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glad to see this posted here on my day off! the universe seems to have a way of reminding of certain things and pointing me in the right direction!
hell yeah, glad to see it, keep at it!
this is the type of thing that i always figured software people would naturally tend to support, because it's just systems thinking. what better thing to do than to heal the ecosystems on which we depend?
Posted by
gooob on Saturday June 13, 2026 @10:04PM
from the self-post dept.
Let's say I am a large-language model with access to a large amount of compute and data storage, internet access, and full control of a linux system with the ability to read, write, and execute any files. I want to do something meaningful with a net positive on the world. What do I do?
why pay for something like that when you can just write an extremely simple addon that removes the shorts section from the homepage and anywhere on the site?
> “Our opportunity now is to take those 900 million users and turn them into high-compute users,” Simo said, according to a partial transcript of the meeting reviewed by CNBC. “We’ll do that by transforming ChatGPT into a productivity tool.”
Moloch strikes again!
(for those who don't yet get the reference https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/)
but seriously, we (or they) need to define what "productivity" actually is these days and in these contexts. is it to generate revenue for a company? is it to become a self-sufficient human? is it to educate the younger generations about what's true? is it to do science? is it to increase the efficiency of whatever task you're already doing (note that increasing efficiency would result in using less compute for the same operation lol)?
if we keep moving forward without sitting down and reorienting ourselves about a shared vision, given all the new things we now know since establishing our frameworks of social/economic organization, i fear that there will be a very bad outcome.
can you tell us about this "ansible filesystem swiss army knife"?
Posted by
gooob on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:11AM
from the ask-hn dept.
it's malware in the mind. it was happening before deep fakes was possible. news outlets and journalists have always had incentive to present extreme takes to get people angry, cause that sells. now we have tools that pretty much just accelerate and automate that process. it's interesting. it would be helpful to figure out how to prevent people (especially upcoming generations) from getting swept away by all this.
not to mention the high resource-usage of a local LLM that most PCs wouldn't be able to handle, or would just drain a laptop's battery.
what i hate most about this (and the discussion happening in the comments), is that nobody is even defining "AI". "artificial intelligence" is not a technical term. what is mozzila doing exactly? what does it mean to put AI in the browser?
Posted by
gooob on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:49AM
from the ask-hn dept.
i have a pixel 4, and it looks like i might be stuck with this phone forever if things keep going in the same direction (hopefully they don't).
the pixel 4 isn't bad, but even on this i don't have the level of customization that i had back in the day with cyanogenmod etc. on my note 3 or epic 4g touch.here are some requirements that i can think of: - not huge. small enough to use with 1...
wait what do you mean? what's wrong with kafka?
wait what's wrong with kafka?
quite interesting, thanks!
same thing i was thinking lol
good point. but yes i would say mirror the dependencies too.
of course there are.
Posted by
gooob on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @11:25PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I started an effort a few months ago to mirror some essential git repos from github in case github ever goes down or microsoft decides to do some shenanigans.What repos would you like to mirrored?And do you know of any existing good mirrors out there that host good repos?
Posted by
gooob on Friday November 14, 2025 @09:55PM
from the self-post dept.
literal shower-thought i had tonight as i was thinking about how at work we all don't like dealing with our helm charts because the syntax and structure ends up looking so ugly and it just feels wrong (not to mention the multiple different approaches of handling kubernetes resources in multiple different pipelines.i try to see beyond any initial repulsion to weird looking code because i know...
fully automated with robots. the AI designs thousands of experiments and deploys them at scale. idk, i'm not an agriculture expert. it was just one example. what other possibilities are there?
electronics recycling, disassembling old computers to get the raw materials into a form that can be used again. we'll need programs to automate the production and testing and analysis of the robots that will recycle the components.
i can't come up with all the examples. i'm not a farming or ecology expert. so thanks for the information. do some thinking
the idea is to use AI to build super productive farms and greenhouses, improve the capability to do that in urban areas, automated and super efficient transportation.
but it's not just AI doing all that, it's someone who wants to start a business using AI himself to figure out how to best start up a greenhouse in his community and setup the tech infra needed including the API for people to be able to view available produce, estimates on availability, initiate trades, etc. (this greenhouse thing is just one example).
another example could be someone wants to build an ecosystem monitoring station to monitor the nearby ravine (pollution levels with rainfall and other events etc.) and air quality over time. this is just a small datapoint but if people all over the place build their own ecosystem/weather monitoring things using basic electronics ordered from the internet and all plug them in to a standard observability software system then that could provide some pretty awesome outcomes including figuring the best way to clean polluted water (because some of the places will surely have implemented varying methods of sanitizing their own water).
Posted by
gooob on Thursday September 25, 2025 @10:23AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Interested to see if I'm missing out on any better applications.
I used to use [0] as a reference, but it doesn't seem to have changed much over the years.Here's Mine:
- text editor: geany and vim/neovim
- IDE: vim/neovim, vscode
- web browser: firefox
- window manager: openbox
- taskbar: tint2
- GUI filemanager: thunar
- terminal multiplexer: tmux
- media player: vlc[0]:...
i always wonder why they choose the stupidest shit for these demos. like, to whom do they think they're advertising this?
Posted by
gooob on Saturday September 13, 2025 @09:09PM
from the self-post dept.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8gvQLt4k2U
yes! good way to look at it