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blakeashleyjr··on Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins
What's your plugin model for Rust? Are they compiletime or interpreted?
blakeashleyjr··on EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path with Some Performance Gains
While I don't use EXT4 and haven't for years (so many sexy options these days), it is the default for the large majority of Linux users and the disk layout of choice for every system I install for normal people. Love to see the improvements over the years.
blakeashleyjr··on Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p
I have been looking for this kind of thing on Linux. Any one have anything that works well?
blakeashleyjr··on Crest – an Arc-inspired open-source browser for Mac
Why all the mac-specific software when they use underlying cross-platform software/libraries?

I am over here on Linux and it is a bit annoying to have stuff that can and should work without issue just get Mac support.

(makes sense for heavy mac-specific stuff, but a browser, cmon!)

blakeashleyjr··on Parsing JSON at gigabytes per second in Python
This is great! Always love to see performance improve. I have to admit, anytime I think "gigabytes per second" my mind does not go to Python at all. Would love to see that change.
blakeashleyjr··on NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
While I think this is a good idea, we already have so many different regions to comply with, now we're adding cities....
blakeashleyjr··on Our $445M Series D
And this is hosted in an Oxide datacenter or shipped to the customer?
blakeashleyjr··on A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad
I am not saying the content of the speech is morally equal, but Tor's explicit mission is to make people anonymous and protect speech. The moment you start inspecting it, Tor's mission is negated.

Of course, Tor's partnerships are different than the content distributed through it's network, but I still find it a bit ironic.

blakeashleyjr··on Our $445M Series D
I still don't get Oxide's offering. Anyone care to give me the skinny?
blakeashleyjr··on A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad
All speech is equal, but some speech is more equal than others.
blakeashleyjr··on Docker Agent
While I love new open source dev (especially in Go!), agent harnesses are turning into JS frameworks from yesteryear.

All the cool kids have one!

blakeashleyjr··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
This seems like a natural progression of models becoming better at frontend coding in general.

"Here is a library of [svelte/react/whatever] components, use them to construct a helpful visual to demonstrate your point."

The deconstructed bike at the beginning was in a class of its own, however.

blakeashleyjr··on Show HN: Luke – Voice planning for coding agents
I like this idea and have been trying to build (a much more basic) personal thing for Linux. Would love a Linux version!
blakeashleyjr··on Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill
Mullvad accepts Monero (XMR), the most private and untraceable coin available today. Your point is correct for all others though.
blakeashleyjr··on Web Search API
When I saw this, I assumed CF was going to offer an API to access the pages they otherwise protect.

NO SCRAPERS (except ours) -> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

blakeashleyjr··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
Businesses (despite common belief) have less free speech power when engaging in commerce. If they said, "Utah law XYZ violates the constitution, call your state legislator", almost certainly protected. Versus: "Here are instructions on how to violate the law" (whether eventually upheld or not), much less sturdy ground.
blakeashleyjr··on Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
NATS is my goto message broker for most projects.
blakeashleyjr··on SvelteKit 3
Sveltekit has been a breath of fresh air for me over the last few years.

I've had to work on a Next.js for work and much prefer Sveltekit. Excited to try this release!

blakeashleyjr··on Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
I've been on GrapheneOS for over 3 years and won't look back.
blakeashleyjr··on RIP, vector database
This sounds like the Postgres vs. InnoDB argument 10 years later. Postings pointed at physical location (the ANN slot), so every SPFresh rebalance rewrote every index touching that doc. InnoDB solved this by pointing secondary indexes at the PK and eating an extra lookup on read. Curious what that extra lookup costs you when it's an S3 GET instead of a B-tree hop.

"Updating one vector can move hundreds of attributes and their indexes" is basically Uber's 2016 Postgres write amplification post, but for search. Same fix too: stop pointing indexes at where the row lives.

So ANN becomes a secondary index that points at a doc ID, and vector search now needs a hop to complete. Do clusters keep their own copy of the vectors so the search itself stays local, and only result fetch pays the indirection? Otherwise cold p99 seems like it gets worse.

blakeashleyjr··on Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Lemmy + HN
blakeashleyjr··on Show HN: Panda, the world's first personal AI computer
No way I can put any money down without knowing the specs. Unless I am missing something, I didn't see anything on the homepage.
blakeashleyjr··on The Netherlands Built a Nix-Basd Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC
I hope this advances corporate management tools for Linux (and NixOS specifically). Remote management is the toughest part that comes easy for corps on Mac and Windows.
blakeashleyjr··on Can we stop with the uptime percentages?
Companies game them too. One of my primary hosts will have a outage where all my envs are down, users are timing out, etc. I'll check the status page: "Partial outage affecting some customers in select regions" (in orange, not red). Good news though because that doesn't count against their uptime percentage so we're still at 99.99%! I'll pass that on to my customers who can't do their jobs.
blakeashleyjr··on Zellij 0.45.0: nested sessions, Kitty graphics, a fresh UI
Please don't do anything to slow this down. Another TUI or multiplexer doesn't hurt anyone and only serves to bring new ideas to the table.

I for one have used Zellij every day for years and would struggle to get by without it!

blakeashleyjr··on Zellij 0.45.0: nested sessions, Kitty graphics, a fresh UI
Zellij is a breath of fresh air in the terminal and my daily driver for years. Thanks to the team for all their hard work?
blakeashleyjr··on Go 1.27
Go was my first language, and I still use it every day for projects tiny (scripts) to massive (1M+ line microservice projects) and love it! Thank you to the Go team for everything you have done over the last 2 decades.
blakeashleyjr··on Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product
What benefit does this provide over an excellent API + MCP access?

I often find my users want to throw their Claude at it and have everything handled. Users have even developed their own local UIs using Claude Design. As long as they are within the bounds of the MCP I already provide access to, no problem. This also has the added benefit of using the AI subscription the org already pays for (or using the customers).

Edit: Congrats on the launch and thanks for open sourcing!

blakeashleyjr··on Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life
I am the webmaster for WASHU (rebranding from WUSTL). Happy to see one of those sites on the front page of HN without getting as much as an alert!

(Hosting hundreds of WordPress sites at scale has its challenges).

blakeashleyjr··on The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
A plague on our land. Hopefully the recent Chatrie v. United States decision gives courts the ammo they need to shut these down.

There is a big difference in a cop seeing you go by, checking a list, and coming after you than scanning every license plate, bumper sticker, etc. and putting in a database for every cop in the country.

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