Hacker News: zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zxspectrum1982Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:40:41 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"]]>so why did xAI acquire so many GPUs but have no use for them today?

]]>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:21:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48429123zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48429123https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48429123<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"]]>How can SpaceX have so much GPU spare capacity? It doesn't make any sense.

Did Musk blindly order humongous amounts of GPUs years ago before any of us had any sense of the scale this was going to reach?

]]>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:59:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426805zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426805https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426805<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"]]>There's been also a lot of good talent joining xAI lately.

]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 07:17:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204236zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204236https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204236<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "After Spain's blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on"]]>That article is a piece of horseshit. It was indeed the renewables (too much of them) that caused the blackout, as independent and regulatory investigations have revealed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...

]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:52:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941940zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941940https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941940<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation"]]>I know how Wine works, thank you. I've used winelib in the past to port Windows software (that I had the source code of) to Linux myself.

My point is the way wine works today is: WinAPI --> winelib --> Linux --> x86

I. e. winelib is reimplementing WineAPI on top of Linux.

What if we could just decompile those Windows functions and recompile them on Linux, or even x86, directly?

The workaround all of these console recompilation projects use is you must have the original game in order to have the binaries (the ones you theoretically decompile and recompile, but actually you take pre-decompiled-recompiled ones by someone else) and assets (graphics, sounds, etc). For Windows applications on Linux, we could do the same: bring your own Windows, then we can decompile and recompile.

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:58:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668989zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668989https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668989<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation"]]>I wonder whether this "recompilation" technology could be used to run Windows software on Linux, as an alternative/complementary technique to Wine.

Back in the day (year 2000, until 10-15 years ago) we had Project Odin to dynamically translate Windows software to run on OS/2: https://github.com/netlabsorg/odin32

]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:48:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627293zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627293https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627293<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "Estonia to relaunch Skype as Europe's sovereign platform"]]>Don't forget about live speech translation. You could speak one language, the other guy a different language, yet you both heard your language all the time.

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:11:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606617zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606617https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606617<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "Kubernaut – open-source AIOps for Kubernetes"]]>Open-source AIOps platform that closes the loop from Kubernetes alert to automated remediation. An LLM investigates incidents live via kubectl, matches a fix from a workflow catalog, and executes it — or escalates with a full RCA. Approval gates, confidence thresholds, and SOC2 audit trails keep humans in control.

]]>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:26:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578619zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578619https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578619<![CDATA[Kubernaut – open-source AIOps for Kubernetes]]>Article URL: https://github.com/jordigilh/kubernaut

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578618

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

]]>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:26:54 +0000https://github.com/jordigilh/kubernautzxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578618https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578618<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions"]]>Does it work when using Claude inside Cursor? Or is there some something like claude-replay but for Cursor sessions? (I'm out of home, can't try now)

]]>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:22:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287410zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287410https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287410<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "S4 is a lightweight, self-contained S3-compatible storage with a web interface"]]>Perfect for POCs, development environments, demos, and simple deployments where a full-scale object storage solution is overkill. It combines Ceph RADOS Gateway (RGW) backed by a standard filesystem and a modern UI into a single, easy-to-deploy container.

S4 provides full S3 API compatibility while requiring minimal resources and configuration.

]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:27:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121435zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121435https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121435<![CDATA[S4 is a lightweight, self-contained S3-compatible storage with a web interface]]>Article URL: https://github.com/rh-aiservices-bu/s4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121434

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:27:17 +0000https://github.com/rh-aiservices-bu/s4zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121434https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121434<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "AWS Adds support for nested virtualization"]]>OpenShift Virtualization on AWS, even as a managed service ("ROSA Virtualization"), has been available for a while on bare metal. Theoretically this enables ROSA Virtualization on EC2, in case you had valid reasons for such a thing.

]]>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:43:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012520zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012520https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012520<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs"]]>Easy: ffmpeg discontinues or relicenses some ffmpeg functionality that AWS depends on for those product alines and AWS is screwed. I've seen that happen in other open source projects.

]]>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:54:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891984zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891984https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891984<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs"]]>Google is not paying anyone to find bugs. They are running AIs indiscriminately.

]]>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:53:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891973zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891973<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "Qt Group Buys IAR Systems Group"]]>IAR C was my first embedded compiler, a long time ago, and it just worked flawlessly.

]]>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:03:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45650004zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45650004https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45650004<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "RedoxFS is the default filesystem of Redox OS, inspired by ZFS"]]>Why? Why not simply adopt btrfs?

]]>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:56:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45379681zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45379681https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45379681<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "Proposal: GUI-first, text-based mechanical CAD inspired by software engineering"]]>Other than git-friendly, this is how I remember AutoCAD 10 from ancient times.

]]>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:19:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44509712zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44509712https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44509712<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "Gemini CLI"]]>Same here.

]]>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:54:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378059zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378059https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378059<![CDATA[New comment by zxspectrum1982 in "Gemini CLI"]]>Does Gemini CLI require API access?

]]>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:48:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44377983zxspectrum1982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44377983https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44377983