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bhaney··on How we're (actually) all going to die
The author is an LLM
bhaney··on Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip
No, you probably didn't need to mention that.
bhaney··on Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip
Seeing great results from bcachefs just makes me more sad that Kent and the other kernel devs couldn't come to an understanding to keep bcachefs in-tree. I want to use it for my storage arrays so badly, but I'm still stuck with btrfs as the only available in-tree filesystem with modern features.
bhaney··on What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
There's no way my memory of this is reliable anymore, but I also remember my administrator account being chess pieces (and my user account being an orange fish).
bhaney··on What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
100 seems like a very unnecessarily low limit, even for the time
bhaney··on Jellyfin 12.0
It's vibe-slop that popped up just a couple months ago. Aside from inappropriate advertising, why would anyone mention it under a Jellyfin release announcement?
bhaney··on Jellyfin 12.0
Upgrade experiences, anyone?

I have a ~40TB library and was still on 10.10.7 because of all the performance issues with 10.11. Upgraded straight to 12.0 and was impressed with how quick and painless it was! As the upgrade instructions warn about, some of my titles disappeared until a rescan added them back, but that was the only weirdness. The whole initial migration only took a few minutes.

bhaney··on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
> There is no way to distinguish without a tone indicator

And yet many of us aren't having any trouble distinguishing.

bhaney··on Ask HN: I've told everyone about my startup and its been harder than I thought
> I dont want to let everyone down

> I isolated myself from friends and family

I promise your friends and family are more let down by you abandoning them then they would be of your startup failing. Most startups fail!

There are a lot of inspirational startup stories where founders only saw failure and misery ahead, pushed through anyway with great personal sacrifice, and then managed to succeed against all odds. But there's a hundred times as many stories of founders who tried the same thing and just lost it all with nothing to show for it (we don't tell those stories as often). Don't lose your health and loved ones in pursuit of an unlikely business venture. You're young and you can always try again later with this experience under your belt.

bhaney··on Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
> What I do think we'll (finally) add is a "please give a reason why you flagged this post" step, and "because I think it's genai" will be one choice among several

Does that mean that an article being AI-generated is a flaggable offense? Should we be flagging suspected AI-generated articles already, or should we wait for the flagging system to support reasons first?

bhaney··on No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
Probably from the "Content-Language: de" header
bhaney··on Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
> I never heard of those bands

They're entirely placebos, so that might be why.

bhaney··on Show HN: Lightweight Task queue on Erlang/OTP, SQLite-backed, no overengineering
> This project is maintained by a single author and pull requests are not accepted

Save yourself the headache of people not reading this and just disable pull requests in the repo settings

bhaney··on Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit
No, now you have the option of using CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
bhaney··on Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
> They didn’t test caffeine in isolation

But they did test both caffeinated and uncaffeinated coffee, and found the same effects in both, indicating that the effect is caused by something in coffee other than the caffeine

bhaney··on Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents
I get a few points for having a robots.txt with rules specific to AI-crawlers, even though those rules are complete bans. Shame, I was hoping to get a 0.
bhaney··on Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
Direct link to the table in the paper instead of a screenshot of it:

https://arxiv.org/html/2512.20798v2#S5.T6

bhaney··on When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
It's tar pitting my normal unproxied residential traffic too
bhaney··on Ask HN: Is offline-first viable or do "free and cloud bundle" win?
It depends on who your customer base is and how much you hate them.
bhaney··on It seems inevitable that all the GPUs are going to live in space
Even being very optimistic with all the numbers, I can't get the math on this to work out to anything better than hundreds of years of operation before hitting the breakeven point. We're talking tens of thousands of dollars (again, very optimistically) for the solar panels, heat pumps, radiators, and launch costs of the above for each GPU. That buys you a lot of years of power and cooling terrestrially.
bhaney··on A tab hoarder's journey to sanity
> The problem is hardly a resource one

Did we read the same article? It's a very obvious complaint from the author. It's not actually a problem anymore, but that's entirely my point.

> you can’t see/scroll/wrangle 2000 tabs with the current tab display UI paradigm— you can’t even see their titles

Pretty much all Chromium-based browsers have a button to display a vertical scrollable list of all open tabs (with their favicon, title, domain, and time since last access) with a filter/search bar. Firefox has a slightly less detailed version (but the same general UI pattern) of the same thing, and can be augmented with more functionality through extensions if the user desires. I swear everyone complaining about this stuff hasn't looked at a browser in years.

> Chrome state management is crap and you’ll end up losing them

I've been using and restoring the exact same session for years with no issues. If I close the browser and re-open it normally, my tabs remain. If the browser crashes and restarts, I click the button that says "restore" and it all immediately comes back just fine. Again, the problem you're describing hasn't actually been a problem in many years.

bhaney··on A tab hoarder's journey to sanity
I'm so tired of this topic.

"Tab hoarding" has been dead and buried for years. It's just "using tabs" now. Many people realized that what they used bookmarks for could be done with the same semantics using only tabs, and they started doing that to reduce the number of browser systems they needed to keep in their head. There was a brief gap between that, and browser vendors optimizing their tab systems to efficiently support those use cases. The tab hoarding dilemma arose during this period, and should have died with it. I currently have more tabs open than the author did, on a 15 year old laptop running an out-of-date version of Chromium, and it's using less than a gig of ram. >99% of the tabs are evicted, which is done automatically by the browser based on the presence of ephemeral data in the tab (partially filled out forms) and my typical frequency of accessing that tab. It works great. Every major browser has some form of this, as well as tab searching and tab grouping. If you want to use tabs as if they're bookmarks, like I do, you've been able to do so without problems for many years. It's time to retire the rhetoric of the scandalous tab hoarder.

bhaney··on Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker
Are the compile times noticeably faster?
bhaney··on Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame
https://steam-revenue-calculator.com/app/413150/stardew-vall...
bhaney··on Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan
One of the first things I did with my robot vacuum cleaner was open it up and yank out its speaker.
bhaney··on Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences?
As per industry standards:

v1.4.18 - "Bug fixes and performance improvements"

v1.4.17 - "Bug fixes and performance improvements"

v1.4.16 - "Bug fixes and performance improvements"

bhaney··on Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
My pile of worthless 512MB DDR1 sticks has bad news for you
bhaney··on Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
> Directories can have up to 248 (256 trillion) entries

It took me a minute to figure out that this was supposed to be 2^48, but even then that's ~281 trillion. What a weird time for the tera/tibi binary prefix confusion to show up, when there aren't even any units being used.

bhaney··on I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86
A question that will truly haunt philosophers for centuries to come
bhaney··on Monads are too powerful: The expressiveness spectrum
This is the first explanation of monads I've heard that makes intuitive sense to me and feels like it sufficiently captures the point. Unless I come back in a few hours to see a bunch of replies from uber-haskellers saying "no that's not what a monad is at all," then I'll consider my search for a good monad explanation to finally be over.
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