HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

m3nu

877 karma · joined April 26, 2017

Tech entrepreneur, traveler, hiker, mostly hanging out in Asia. Contact: manu [at] vlx.cc
submissionscomments
m3nu··on Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
Just arrived on open router. Was waiting for this.

https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.8-max

m3nu··on Bring back crappy forums
Speaking of a crappy forum: I packaged phpbb for Docker because there was no good image after Bitnami went under. But not sure what to do with it. Didn't even put it on our hosting site yet. Is this useful for something beyond nostalgia and fun?

https://github.com/pikapods/docker-phpbb/pkgs/container/dock...

m3nu··on Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets
100% this. For my own company I mostly build deterministic workflows that may have a simple AI step in the middle using an appropriate Chinese model in a very limited way. I wouldn't want to burn tokens to satisfy some metric.

With this AI is a fallback and not the default. Sounds like large companies have it backwards.

m3nu··on Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
Ansible playbook to mitigate and verify:

https://gist.github.com/m3nu/d85533bbf342edd3a9426711409a1b9...

m3nu··on Copy Fail
What other kernel modules would you suggest disabling that aren't used usually?
m3nu··on Copy Fail
Good idea. Added to the playbook for RHEL only.

On Debian normal unloading of the module works.

m3nu··on Copy Fail
I wasn't able to unload algif_aead on RHEL 9/10 because it's built in, rather than a module.

So here the next-best thing I found: Disable AF_ALG via systemd. Needs drop-ins for all exposed services. Here an Ansible playbook that covers ssdh and user@, which are the main ones usually.

https://gist.github.com/m3nu/c19269ef4fd6fa53b03eb388f77464d...

m3nu··on GitHub is having issues now
Releases aren't being published for me.
m3nu··on Codex for almost everything
I have a feeling that Codex is also getting lower limits. Got this email just now. Basically they copy Claude's $100 tier.

> To help you go further with Codex, we’re introducing a new €114 Pro tier designed for longer, high-intensity sessions.

> At launch, this new tier includes a limited-time Codex usage boost, with up to 10x more Codex usage than Plus (typically 5x).

> As the Codex promotion on Plus winds down today, we’re rebalancing Plus usage to support more sessions across the week, rather than longer high-intensity sessions on a single day.

m3nu··on Cal.com is going closed source
A Docker image would be good too.
m3nu··on BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months
Also a user of their CDN, storage and container service for about 4 years.

My experience was more positive. One time I had a minor issue with their storage where I couldn't replace a file or something. This was fairly early after the product launched. They fixed it and gave me free credit for reporting it.

m3nu··on Hold on to Your Hardware
My bet is that phone hardware will be used more and more in mini PCs and laptops keeping the cost down and volume up. We see it with Apple and many Chinese mini PC makers I looked at.
m3nu··on Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US
Interesting but link is dead? Would love to see this.

Found it: https://www.hankgreen.com/crc

m3nu··on The future is not self-hosted
I set up a service to make hosting those apps as seamless as possible while giving the user control of their data and also sharing revenue with authors to keep projects sustainable. Check it out here:

https://www.pikapods.com/

m3nu··on “Dynamic Programming” is not referring to “computer programming”
In strength training 'programming' means the details of your workout plan. Like how many sets, reps and exercises.
m3nu··on Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
4,414,142 TB = 4.4 Exabyte
m3nu··on Why did so many mid-century designers make children's books? (2022)
Also got into making children's books with AI. Midjourney mostly. Has been fun, but my son is running out of ideas. Good thing chatgpt is fairly creative, once you give it the right persona.
m3nu··on Show HN: Create legit-looking children's books with AI
Came here to say this is great and already did 2 books. My son loved it.
m3nu··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
German speaker in Portugal. :-)

That's awesome. Just did one.

m3nu··on SSH Remoting
Also works well in vscode. Just wish the remote instance would keep running forever. Currently it's only a few hours it seems. Then one needs to reopen the workspace window.
m3nu··on Ask HN: How To: Internal Documentation?
In Bookstack organized by department. Simple to update and put access controls on it.

As others have mentioned, this needs to be a living document and the person doing the task needs to update the docs where needed. No tool can replace this, but Bookstack at least makes it easy.

m3nu··on Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?
Those are some great ideas for Prometheus alert rules. If they aren't already added here: https://samber.github.io/awesome-prometheus-alerts/
m3nu··on Show HN: Flash Notes – Flashcards for Your Notes, LLM, iOS/macOS Sync
Been doing the same with Anki and Obsidian. E.g. via https://github.com/ObsidianToAnki/Obsidian_to_Anki

Using it for languages and IT certs mainly. I wouldn't want to manage flash cards separately, so getting them from notes is great. Nice to see something more polished and mainstream for this workflow.

m3nu··on Ask HN: Anyone looking for contributors for their open source projects
Excellent! Already emailed you some more details.
m3nu··on Ask HN: Anyone looking for contributors for their open source projects
Actually yes! It could even be paid in the context of this year's Google Summer of Code:

https://github.com/borgbase/vorta

Or if you join as mentor, you will be supporting the Python Foundation.

If interested, just email the address in my HN profile.

m3nu··on How Ultrasound Became Ultra Small
Found one. How useful is this at home? Is the main issue with interpretation?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005664149090.html

m3nu··on How Ultrasound Became Ultra Small
Aliexpress link to buy one?
m3nu··on Google is apparently struggling to contain an ongoing spam attack
Yes, it's slightly worse for local results. But pretty good for most other searches.
m3nu··on Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for
Open source also needs a business model to be sustainable. So I'm not a fan of doing price comparisons with some similar commercial SaaS. Competing on control, transparency, community, flexibility and support will be better long-term.

At least that's my vision for http://pikapods.com, which allows for convenient FOSS hosting, while sharing revenue with the original project and avoiding any lock-in.

m3nu··on Aerobic exercise is good for the brain; easy wins for behaviour change
Been looking into this recently and one really needs 3 types of exercise:

- strength/resistance training: to build and keep muscles; one benefit of which is better stability at age and metabolic regulation.

- high intensity cardio/HIIT/zone 5/95+% max heart rate: to build VO2max, was also shown to reduce arterial plaque.

- normal cardio/zone 2/50-80% max HR: mitochondrial efficiency, fat burning?, endurance, memory (the current link)

Good frequencies seem to be 3x/week for normal cardio and strength, and 1x/week for HIIT.

A fourth could be stability/stretching/yoga-style exercises. I'm doing those on cardio days currently.

Not easy really. Though anything is better than nothing, so don't stress.

Page 1 of 10Next →