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Will Forsberg

Amateur Software Dev, Student, NASA APOD bot developer, personal site: sudos.site

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sudohackthenews··on Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
Probably because they vibecoded it
sudohackthenews··on Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers
I think they are asking about the tool itself, not WASM.

This tool seems useful for running 0 dependency JavaScript with isolation through web assembly as an alternative to the isolation and ease of use provided by tools such as cloudflare workers.

sudohackthenews··on Show HN: Can I run this LLM? (locally)
Ok yeah that’s just weird
sudohackthenews··on Show HN: Can I run this LLM? (locally)
> > smaller distilled version

Not technically the full R1 model, it’s talking about the distillations where Deepseek trained Qwen and Llama models based on R1 output

sudohackthenews··on Life lessons from the first half-century of my career
Hey bro I was looking through your profile and it seems like you’re in a rough spot. Send me an email, I want to see if I can help. It’s in my profile
sudohackthenews··on Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system
Yeah, that’s what I was alluding to. I think the OPs point still holds here- both of those are quite a bit harder than the built in Mac solution
sudohackthenews··on Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system
AEM is a little sketchy though, you need to trust a flash drive to hold it, and make sure that drive doesn’t get overridden by a malicious attacker. Your link goes more into depth about the disadvantages
sudohackthenews··on Show HN: A browser designed to support uBlock Origin (MV2) and respect privacy
Would that not be infringement then? You’re taking their name, branding, reviews, etc and basically presenting them as your own with only a small disclaimer. Does not seem like an amazing choice to release before hearing back from them. Could easily be mistaken as an official browser from the team on a cursory glance
sudohackthenews··on Show HN: A browser designed to support uBlock Origin (MV2) and respect privacy
I think the disclaimer that you’re not affiliated with the uBlock Origin project is too low down on the page. It really just looks like an official project until you scroll, and even then the text is easy to miss.

I would move the disclaimer up higher and maybe remove some of the uBlock branding to make it more obvious that it’s not affiliated. Plus, it seems the browser could be used by more extensions that would be affected by MV3, so maybe it would be better to do a rebrand anyways.

Anyways, that’s just my two cents. Good look with the project, looks like you have a great start!

sudohackthenews··on Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)
Thanks for the suggestions! I’m fairly comfortable cooking so this sounds great. I’m also looking to prep meals with good macros, which seem to be pretty hard to find unless it’s something simple like chicken on rice. Some people on instagram have really nice looking high-protein meals, but I’m not sure how well these would prep or if the listed macros or even right. I’ll try out the meal kit service- i never thought of it as a way to just try out a lot of different types of food! Super good idea
sudohackthenews··on Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)
How do you find your recipes? Looking to get into meal prepping but I don’t really want to wing my meals for a whole week
sudohackthenews··on Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately
It sounds like the system would release a hormone known as glucagon when blood sugar levels are too low. Glucagon triggers cellular pathways that break down glycogen stores into glucose molecules, and releases the glucose into the bloodstream. This is opposed to how diabetics handle it normally, by merely eating a sugary snack- however that takes longer to impact blood sugar levels. Depleting these stores could be catastrophic when they actually need a large amount of sugar to be dumped into the bloodstream

Disclaimer: not a doctor or biologist

sudohackthenews··on Happy New Year 2025
Happy new year from Dallas, everyone! I’ve been a lurker on this site for years, truly is a fantastic source of knowledge and the breadth of experience among commenters is insane. Here’s to a great 2025!
sudohackthenews··on Ask HN: How to build site with payment, subscriptions, user login, registration
I really like using Supabase for auth- they handle the database and the oauth for you
sudohackthenews··on Starting Hospice
Thanks for everything Jake. I only have a vague understanding of what you are going through after seeing my grandma go through some of the same things, yet I still can’t imagine how hard it is for you and your family.

Wishing you and Bess all the best and if you or her need anything feel free to reach out. Godspeed

sudohackthenews··on Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?
I don’t know whether to be impressed or scared that the first thing that came to her mind was a llm powered bot haha
sudohackthenews··on Exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices
People have gotten manageable results on all sorts of hardware. People have even squeezed a few tokens/second out of Raspberry PIs. The small models are pretty performant- they get good results on consumer gaming hardware. My 2021 laptop with a 3070m (only 8gb vram) runs 8b models faster than I can read, and even the original M1 chips can run the models fine.
sudohackthenews··on Netflix wants managers to ask whether they would rehire their employees
https://archive.ph/ap80H
sudohackthenews··on How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/kg (2023)
To extract 1kg of hydrogen with electrolysis you need ~50 kWh with inefficiencies (39.4 with no losses)[0], while one kilo of hydrogen only has 33.6 kWh[1]-roughly 1.17kWh to produce 1 kWh worth of hydrogen (no losses). For diesel, it seems to be quite similar-roughly 1.18 kWh per 1 kWh, however in reality at current efficiencies for hydrogen it is more like 1.5 kWh/1kWh. It seems companies need more incentive to switch to hydrolysis based solutions to cancel out the much higher costs of hydrogen storage

[0] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/09/seawater-electrolysis...

[1] https://rmi.org/run-on-less-with-hydrogen-fuel-cells/

sudohackthenews··on Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
I’m on Fedora 39 and nvidia drivers work great on Wayland (gnome)
sudohackthenews··on A plane fueled by fat and sugar has crossed the Atlantic Ocean
archive.is: https://archive.is/pyEbu
sudohackthenews··on 15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps
Yikes, I did not realize how bad it’s gotten. You would think someone would have decided against the pallete change, but I guess not. Looks like they’re being beat by apple ux wise for maps right now.

Nitter: https://nitter.net/elizlaraki/status/1727351922254852182