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Re:Incident with Github.com on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:26PM (#49335477)
I feel you are correct. Throwing AI at this problem works reasonably well. “Rewrite this Actions workflow to run on $PROVIDER” is a sensible task.

It takes a while by hand, but I recently saw a migration of old Jenkins projects to Actions with AI (yea), and it was smooth.

Re:Welcome (Back) to Macintosh on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:08PM (#47224873)
I’m in a camp where Tahoe is just ugly, but worked fine on my mac and with my usage and devices. On the other hand, iOS 26 is so incredibly bad. Anything from anti-user choices, UI glitches, to keyboard… it’s tiring. It might be the one where I’m pushed to a different OS for the first time. I doubt Apple can fix itself in the near future, with the leadership they have.
Re:Global Intelligence Crisis on Sunday February 22, 2026 @05:34PM (#47115500)
Good read. If I imagine all these layers of Agent to Agent economic automations, I’m hopeful for a new class of technopriest hackers that are able to exploit nuances and weak security. And build new hidden empires within those systems.
I’d like to hear someone from MS if this has any impact, or if the report is overblowing it? Closing a library and pushing something called “Skilling” Hub sounds cartoonishly stupid and disrespectful.
It’s very close on their quality IMHO. Miles better on the value. I bought a Lumibricks set this year, after decades of buying Lego.

The set design (Cafe) was nice and it makes a good display piece. I liked their build techniques and integrated lights. The individual bricks were clean and with good color uniformity. But after a life of building Lego sets, I was able to quickly tell that tactile forces for connecting pieces were different to Lego. I will buy more of their sets, but I will keep buying Lego too.

Re:Replicate is joining Cloudflare on Monday November 17, 2025 @04:21PM (#45958471)
I spent a moment wondering why did Cloudflare buy an on-prem tooling startup https://www.replicated.com
Re:The beauty of a text only webpage on Friday August 15, 2025 @04:34PM (#44916977)
It sounds like the Lynx browser: https://lynx.browser.org/
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025) on Thursday April 03, 2025 @02:06PM (#43573294)
Waratek https://waratek.com | Principal Java Engineer | Hybrid in Dublin or Remote in Europe

We are working on a specialised Cybersecurity Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) tooling.

We are seeking an exceptional programmer with expertise in Java, someone who will thrive in exploring the JDK ecosystem further. You will join a team developing the core technology behind our Java Agents, working on cutting-edge solutions to enhance security.

Feel free to reach out with questions or applications! My email is in my HN profile.

https://waratek.com/career/principal-java-engineer/

I’ve just had a year like that and I can’t wait to spend money on nights out again
Re:Bash_unit – bash unit testing framework on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @08:20AM (#26314985)
If you fancy more BDD-style testing with a Gherkin-like syntax, there is also Shellspec https://shellspec.info / https://github.com/shellspec/shellspec
Re:Web Components could replace frontend frameworks? on Friday April 12, 2019 @02:24AM (#19642464)
This was exactly the reason I’ve abandoned them. As mentioned in other comments, they look like a good way to create a design/component system in them, because of the interop with any frontend JS framework (who doesn’t want that?!). So you deal with clunky CSS sharing and theming capabilities and there might be some solutions on the horizon. But now you want to build a static website with it (landing page, docs, blog…) and you can’t pre-render them, because there is no declarative Shadow DOM element https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposals... (rejected https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/510). Yeah, you can pre-render them without the Shadow DOM. Then if you want to make those chunks of HTML into WCT on load (sort of rehydration), it will trigger repaints, as you have to remove the chunk of HTML, put it into WCT and parse everything again. Or you don’t put it into Shadow Root, to prevent repaint - but at that point, if your components can work this way, why even use WCT?
Noiszy does that https://noiszy.com
So I went in an read the actual ruling document https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Bi... (only 8 pages) and it pretty much made sense for me (IANAL ofc).

McD’s lawyers screwed up, not submitting required evidence of actual use in years 2011-2016. They printed out webpages with promo materials and a wikipedia page (as article correctly points, “duh, we are McDonalds”) - not a great proof of anything for any court. Then submitted some packaging of the product.

Not any evidence that the product was actually sold and trademark used in those five years - no sales figures, website traffic stats… As said, makes sense to me

Edit: that said, still makes no sense why were they challenging the use of Big Mac in the first place… shrugs

They haven’t submited any actual sales figures:

> They claimed significant sales figures in relation to ‘Big Mac’ sandwiches

Re:The Matrix Cookbook (2012) [pdf] on Friday November 30, 2018 @08:18AM (#18568820)
Re:Valve discontinues the Steam Link on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @04:46AM (#18492766)
Some Samsung models https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5613-TAD...

It’s an app you can download

Re:Valve discontinues the Steam Link on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @04:07AM (#18492650)
Tried Pi, and it can’t keep up with the video stream. You can always use an HTPC, with a GPU like GTX 1050 and use Steam’s in-home streaming. Works really well.
Re:Valve discontinues the Steam Link on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @04:03AM (#18492638)
I’m using Steam Link that’s built into my smart TV. Way superior as it supports 4K and 50mbps stream. The original physical Link is catching dust on the shelf. It’s quite okay setup with a headless gaming PC. You have to use a remote desktop from time to time to click on some system dialog, so it’s not a 100% console-like experience.
Re:Van Gogh Museum's High-Quality Reproductions on Sunday September 16, 2018 @04:04PM (#18000806)
Yup there are tons of them in all price points. Read this a while ago https://medium.com/message/uber-for-art-forgeries-2c9c8bf416...
Re:How does Tidelift pay maintainers? on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @05:19AM (#17958218)
There is thanks https://github.com/feross/thanks - with an open issue to read the URL from package.json https://github.com/feross/thanks/issues/2
Slightly OT but combination of gov and data kind of reminded me of Project Cybersyn. If you like this project, you might find reading about Cybersyn interesting http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machin...
Re:The GraphQL stack: How everything fits together on Thursday November 09, 2017 @04:57AM (#15661161)
It got more approachable for me when I started to think about it as a specific "backend for frontend" pattern. I don't see it as a _real_ competitor to REST, even though it's trying to market itself this way.

I think recent "@rest" addition from Apollo ( https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/apollo-client-2-0-5c8d0affce... ) shows they can easily live together - backend uses REST and frontend can rely on GraphQL.

Re:Introducing RESTful JSON on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @10:58AM (#15175834)
Is it too soon to ask about a GraphQL alternative to a hypermedia APIs?
Re:Ask HN: Who's running a profitable productized service? on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:41AM (#13829993)
https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses Have a nice list with interviews
Re:Blockchain, with Santa Claus, in shameless MS Paint on Friday January 13, 2017 @05:00AM (#13389693)
I need to point out the obvious because it disappointed me after reading the title: that was not made in MS Paint
Re:Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW) on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:05AM (#12692900)
100+ days old account, love it!
Re:News Feed FYI: Further Reducing Clickbait in Feed on Thursday August 04, 2016 @07:24PM (#12229143)
"It is not a news story, but it is a slideshow" http://youtu.be/IVfslRsNXUc

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