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rashkov··on Scrap (2006)
Here you go: https://moxie.org/stories.html
rashkov··on Scrap
He certainly wasn’t when he wrote this, and I don’t see how you’d read this as mocking. He was a crust punk living in a squat, fixing it up with scrap lumber he salvaged from pallets. His financial position was not so different from the scrappers when writing this story.
rashkov··on Olo (Color)
wow, highly recommended
rashkov··on A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video]
a quine is a program that prints its own source code. The usecase is to inspire
rashkov··on Zed DeltaDB
To all the people complaining about not getting upstream fixes.. why don't you just fork it and fix it for yourself? The cost and difficulty of that is on the floor.

Genuine question, and to be clear I don't think you're wrong to be frustrated with upstream Zed

rashkov··on Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept
I highly recommend it, and for those who don't have the time to grind, you can join the shattered server where 24/7 scripting is allowed and encouraged. F2P subscriptions don't work on that server, unfortunately, but it has been a great hobby for someone like me who used to play back in the day but could never play it without scripting due to time constraints.
rashkov··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
Just curious, how do you feel about using AI to help write the sermons?
rashkov··on Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF
Thanks, I missed that during my read of it
rashkov··on Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF
Why a tarball?
rashkov··on My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month
What kind of software actually requires this? Honest question. Anything I can think of would probably be written by C++ devs
rashkov··on 3000 tokens/sec LLM playground
I don't think you're missing anything, the speed is the impressive thing but the model is limited. Perhaps Chatjimmy is more impressive in this respect. Most people haven't tried either
rashkov··on Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request
Don't miss trying their demo: https://playground.kog.ai/

Feels like a preview of the future

rashkov··on 3000 tokens/sec LLM playground
Actually getting to use this is different than just reading about it. Feels like a preview of the future.

Related discussion of their writeup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321076

rashkov··on Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
it's like a microcosm of the movie itself! super cool
rashkov··on Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
looks like it! didn't know about yosemite's half dome but that makes perfect sense considering it's in the Sierra nevada mountain range. It's gonna have to stay an orca in my headcanon though
rashkov··on Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
It occurs to me just now that the logo is in fact a mountain and not a breaching Orca whale like I'd always thought
rashkov··on Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove
Just got an email this morning saying my monthly $3 donation went through, and this article reminded me how the internet archive is truly the internet’s library and very worthwhile to support
rashkov··on Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses
So, you’re telling me the Finn won?
rashkov··on How to turn anything into a router
Anyone know how necessary UPnP is? From what I can tell, this setup does not run UPnP for automatic port forwarding
rashkov··on Departure Mono Font
That’s a beautiful website, I’ve gotta say. Much respect to the artistry that went into this. Great font as well, I hope to find a fun use for it
rashkov··on The port I couldn't ship
I just ask it to generate mermaid diagrams, which are just code that you can render using the mermaid diagram website
rashkov··on Rob Reiner has died
You might enjoy the pandemic-era Princess Bride Home Movie, which Rob Reiner and his father Carl Reiner had a scene in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29s1yU3nGkQ

It's a crowdsourced home-movie version produced by dozens of actors in the midst of pandemic lockdown, recording on their phones and using home made props. The actors rotate through the individual roles so you get a real range of performances. I found it delightful.

Worth checking out the opening scene to get a sense of it

rashkov··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Do you mean train time?
rashkov··on 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
Is there an affordable service for doing something like this?
rashkov··on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
This study came out June 1 2025 so it doesn’t cover more recent developments, but it’s fairly comprehensive in its treatment of the issue during prior timeframe: https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/213-2.9.20...

Specifically pages 10-14 for an intermediate summary, or pages 29-30 for a shorter one, with chapter 1 providing the full details.

Curious to hear your thoughts if any

rashkov··on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Everything is weaponized, whether it makes sense or not. They’re just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks, and these things take a life of their own
rashkov··on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians
are you referring to "UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory"? Their report came out 10 days ago. This has been referred to as a genocide far longer than that
rashkov··on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) is not a legal body, which would be the sort of body that is able to make a genocide determination. It also does not speak on behalf of the UN, given that it an independent commission of inquiry.

I am curious to see what the ICJ ruling in South Africa's case will be. That would be an actual legal body charged with making a genocide determination.

rashkov··on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians
If you want to redefine genocide to mean "a very bad thing" then go ahead, but doing so would hollow out the term.

There's nothing stopping people from discussing the events in Gaza as a tragedy and a war crime, but activists are intent on attaching the word genocide to this. Referring to it as a genocide has become a litmus test to be considered pro-Palestinian.

rashkov··on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians
If you're referring to the "International Association of Genocide Scholars" (IAGS), all it takes to join that organization is $30 and self identifying as a genocide scholar. Furthermore the resolution was passed with a total of 129 voting members, and about 107 voting in favor, out of over 500 total members.

Here's a letter from 514 verified scholars and legal experts calling on IAGS to retract their resolution, along with their rebuttal of the substance of the resolution:

https://www.scholarsfortruthaboutgenocide.com/

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