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Re:To Grieve, or Not to Grieve? on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:27PM (#49947003)
Like those people who can't drive stick shift. What do they even do if they need to operate a real car?
Re:Claude is no longer available for minors on Friday September 11, 2026 @08:59AM (#49657701)
> I really wish we could leave these types of decisions up to parents and parents only. Leave the companies and governments out of it.

If you'd like to advocate for this position for a living, the tobacco, alcohol, and gambling industries will all be happy to pay you.

Re:Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify on Thursday September 10, 2026 @03:26AM (#49639701)
It changes the cost of living context of the salary. So, a lot.
*learning opportunity. Damn autotype
Doesn't sound like AI is necessarily the root the problem. If he's not the person to test, iterate, and deliver quality with AI, he probably wouldn't be without it. You just figured it out sooner.

Or, if you have reason to believe he's got what it takes - treat it like an leaving opportunity, give him room to make mistakes. This is, ime, what a rookie AI user mistake looks like.

It is easy to get carried away by the momentum. Many have fallen into that trap, not all are irredeemably bad software engineers.

Not an expert, but I recently heard that apparently not everything is perfect in fairphone land: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-stand...
At Valve's scale, it becomes the publisher's problem. Which is, in this particular case, a good thing imo. I certainly don't mind the pressure on publishers to ensure basic compatibility with Linux
Re:Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care on Monday August 31, 2026 @04:51AM (#49507230)
Good article, enjoyed it. I might give this idea a shot!

> Comments: these contain high level descriptions (faster than reading the code) and external context (the “why” that reading code can’t answer). This is the most scannable thing in any big code file.

Not sure about that one, depending on comment culture. Comments are prose and not structured, so to understand their meaning is a lot more cognitive load for me than (most) code. I certainly wouldn't have thought to call them "scannable".

Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Monday August 31, 2026 @02:00AM (#49506131)
Different languages went down different paths in this regard, each with their own interesting advantages and disadvantages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_depth

Re:Monzo Stand-In on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:17AM (#49489297)
Almost seems like they can do anything at monzo.com
Speak for yourself. It certainly isn't for me.
What are your even talking about, the case here is an internal api change with no change in behavior. It's called maintenance.
Re:Go 1.27 on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:12PM (#49366582)
Yes, and at that time the answer was "move over where?" now it's 2026 and x-wing is a draft still
Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:55AM (#49332087)
What can you recommend?
Re:Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug on Sunday August 16, 2026 @01:17PM (#49321849)
There is a whole section in the article about that
Re:Zed DeltaDB on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @06:17PM (#49189826)
You still get snapshots of the working tree every time an agent calls a jj command, including reading ones. This is regular for me that I'm not worried to lose any intermediate state.
It's easy to agree to that, but you're disregarding that the resources you spend on the stronger model could be allocated elsewhere. Conversely, you're assuming that spending more on AI will always yield better results and be worth it, compared to spending the money on other things.

This might actually still hold true now, or or at least many actors in the market behave that way. But I'm not so sure there isn't a cliff to that effect. At some point, if SOTA models remain expensive, it'll turn into a market advantage to figure out how to get things done without depending on the most expensive tooling available.

Similar scenario, different phrasing: if your company relies on overqualified workers to deliver 100% quality, the market may still decide that it's fine to go with 90% quality for 50% the price.

Re:Stinkpot: SQLite-Backed Shell History on Sunday July 26, 2026 @05:43AM (#49056352)
The readme starts by saying how the author used to use atuin, and why they wrote stinkpot as a less featureful alternative.
Re:Git rebase -I is not that scary on Sunday July 26, 2026 @05:39AM (#49056331)
Genuine question, why? It seems like a reasonable knowledge check that can be answered in a few sentences.
Re:I Regret Migrating to Codeberg on Friday July 24, 2026 @03:40AM (#49032362)
This tends to be necessary as soon as you move any non trivial amount of money around. You can't get a bank account without some bureaucratic overhead
Re:Claude Is Not a Compiler on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @11:41AM (#48993811)
You say that as if it wasn't true for anything human programmers ever produced
Re:Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @03:56PM (#48926253)
Simple to do when you don't care about e2e and clients can just show data they receive to the user with little logic of their own. It is a world of difference in complexity.

Those nice things are what you get when you're fine having all your data (messages, images, files) forever in plaintext on servers owned by some Russian rich guy.

Pray there will never be a telegram.zip torrent.

Re:Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:45PM (#48898584)
Thanks!
Re:Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:58PM (#48897174)
I'm curious, do you do version control, sync, or work with AI agents? If so, how does that work (for you)?
Re:Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:44PM (#48896977)
Even if it was something people wanted, and it wasn't clear that it was even before the advent of CC, abandoning the mainline product for years was a terrible move.

Hopefully they at least got something out of it for themselves from that VC money.

Re:Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:21PM (#48896645)
It pains me to say, but it's probably too little, too late. Logseq remained a buggy mess, is now on an unmaintained (thus insecure) version of electron.

And now after several years of complete stagnation, the supposed improvement is a database format to fix their technical issues, so I can no longer keep all my data as markdown files? At a time when half the edits are done by Claude and tracked with jujustu, this is just not useful for me.

All I wanted was the original vision, but with less bugs and more quality of life features.

Did you just paste your marketing copy into a hn comment?
I kind of understand for i18n, but not for most other things
Re:Immich v3.0.0 Released on Friday July 03, 2026 @02:58AM (#48771771)
Please buy a license if you are happy with the project :) it's free, but you can still buy a license for a small amount of what you saved
Re:Immich v3.0.0 Released on Friday July 03, 2026 @02:56AM (#48771751)
Their business model is basically donations, it's not a for-profit operation. Maybe if you consider yourself less of a customer and more the beneficiary of a community effort, it'll be easier to "get"

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