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compressedgason Solution to HN getting overwhelmed problem

The week of 02-23 to 03-01 had 5033 story posts that aren't dead or deleted from 3298 different users. Of these 1146 users have 500 or more karma. Of these 1548 were created over 5 years ago. Of these 966 users have both 500 or more karma and have created their account over 5 years ago.

Your filter would reduce the number of posts to 2141 posts by 966 users from 5033 posts by 3298 users.

compressedgason Revealed Preferences

But likes are revealed preferences too.

compressedgason The Newness Illusion: Why Everything Was Better 'Back in Our Day'

We used to have better futures.

compressedgason What breaks when you vote on specific claims instead of whole posts?

Reminds me of Zest: http://zesty.ca/zest/

compressedgason Ask HN: Long-term recoverable digital vault without a master key?

_POTSHARDS—a secure, recoverable, long-term archival storage system_ (2009) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1534912.1534914

compressedgason Show HN: Gryt – self-hosted, open-source Discord-style voice chat

I have a list of questions that I wrote up earlier.

Is Gryt pronounced as Grit?

So does Gryt ever leak the IP of a client to other clients connected to the same server? (Specifically this means that it never uses direct P2P between clients.)

Can, if I have a server, have it proxy my connections to other servers, so that my IP is only seen by my server, but my server's IP is seen only by the other servers?

Can clients be identified by public key? (Rather than user name and password.)

Is the audio and video end to end encrypted?

Does the Gryt desktop client support multiple windows?

Does the desktop client support making the window vertically narrow?

Does the video streaming support a mode that does not apply a blur to the video as Discord does in its Screenshare mode so that the pixels on a screen are shown on other screens exactly?

Do you have plans on replacing MinIO as it is no longer supported as open source?

compressedgason Freepath: A decentralized information network that spreads through human contact

Please merge with Briar https://briarproject.org/

compressedgason Unaffordable Housing Impacts How Americans Consume, Work and Invest

This redirects to https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-12/high-hous...

compressedgason Show HN: Post-Interface Design – A manifesto on the abolition of UI

You want to have Proactive Computing https://cacm.acm.org/research/proactive-computing/ (David Tennenhouse, 2000), not to get rid of interfaces which is something that can't be done as you will always have an interface, even if it is only in the form of an API, not wrapped up for any specific use, that has representations and actions, that the agents will need be be able to do anything.

compressedgason Journalism schools are teaching fear of the future: Letter from the Editor

I had expected from the title actual fear of the future. Not AI fear.

compressedgason Show HN: Eryx, a fast WASM-based Python sandbox with native extension support

And here I thought you named it after the Lovecraft story "In the walls of Eryx".

compressedgason Delusions of World Modeling

Subdomain version: https://bajajvatsal.substack.com/p/delusions-of-world-modeli...

compressedgason The End of the Sloan Model

What will actually happen is that the Sloan model will just be reimplemented as a neural network. The firm will complete its cyberization. The model is not going anywhere. What is going out is the people that make the information flow inefficient.

compressedgason Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

A practical version of the rubber band refrigerator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfmrvxB154w

compressedgason Reduce Complexity of Matmul to O(N^2logN) by Asymptotically Optimal Quantum Algo

I don't think classical and quantum complexity can be compared like that.

compressedgason Things Unix can do atomically (2010)

As long as you don't run into or want freedom from possible path races, for that you need the missing:

  frenameat2(srcdirfd, srcfd, srcname, dstdirfd, dstfd, dstname)

compressedgason Computers Can Be Understood

Reminds me of the cover of Ted Nelson's Computer Lib which was headed:

"You can and must understand computers now."

compressedgason Why giving away the software might be the best solution

That's what Obsidian did.

compressedgason Ask HN: Share your favorite digital bookshelves

Reminds me of https://github.com/andysylvester/federated-bookshelves

compressedgason Designing a Passively Safe API

> In APIs, passively safe means failures (crashes, timeouts, retries, partial outages) can't produce duplicate work, surprise side effects, or unrecoverable state.

I thought that was what 'idempotent' meant.

compressedgason Show HN: A Second Brain based on Zettelkasten methodology

Please don't credit Niklas Luhmann for what Sönke Ahrens did: https://www.soenkeahrens.de/en/takesmartnotes

compressedgason We've Optimised Ourselves into Loneliness

Subdomain version: https://zarasurfs.substack.com/p/weve-optimised-ourselves-in...

compressedgason Tell HN: Cursor agent force-pushed despite explicit "ask for permission" rules

The instructions that you give in the prompt are advisory.

You must use a security system to ensure that the access is actually limited.

compressedgason The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up

The error in the original article has been corrected.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-800-v-hvdc-architec...

compressedgason Show HN: BlockFrame – A local, erasure-coded storage engine in Rust

As a post script, I should add that I had a thought that the RS(1,3) was less redundant than copies=4 as I think that RS(1,3) requires more than 1 of its four symbols to be present.

Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor... which gives (n=1 - k=3)/2 is 1 as the answer to the question of the number of missing symbols that RS(1,3) can recover which means that RS(1,3) is not a worse way of storing four copies but a worse way of storing 2 copies. It takes the space of four copies to store what only has the redundancy of two copies.

compressedgason Seagate Introduces 32TB Exos, SkyHawk AI, and IronWolf Pro Drives

Correction: $22, $23, and $26 per TB respectfully.

compressedgason AI Consciousness: A Biological Perspective

Subdomain version: https://cocakoala.substack.com/p/ai-consciousness-a-biologic...

compressedgason xByte, the Pay-per-Byte content-agnostic infra

Pricing per byte doesn't work as it undervalues or overvalues items.

To get more money out of this system people will make their items larger. For example a movie or track might only be available in its high resolution uncompressed form because that form is the one that has the highest total price.

> Pay 0.001 USDC per 1MB of a movie

A DVD contains about 5700MB at that rate it would be 5.7 USD. No publisher is going to post a DVD size version when they can get 307.2 USD for the 300GB Blu-ray upscale.

compressedgason A dynamic definition of being "right": error as a temporary misalignment

The "Full internal write-up" is in French.

compressedgason A dream of an ultimate OS (2016)

Reminds me of _A Vision of Universal Functionality for Tomorrow's User Interfaces_ https://garyperlman.com/papers/ozchi.html