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Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:41AM (#50333781)
Ok, but does (s)he know? It's just guessing, so unfounded non-news?

"It’s possible that some of this jump is the result of committers making more mistakes this year than they did last year, but I don’t think anyone who works on the project really believes that’s the main cause. Rather, it seems likely that PostgreSQL committers were about as conservative in 2026 as they were in preceding years, but a lot more of the mistakes they made were quickly found by LLMs."

and

"And I think that’s also why we had so many late reverts, and why the release itself is delayed. Two factors are at play here."

so?

They are protecting themself, because of german law.

Edit: There is also personal data in that leak, so that needs to be cleaned first.

Re:Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? on Friday October 02, 2026 @07:00AM (#49932101)
Ah, new training data!
Re:ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:44AM (#49772792)
Can you photograph a photo so it’s not really noticeable?
Re:The August 17 outage, and the work ahead on Friday August 21, 2026 @12:50PM (#49390776)
I don't know, this blog post and the lasts read like organisational and human failures to me. Their system doesn't degrade, they even have infinite retries and no meaningful quotas anywhere I can see (but I'm not a heavy github user).

I feel like this becomes a lesson on how NOT to design and operate a SaaS.

Re:PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works on Monday July 27, 2026 @12:34AM (#49065234)
There are buttons on the bottom left: pause and two to adjust the speed (down to 0.1x). Some parts of the city can be adjusted when you click on it (I just found the transactions/s)
Because it passes more boundaries and stuff. But hey, I didn’t code a Webserver so far - so what do I know. :D

AFAIK eBPF can be hardware offloaded. If you have the use case.

I am surprised how well nginx holds up?!
Yeah! I also think that the ban was unintended.

I also think that’s a big clown show. People think that LLMs accidentally get good with security patterns. That is not the case, they included all of that in the training data. They could also have left out the knowledge.

Re:Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking on Sunday February 01, 2026 @12:13PM (#46847604)
I tried installing it and it was a pain, if you don’t use the very very default scripts. Also their scripts regenerate secrets and the setup is weird in general (you need a complicated rp configuration and scripts to generate the config files)
You can try out AstoCAD, a reskin of FreeCAD. The author also fixes a lot of FreeCAD bugs.
Re:fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise on Monday October 27, 2025 @03:01PM (#45724953)
From the initial feature set it sounds like Mozilla SOPS.
Re:We replaced passwords with something worse on Thursday August 07, 2025 @12:31AM (#44820588)
Kinda weird when they secure shop sites where you enter your payment information into. IKEA does this, for example.
Re:Reverse Engineering and Dismantling Kekz Headphones on Friday October 04, 2024 @09:00AM (#41740930)
I love when people do this! Now we only need alternative software and the hardware is finally purchasable!

Would be cooler if the hardware was more OS before but I take what I can get…

Just let Signal operate via Satellites and you are fine: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltraumtheorie
Re:Should I Use jwts For Authentication Tokens? on Monday May 27, 2024 @12:33PM (#40492310)
JWTs are best practice for OAuth as it can transport claims. It’s up to your application if you continue to use it after the initial flow. You are fine to convert it, but most apps don’t as it’s easier.
Is there some information on why they need to store this much data for immediate retrieval? And why is it so much?
Re:Passkeys: A Shattered Dream on Saturday April 27, 2024 @12:10PM (#40181045)
I use Strongbox and store my Passkeys in a Keepass File. Vendor agnostic, private syncable and locked by my passphrase. I like them and wish more services would implement them properly.
Can you also see if every job position was filled in the end?
Re:Distributed Authorization on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @02:15PM (#40055358)
Kinda sounds like OPA (Open Policy Agent) [1], but a different implementation.

[1] https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/

Yeah, I blame those employers too. Last year I was job hunting and got declined a position as I only have 10 years of experience with JavaEE, but no job experience with Spring Boot (only a few hobby projects). That’s how narrow minded these guys are.
I have a customer that is not allowed to run Postgres natively or docker at all (bc of security). They could use this, I guess.
Re:Cloudflare Announces Firewall for AI on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @11:36PM (#39625095)
So after firewalls, the next logical step is Anti-virus, isn’t it?
Re:Ask HN: Similar Books like “Raytracing in one Weekend” on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @02:19AM (#34062675)
Personally I often go to Amazon to find things, google the author and check on the HP on how to buy the book with the least amount of "tax" for the author. Added benefit: you get formats outside of walled gardens!
Re:Ask HN: Similar Books like “Raytracing in one Weekend” on Monday December 19, 2022 @07:51AM (#34051454)
Thanks for all your links! I haven't decided on what to next :D

Ask HN: Similar Books like “Raytracing in one Weekend”

I really liked the "Raytracing in one Weekend" Series [0], in terms of: explaining a complicated concept by programming a toy implementation of the thing itself and afterwards one is left with more knowledge and something to "show".Does someone know similar series on other subjects than raytracing? I know there is the Advent of Code, but that's more like solving a puzzle.[0]:...

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