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Re:SOML โ€“ A Config Format for Humans on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:20PM (#50342139)
See also: HUML [1]

1: https://huml.io/

Re:Type Server Protocol on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:45PM (#50251474)
The cottage industry around fixing gaps in Python is sometimes awe-inspiring and most times just downright awful.

Maybe just make a Python 4 with better types built in at this point...

All hail the Omnissiah!
Another member of the birds are not real community in the wild.
Re:No new Ghostty updates since March on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:32PM (#50001312)
I hope your kid feels better soon.

I'm surprised you haven't delegated duties like these to other members of the project at the stage Ghostty is (non-profit, with compensated contributors). Maybe you are able to manage being the BDFL and your other interests well enough and this is a minor hiccup.

I had asked on the Ghostty discord back in September about the September release and received no response so I figured there was probably some major goal for this release that stretched the release so I left it alone.

After upgrading to macOS 27 I saw a bug with the tab titles and just opted to change my config to follow the latest tip always and I'm much happier. The tip is quite stable so it's one piece of software I don't mind being on the bleeding edge of, even if it's one of the most crucial parts of my daily workflow.

Re:Salesforce Global Outage on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @07:08AM (#49724806)
This is certainly a unique status page.
Re:Politician reads AI prompt during assembly on Saturday July 25, 2026 @01:06PM (#49049355)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MU6q9G0Sf0

I would rather speak to this man than anyone reading anything AI-written

Re:Paxos Made Simple (2001)[pdf] on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @03:54PM (#48912170)
When I first started reading seminal works in Distributed Computing, I picked up the original (The Part-time Parliament) and it started off pretty well with the made up story of finding the algorithm as a manuscript from an archeological dig.

The original paper then quickly becomes super convoluted by continuing to explain the algorithm by overextending that allegory. By the mid point of it I felt pretty exhausted.

It was then I learnt that the original paper was lying in limbo for nearly a decade until it was finally published.

Then at a conference, Lamport got tired of people telling him his original was difficult to grasp and so came this simplified explanation.

I still have my notes on the paper somewhere in my Obsidian. I should publish those.

Re: on Sunday May 31, 2026 @05:20AM (#48344215)
AI slop comment
I for one, am absolutely fascinated with Tron Legacy. It was the first Tron movie I saw as a kid in middle school. In some ways, it's responsible for the trajectory of my career.

Apart from the obvious reasons about the DP soundtrack and the visuals, I love the theme of chasing perfection and the way it backfires.

Kevin Flynn says to CLU in the end "The thing about perfection, is that it's unknowable. You don't know that because I didn't know it when I created you" and I love the fact that it says how we can put our best and our worst into what we create. That we're not just responsible for lifeless machines, that it's more than that. And it's a hauntingly beautiful thought.

Dwarves of Moria get swole
Re:Google I/O on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @12:20AM (#48203042)
sure.. WWDC also has "Developers Conference" in its name.
Re:Google I/O on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @02:05PM (#48196907)
Watching these bland presentations with choreographed delivery and reading off a prompt off-screen (I'm not completely sure they're doing this, but it looks like it) makes me appreciate Steve Jobs presentations from the past so much more.

Steve really had product presentations down. I wish people at least tried to copy him.

Re:How to make your text look futuristic on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @04:47AM (#48119372)
He just... highlighted Avatar. He clicked the dropdown menu, and then he randomly selected Papyrus. Like a...Like a thoughtless child just wandering by a garden, just yanking leaves along the way.
Re:I hate soldering existentially on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @05:13PM (#48114686)
I was going for a "they performed surgery on a grape" thing but it seems I missed the mark
Re:I hate soldering existentially on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @01:28PM (#48111416)
they put RISC-V in a soldering iron?
Re:Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @05:01AM (#48105871)
For anyone pining for innovation in Desktop, a small part of this culture is still alive in Ricing competitions.

A recent favorite of mine is this one. Timestamp starts at the final submission being reviewed: https://youtu.be/DxEKF0cuEzc?si=mqE_2vpKDBsMWlKW&t=557

Re:Cartoon Network Flash Games on Friday May 08, 2026 @01:46PM (#48066417)
Thanks for whoever preserved these! The CartoonNetwork website was one of my most fondest memories from my childhood.

These days the official website redirects to their YouTube channel which I feel is very sad. There used to be places for kids on the internet, now everything is heading towards major platforms which I honestly feel is going to be damaging the youth in the long term.

Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:59AM (#47946203)
Upvoted for the username
Re:GitHub Actions is the weakest link on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:30AM (#47944179)
Valid point. We have minimum age requirements set on some rules to avoid absorbing every latest change instantly.
Re:GitHub Actions is the weakest link on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @01:32PM (#47937688)
Oops, my bad. We keep calling it Renovator internally but the name is RenovateBot or Renovate.

https://docs.renovatebot.com/

Re:Warp is now open-source on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:41PM (#47936898)
Who are their highly funded closed-source competitors they claim Warp cannot beat on price?

Warp is the only closed source terminal product I know of. Most other popular terminal emulators are open source already.

I feel like their funding is drying up and this is their last ditch effort to have the "community" build their product for them.

They claim agents will run the show, with inputs from community in the form of ideas/specs/direction. I wonder how long that will be sustainable for given the subsidized model prices are collapsing as we speak.

Is this an attempt to pivot to something else while the "community" keeps their first product alive? Maybe I'm being too cynical here, but I don't see this as an act of good faith, especially given their roots in VC funding.

Re:GitHub Actions is the weakest link on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:27PM (#47936663)
I feel pretty happy we use Renovator (EDIT: It's Renovate) at my current workplace which by default will raise PRs to change any tags for actions with the SHA instead. Then, even when it bumps the version in future PRs, it bumps the SHA (with a comment of which tag version it represents)
Why does documentation require hosting it on a server? My assumption is that it's a static site, and as such, even GitHub Pages would be sufficient.

I know... all content has to be served via a "server" but in case of OVH it's a full-blown hosting solution isn't it?

Besides, I'm sure GitHub wouldn't mind supporting Pandas documentation. They do it for a million other projects for free (even though they're not popular among the HN crowd these days)

Re:Rendezvous with Rama on Monday March 09, 2026 @05:52PM (#47316085)
I decided to get back into reading two years ago and I picked this as one of the first ones to get started with, given it was a small book. I absolutely love Arthur C. Clarke's style of helping you visualize the grand scenes.

His books are more plot driven and the characters are pretty flat, but it's so damn fun to read through!

Morgan Freeman has been trying to get the movie adaptation made since early 2000s and wants to play Commander Norton. I had read that Denis Villenueve (the same director from the new Dune movies) was attached to direct the adaptation, but it seems like his schedule is really busy. He recently finished filming Dune Messiah and then he's got the next James Bond movie to deliver.

Re:Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @03:07PM (#47238176)
I seriously believe that it's not that GitHub is run on AI-generated code that's responsible for these slew of outages recently. I think it's crumbling under the load of a significantly large amount of AI-enabled coding with users raising PRs and pushing content a lot more than previously.

Obviously, if this is true, the team at GitHub is failing to scale their infra to meet the workload demands.

Re:ai;dr on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:52PM (#46996420)
I place considerable doubt on claims of LLMs improving the user's thought process.

Especially since everyone harps on about it but never provides concrete evidence. If your thinking has sharpened, surely you can find a way to demonstrate how.

I suspect it's one of those things where the user thinks they have improved but the reality is different.

Re:Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @03:08PM (#46904474)
There's a research paper from the University of Liverpool, published in 2006 where researchers asked people to draw bicycles from memory and how people overestimate their understanding of basic things. It was a very fun and short read.

It's called "The science of cycology: Failures to understand how everyday objects work" by Rebecca Lawson.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/bf03195929.pdf

If that's the goal, the technology for how these agents "learn" would be the most interesting one, even more than the demos in the link.

LLMs can barely remember the coding style I keep asking it to stick to despite numerous prompts, stuffing that guideline into my (whatever is the newest flavour of product-specific markdown file). They keep expanding the context window to work around that problem.

If they have something for long-term learning and growth that can help AI agents, they should be leveraging it for competitive advantage.

Re:The future of software engineering is SRE on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:38AM (#46762515)
Servers, Ready to Eat

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