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apitman

13,688 karma · joined December 11, 2014

Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.

Personal site:

apitman.com

Projects:

IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.

LastLogin.net - A free, privacy-focused login provider

TakingNames.io - Domain names for self-hosters

boringproxy.io - Simple, e2ee tunneling proxy

droplock.apitman.com - Simple secure secret sharing

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apitman··on Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
I don't think it's dashboards specifically, I think it's things that require a relatively small amount of code that fits in the context window and is easy to iterate on using natural language.
apitman··on Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
I've vibe coded multiple apps that I now use regularly throughout the day. I doubt I could sell them, but they are very useful to me.
apitman··on GPT-5.6
This is the part I'm most excited about with the new release, though I'm concerned plebs like me may never get a chance to play with it
apitman··on Chatto is now open source
Then wouldn't servers need to trust each other? Otherwise I could use my server to log into any other server.
apitman··on Chatto is now open source
You pay for most of the complexity whether you use the feature or not.
apitman··on Chatto is now open source
The killer feature of Discord for me is being able to jump between communities without logging in to each of them. Open source alternatives never provide that. Does this one?

Matrix is the obvious exception but the UX has always been terrible for me. I don't need e2ee for group messages and it brings too much complexity with it.

apitman··on Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust
Some other similar projects: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling#overlay-ne...

Interesting to see this built on Iroh.

apitman··on Protect your right to run local AI
I'm more worried about getting cut off from hardware because Nvidia can make more money selling to datacenters than I am about getting cut off from software.
apitman··on Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
They're insanely good for prototypes though. To be able to actually see something working before deciding whether it's worth investing the time to build it for real is invaluable.
apitman··on Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers
If something like this works wouldn't that imply technical interviews can be automated?
apitman··on Fable 5 Is Back
Is refusal something that can happen mid-stream, after status and headers have been received? I haven't looked at the API
apitman··on Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
I was sure this was going to be a massive solid gold iPhone
apitman··on Open Source Low Tech
> bespoke

I see what you did there

apitman··on A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex
podman is my favorite tool for this.
apitman··on OpenRA
I know you meant player AI, but now I'm imagining an RTS where every unit is running a small reasoning LLM.
apitman··on OpenRA
When it worked, IPX LAN was maybe the peak UX in multiplayer gaming.

Moving everything to TCP/IP came with a lot of improvements, but we also lost important things. Reminds me of the move from Flash to HTML5.

apitman··on OpenRA
> So 20 hours of massive map + 8 players means 2 hours of pegged CPU to reload the save.

It's super impressive this works at all.

apitman··on DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
Have you compared Kilo to Pi or OpenCode? Those are the two I'm most familiar with but always looking for alternatives.
apitman··on MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
I'm aware of SR-IOV. Widespread support would go a long way, but doesn't it require pre-slicing the GPU into discrete chunks? I want microVMs that can share share a GPU dynamically the same way they share overprovisioned CPU resources. Much more like containers.
apitman··on MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
The holy grail microVM for me is one that can properly share a GPU across VMs, similar to what you can do with containers.

Shout out to https://smolmachines.com/ for supporting Vulkan over virtio-gpu/Venus. Currently the best implementation I'm aware of. Unfortunately my use case is running a full desktop inside the VM, and streaming it out over something like Sunshine/Moonlight. For this you need GPU rendering and video encoding. Venus rendering works, but you have to pass the frames back and forth between the host and the guest multiple times which is inefficient. Also Venus doesn't support video encode as far as I can tell.

apitman··on MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
Can confirm smolvm accelerated Vulkan compute worked great in my tests. Excellent project.
apitman··on Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus
I just started playing with Incus this week. So far really impressed. It's one of those tools that just feels well designed and high quality. I keep expecting the abstractions to leak and so far they haven't.
apitman··on Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
I'd love to see the opposite as well, ie how much has HN grown over time.
apitman··on OAuth for all
Take a look at Google's FedCM protocol as well
apitman··on Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all
I've done a bit of experimentation in this area. Check out https://lastlogin.net/.

You may also be interested in the FedCM protocol Google is working on.

apitman··on F3
tarquet?
apitman··on The Coming Loop
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
apitman··on Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way
I think the main blocker is on nvidia's side, which is that vGPU is only available for enterprise customers/products.
apitman··on Developers don't understand CORS (2019)
> Is the CORS API too complex and confusing

Yes

apitman··on Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way
My favorite microVM discovery recently has been tools built around libkrun. See smolvm[0].

The killer feature still missing from microVMs for me is the ability to enable CUDA support without passing through the entire GPU. vfio is just too much of a pain and too limiting. Sometimes I want to use my GPU on the host. Vulkan works fairly well with virtio-gpu and Venus, but I need CUDA. Venus is also still missing some important things like accelerated video encoding.

[0]: https://smolmachines.com/

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