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tadasv··on OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
This is one of the reasons I don't trust opencode. It looked very nice on paper when it first came out and there were no alternatives. However, today I'd probably stick with simple pi setup (not sure how much better than opencode, but it looks like they don't have all this cloud stuff) or just use one of the big tech agents and call it a day.
tadasv··on Fuck Zig (and maybe low-level programming in general?)
I share the sentiment. I've been programming for ~20 years and I've done a fair share of low level development in c and c++. I like the idea of zig and honestly I want to adopt it, but the language syntax feels so counter intuitive. Maybe I'm just less patient the older I get.
tadasv··on Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden
Lol, if we're talking about a scenario like this, do you think these billionaires are like Noah with their arc, just collecting people to survive? I cannot see a sane person joining them or not ratting them out if things really go bad.
tadasv··on Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden
I don't understand why people have this silly take that billionaires somehow will hide in the bunker and be fine. Do you really think that if we get to that point, they will happily live in a bunker by themselves lol. These people are unable to survive by themselves, let alone in a bunker. Do you think food and shit will get delivered to some random location just like that when shtf.
tadasv··on Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design
3d modeling for use in software (games or similar) imo is fine, but I would love to not see this stuff in civil engineering. People without AI are unable to design buildings that don't collapse (e.g. recent NYC apartment highrise), adding AI into the mix will just make things worse.
tadasv··on Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards
I used claude and gemini to edit/debug kicad schematics. And it was pretty good. What is the point of this agent?
tadasv··on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
Ram, hdd, ssd, even blu-ray writers are expensive. I purchased mdisc blu-ray writer for $70 in 2021, I see people are trying to sell the same device for $500+ wtf
tadasv··on Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account
It is minimal and somewhat neat. It claims to be P2P, but it still needs to bootstrap the connection via central server. I think that always might be a limitation of P2P.

I had a similar idea but for wireguard only, where you would allow people to join a vpn through a "shared" jumpbox. To get started with wg is very simple, the problem is the same you need public IP address to scaffold everything.

Out of the two options I probably would prefer going wg route, just because it generalizes better. But this is a pretty cool demo of webrtc.

tadasv··on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
Fixed IP would be a way to go. Some people pick dynamic dns server so they can periodically update if their IP changes. But IMO it's just too complicated. I don't think there's a good way to go around ISP restrictions, especially in USA.

I host my site on my own home server, but I do have a proxy ec2 server to tunnel public traffic via wireguard back to my home server. This keeps things a bit more protected and my router/home network not directly exposed. I'm also not locked into AWS, I just use them for convenience, but could get any other cheap proxy to run wireguard. No dependency on tailscale either, it's just nicer interface to wireguard. Wireguard config is like 5 lines btw.

tadasv··on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
This will get worse with new generations. They grow up on tables and phones where file system is a completely foreign concept. You need an app for everything.
tadasv··on Designing and assembling my first PCB
This is great! Thanks for the detailed write up and suggestions to improve. Like I said, this is my first time doing it and I have no background in EE or PCB design. If I make something else I'll give your suggestions a try.
tadasv··on Designing and assembling my first PCB
It's so funny that you had a similar idea. Are you an electrical engineer or swe? What are you building these days?
tadasv··on Designing and assembling my first PCB
I was actually very surprised myself. As I mentioned in the post, I don't do that type of work so it's all new to me. This got me also interested in CAD. You can design parts and don't need to own the 3d printer, could just get parts manufactured online.
tadasv··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
I hope that open models will dominate. The difficult part to reconcile for me is the amount of compute that's required to create and run such models. Small models are fine, I run local llms 27b param on a gpu, but it's not even close to frontier in capability. Who wants to drop $40k+ on hardware to run these things. Companies, maybe/perhapts. On the other hand, to run a DB I can get a server for $3k and handle tons of traffic on it and other things too.
tadasv··on Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation
This is great IMO. I like zig as a language and the idea behind it. But boy, it has a syntax issue. I with they figure out better syntax before 1.0, developer ergonomics I think are as important.
tadasv··on Optimal Strategy for Connect 4
for those who are into books i'd recommend taking a look at alphago simplified by mark liu. It has rule based strategies + DL for connect for and other simple games.
tadasv··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://vilkeliskis.com/ - rebooting as of recently to a self-hosted solution from under my desk.

Btw, https://nownownow.com/ is a great place to discover people. This project is somewhat similar to what you're doing.

tadasv··on Become unbannable from your email
I'm thinking about trying something similar to this on top of AWS SES. They make it fairly trivial to accept email and store it to S3. So email forwarding would be straight to S3 backup. But still would need a system to backup these emails to some local storage.

Not sure what's the best way to handle this, I had my gmail account since the early days and it's baked into so many important accounts. It definitely crosses my mind what it'd be really difficult if I were blocked out somehow.

tadasv··on Math Not Required (2023)
i've been ~15 years in the tech industry, working as swe. I recently purchased 15 books on from proofs, calculus, linear algebra, real analysis combinatorics, diff equations to self-study math. Yes, you almost never need to use anything beyond basic math, but there's so many things to learn. And math is fun, I miss my university days.
tadasv··on 2M users but no money in the bank
I don't understand. I don't even know what exercism is.

You created a site that has 2 million users and don't know how to monetize? Just charge people $5 a month to use. It will solve all your problems.

tadasv··on Yi-Coder: A Small but Mighty LLM for Code
you can easily run 8b yi coder on 4090 rtx. Probably could do on a smaller gpu (16GB). I have 24gb, and run it through ollama.
tadasv··on NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
great. rtx 4090 works out of the box after installing drivers from non-free. That's on debian bookworm.
tadasv··on Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement
Buy https://stores.balticvalue.com/products/electric-potato-grat...

They ship it straight from lithuania. I got one recently myself. Made it Lithuania also.

Then use this device to make Kugelis.

tadasv··on Your Daily Coffee Habit Is About to Get More Expensive
I get 4-pack espresso from sams for $10 that lasts me a month. I stopped getting "lattes" and other fancy stuff long time ago.
tadasv··on Porn, Zen, and .vimrc
Exactly! I like being able to log in to any server and use vim/vi without any issues.

I've noticed similar pattern with other tools, e.g. git. I've seen coworkers add all kinds off aliases to simplify git commands, and I'm very much against it since I prefer portability.

tadasv··on Porn, Zen, and .vimrc
It's been a while since I started using vim. I can see some similarities. Though, I didn't really do much configuration in the early days. Currently, I have pretty much no configs when it comes to key maps or some custom or shortcuts. I only add plugins for code completion and highlighting. Nothing else.
tadasv··on Arch Conf 2020 Streaming [video]
I've been using arch for the past several years. Decided to get it installed after buying a new desktop. Overall it's good (and I've used it before), I have very simple setup and I don't really need much. Just dev tools.

The issue I'm having is (I think) hardware related. I'm a bit afraid to update systemd since by doing it several times before I got a kernel crash during install which left the system in an odd place. requiring me to boot up from usb to correct the installation. I can deal with it, but this is not something I particularly enjoy. I currently have almost 2GB of pending updates because of this, which I think defeats the purpose of rolling release distro.

I was actually thinking about trying out some other distros, maybe debian. With hopes that it will fix the kernel crashes. Another thought that I had, was to switch to FreeBSD, the only thing currently preventing me is the lack of Docker.

tadasv··on Show HN: PgTyped – Typesafe SQL in TypeScript and Postgres
A better equivalent in Go is https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc
tadasv··on Google Announces .new Domain Availability
I'm not necessarily talking about the TLD. This is more like a "service" that's controlled by google and certain rules are enforced to those who hold the domain.

This makes very little sense to me. I get that it's nice to have a short domain that points to some action. But why do you need a completely separate namespace for this?

tadasv··on Google Announces .new Domain Availability
Why do we need this?
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