I can't see steve blamer's face without remembering how fun beos was in the 90s.

I used BeOS around 1999/2000 or so. I remember using R5.03, then Phosphorus and Dano. I remember tripping up with the USB stack patch. Also used Max edition and eventually Zeta. It was a lot of fun while it lasted. But I don't think I have the desire to step into the Haiku realm. Too much time has passed.

You should.

It's more complete and has loads of apps now. It fixes the main problems BeOS had.

This is great. I have a weird system layout (192gb system ram, 8gb vram). the mixture of experts models have been nice when i can run the dense reasoning layers on the gpu (which somehow fit?!) and then the expert on the cpu.

its worked out to to 40 tokens/seconds on their 80b-a3b model. we'll see how much of a hit this is.

robotic probes on mars could run science experiments and report results on their own.

pacemakers could do deep analysis of heart signals and report problems.

This is vibe coded right?

It is AI assisted, but way less than one might think.

All the portability tricks are authored by me (I have previous repos from before the AI era that feature them).

The parsing structure is also authored by me (also have pre-AI proof).

What AI did here was the boring, mechanical work.

Just prompt it, all AI as of 2026 is clueless about wide portability shell scripts.

Nice telescope

You're going to make it drive an RC car right?

has this thread been removed from the top of hacker news?

Idk. I don't think either he nor reiser were ruby devs.

Cannon pixels are still pretty big. You could use an astronomy camera and some lens adapters to get better sampling.

For astronomy bigger pixels is also better.

It depends on sampling and sky conditions. My only point was that some astronomy cameras have smaller pixels (like 1.45um).

I had a design sketched out that would do sentiment analysis on each post in your social media feeds. It would then take action to hide or outright delete stuff based on your configuration.

It would probably work as a browser plugin, but I didn't have a real solution for rewriting whats on say the reddit or Twitter phone apps.

Probably pretty easy to vibe code up such a thing now.