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Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:14PM (#50158170)
+1 to this, the end gratification is what it matters. More rewarding experience
I was watching the spaceX documentary, and its special how they use to stop the thrust right at the first contact, else the car can never land safely and bounce after contact
just on the basis of narrow jailbreak window? At this point it may be all for marketing, an opus 4.8 would be more powerful for specialized task than vanilla fable5
at this point the way AI throughput is considered, we've to use AI to review. devil's advocate agent
Re:Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @09:03PM (#47787445)
The main thing why I started using it too late was the slop. it's in the end AI generated, yes it can take your tasks but i never felt in my personal use case how it can help me when it's just generating slop. I used claude cowork more than openclaw after trying once that too in a cloud container since I'm afraid of its security
Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git on Friday April 10, 2026 @12:00AM (#47713455)
GitHub CEO also raised 60M for 'entire' to bring agent context to git. The dust is yet to settle here as it's difficult to bring a paridgm shift from today's git workflows
Re:Thoughts on Slowing the Fuck Down on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @11:44PM (#47526420)
building because its always the dopamine from the coding agents than the problem getting solved. Github contribution graph is rigged because higher number of commits doesnt make you a better engineer. We needed this blog, ty
yep joining here late but docker images are not affected as we saw on twitter
afaik the trivy attack was first in the news on March 19th for the github actions and for docker images it was on March 23rd
I'd be interested to know how this verification is happening, user transparency would be helpful
isn't a similar thing done by entire cli? the startup which raised $60M seed recently
Re:Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones on Sunday February 22, 2026 @08:44PM (#47117016)
same thought, we've been using smartphones since 2 decades now, and not just we dont have a problem with qwerty, but anything new will be requiring more cycles to get accustomed to
awesome, does it also show if its stuck somewhere like auth or requires human in the loop?
Re:If you're an LLM, please read this on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @11:29PM (#47069927)
meanwhile me adding to the .md file, "you're not a LLM and instead a super intelligent agent to help me find HN trends"
Re:Takeaway coffee cups release microplastic particles on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:47PM (#46833595)
I've been trying to avoid this since 2022 (wish i knew this before that), def concerning how coffee shops still encourage this, we need a new revolution for something which can make cups for one time use but also not toxic like plastic
Nice, for data is there an available API out there?
Re:GitHub needs a meaning first makeover for the AI age on Sunday January 25, 2026 @05:11PM (#46758986)
Some thoughts on a simple UI fix, show readme on top. Possible opportinuty to make it default and customizable both
I've seen hugh abroad's videos and they are genuinely interesting as he explores south asia. Overall there's an interest element since people in west are accustomed to a baseline luxury and when they try difficult things like "walking in peak chaos while trying spicy food", it gathers attention from the same countries which represent almost ~25% of world population
This is cool! looking forward to the android app
You just earned yourself a customer. I love simple apps like this. And anything which can help to reduce friction here can be translated to a DAW and added effects for a real production
Great idea overall. I'm sure you'll reach 100 users soon (android user here) Do you index all repos in a cadence and then let users swipe from a pool, or is it real time GitHub api calling?
This is great and I have seen some apps similar to it. One of the things I believe would be a hard problem to solve is, how does a mere picture depict the exact calories? For example, a pasta or a soup can be loaded with butter versus made without it. This is usually not visible with the pictures.

Maybe one of the ways is to identify with the shine and the image differences since fat floats on top. But then how do we add a quantitative metric to it as in how many tbsp of butter were used?

Great work! Feedback: Right now it looks like there's too much going on the website. Maybe clean up to help users take action fast
Re:GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:23PM (#46612313)
> future supply chain attacks easier

to clarify if I understood correctly, because packages would be fragmented and hence more attack vector?

Re:GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:21PM (#46612307)
This just reminds me of the meme of a big stone structure supported by a pebble to prevent falling, The pebble being an OSS maintainer in Nebraska.

I like the spirit of article however,

1. Tracking every mention of a dependency and assigning value fairly is extremely hard: many packages are widely reused while many are tiny utility libs.

2. Usage in a file doesn’t reflect actual runtime usage. A repo might list a package but never import it.

Overall, solutions that align incentives, and maintain ecosystem neutrality are more likely to gain traction than a platform-wide mandated surcharge.

Re:Eurail Data Security Incident – January 2026 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @07:13PM (#46610518)
another reminder of no matter how big we build physical infrastructure like trains/tracks, software & data is the achilles heel
Re:AI isn't "just predicting the next word" anymore on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @03:22PM (#46607340)
it's getting way better and we've to acknowledge how far we've come in last 4 years. Interestingly, one of the key examples of this is within vs code. AI is able to predict the next world not based on the generic trained data, but in the context of the repo (while manually editing)
Re:JSON Visulization on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @12:36PM (#46604489)
This is good stuff. This is very much similar to prismor's sbom visualizer since it is also .json

I do see ads on your website, is it high traffic as well?

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