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frainfreezeon Get Out of Technology

  Give it all away to everyone for free
  But don't forget to charge for the ᴀᴘᴘʟɪᴀɴᴄᴇ

frainfreezeon Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine

Blast from the past indeed! I ve toyed around with it, Ogre3D and others, finally setting down on P3D. Over a decade ago I maintained unofficial Panda3D Facebook page, and had page analytics track followers count again Ogre3D and Irrlicht Engine pages, trying to surpass them..

frainfreezeon Trigger Crossbar

The "root canal" side quest was definitely something. Kudos to author

frainfreezeon Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes

Very interesting! Have you by any chance shared the recepies anywhere?

frainfreezeon One of Britain's largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed

As someone who often sees personal collections scathered around in the dust of flea markets, I would say there is nothing you can actually do to be safe. Even if your kids preserve it, their kids will _pay_ local gypsies to take it all away so they can renovate the houses and flats. From there it's as good as trash.

frainfreezeon About Containers and VMs

For those unfamiliar, Incus is 'replacement' for LXD. https://linuxcontainers.org/incus

frainfreezeon California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before they turn 21

Arc time is 10-20% of welders workday.

frainfreezeon You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed

> It's an IDE that respects the developer

Mind elaborating?

frainfreezeon AI is killing the web – can anything save it?

The story part is exactly what I appreciate though. The recipe, on most modern sites, is kinda separated, usually at the bottom, and often printable, anyway.

frainfreezeon Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker

Care to elaborate? I was under impression they built cursor-server themself

frainfreezeon A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995

https://www.701c.org/

frainfreezeon Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker

It's their reimplementation.

frainfreezeon Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Python

I guess it depends on the context? For example panda3d supports openAL, FMOD and Miles.

frainfreezeon Nvidia won, we all lost

Front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482522

frainfreezeon 'Shit in, shit out', AI is coming for agriculture, but farmers aren’t convinced

Waiting for the title to change to "The future of farming"

frainfreezeon I ported pigz from Unix to Windows

Seems to be updated, no?

frainfreezeon Using `make` to compile C programs

I've been doing the same for past 10 years. Plus automatic help target using comments and perl snippet

frainfreezeon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

Info in my profile. If you don't mind I'll shoot you an email, would love your thoughts on some things.

btw - hats down for your work @ PostHog! We are all big fans and deeply inspired by it

frainfreezeon Choosing MinIO vs. Garage for a self hosted S3 in 2025

Garage is great.

frainfreezeon What's working for YC companies since the AI boom

> But hardware is super capital intensive, right?

Depends on what hardware, who is developing it, and for who. Proof of concept is almost always cheap enough to make. Beauty of HW is that you get PMF straight away - even if you have the worst completely broken product, but it it brings value to someone, they will pay for it. From there you can bootstrap, take on credit etc. Capital intense part can wait - refinement, certifications, patents, packaging, documentation, mass production etc. This is of course all under assumption that the core team knows how to build everything, if you're outsourcing in the prototype phase then you're probably toast anyway.

> So the right kind of investor could add significant value if they were aligned.

I always perceived value of investors to be everything but the money. If you need just the money then get a loan.

frainfreezeon On File Formats

Point is that SEE exists, and so do free alternatives.

> In my understanding SQLite's support for sqlar and ZIP occurred at the same time

I believe so too.

I agree with you on SQLAR being poor general-purpose archive or compression format compared to ZIP; what I'm arguing is that its very good file format for certain applications, offering structured, modifiable, and searchable file storage. We had great success using it as db/file format for PLM solution packed both as desktop and web app. Same database can then be used to power the web ui (single tenant SaaS deployments), and for desktop app (web export is simply a working file for desktop app). This file being just a simple sqlite db lets users play with data, do their own imports, migrations etc., while having all files & docs in one place.

frainfreezeon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

A hybrid between forum and (headless) CMS, with customer support tools built in, so people can build websites that are kinda like posthog.com without having to patch everything together from scratch (and instead focus on their actual product AND not lose their community content in slack/discord/whatever).

Checkout how posthog did it [1], it's an interesting approach. Having something that can support both devs and content folks (non technical) is great. It is easy to get bogged down in building the website and reinventing bunch of wheeels, instead of focusing on the product & content, esp in smaller teams.

[1] How PostHog built a community forum, roadmap and changelog on Strapi https://strapi.io/user-stories/posthog

frainfreezeon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

Now my lawyer will be using vscode too, sweet!

frainfreezeon On File Formats

I remember seeing the comment you linked few years back, and back then comments were already locked so I couldn't reply, and this time I sadly don't have the time to get deeper into this, however - I recommend you to research more about sqlar/using sqlite db as _file format_ in general, or at minimum looking at SQLite Encryption Extension (SEE) (https://www.sqlite.org/see/doc/trunk/www/readme.wiki). You can get a lot out of the box with very little investment. IMHO sqlar is not competing with ZIP (can zip do metadata and transactions?)

frainfreezeon On File Formats

sqlar proved a great solution in the past for me. Where does it fall short in your experience?

frainfreezeon Tallest Wooden Wind Turbine

Have you actually looked into the arguments?

frainfreezeon Why does Debian change software?

> Debian avoids including anything in the main part of its package archive it can’t legally distribute...

Related: netadata to be removed form Debian https://github.com/coreinfrastructure/best-practices-badge/i...

frainfreezeon Crypto has become the ultimate swamp asset

Wild argument

frainfreezeon Sci-Net

It's nexus and telegram bots these days. Don't fall for sci net.

frainfreezeon Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

Debian latest stable.