A similar project discussed a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866544
Readit Newsmrbluecoat commented on MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk menuetos.net/... · Posted by u/pjerem
mrbluecoat commented on CIA to Sunset the World Factbook abc.net.au/news/2026-02-0... · Posted by u/kshahkshah
"Facebook" :)
I initially read it as Facebook as well and almost celebrated :D
Upvoted for that animated gif alone. Best visual I've seen of AI coding results.
mrbluecoat commented on Don't rent the cloud, own instead blog.comma.ai/datacenter/... · Posted by u/Torq_boi
Stopped reading at "Our main storage arrays have no redundancy". This isn't a data center, it's a volatile AI memory bank.
mrbluecoat commented on Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product simonberens.com/p/lessons... · Posted by u/sberens
Fascinating read. I didn't know $1,200 for a lamp was a thing but clearly there's a market for it and you priced it better than Coolest Cooler or I would have.
What's a floppy?
Floppy is a race of robotic jackalopes, known for their floppy ears. A "Single Floppy" is a rare subset of that species where only one ear flops down due to a random mutation of their hardware.
mrbluecoat commented on Two kinds of AI users are emerging martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald
> What I've come to realise is that the power of having a bash sandbox with a programming language and API access to systems, combined with an agentic harness, results in outrageously good results for non technical users.
I would argue if they're using all that tooling, they _are_ technical users.
mrbluecoat commented on Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt kohlschuetter.github.io/b... · Posted by u/kohlschuetter
Is this satire?
> All other 25 GbE adapter solutions I’ve found so far ... have a spinning fan. ... the biggest downside of the PX adapter is that it gets really hot, like not touchable hot. Sometimes, either the network connection silently disappeared or (sadly) my Mac crashed with a kernel panic in the network driver. ... Other than that, the PX seems to do the job
mrbluecoat commented on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/Wilsoniumite
What is different about this time is how much a crash is expected, which is reflected in the run up in the gold price, for one. It’s also reflected in the public discourse about the high probability of a crash - as with this post and many others over the past couple years. 2008 was sudden and unexpected by most. The dot com crash was sudden and unexpected by most. If we crashed today it would have been expected by most and many would make money off the crash.
I’m not sure what the effects of a highly anticipated crash are, but I’d love to discuss what they might be.
It’s priced into gold, which I think reflects negative dollar sentiment. It’s not priced into the VIX, which is implied volatility across the S&P. Suggesting a crash in equities is not priced in.
The only thing that crashed yesterday was silver and gold
mrbluecoat commented on Animated AVIF for the Modern Web arthur.pizza/2025/12/anim... · Posted by u/sdoering
I wish avif images had more reasonable computational requirements. I find the format inferior to jpeg-xl but the difference isn’t that huge - both are good enough imo. Sadly a folder full of avif files will make pretty much any consumer cpu in existence chug like mad, it’s completely unusable for actually using those images as an average end user does unless you happen to have something silly like 64 core epyc.
jxl is already slower than I’d like, but it’s good enough on a modern machine. avif… isn’t.
This is exactly my experience. On paper and in laboratory settings with 64-core machines and 128GB memory, AV1/AVIF is better in every way but in the real world it's too taxing on ordinary hardware.