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100mson Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test

The video angle published by the BBC is better, it appears to show one side of the rocket disintegrating and sliding down non-explosively before the large explosion really kicked in. Would hate for this all to be described by a few missing bolts

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cvgz0pdg32mo

edit: the failure appears to start at the bottom, this seems to have damaged the structure enough to cause the sliding to start, then the huge fireball seems to begin with a small flash closer to the top of the rocket

100mson DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD

Sustained pushback helps define how the tool is used, and if it only takes a few years of complaints to permanently establish good social norms around it, I think we're better for it. At least, I much prefer this than a world where everyone is too polite to complain about slop until slop is all that is left..

100mson DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD

I don't think any value would be lost in that case by simply deleting the text and not replacing it with anything. AI is particularly bad at inserting this kind of filler, it can sometimes be really hard to spot even though it's right in front of your eyes.

Just more hidden cost of AI.. it's sufficiently hard to avoid these kinds of structural smells that I've gone back to just writing my own copy everywhere.

100mson DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD

Even if you've otherwise put in a lot of effort, presenting it with slop on the home page really sends a bad signal. My eye caught "No proprietary clients. No vendor lock-in." as an AI pattern and I'm immediately drawn to wonder whether the service will still be around even just a few weeks from now.

100mson Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training

5x 400gbit running to a 2U box whoa, the PCI lanes must have heat shielding.

More seriously there is a sensibility limit on extreme density where it's not needed. The idea that you're just going to magically get 2 TBit/s out of those ports seems unlikely even with tweaked software, and you're stuck with a power and comms hotspot that's liable to dictate the remainder of your network design.

At max utilisation that 2U would take 12 hours to drain, and only 12 hours assuming peak and likely unachievable throughput and the box otherwise being completely out of service. Not a great start

100mson Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

And somehow I still feel worse off that Musk lost?

100mson New Nginx Exploit

Is there a version of ingress-nginx somewhere with a fix for this?

100mson Removing fsync from our local storage engine

Your approach looks interesting but I was curious when you talk about path-based splitting for ART, do you literally mean always on "/"? I know S3 directory buckets always use /, but the classical S3 model had no natural separator character and I was wondering if supporting those styles of prefix or custom delimiter queries suffered any impediment in your approach.

Bookmarked your whole blog for later consumption, interesting stuff!

100mson Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE

does refind support secure boot and measured boot? I loathe pretty much anything systemd but systemd-boot gives me this with zero effort, and it's legitimately useful

100mson DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier

Tinfoil looks super interesting! Do you have load balancers in front of the trusted compute stack? Looked at a design like this in a different space and the options for ensuring privacy in a traditional "best practice" architecture seemed very limited

100mson DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier

By the time the dust settles I wouldn't be surprised if personal interactive usage couldn't even be had for under $200. I can't fit my modelling of the serving costs of these things to any public reporting, even the more bearish examples

100mson How we run iSCSI over the internet

I dislike neg comments but really curious - I can see the how but absolutely clueless about the why. Running a block device over a high latency WAN link seems like a terrible idea, what's the use case?

100mson Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

I don't really see reason to complain about tool use, so long as the result is cohesive, accurate and that ultimately means a human has at least read their own output before publishing. It's a bit like receiving a supposedly personal letter that starts "Dear [INSERT_FIRST_NAME_FIELD]," are you really going to read such a thing?

100mson Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

> Full stop.

Why people don't edit out obvious sloppification and expect to still have readers left

100mson Intel Arc Pro B70 Review

These seem amazing for hobbyist, but that TDP given the perf might be an issue deploying a lot of them

100mson Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft

That's not an ideal tone for here. From my perspective the most incredible thing is the concentration of IO. I might like at some point for elements of my computer usage to remain private, it would be nice if that ability were preserved. A bit hard to accomplish when 1 out of 4 bits processed globally all run through the same network

100mson GPT-5.5

It's literally a distinct model with a different optimisation goal compared to normal chat. There's a ton of public information around how they work and how they're trained

100mson Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

Unironically the best method to implement that browser feature you're looking for is probably also AI. Which tells a meta-story, AI isn't a new feature it's also a new medium. It can be used to turn cave speak into works of literature just as easily as it can turn voluminous spew into one liners (Ed Zitron just popped into mind for some reason). You can't ignore it once it exists, but it sounds like the problem you have genuinely can be solved by it, and I expect over the next decade we'll see a lot more of exactly that.

Here's to reading HN projected through the lens of manga comic strips sometime after we solve the GPU shortage..

100mson Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

He goes way beyond saying it's a test, he's legitimising the change in the follow-up rationale

100mson Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%

I'm excited for Taalas, but the worry with that suggestion is that it would blow out energy per net unit of work, which kills a lot of Taalas' buzz. Still, it's inevitable if you make something an order of magnitude faster, folk will just come along and feed it an order of magnitude more work. I hope the middleground with Taalas is a cottage industry of LLM hosts with a small-mid sized budget hosting last gen models for quite cheap. Although if they're packed to max utilisation with all the new workloads they enable, latency might not be much better than what we already have today

100mson A simplified model of Fil-C

What's the alternative?

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

100mson Claude Opus 4.7

I originally switched to Opus because it could reliably write Rust. As of 2 weeks ago, I'm using Codex because it writes way more compact and idiomatic Rust. Just another anecdote for the pile. I detest ChatGPT's persona, but Codex definitely feels better than Claude Code for anything I throw at it

100mson Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card

    $ pbpaste | wc -w 
    62508
    $ pbpaste | grep -oi mythos|wc -w
    331
    $ pbpaste | grep -oi opus|wc -w
    809

100mson €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs

This is only a little billing leakage, Operation Aurora in 2009 was 100x worse

100mson €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs

Implementing this in any meaningful manner quickly begins to look like every read becoming a globally synchronised write. Of course it doesn't have to be perfect, but even approximating perfection doesn't look much different. Also, can you imagine the kind of downtimes and complaints that would inevitably originate from a fully synchronous billing architecture?

100mson CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma2B Out Scored GPT-3.5 Turbo on Test That Made It Famous

GPT 3.5 Turbo knowledge cutoff was circa 2021. MT-Bench is from 2023. Not suggesting improvements on small models aren't possible (or forthcoming, the 1.85 bit etc models look exciting), but this almost certainly isn't that.

100mson CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma2B Out Scored GPT-3.5 Turbo on Test That Made It Famous

Tiny model overfit on benchmark published 3 years prior to its training. News at 10

100mson Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

I don't remember why I started doing it, but I don't bulk exclude .cache for some reason or other. I have a script that strips down larger known caches as part of the backup. But the logic, whatever it was, is easy to understand: you're relying on apps to correctly categorise what is vs. isn't cache.

Also consider e.g. ~/.cache/thumbnails. It's easy to understand as a cache, but if the thumbnails were of photos on an SD card that gets lost or immediately dies, is it still a cache? It might be the only copy of some once-in-a-lifetime event or holiday where the card didn't make it back with you. Something like this actually happened to me, but in that case, the "cache" was a tarball of an old photo gallery generated from the originals that ought to have been deleted.

It's just really hard to know upfront whether something is actually important or not. Same for the Downloads folder. Vendor goes bankrupt, removes old software versions, etc. The only safe thing you can really do is hold your nose and save the whole lot.

100mson Backblaze has stopped backing up your data

Managing backup exclusions strikes again. It's impossible. Either commit to backing up the full disk, including the 80% of easily regenerated/redownloaded etc. data, or risk the 0.001% critical 16 byte file that turns out to contain your Bitcoin wallet key or god knows what else. I've been bitten by this more times than I'd like to admit managing my own backups, it's hard to expect a shrink-wrapped provider to do much better. It only takes one dumb simplification like "my Downloads folder is junk, no need to back that up" combined with (no doubt, years later) downloading say a 1Password recovery PDF that you lazily decide will live in that folder, and the stage is set.

Pinning this squarely on user error. Backblaze could clearly have done better, but it's such a well known failure mode that it's not much far off refusing to test restores of a bunch of tapes left in the sun for a decade.

100mson Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure

No love for Gcore Labs? They're seemingly completely unknown but their free DNS product is rock solid. They also have a FaaS platform I've never gotten around to trying. Some of their products have a high premium but the range available under one roof is very broad