Readit News logoReadit News
tommsy64 commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
cibyr · a month ago
I've been working on a little utility to transfer files between two computers using QR codes: https://github.com/cibyr/qftf

It's kinda like Magic Wormhole without typing. It uses iroh for the p2p networking - on both ends, and also in the little web app that you use to scan the QR codes and start the transfer.

tommsy64 · a month ago
Have you seen https://file.pizza/ FilePizza? Similar concept using WebRTC
tommsy64 commented on Show HN: Attaching to a virtual GPU over TCP   thundercompute.com/... · Posted by u/bmodel
bhaney · a year ago
This is more or less what I was hoping for when I saw the submission title. Was disappointed to see that the submission wasn't actually a useful generic tool but instead a paid cloud service. Of course the real content is in the comments.

As an aside, are there any uses for GPU-over-network other than video encoding? The increased latency seems like it would prohibit anything machine learning related or graphics intensive.

tommsy64 · a year ago
There is a GPU-over-network software called Juice [1]. I've used it on AWS for running CPU-intensive workloads that also happen to need some GPU without needing to use a huge GPU instance. I was able to use a small GPU instance, which had just 4 CPU cores, and stream its GPU to one with 128 CPU cores.

I found Juice to work decently for graphical applications too (e.g., games, CAD software). Latency was about what you'd expect for video encode + decode + network: 5-20ms on a LAN if I recall correctly.

[1] - https://github.com/Juice-Labs/Juice-Labs

tommsy64 commented on SSH-Snake: Automated SSH-Based Network Traversal   github.com/MegaManSec/SSH... · Posted by u/lozf
tommsy64 · 2 years ago
An interesting limitation mentioned in the README

"IPv4 Only: Like all of the best programs, the script does not support IPv6. I can't imagine there will be support for this anytime soon."

What are considered "all the best programs" these days? Is IPv6 adoption really so looked down upon?

tommsy64 commented on Niklaus Wirth has died   twitter.com/Bertrand_Meye... · Posted by u/aarroyoc
omoikane · 2 years ago
Niklaus Wirth was also responsible for changing the title of Dijkstra's paper to "Goto Statement Considered Harmful".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful#cite_ref-6

tommsy64 · 2 years ago
Relevant excerpt of Dijkstra's own account (from EWD1308 [1]):

Finally a short story for the record. In 1968, the Communications of the ACM published a text of mine under the title "The goto statement considered harmful", which in later years would be most frequently referenced, regrettably, however, often by authors who had seen no more of it than its title, which became a cornerstone of my fame by becoming a template: we would see all sorts of articles under the title "X considered harmful" for almost any X, including one titled "Dijkstra considered harmful". But what had happened? I had submitted a paper under the title "A case against the goto statement", which, in order to speed up its publication, the editor had changed into a "letter to the Editor", and in the process he had given it a new title of his own invention! The editor was Niklaus Wirth.

[1] Transcription - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/%7EEWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1... PDF - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/%7EEWD/ewd13xx/EWD1308.PDF

tommsy64 commented on Medically assisted deaths constituted 4.1 per cent of all deaths in Canada   cbc.ca/news/politics/maid... · Posted by u/djkivi
User23 · 2 years ago
Fun fact: there are north of a million cryopreserved persons in the USA alone right now.
tommsy64 · 2 years ago
Can you provide a source for this claim?
tommsy64 commented on Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch   factorio.com/blog/post/fa... · Posted by u/MForster
solardev · 3 years ago
I have no idea what any of these words mean, lol... can you link to a post/video showing this? That sounds awesome :)
tommsy64 · 3 years ago
This [Factorio SAT Solver](https://github.com/R-O-C-K-E-T/Factorio-SAT) has generated novel balancer designs. See the [wiki](https://wiki.factorio.com/Balancer_mechanics) to learn about belt balancers.
tommsy64 commented on Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot   llnl.gov/news/three-peer-... · Posted by u/signa11
dataflow · 3 years ago
> we'd secure the future from literally any calamity (including CC)

What is CC here? Cosmic collapse? Credit cards?

Edit: Ah, of course. Thanks.

tommsy64 · 3 years ago
Climate Catastrophe?
tommsy64 commented on Ghost recon breakpoint game save disappeared   community.stadia.com/t5/S... · Posted by u/rexbee
mortenlarsen · 3 years ago
I have lost a few save-games, so I can relate. In my case it was because I forgot about them or the fact that, I did care if they were lost (I rarely game at all).

I have an "offline" Windows 7 gaming PC (only connected to a dedicated file-server, that holds the game installers, drivers, etc). I only use this PC to play Witcher 3, Fallout 3/NV, and a few others. I found this PC (i5-2500K) at the side of the curb, and invested ~$21 in 16GB of RAM, and ~$230 in a GTX 1660 Ti (6GB). It runs my games at Ultra settings in 1080p, so I am pretty happy with it.

It has happened that I have lost save-games because I did a reinstall and forgot some save-games because "There is nothing important on this PC!" ...doh... I then switched to using Duplicati for backing up save games, screenshots and game configs to the dedicated file-server.

I don't bother with that anymore though, because the gaming PC now runs off a FibreChannel SAN backed by ZFS Volumes. So I have snapshot, rollback and clones. Which is also quite useful for testing drivers, and rolling back to "a clean install" or "a clean install + windows updates via WSUS-offline" without waiting for the installer or updates.

tommsy64 · 3 years ago
Your current gaming PC setup sounds like what I'd want. Can you give some details about the SAN hardware? What does it take to have Windows boot off of a FibreChannel SAN that's backed by ZFS?
tommsy64 commented on Nocom – 2b2t Minecraft server exploit using Monte-Carlo localization   github.com/nerdsinspace/n... · Posted by u/cyber_kinetist
leijurv · 4 years ago
Surprised to see this posted again, I wrote this, feel free to ask me anything!
tommsy64 · 4 years ago
I'm curious how you developed the "very cute headless" Minecraft client. Did you use the Forge build tools? How did you go about ripping out the rendering/keyboard stuff?
tommsy64 commented on Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer   github.com/piebro/factori... · Posted by u/piebro
proc0 · 4 years ago
Nice! I'm trying to "solve" the game in my own way (using the minimum amount of buildings necessary) and this will come in handy.

I've been in need of a diagram app, where you can calculate resources, but they're all outdated now, if anyone has one to recommend.

tommsy64 · 4 years ago
Foreman 2.0 https://github.com/DanielKote/Foreman2 is robust Factorio diagramming app. It's capable of creating rather large diagrams, such as this [1] one of an entire Seablock factory.

Another one I like to use for quick diagramming is Factorio Lab [2], which is a web app.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Seablock/comments/r0w0nl/full_graph... [2] https://factoriolab.github.io/

u/tommsy64

KarmaCake day41January 5, 2016View Original