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Re:Decade-old RAM is making a comeback on Sunday October 11, 2026 @07:06AM (#50041895)
The E5-2670v1 was goated for this back in 2016-2017. You could get them for like 25-50 bucks. I still have one of the supermicro boards I got from work in hardware decommissioning and one of the chinese franken-boards with a modded bios.
The cloud see them as a benefit, that’s for sure. They are frothing at the mouth for the customers to migrate their workloads.
Re:Uber is laying off 10% of staff on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @11:06PM (#49545512)
100%. The Linux kernel would have never grown and become so successful if it weren’t for everybody in the office all those years just collaborate-maxxxing … /s
Without looking too deep, I bet their dext wasn’t exposing necessary configuration. I’ve seen this with other third party network hardware and dext, where it was missing certain configuration for bridging to work
More LoC means easier to quantify the impact when telling a story. The actual code quality may be lower but that’s the schmuck’s problem that comes after once promo is acquired.
Re:Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now? on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @10:34PM (#48840299)
agreed. I previously spent like the last 15+ years checking hacker news every morning at the start of the day but within last year I've found the content to be less interesting and hacker news has lost its stickiness.
I went with iPod Hi-Fi + AirPort Express connected via mini toslink to mini toslink cable.
Re:Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS on Saturday June 20, 2026 @10:32AM (#48609511)
Some of them use arm based CPUs from Amazon’s Annapurna Labs.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol yet? on Thursday June 18, 2026 @08:53PM (#48593649)
Gemini CLI is deprecated and replaced by antigravity-cli
Oracle is the number cloud, if you believe the posters they had around DC metro back in like 2017-2018
I’m this is not true, uv + wheels you can install binaries
Re:Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @10:17PM (#48392841)
I worked at the Henry Ford / Greenfield Village. They have a fleet of historical vehicles (Model T, Model AA, etc) and mechanics that are very passionate about the vehicles. They buy used and get whatever they can’t source made.
Penalties should scale based on net worth.
Jack Welch Disciples
Re:Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @11:00PM (#48303893)
It’s interesting how accurate this is to my experience back in like 2015/2016. Almost verbatim the same playbook. If they all utilize the same playbook, it seems like there’s an opportunity to use AI + skills playbook to trim the fat and streamline these PEs firms. I’m sure it could reduce headcount, lower PE management fees, etc
Re:Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:05PM (#48216490)
Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice that I am willing to make.
This is a culling and the fake it until you make it crowd that focused on surface level only knowledge are finding out why they should have went deeper. The ones that honed their craft and really focused on the foundational and core stuff are in demand.
Re:Oracle is underwater on its 'astonishing' $300B OpenAI deal on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:34PM (#45974826)
Sam Altman-Fried
Re:Anthropic's report smells a lot like bullshit on Sunday November 16, 2025 @03:08PM (#45947992)
Hmm seems their play is to encourage security to experiment with AI e.g. Claude etc. Google's play seems to be spend 30 billion+ for Wiz and sell both the poison (AI) and the cure (Wiz security services). Interesting business models, reminds me of when CVS would sell cigarettes.
I’m assuming this affects their older kernel module variant. Switch to their bpf version if you must use this snake oil
Yah and they’ve only gotten sneakier with it. VS Code and the proprietary Pylance, remote ssh, etc
Re:Build your first iOS app on Linux / Windows on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @06:54AM (#44375788)
The tool can still be used to run on a light weight Linux VM running on a Mac Mini or other Apple hardware. At the bare metal layer the host is an Apple branded computer running macOS.
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source on Monday May 19, 2025 @08:09PM (#44036375)
Podman offers the same experience natively but also supports VMs via podman machine.
Re:Googler... ex-Googler on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @12:37AM (#43689025)
I didn’t see one mention of AI related feature or talk they were working on.. that’s the real reason. If you’re not wasting time peddling some AI feature that nobody will ever use or give a second look, you are not onboard the hype train.
Google is an Advertisement company. Everything they do revolves around slurping up the most valuable data to better identify people and be able to identify trends. They’ve become increasingly less and less open as year goes by and they still haven’t found their next big cash cow to offset decline to their current cash cow.
Re:GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @11:00PM (#42707170)
Found the PM
Re:My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024 on Thursday January 09, 2025 @06:18PM (#42650843)
I’ve found Home Assistant and i’s add-ons systems a good way to self host without the fuss. If you need something that is not there you can create your own repo and it’s pretty easy to create your own add-on collection

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