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Seedbox. With 5TB storage attached. Glory to Hetzner.
Re:YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:41AM (#49660312)
As an aspiring musician I agree, however there are two sides of the coin here. Yes, 100% AI generated music is a no from me as well, but using AI as an assistant enables solo people like me create music that is on the level with high end productions. Just think about what entails making your average record solo - you need to do everything yourself - vocals, learn/play/record all the instruments, be proficient in DAW, mixing, mastering, all the hardware and the list goes on - any one of those points can take years if not decades for a single person to master, and you have to do it all by yourself. Which is why most people give up before they even try. This is where AI comes in - just like in coding it can do the heavy lifting for you.
FOMO.
Re:Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related? on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:56AM (#47702001)
I'm building my woodworking workshop. It's gonna take a long long time for AI to invade this area if ever. It's very therapeutic and works as an escape from all the AI craze.
I think Ukraine would have no problem maintaining it's own nuclear program from purely technical perspective, considering they have a number of nuclear plants and expertise. Plutonium is a byproduct of a nuclear plant, they wouldn't even have to bother with uranium enrichment.
Re:I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down on Sunday February 01, 2026 @05:27PM (#46850038)
I was in a similar situation, but I fought fire with napalm. My new neighbor got one of those shitty hi-fi systems with a sub apparently and separating us was only a thin wall. Our shared landlord and authorities were both powerless to fix the problem, or just didn't care enough, so I took it in my own hands. Unfortunately to my ignorant new neighbor, there's always a bigger speaker and it just so happens that I have a touring grade PA set - I am talking tops and subs with 130+ db output power each. I placed my speakers facing our shared wall and whenever he would crank up his hi-fi, I'd put on noise cancelling headphones and blast him right back at about 20-30% volume of my system which effectively turned the wall on his side into a giant speaker. He persisted for about a week and then gave up. Then tried it again a couple of weeks later, only to quit for good. Giving them the taste of their own medicine is most effective.
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:15AM (#45641707)
You can argue about Hetzner's uptime, but you can 't argue about Hetzner's pricing which is hands down the best there is. I'd rather go with Hetzner and cobble up together some failover than pay AWS extortion.
It would be interesting to see AI lawyer arguing a case in court.

Ask HN: What tech resources would you gather for a catastrophic worldwide event?

I'm talking China attacking Taiwan, WW3, another mega pandemic and stuff like that. Would you stock up on essential components like CPUs, GPUs, motherboards, hard drives, RAM, etc? Make backup images of your Linux distros with all the apps included? Download Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap?

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Re:The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years on Sunday September 08, 2024 @06:23AM (#41479505)
Adjusted for Elon Time. Someone actually built a converter, which is hilarious: https://elontime.io

Ask HN: Is Rust essentially a hobby language?

I remember when Rust was released, it was May 15, 2015; 9 years ago. I was there for the launch party in one of Mozilla's offices. Ever since (I am mainly a Java/Scala dev) I've tried to use it at work on my own initiative for writing some ad-hoc tool there and there, because management wouldn't hear of it for using Rust for something more essential. Landing a purely Rust job also proved too...

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Re:Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys? on Friday July 19, 2024 @07:32AM (#41005174)
Crowdstrike in their official statement said "Linux and MacOS not affected". Are there any reports stating otherwise?
Re:Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys? on Friday July 19, 2024 @07:16AM (#41005035)
Yeah, but heads will have to roll for this one, the world will be calling for blood, so who better if not "the guy"?
Re:Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys? on Friday July 19, 2024 @07:07AM (#41004931)
Wouldn't want to be the guy who pushed this particular commit. It's ironic that the company that is supposed to prevent this sort of thing causes the biggest worldwide outage ever. Crowdstrike is finished. Let's hope this will result in at least a small increase in desktop Linux market share.
Re:The Stratocaster Turns 70 on Monday July 15, 2024 @07:39PM (#40972431)
Les Paul.
But what would it take? Another crash or two? Boeing is like one of those big supertankers that take forever to change course - even if the iceberg was a kilometre away, there's nothing they could do but ram into it.
Re:Space Nuclear Propulsion on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:56PM (#39424377)
Accelerating/decelerating at 1G the entire journey would be the perfect scenario. Not only that would be the shortest travel time, but it would maintain gravity inside the ship all the time. If this is not the ultimate goal being worked towards, then we may as well just give up now. Nuclear is where it's at - it's the most efficient weight to power ratio generation known to man.
Re:Space Nuclear Propulsion on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:24PM (#39424105)
Indeed. Probably a combination of both nuclear-thermal and nuclear-electric or ion drive I think it's called otherwise. The nuclear thermal would provide initial boost, then ion drive can do continuous acceleration half way and then deceleration the other half way. That would get a ship to Mars in a fraction of time.
Re:Space Nuclear Propulsion on Sunday February 18, 2024 @12:19PM (#39420892)
This is the only viable future for space travel. In orbit assembled space ships with nuclear thermal propulsion. Travel time to Mars with conventional chemical propulsion takes just way too long.
Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:30PM (#38956479)
I live in one of those upscale glass tower estates in central London. There is fancy valet underground parking for some 500 cars. There are 2 slow chargers in total that don't even work 50% of the time. Owning an EV is a fucking joke for most people and I don't see that changing any time soon. Rebuilding entire world's power grid is gonna take forever.

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