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bigwheelson xAI joins SpaceX

Funnel money from a public company to a private entity and then make it disappear. Poof! Magic.

bigwheelson Msgvault: Private Gmail archive and search system

Source code: https://github.com/wesm/msgvault

Blog announcement: https://wesmckinney.com/blog/announcing-msgvault/

Tweet where I discovered this exists: https://xcancel.com/wesmckinn/status/2018303622145065455

bigwheelson LinkedIn Is Down

Annoying is an understatement. Extremely hostile site.

bigwheelson The Codex App – OpenAI

Active discussion in-progress now!

The Codex App https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859054 - 131 comments

bigwheelson Gemini 3 Flash can now read fine image details

Original source: https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/2016914275886125483

bigwheelson I reverse-engineered Netflix's 4K restrictions

Thank you for sharing the breadcrumb~

How does Netflix detect "suspicious" activity? Does $NFLX allow 4k streaming over GrapheneOS? If so, could you pin a different certificate and do some HTTP proxy traffic manipulation to obfuscate the device (presumably an Android phone) identity or otherwise work around the DRM?

I want to understand more about this but unfortunately the reddit thread is bits and pieces scattered amongst clueless commentary, making it challenging to wade through.

bigwheelson Android’s desktop interface leaks

Where is the $150 euros coming from? 8GB of brand new DDR3 or DDR4 is available for $20-$30 from Amazon / Fleabay, and once he sells it the laptop will no longer work.

bigwheelson Amazon to shut down Go and Fresh stores

Thanks! Macro-expanded:

Amazon Closing Fresh and Go Stores https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781707 - 14 comments, 37 minutes ago

bigwheelson A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

If you access a model through an openrouter provider it might be quantized (akin to being "cut with trash"), but when you go directly to Anthropic or OpenAI you are getting access to the same APIs as everyone else. Even top-brass folks within Microsoft use Anthropic and OpenAI proper (not worth the red-tape trouble to go directly through Azure). Also, the creator and maintainer of Claude, Boris Cherny, was a bit of an oddball but one of the comparatively nicer people at Anthropic, and he indicated he primarily uses the same Anthropic APIs as everyone else (which makes sense from a product development perspective).

The underlying models are all actually really undifferentiated under the covers except for the post-training and base prompts. If you eliminate the base prompts the models behave near identically.

A conspiracy would be a helluva lot more interesting and fun, but I've spoken to these folks firsthand and it seems they already have enough challenges keeping the beast running.

bigwheelson Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews

Open-slum currently experiencing heavy traffic, but here's an additional mirror: https://open-slum.pages.dev/

bigwheelson Microsoft unveils Maia 200 AI chip, performance edge over Amazon and Google

Thanks, this is a better source. So far it's at only 1 comment.

bigwheelson Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG

Thanks! "OLT" was also new to me. In case others find it helpful:

> OLT = Optical Line Terminal.

> In ISP fiber (typically GPON/EPON) infrastructure, it’s the provider-side device at the central office/headend that terminates and controls the passive optical network: it connects upstream into the ISP’s aggregation/core network and downstream via fiber (through splitters) to many customers’ ONTs/ONUs, handling PON line control, provisioning, QoS, and traffic aggregation.

bigwheelson Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market

Please don't take any products down due to shady legal threats! Won't this compromise nearly the entirety of the value proposition?

Cripes.

bigwheelson Keeping 20k GPUs healthy

FWIW, NVIDIA enterprise hardware does come with good warranty and prompt RMA service.

A deep dive on why these beastly cards fail so frequently compared to all other common current day hardware would be fascinating!

bigwheelson Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

Very impressive result! are you taking requests for the next ones? SF :D Tokyo :D Paris :D Milan :D Rome :D Sydney :D

Oh man...

bigwheelson Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing

More like -6 =D

bigwheelson Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing

Don't forget the ultimate /. achievement!

Score: 5 (Troll)

bigwheelson Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)

Very cool, this sounds similar in spirit to Leash (https://github.com/strongdm/leash), especially the mac-native system extension mode of Leash (although AFAIU Leash doesn't currently have full interactive-approval mode).

Nice work!

bigwheelson Billion-Dollar Idea Generator

> I'm building The Operating System for Developers

Boom, slam-dunk.

bigwheelson Ask HN: Share your personal website

Not knowing about it and selecting that domain name is wild- What a nice coincidence!

bigwheelson Ask HN: Share your personal website

Nice, also happens to be one of the all-time best RTS games: SupCom!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Commander_(video_game)

bigwheelson A deep dive on agent sandboxes

Totally, devcontainers are fantastic! In this agent sandboxing space there's also Leash, which in addition to Docker/Orbstack/Podman provides a sophisticated macOS-native system extension mode - https://github.com/strongdm/leash

bigwheelson Trump urges Tehran to show protesters humanity amid reports of rising death toll

Wow, just wow:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/prosecutors-doj-resign...

Dark days we live in.

bigwheelson Why China Is Suddenly Obsessed with American Poverty

https://archive.today/wtbwu

bigwheelson Smaller houses can lead to happier lives

I took it more as a way to avoid falling into the trap that "when we have more space, problems will be solved and things will be better" (in my life experience, this was a fallacy because there was an underlying issue which needed to be addressed).

Ymmv!

bigwheelson Smaller houses can lead to happier lives

https://archive.today/9zDyE

bigwheelson Open sourcing Dicer: Databricks's auto-sharder

Did you also work on this databricks dicery?

bigwheelson SOTA on Bay Area House Party

No need to be puzzled- occasionally a funny submission will live for a bit on the front page but in general the spectrum of acceptable humor around here is very narrow.

It's sort of a case of barking up the wrong tree on that front. Personally I've been enjoying laughing at the slickdeals forums such as https://slickdeals.net/f/19069660-16-5-ft-pancellent-snake-i.... Obviously it can't compete with higher brow humor, but at least the people are nice there.

bigwheelson SOTA on Bay Area House Party

IYKYK, hilarious.

Could be worth starting at the beginning: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/every-bay-area-house-party

bigwheelson Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests

To be clear: TFA is a thinly veiled legal services advertisement ("submarine" in HN parlance), so "dominated" is being used as a hype-generation / reality distortion term.

That said, the reality of today is so-called influencers and OF sex workers are now becoming a relevant fraction of applicants compared to the past where they represented 0%. Is it possible fixating on the word "dominating" a bit overly pedantic?

There is already a lot going on here without pedantry.