Nnnes
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Comment · 12 days ago
https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol#benchmar...
The DuckDB devs measured it ~30x faster than PostgreSQL (and ~3x faster than Arrow Flight) for bulk transfer, which pg is known to be very slow at, and a bit faster (<2x) than pg for small writes up to 8 threads, after which they say that pg continues to scale well with number of threads but DuckDB plateaus.
Comment · 28 days ago
> the status page for a major CDN (such as Cloudflare or Akamai)
Would you settle for any old static page served by Cloudflare? For instance, example.com? https://bgp.tools/dns/example.com
Comment · 1 month ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260915165314/https://egbert.ne...
Funny SSL setup. Explanation from here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133598
> Oh, certain browser will not work with this blog if it cannot negotiate ONLY for Cha-Cha/Poly. It's by design as a showcase of why that particular web browser refuses to do that.
I assume the "particular web browser" is Chromium, which won't load it on any OS I've tried. On Windows, Firefox and the built-in curl.exe also refuse to connect.
Comment · 1 month ago
They were my first VPS. I've kept it running continuously the whole time; I have its IPv4 address memorized. Didn't think I'd ever want to give it up but here we are. Lesson learned, no more emotional attachment to infrastructure
Comment · 1 month ago
Others have answered your question. A lot of the sites listed here https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/user/known-instances/ have dynamic content; Git web interfaces in particular (Codeberg, the Linux kernel, FFMPEG, and more are on the list) are vulnerable to poorly or maliciously configured scrapers.
Comment · 2 months ago
Summary of the mailing list discussion (https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3CDKSTMKM0ZD9N....) - counted by hand without LLM assistance so there may be mistakes or misreadings :)
~51 in favor of the proposal. 20 of those specifically stated a desire for a blanket or as-strong-as-possible ban. 17 mentioned paying for the service. Many (sorry, didn't count these!) stated that the reason they joined SourceHut in the first place is because of the strongly opinionated culture and that an LLM ban aligns well with that.
~19 opposing the proposal to some degree. (I am counting Greg K-H's comments as a very weak "oppose".) 5 specifically mentioned paying for the service, and 1 stated they will stop paying if the policy takes effect. Some stated that they don't personally use LLMs, or don't like them or the effects they have, or would support a weaker ban (e.g. only ban fully vibe-coded projects or excessive resource usage).
Comment · 2 months ago
You're missing the same point that the blog post is missing. What they're doing is much less like replacing rand() with 4 and much more like setting seed(4) before generating any numbers. There is no "loss of quality" unless you're already using a temperature of 0.
Comment · 2 months ago
Gram Editor. It's actively maintained.
I know people disagree over definitions of "hard fork". Gram does not send patches to Zed but does occasionally merge fixes from Zed. There is not any specific effort to keep (non-AI) feature parity.
Comment · 3 months ago
Vendors? Market? What do you think Codeberg is, exactly?
Comment · 3 months ago
I'm surprised (but not really) that you're the only comment I see even mentioning it. The ratings may be even lower quality than the SVGs.
Obviously they're all a bit cartoon-y, what else do you expect from SVGs. But I'm not convinced you could find a single human on Earth over the age of 4 who would seriously give the vehicle in GPT/1/whale/plane a 5/5.
Browse through the options a bit and the rest is not that much better. Grok/2/cat/plane, one of the more accurate planes, got a 2/5. For the most part, vehicles entirely missing do get a 1/5, except for whatever it is in Gemini/1/heron/plane scoring 4. Animals inside planes get completely random vehicle scores I guess.
The cats are all orange, except for a few of the skateboard cats that are black. I'm sure there's nothing to read into there...
Well, I've convinced myself that the next effective test of multimodal models will be whether their judgments of LLM-generated SVG airplanes are anywhere close to reasonable.
Comment · 4 months ago
The main anti-vandalism bot ClueBot was created in 2007, and its successor ClueBot NG in 2010. They certainly have false positives from time to time, but that doesn't mean they aren't the most useful bots on the website.
Comment · 4 months ago
> imagine what someone in rural America goes through.
Here's the FCC's map of residential access to ≥1 Gbps fiber internet.
https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/area-summary/fixed?version=dec2...
Of course most areas don't have it, but take a look at the Dakotas. I won't say it's better than NYC, but it may be as good in quite a large number of counties where the population density is ~1/km²=~2/mi². Most of the ISPs in those areas are coops like BEK, Consolidated Telcom, Golden West, etc. that have been making good use of state and federal grants. Gigabit internet is generally $100/month from them (in NYC it's $90/month if I understand correctly).
Would be interesting to compare this to areas of Europe with a similar population density, e.g. Lapland or... well, maybe Lapland is the only one
Comment · 4 months ago
This is the dataset they used: https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/high-resolution-layer...
Comment · 4 months ago
Related, spinning "I did something poorly" into "I am being honest"
> Scalability, measured (the honest section)
so what about the other sections?!
Comment · 4 months ago
They do.
> Everyone with a paid support contracts will of course still get full and appropriate service even during this period.