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by remram | 2026-02-03 16:23:09+00:00
Bit of a tangent, but what I'm looking for is a S3-compatible server with transparent storage, ie storing each file (object) as an individual file on disk.

Minio used to do that but changed many years ago. Production-grade systems don't do that, for good reason. The only tool I've found is Rclone but it's not really meant to be exposed as a service.

Anyone knows of an option?
by rdiddly | 2026-02-03 16:23:09+00:00
Following a post on HN a few weeks ago, I bought a used one to use in the kitchen for scaling recipes. It has to be a linear one for that, not circular, so you can set it and read it without touching it again. I also have one in my "apocalypse kit" in case of, I dunno, an EMP?

My dad was an engineer in the slide rule era and taught me how to use one when I was a kid. He said when he was in college all the engineering students had them hanging from their belts in leather sheaths like gladiator swords and they would slap when they walked.
by yohguy | 2026-02-03 16:23:39+00:00
It looks really promising but I would love more examples as to how to actually use this with AI agents. Reading the homepage it is not clear if we are meant to have the Agent spun up and act fully in the sandbox (something like the HTTP example) or do we take the result code message from an AI agent and then run it dynamically (with eval?).

That being said this is useful even if it wasn't for the running AI agent code aspect, being able to limit ram and cpu usage and time outs makes it easier to run coding based games/applications safely (like battle snakes and Leetcode)
by gus_massa | 2026-02-03 16:23:40+00:00
> Go ahead, laugh at [...] my English.

Hi from Argentina! Some errors in my English never caused problems for me here.

Clicky: https/www.github.com/reactor-cor/reactor-dev

It's a tool to configure a database server? (It's no my area. I may be misunderstanding what it does.)

If you want to be hired, you can take post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857487 remember to follow the style instructions at the top.

Also, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857488 in case you find somewhere you can apply.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-03 16:24:02+00:00
Right :)

(To be honest, I saw your github and saw your about and "Multi-disciplined software developer, some even call me a polymath." I think I also remembered before you changed your about me HN page that you actually talked about being a polymath in your HN about me as well. So I ended up thinking damn this guy's good at everything he does xD )

But I was also doakes and feeling the suspicion.

https://files.catbox.moe/xl75gu.jpg [When you know emsh might be an old HN user but you can't just prove it]
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-03 16:24:02+00:00
As often, this article mistakes semantic for philosophy.

People can disagree about how to name things all they want. It doesn't change their intrinsic nature. This is all a word soup mumbo-jumbo with no impact on the ontological reality of what we are looking at.

It doesn't matter if you call that consciouness, life or pain if harming it makes you feel bad and if it retaliates.

I don't even care if this neo-vitalism makes sense. The point it's trying to settle is in and of itself inconsequential.
by benzible | 2026-02-03 16:24:11+00:00
You are arguing against something I didn't say. I never claimed bias doesn't exist. My point is that having previously criticized someone is not evidence of bias. You are treating "this person has been critical before" as inherently discrediting, when it is just as likely they were right before and are right again now. Conversely, "I used to support him so I am not biased" is given unearned credibility when really it just means you were late to noticing the obvious, or got it wrong previously.

As for dismissing the article: the author has a PhD in space electronics, worked at NASA, and spent a decade at Google including on AI capacity deployment. He walks through power, thermal, radiation, and communications constraints with actual numbers. You do not get to hand-wave that away with "he is anti-Elon" and then defer to "the team spending the most money." That is not rational analysis, that is fandom.

And the idea that SpaceX's experts looked at this and concluded the combination makes strategic sense - seriously? This is the same playbook Musk has run repeatedly: SolarCity into Tesla, X into xAI, now xAI into SpaceX. Every time there is a struggling asset that needs a lifeline, it gets folded into a healthier entity with Musk negotiating on both sides. xAI is burning $1B/month. There is already a fiduciary duty lawsuit over Tesla's $2B investment in xAI. The "space data centers" rationale is a pretext for giving xAI investors an exit through SpaceX's upcoming IPO. This is not a strategic vision, it is financial engineering solving an obvious problem for Elon.

Meanwhile, Grok has been generating sexualized images of children, the California AG has opened a formal investigation, the UK Internet Watch Foundation found CSAM attributed to Grok on the dark web, Musk personally pushed to loosen Grok's safety restrictions after which three safety team members quit, and xAI's response to press inquiries was the auto-reply "Legacy Media Lies." This is the company whose judgment you are trusting over a domain expert's detailed technical analysis.
by epistasis | 2026-02-03 16:24:20+00:00
There's been talk for a long time about restarting construction on Virgil C Summer again, but it has never happened. I remember an interview with a Santee Cooper exec that was extremely withering on the prospects of it actually happening. I can't find it now, but here's a 2019 video from the then-new CEO about the people who were looking into restarting construction, that's far less withering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq0LsX_fCm4

I'll believe it when it happens. Traditional 1GW nuclear like the AP1000 is just such a huge financial bite to make these days that the only orgs big enough to do it are large consortiums of large companies, or nation state.

It's a tough position because the AP1000 has a much better chance of reaching affordability than SMRs, but nobody wants to spend the $50B-$100B in capital to produce uneconomic nuclear reactors in order to maybe drive down the cost of construction so that future reactors will be economic.

It's a very different situation for funding than solar, because there's small scale use cases where expensive energy makes sense, in places that wires don't reach, etc. etc., on devices, etc., and that's what really drove a lot of the early development of solar manufacturing capacity. That got it to the point that Germany could do subsidies to really scale up the deployment of expensive energy, and since Germany spent that money, it's been smooth sailing for the rest of the world.

The path for nuclear is not as clear as it was for solar.
by bevr1337 | 2026-02-03 16:25:11+00:00
This article doesn't speak to me. What I read is, "Won't someone think of the poor UC system?" But the UC system is _massive_

> But Casa Joaquin’s neighboring, overwhelmingly white homeowners could have used CEQA to demand costly studies and multiple hearings before Berkeley officials.

Important to note that white people are well-represented at UC Berkley too. https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts

> More recently, a series of court rulings that culminated last year nearly forced Berkeley to withhold admission of thousands of high school seniors...

Graduating high-school seniors are also known as incoming freshman or legal adults.

> ... because the state’s judges agreed with NIMBY neighborhood groups that population growth is an inherent environmental impact under CEQA.

Ok, let's see how big the UC school system is...

> The University maintains approximately 6,000 buildings enclosing 137 million gross square feet on approximately 30,000 acres across its ten campuses, five medical centers, nine agricultural research and extension centers, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

https://accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu/2017/chapt...

I'm not seeing evidence that protestors were primarily NIMBYs and pesky white homeowners. I can find several articles citing _student_ protests.

> “It’s students who set up People’s Park in the first place, so it’s our place to defend it,” said Athena Davis, a first-year student at UC Berkeley who spoke at the rally. “It’s up to students to reject the idea that our housing needs to come at the price of destroying green space and homes for the marginalized.”

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/01/30/protesters-tear-down...
by mindslight | 2026-02-03 16:25:20+00:00
We're in a topic about tear gas being used to attack protestors. You yourself opened up this thread by saying that tear gas isn't the right answer, so it doesn't seem like you're denying this activity is happening. The only remaining angle I see is that you're claiming that the bulk of protestors who have been attacked were doing something illegal to prompt it? That is a tall claim, but I am of course open to evidence.

Because to me, it looks like you're merely doing whataboutism to the latest spectacle your media bubble is showing you. That you add "If that was actually happening, I would be opposed to it" is extra worrying for how far your cognitive dissonance has been stretched.
by zby | 2026-02-03 16:25:29+00:00
The instructions are standard documents - but this is not all. What the system adds is an index of all skills, built from their descriptions, that is passed to the llm in each conversation. The idea is to let the llm read the skill when it is needed and not load it into context upfront. Humans use indexes too - but not in this way. But there are some analogies with GUIs and how they enhance discoverability of features for humans.

I wish they arranged it around READMEs. I have a directory with my tasks and I have a README.md there - before codex had skills it already understood that it needs to read the readme when it was dealing with tasks. The skills system is less directory dependent so is a bit more universal - but I am not sure if this is really needed.
by RajT88 | 2026-02-03 16:25:36+00:00
Exactly. The zip gun people are mostly just weird nerds, and not professional assassins. The latter seems to be doing it the old fashioned way which leaves no traces - buy cheap gun, file off serials, throw it in the river after.

Zip guns may get past a metal detector, but not the standard x-ray luggage scan. To the extent it'll make it past the x-ray screeners, it's because they let all kinds of stuff through, because it's a poor way to screen for dangerous things, and they are not high-skill employees, they are relatively cheap labor.

Source: I used to travel every week flying home Friday, cycle clothes out of my travel bags, and be on the road again on Sunday night. I learned to my horror I'd been flying with a pair of scissors for at least 5 weeks - during which, TSA forced me to open a Christmas present for my sister and throw away some hand lotion which was in too big of a bottle.

There's a reason they call it security theater. This is just more of it.
by bjourne | 2026-02-03 16:25:44+00:00
The first version of UNIX was released in 1971 and the first version of Windows NT in 1993. So UNIX is only about 60% older than NT. Both OSes have "stood the test of time", though one passed it with a dominant market share, whereas the other didn't. And systemd is heavily inspired by NT.

Time flies fast, faster than recycled arguments. :)
by pjmlp | 2026-02-03 16:25:52+00:00
And how did you got the binary for that language?

This argument can be pushed all the way down to build your own CPUs from sand, get to build the first hexdump monitor with electric switches, followed by writting the first Assembler in hexdump, and only then the first compiler for one of thoses languages in Assembly, and finally you get C.
by bitwize | 2026-02-03 16:25:55+00:00
Gun nut Eric Raymond was cheering when the first printable guns came out. Checkmate gun grabbers, you'll never prevent us from having our shooty-shootys now! Haha! I thought, well the answer to that is simple: simply declare 3D printers to be weapons. You know, like how the Feds declared encryption to be "munitions".
by shoelessone | 2026-02-03 16:25:58+00:00
I appreciate the idea, but as others have mentioned it seems like for something like this to be useful it really needs to be well thought out and tolerant to extreme spikes in traffic.

I might be wrong here but it looked like the responses from the server are chunked, which I _think_ precludes the use of a highly optimized cache response e.g. from a CDN. Assuming that's true (very open to correction of course!) I wonder why this would be.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-03 16:25:58+00:00
You are right.

It is a long time since I have last used iperf3, but now that you have mentioned it I have also remembered this.

So the previous poster has misinterpreted the iperf3 results, by believing that UDP was slower, as iperf3 cannot demonstrate a speed difference between TCP and UDP, since for the former the speed is determined by the network, while for the latter the speed is determined by the "--bandwidth" iperf3 command-line option, so the poster has probably just seen some default UDP speed.
by bombcar | 2026-02-03 16:26:02+00:00
Passenger-mile vs vehicle-mile is a useful metric (you can add driver-mile if you want, or cost-mile) but you can probably do something similar with some measurement of storage space, too.

A full minivan ranks surprisingly high on all of them, which is one of the reasons it's disappointing that carpooling and such aren't discussed as much anymore.
by MarkHealth | 2026-02-03 16:26:06+00:00
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by paxys | 2026-02-03 16:26:11+00:00
Which is exactly why these companies are now all focused on building products rather than (or alongside) improving their base models. Claude Code, Cowork, Gemini CLI/Antigravity, Codex - all proprietary and don't allow model swapping (or do with heavy restrictions). As models get more and more commoditized the idea is to enforce lock-in at the app level instead.
by vldr | 2026-02-03 16:26:13+00:00
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by convolvatron | 2026-02-03 16:26:30+00:00
the largest unaccounted for victims of environmental degradation are our children and their children. given that we can't even keep from poisoning our own well water for our own uses today, it really does like on the whole we're failing to regulate sufficiently.

which isn't to argue that they shouldn't make sense. or that they should be used to tilt the playing field due to corruption, but on the balance claiming that we are currently overregulated is pretty indefensible.
by kstrauser | 2026-02-03 16:26:45+00:00
True, but I don’t think there was a common reason to ever send a linefeed without going back to the beginning. Were people printing lots of vertical pipe characters at column 70 or something?

It would’ve been far less messy to make printers process linefeed like \n acts today, and omit the redundant CR. Then you could still use CR for those overstrike purposes but have a 1-byte universal newline character, which we almost finally have today now that Windows mostly stopped resisting the inevitable.
by killerstorm | 2026-02-03 16:26:46+00:00
> Is any of this standardization really needed?

This standardization, basically, makes a list of docs easier to scan.

As a human, you have a permanent memory. LLMs don't have it, they have to load it into the context, and doing it only as necessary can help.

E.g. if you had anterograde amnesia, you'd want everything to be optimally organized, labeled, etc, right? Perhaps an app which keeps all information handy.
by bluGill | 2026-02-03 16:27:43+00:00
It is more than that - lead and ethanol have other properties that engines that use them need to handle. Lead also acted as a lubricant and parts designed for engines that assumed lead fuel were designed with softer valve seats - switch to unleaded with otherwise equal octane and your will destroy the engine. (though experience shows that unless you were driving your car on a race trace most cars worked fine for longer than the car lasted). Ethanol will destroy some forms of rubber and so you need to use different seals in some parts.

TEL was patentable, but those patents were long expired before there was a big push to eliminate leaded gas.
by 1dom | 2026-02-03 16:27:51+00:00
I run Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct gguf on a VM with 13gb RAM and a 6gb RTX 2060 mobile GPU passed through to it with ik_llama, and I would describe it as usable, at least. It's running on an old (5 years, maybe more) Razer Blade laptop that has a broken display and 16gb RAM.

I use opencode and have done a few toy projects and little changes in small repositories and can get pretty speedy and stable experience up to a 64k context.

It would probably fall apart if I wanted to use it on larger projects, but I've often set tasks running on it, stepped away for an hour, and had a solution when I return. It's definitely useful for smaller project, scaffolding, basic bug fixes, extra UI tweaks etc.

I don't think "usable" a binary thing though. I know you write lot about this, but it'd be interesting to understand what you're asking the local models to do, and what is it about what they do that you consider unusable on a relative monster of a laptop?
by breakyerself | 2026-02-03 16:27:54+00:00
Chernobyl design was never in use in the US, but nuclear went through a long period of near universal public opposition to its expansion because of the high profile disasters that it caused.

Now the cost of solar and storage are dropping at a rate I doubt nuclear is ever going to make a significant comeback. I'm not opposed to it, but I wonder if the economics will ever be favorable even with regulatory reform.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-03 16:28:09+00:00
The issue is still not really speech.

Durov wasn't arrested because of things he said or things that were said on his platform, he was arrested because he refused to cooperate in criminal investigations while he allegedly knew they were happening on a platform he manages.

If you own a bar, you know people are dealing drugs in the backroom and you refuse to assist the police, you are guilty of aiding and abetting. Well, it's the same for Durov except he apparently also helped them process the money.
by throw20251220 | 2026-02-03 16:28:28+00:00
The point isn’t about the tech, there’s a different balance of tech vs society in Star Trek and The Jetsons. You see, in Star Trek only a selected group travel far and beyond. The rest sits on this planet. You don’t watch Kirk speaking to his robot cleaner, sending kids to school, and flying shopping.

> As Graydon points out, “The Jetsons” was a projection of the model American family into the future.

This is a completely different setting than Star Trek Fleet Command thing.
by BadBadJellyBean | 2026-02-03 16:28:32+00:00
The thing is not just about distros and big developers it is about every developer out there who wants to write system software. Instead of doing the work to support multiple different APIs they can concentrate on the software. Its just easier. You don't have to track the compatability of different tools.

For many people Linux is not an academic exercise. It is a tool they want to use. The don't care to use a different network manager or resolver.

And that is exactly the same as Windows. There is one solution across the whole system and it works together because it is written by the same people and tested together.
Moltbook is proof that GenAI was a scam
by cadabrabra | 2026-02-03 16:28:32+00:00
It’s been more than 10 years since the dawn of generative AI, and all we have to show for it, our magnum opus, is a bunch of token generators mimicking humans and having nonsensical “conversations” on a primitive, outdated UI.

You’d have thought that GenAI would replace engineers and doctors by now, but no. All we have are sycophantic, hallucinating chatbots which are also degrading in quality as their producers try to cut inference costs.

Crazy that some people still have faith in this “revolution,” which in reality is the biggest scam in all of tech history. Enjoy worse models as model providers gaslight you by increasing the version number.