ryan-c
Re:LayerFS: The filesystem for AI coding agents
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:25AM (#50180579)
I would not trust btrfs with anything mission critical.
Re:Compression and Concatenation on the Web
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:24AM (#50043632)
Oh, neat, this mentions my patch to rust-brotli! FWIW, I do not, an never have, worked for Dropbox. ;-)
A similar tool would be possible for gzip - I made one a long time ago that could append a literal stored block to the end of a gzip stream.
One note about brotli - appendable chunks after the first will generally have a worse compression ratio because they can't reference brotli's built in preshared dictionary, but my use case was appending a small amount of dynamic data to an otherwise static file, where this isn't a significant problem.
Re:Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:12AM (#49750701)
I see the same thing with Q8.
Re:Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:09AM (#49750686)
I get the same messages in a MLX Q8 quant - I assumed it was reacting to the harness, but it doesn't seem to cause issues.
Re:Norton Neo Browser
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @06:21AM (#49682247)
This was dead. Not sure why, but vouched, it's relevant.
Re:GLM-5.3-Flash
on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:27PM (#49455382)
They claim it applies to EU citizens when both they and the service are outside the EU as well.
Re:The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engi...
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @12:19AM (#49164325)
To be clear, I find the claim that the models are sentient and have feelings to be preposterous, but I feel like the key takeaway is:
> It doesn't actually matter to you if they have feelings, because you will still get demonstrably better results across the board if you treat them as if they do.
However, personally, my main reason for that mode of interaction is that I interact with a lot of humans via text, and I do not want to habituate myself to being an asshole when the medium is words on a screen (or otherwise).
Re:Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @03:52AM (#47058815)
There are escape codes that can re-define palette entries. Usually including the 16-255 range.
Re:Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:16AM (#46985138)
Doesn't appear to be working, at least for UK purposes. Tool claimed to have worked, I dropped my VPN and my account is not age verified.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:17AM (#46933305)
10gbps is slow enough to be annoying when you're loading a 200GB model, unfortunately.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
on Friday February 06, 2026 @05:37AM (#46911245)
I'm using an M3 Ultra w/ 512GB of RAM, using LMStudio and mostly mlx models. It runs massive models with reasonable tokens per second, though prompt processing can be slow. It handles long conversations fine so long as the KV cache hits. It's usable with opencode and crush, though my main motivation for getting it was specifically to be able to process personal data (e.g. emails) privately, and to experiment freely with abliterated models for security research. Also, I appreciate being able to run it off solar power.
I'm still trying to figure out a good solution for fast external storage, I only went for 1TB internal which doesn't go very far with models that have hundreds of billions of parameters.
Re:The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen
on Monday January 26, 2026 @09:00AM (#46765712)
(not an endorsement, I do not use it, but I know of it)
Re:200 MB RAM FreeBSD Desktop
on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @06:38AM (#46704258)
My existence is not political. If someone doesn't think I should have rights and/or exist and/or thinks I am inferior because of who I am, then no, we cannot write quality software together.
If someone disagrees with me on tax, foreign relations, government services, defense, etc policy, sure, we can disagree and still work together.
What gives rise to people like Lunduke is not a simple thing, and something I don't think society fully understands.
Re:200 MB RAM FreeBSD Desktop
on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @04:54AM (#46703334)
He's harassed people, including one of my friends.
Re:200 MB RAM FreeBSD Desktop
on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @03:49AM (#46702837)
opens blog post
sees lunduke
closes blog post
Re:Washington State Bill Seeks to Add Firearms Detection to 3D Printer...
on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:59PM (#46682314)
It seems pretty clear that the populace is not going to use guns to oppose the fascists. Since that was a major (if not the most important) reason for the second amendment, it appears vestigial.
Also, as others rightly pointed out "much more tightly regulated" ≠ "banned entirely".
Re:Washington State Bill Seeks to Add Firearms Detection to 3D Printer...
on Monday January 19, 2026 @08:49AM (#46678946)
Two things that I simultaneously believe:
* Gun ownership should be much more tightly regulated in the US.
* Requiring 3D printers to block production of firearms is worse than useless.
How would that even work from a technological perspective? If it did work, why would 3d printer jailbreaks not be the immediate result? I would use jailbroken firmware on principal.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @03:22PM (#46622557)
https://rya.nc/ - my personal site and blog
Re:"Sneakers", in high def ANSI with full subtitles
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @11:48AM (#45263870)
rickroll@ also works if you're into that
Re:"Sneakers", in high def ANSI with full subtitles
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @11:47AM (#45263856)
`ssh [email protected]`
Re:Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Publ...
on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @02:50AM (#44948927)
> There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT!
Re:
on Sunday August 17, 2025 @02:29PM (#44933759)
A large portion of your submissions and comments are anti-trans. Pronouns and names are not "preferred".
Re:Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet
on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:20AM (#44783216)
AI generated images/video pass verification...
Re:Why your website should be under 14kB in size
on Saturday July 19, 2025 @08:59AM (#44615134)
I'm not going to dig it up for you, but this is in line with what I've read and observed. I set this to 20 packets on my personal site.
Re:Inspect ANSI control codes and escape sequences
on Friday July 18, 2025 @06:28AM (#44603101)
This is really cool - I've been experimenting with terminal escape sequences recently, and they go deep. Thanks for sharing! Get in touch (email in profile) if you'd like to collaborate.
Re:Can Large Language Models Play Text Games Well?
on Sunday July 06, 2025 @04:12AM (#44478786)
I've actually have a pretty good experience with gemini-2.5-pro doing this, but I was focused primarily on role-play and collaborative story telling. Definitely some issues, but I enjoyed it.
Re:Meta buys a nuclear power plant (more or less)
on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @04:08AM (#44178332)
Move fast and irradiate things.
Re:Show HN: Sneakers (1992) in Your Terminal
on Saturday May 10, 2025 @12:21PM (#43946804)
It's a WIP, but some of the code is on github:
https://github.com/ryancdotorg/ansi-player-rs
https://github.com/ryancdotorg/ansiani
I haven't posted the SSH part yet, but that is planned along with a writeup.
Re:Show HN: Sneakers (1992) in Your Terminal
on Saturday May 10, 2025 @11:07AM (#43946260)
What's the TERM variable for the default macOS terminal? I want to try to detect non-working terminals.