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Re:The Curse of Soldered RAM on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:10AM (#50286756)
36 point Times New Roman Mono
Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:03AM (#50286704)
TikTok, but you'll have to suffer the video format
Re:The Curse of Soldered RAM on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:26AM (#50241216)
yeah real programmers only use the biggest screens, the bestest cpus, and discrete graphics
Re:Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:18AM (#50241157)
a mix of digital hoarding and FOMO
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:26PM (#50199876)
oh no you want some trendy .in or other domain name? sorry can't use your favorite CA, got to use the crappy one that leaked keys
Re:There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:50AM (#50194644)
what a morally self righteous comment that only serves to ruin a good song
Re:Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers on Monday October 19, 2026 @06:55AM (#50150823)
even better when "legacy" means something Claude added without explicit instruction, maybe in the same session, for edge cases that can't happen
We need to bring back the term "Glasshole".
most of what police do is after the fact. you're responsible for securing your own property, security guards are a thing everywhere.
Re:Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:59AM (#50085656)
The paper US dollar bill has gained 150,000% since its invention. I'm sure you're smart enough to do the math.

https://www.biblioctopus.com/pages/books/938/u-s-currency/th...

Re:Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:10AM (#50071146)
use leather wallets and paper cash...
Re:Making big downloads resumable in Firefox on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:07AM (#50068776)
nothing ... Worth ...
Re:Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:20AM (#50057722)
no need to feel bad for the company encouraging slop and breaking the oss ecosystem
Re:Don't Put Tilde In Your Path on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:30PM (#50046274)
this is why you don't curl | bash
Re:Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:49PM (#49999257)
imagine it were shorter... like 0 characters.

this is what the new gTLDs are.

you can't eat ethanol either, you burn it to create more global warming
Re:QR Codes That Route to the Appropriate App Store on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:44PM (#49833311)
it's just a server side redirect based on the user agent headers
Re:North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes on Friday September 18, 2026 @01:35PM (#49757614)
nuclear acupuncture
first fly to the UK to take the course...
even in the UK they still get announced as layoffs, employees get their access revoked, and they're in some sort of limbo while the consultations / process takes place.
Re:GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:08AM (#49462342)
> free

you are the problem

Re:IPFS Maintainers Winding Down on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:49PM (#49425645)
one of many, or the main maintainers? seems like they run a lot of the well known public infra too.
Re:OTel Isn't Going Well (and I Made a Spreadsheet About It) on Saturday August 22, 2026 @06:06PM (#49404333)
clickstack https://clickhouse.com/clickstack

is the closest i've seen to the datadog experience

Re:The New MCP Roadmap on Saturday August 22, 2026 @01:34PM (#49401857)
That would be /llms.txt https://llmstxt.org/
Re:The New MCP Roadmap on Saturday August 22, 2026 @01:32PM (#49401839)
Re:People of ACM – Russ Cox on Friday August 21, 2026 @05:44PM (#49394126)
don't we already have the words slop and vibecode
Re:The A.I. In Google's New Pixel 11 Is Not Helpful on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:24PM (#49366052)
11 was only just announced...
Re:How Kubernetes Probes Work on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:22PM (#49366034)
Thundering herd / cascading outages. You take out a large enough portion of your fleet, and the remaining load overloads your remaining nodes one by one as they restart, so you can never have enough healthy nodes.
Re:Incident with Github.com on Monday August 17, 2026 @12:22PM (#49333560)
There's one for a teapot, surely there can be one for a unicorn
Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:30AM (#49331631)
Technically gitee is also a git hosting provider: https://gitee.com/ (scroll to bottom right corner for language switcher).

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