to it: https://github.com/wkoszek/imgstat -- palette looks much better to what I had before.

New comment by wkoszek in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

wkoszek — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:26:01 +0000

Starship payload: 100,000 kg (100 tons). Looks like they talked about 150 tons and even 250 tons. My understanding is that they can be adding more engines to get more thrust.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/02/spacex-reusable-rocket... -- looks like target price for Starship launch would be $3--$5m according to the author.

Wouldn't the /kg price to SpaceX be:

3000000/100000 = $30/kg -- 5000000/100000 = $50/kg?

If they recover everything and produce fuel at scale, wouldn't it drop the cost even more.

What many people quote here are commercial rates, I think. SpaceX won't pay those prices.

Can someone check my math

New comment by wkoszek in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

wkoszek — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:02:28 +0000

In Poland it was Polonez Caro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_Polonez

New comment by wkoszek in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

wkoszek — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:29:07 +0000

This is an amazing idea - whoever came up with it, should get a promotion. I'd not be surprised that if this continues, Bose could be what e.g.: ThinkPad became and will have a steady customer and fan base

New comment by wkoszek in "Migrating Dillo from GitHub"

wkoszek — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:44:20 +0000

If anyone wants to add Forgejo to your VM, I made a script that allows you to quickly install server + runner, so you get the full setup:

https://wkoszek.github.io/easyforgejo/

New comment by wkoszek in "Show HN: Quick install script for self-hosted Forgejo (Git+CI) server"

wkoszek — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:36:42 +0000

Hey. I liked your feedback, so I updated the website.

You can give it a shot in VM - I've done testing on macOS, and then used Ubuntu 24.04 home box to install it, also in multipass. In GitHub I put howto.

Show HN: Quick install script for self-hosted Forgejo (Git+CI) server

wkoszek — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:06:48 +0000

I wanted to get Forgejo on my VM on a local NAS fast, and I realized that getting everything running with Git and CI working was ... harder than I anticipated. After spending more time than I wanted, and bugging lovely people at Forgejo's matrix, I came up with this:

https://wkoszek.github.io/easyforgejo/

With this script, you should get Forgejo installed on your Linux computer in 2min. I tested this on a VM for now, and it works well enough for beta launch.

Repo is here:

https://github.com/wkoszek/easyforgejo

Let me know what you think and submit PRs if you find bugs. I'd not use it in production just yet.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994118

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New comment by wkoszek in "Show HN: Bsub.io – zero-setup batch execution for command-line tools"

wkoszek — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:11:26 +0000

Sounds good. bsub.io will offer a way to be self-hosted 100% offline too. Just not now. That will require some work.

New comment by wkoszek in "Show HN: Bsub.io – zero-setup batch execution for command-line tools"

wkoszek — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:26:37 +0000

It's not self-hostable yet: I'm thinking about adding this option. I think for now I'm trying to see if people would like to give it a shot and try it out.

Why do you think it's a deal breaker for you?

New comment by wkoszek in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

wkoszek — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:42:21 +0000

US is the same. I no longer know is someone is using long-distance lights or normal lights, or whether they are wrongly adjusted. But driving at knight, especially with folks right behind you is hard.

New comment by wkoszek in "Show HN: Bsub.io – zero-setup batch execution for command-line tools"

wkoszek — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:53:16 +0000

This is a great feedback! You can play with it some more if you Login. I have put a playground for users who'd like to try it out without installing.

But it's a good point--perhaps I need to add more examples to the page so that you can see right away what it's all about.

New comment by wkoszek in "Show HN: Bsub.io – zero-setup batch execution for command-line tools"

wkoszek — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:00:54 +0000

Thanks! Perhaps you can test new upcoming workers. There'll be more tools for document processing and rendering, with some examples of what can be done with them.

New comment by wkoszek in "Show HN: Bsub.io – zero-setup batch execution for command-line tools"

wkoszek — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:54:52 +0000

Thanks! Any feedback is appreciated!

Show HN: Bsub.io – zero-setup batch execution for command-line tools

wkoszek — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:34:38 +0000

I built bsub because I was tired of wiring up Docker images, Python environments, GPUs, sandboxing, and resource limits every time I needed to run heavy command-line tools from web apps. I wanted: send files -> run job in the cloud -> get output -> done.

https://www.bsub.io

bsub lets you execute tools like Whisper, Typst, Pandoc, Docling, and FFmpeg as remote batch jobs with no environment setup. You can try them locally via the CLI or integrate via a simple REST API.

Example (PDF extraction):

  bsubio submit -w pdf/extract *.pdf

Works like running the tool locally, but the compute and isolation happen in the cloud.

Technical details: - Each job runs in an isolated container with defined CPU/GPU/RAM limits. - Files are stored ephemerally for the duration of the job and deleted after completion. - REST API returns job status, logs, and results. - Cold start for light processors (Typst, Pandoc) is low; Whisper/FFmpeg take longer due to model load/encoding time. - Backend scales horizontally; more workers can be added during load spikes.

Current processors:

  SST/Whisper -- speech-to-text

  Typography -- Typst, Pandoc

  PDF extraction -- Docling

  Video transcoding -- FFmpeg

More coming; suggestions welcome for tools that are painful to set up locally.

Looking for testers! CLI is open source: https://github.com/bsubio/cli. Installers available for Linux/macOS; Windows testing is in progress. Free during early testing; pricing TBD.

If you’re on Windows, feedback is especially helpful: contact@bsub.io

If you try it, I’d appreciate feedback on API design, latency, missing processors, or anything rough around the edges.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954472

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