Ask HN: Does root have to be uid 0? Does uid 0 have to be root?
what's so special about root/0?
axismundi
Re:Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonigh...
on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:29PM (#49971073)
while we're at it, what gear would you recommend for a beginner stargazer?
Re:Should You Buy a ThinkPad?
on Monday September 07, 2026 @08:54AM (#49597835)
You can get ThinkPad L14 Gen 3 AMD Ryzen 7 5875U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD refurbished on eBay.co.uk for roughly £320
Re:Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @05:49AM (#47776851)
> Frankly, dependency cooldowns work by free-riding on the pain and suffering of others.
Snyk and socket.dev take money for the pain and suffering...
Re:We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing Amer...
on Thursday February 19, 2026 @04:25PM (#47079652)
Come to Europe, we have cookies ;)
Re:A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh
on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:17AM (#47001082)
From my experience WebSockets are harder at scale. For load balancing you either need sticky sessions or an L7 proxy that can route consistently, and reconnect storms amplify this. Long-lived upgraded connections mean more complexity with rolling deploys, drains, autoscaling, and regional failover. Many managed LBs/proxies have tighter limits/timeouts for WS, so you must tune idle timeouts and ping/pong.
Re:Radicle: The Sovereign Forge
on Friday January 23, 2026 @08:33PM (#46740232)
The simplest way to use kingfisher is global pre-commit hook. Works with any git repo. rad could suggest to install this as a part of privacy hygiene.
Re:Radicle: The Sovereign Forge
on Friday January 23, 2026 @05:38PM (#46738961)
Peter Watts – Blindsight is an excellent hard scifi novel
Show HN: How I stopped ChatGPT from manipulating me
I've been trying to completely disable the followup suggestions that ChatGPT stubbornly appends at the end of nearly every response. You know, the ones that start with 'If you want' or 'Would you like me to'. It's infuriating.I consider these suggestions harmful and manipulative. They are probably there to maximize engagement, but for me they interrupt my flow, waste my attention and shift the...
Re:NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models
on Saturday December 20, 2025 @02:19PM (#46338763)
Did you mean 4-6 hours?
Re:Valid Polish: Polish is the language of the Digerati
on Friday December 19, 2025 @02:23PM (#46329787)
Yes. Kurva is used kinda like sudo ;)
Re:Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%?
on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @07:03AM (#46203995)
Maybe that 90% transferred into lots of low quality code caused by reckless vibe coding? That slop now sits there as kind of technical debt?
Re:Ask HN: Which merge tool do you use?
on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:04PM (#46143698)
I value simplicity and stability over bells and whistles. Meld looks simple. I mostly use macos and they seem to have good approach to support it.
Re:Ask HN: Which merge tool do you use?
on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @10:30PM (#46143501)
I really like the rubberband connections. They are like mental glue.
Ask HN: Which merge tool do you use?
I use VS Code or Github. I can't say I'm entirely happy. What do you use?
Re:Ways to Improve Node.js Loader Performance
on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:46AM (#45680047)
import-maps (supported via "imports" in package.json) improve developer ergonomics, not performance. Node still resolves the mapped path normally; there’s no measurable “boost.”
They’re helpful to replace ugly relative imports, but they don’t change Node’s lookup speed.
Aliases in vite.config.js tell Vite (and its dev server/bundler) how to resolve imports during build and dev time. They don’t make runtime faster because your bundled output already contains resolved paths.
Debug 4.4.2 published on NPM seems to contain cryptominer
Re:English Scientists Develop Fast, High-Quality AI Weather Model for ...
on Monday March 24, 2025 @12:05PM (#43462589)
In weather it's called hindcast
Re:English Scientists Develop Fast, High-Quality AI Weather Model for ...
on Monday March 24, 2025 @12:03PM (#43462571)
It's most likely ERA5: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-s...
Re:Ask HN: Agentic Coding Alternatives to GitHub Copilot
on Sunday February 23, 2025 @08:59AM (#43149260)
Cline or Roo Code with Openrouter.
Re:Programming SDF Animations of Rick and Morty
on Thursday February 06, 2025 @08:51PM (#42968410)
math rick, the arch enemy of pickle rick
Re:Simple Weather maps for Germany with Live precipitation radar
on Saturday February 01, 2025 @05:46PM (#42903262)
not bad! leaflet is quick to get stuff up and fun to work with.
Re:Forcing people to change their passwords is officially a bad idea
on Sunday September 29, 2024 @04:44PM (#41690313)
Would it make sense to apply the same recommendations to expiring certificates?
Ask HN: Decent £1000 Laptop for IT Student?
Hi HN,I’m going to be an IT student in September and I'm looking for some advice on getting a new laptop. I’ll be using it for coding, maybe running a couple of virtual machines, and the usual uni stuff like taking notes and doing research. I might also dabble in a bit of graphic design and light gaming when I have time.Here’s what I’m thinking:I've asked at the uni and they recommend Intel or...
Empowering Energy Trading with MetDesk and Nvidia Earth-2
Re:Protect Act Could Require Removal of All Existing Porn Online
on Monday February 12, 2024 @03:27PM (#39350009)
If you delete all porn, the rest of the Internet should fit on 2-3 servers.
Re:What kind of bubble is AI?
on Thursday January 25, 2024 @10:45AM (#39130749)
There is already a lot of real value in scientific domain-specific models. One such example is weather forecasting. We can suddenly create forecasts with astonishing accuracy on commodity hardware in a matter of seconds, versus several hours with traditional numeric models. This is life-saving.
And it's open source, e.g.: https://github.com/NVlabs/FourCastNet
Re:Major Power Outage to Ecmwf Data Centre
on Thursday November 16, 2023 @10:23AM (#38290658)
From: ECMWF Operators
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2023 3:17 PM
Subject: ECMWF products delay due to power outage
Dear colleagues,
Due to a major power outage the dissemination of ECMWF products for the 12Z cycle will be delayed.
As soon as we have further details we will inform you.
Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused by this delay.
Kind regards
ECMWF Duty Manager
Major Power Outage to Ecmwf Data Centre
From: ECMWF OperatorsSent: Thursday, November 16, 2023 2:50 PMTo: ECMWF OperatorsSubject: Major Power outage to ECMWF Data CentreDear ColleaguesDue to an unforeseen circumstances ECMWF systems and services are currently unavailable.Unfortunately, we cannot give you an estimate on the duration of this situation. As soon as we have further details, we will inform you of these.Our sincere...