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b0rbbon US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech

Let them fail.

b0rbbon What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?

Ah dang, this looks like it got hugged to death.

b0rbbon The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video]

Disasterpiece is a fantastic composer. His work on Fez is probably some of my favorite video game soundtrack work on any game ever. I remember hearing that he was working on Hyper Light Drifter when it was on Kickstarter and I was thrilled and while it's not as individually memorable (in my opinion) is still great work.

b0rbbon Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time

lol @ the person spamming Never Gonna Give You Up

b0rbbon New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste

Awesome, love seeing stuff out of Rochester - RIT or UofR or any of the nearby schools.

Totally underrated area for academic pursuits.

b0rbbon 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building

It's not odd at all to call this economic damage unless you're that disconnected from anything but AI/high-tech SV companies.

There's smaller businesses that I know _need_ data capacity (hard drives) that can't afford them and are facing serious CAPEX challenges.

I work for a start up that helps folks move off of existing on-prem virtualization solutions and every small to medium company across every sector you can think of aren't just able to not afford additional storage and memory, they can't find them either.

There isn't as much stock as you think. I can't wait for this AI bubble to pop. It's been absolutely terrible for 90% of the industry.

b0rbbon The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)

That animated background is terrible.

Incredibly distracting. No way to turn it off (at least within what's provided without using something like devtools.)

b0rbbon Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server

Oh my goodness I completely forgot about Knoppix.

b0rbbon The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out

I think categorizing Tech Workers as a whole as being synonymous with this website's target audience isn't a correct assumption.

There's some social circles I frequent that are made up of folks that anyone here would qualify as a "Tech Worker" that - and I mean this without any exaggeration - abhor the community of commenters at HN. And I don't mean just folks outside of SV or other major tech hubs. There are people that very much believe the commenters here are the worst people in the industry.

And just to be clear, I'm not of that belief, but it's worth pointing out that the population of Tech Workers on HN isn't going to be indicative of Tech Workers as a whole.

Going back to the previous topic however; Those same people I'm referring to often have a complete overlap with those that are burned out by AI in any form (usage, discussion around it, being advertised to, being forced to use it).

And to some of their concerns, I genuinely empathize with them. That's probably best gone into via something like a blog post or anything else that lends itself to long form writing.

b0rbbon Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades

I worked at the main Kodak tower in Rochester for a few years in the early 2000s. Mainly as a paid IT intern of sorts to earn some additional money in college.

I often had to go to the basement there to store equipment, get equipment, etc.

The stuff I'd see down there was WILD. TONS of old movie/film paraphernalia in the form of posters, plaques with celluloid celebrating various movie releases, and tons of unmarked old film canisters. There was also a TON of old tech down there.

I used to joke that I felt like I was in that Hanger 51 warehouse from the end of Indiana Jones and The Ark of the Covenant.

It's a shame things went down as they did for Kodak. I really enjoyed those years I worked there. They used to make killer tuna melt paninis in their cafeteria area near the top of the tower and in the summer months I'd keep my car parked at work and just walk across the street to see the Rochester Red Wings play (AAA minor league baseball team).

b0rbbon Creating an all-weather driver

> Upstate New York

I'm guessing they meant _Upstate AND Western New York_.

Glad someone in Waymo saw the potential for testing for extreme snowy conditions there.

b0rbbon Carmack on Operating Systems (1997)

This makes me wonder if Carmack's feelings on NeXTSTEP had anything to do with the decision to release the first publicly available release of Quake 3 on OS X only at first.

See https://web.archive.org/web/20000229083216/http://macweek.zd... .

At the time, I remember the ATI Rage128 chipset being the big deal and reason for why Q3's beta came out first on Mac... but gosh now I wonder if it was the feelings for NeXTSTEP.

b0rbbon I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

There was a REALLY cool project by the design firm Berg in the UK about ~13 years ago. Cute little thermal printer with online services that allowed you to have scheduled printouts of things like weather reports, horoscopes, etc.

And... oh my goodness, I was looking for pictures of it and it turns out some kind person decided to put work in on having a way to do onprem services for it! [Check it out here](https://nordprojects.co/projects/littleprinters/)

b0rbbon Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

I don't know about you all but I love a well written RCA. Nicely done.

b0rbbon Visiting – Epic

I consulted with Epic once and got to visit the campus.

Incredible place, super detailed, and I loved the cafeteria setup they had (great food too.)

I definitely got a feeling that folks got burned out pretty quickly though.

b0rbbon IO Devices and Latency

The animations are fantastic and awesome job with the interactivity. I find myself having to explain latency to folks often in my work and being able to see the extreme difference in latencies for something like a HDD vs SSD makes it much easier to understand for some people.

Edit: And for real, fantastic work, this is awesome.

b0rbbon RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023)

For some reason, I'm reminded of a particular comic strip from Achewood - https://achewood.com/2007/01/11/title.html.

"Fools! I have invented a usb device which can collect votes from the Internet and drive a knife through your heart!"

b0rbbon Sega AI

Sega absolutely nailed it with graphic design in those days. My goodness.

b0rbbon Sega Lawyers Demand “Immediate Suspension” of Steam Database over Alleged Piracy

The entirety of the Yakuza series is absolutely fantastic, especially the latest entry (Yakuza: Like a Dragon).

b0rbbon Supermicro.com website is down

https://www.supermicro.com is up however, something break with their redirect?

b0rbbon Coffee Drip Printer

Real glad to see RIT getting some love on HN.

Surprised no one's posted stuff from CSH yet.

b0rbbon Victory for CloudFlare Against SOPA-like Court Order

Last week, Judge Alison J. Nathan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that CloudFlare does not have to search out and block customers who use variations on the name “grooveshark.” Instead, CloudFlare must take action only if it has “knowledge of an infringement” (for example, when the labels send a takedown notice). Given that this is essentially what US law already requires, Judge Nathan’s order puts paid to the latest strategy to institute trademark- and copyright-related filtering – at least in this case.

Fantastic. Good to see some judges demonstrating some common sense here.