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Re:Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens on Saturday August 22, 2026 @04:40PM (#49403676)
I’ve noticed this trend on LinkedIn just recently. Very noticeable at night, obviously, when my screen is naturally more dim. But these logos are like blinding headlights.
Re:Why Strong Consistency? on Thursday November 27, 2025 @05:57PM (#46073905)
FWIW, I think that’s essentially how Aurora DSQL works, and sort of explained at the end of the article.
Re:Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Coding on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @11:52PM (#46065800)
> I really wish there were a de facto state-of-the-art coding agent that is LLM-agnostic

Cursor?

It’s really quite good.

Ironically it has its own LLM now, https://cursor.com/blog/composer, so it’s sort of going the other way.

Re:11 Principles for building and scaling feature flag systems on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:05AM (#37613022)
> One best practice that I'd love to see spread (in our codebases too) is always naming the full feature flag directly in code, as a string (not a constant).

Can you elaborate on this? As a programmer, I would think that using something like a constant would help us find references and ensure all usage of the flag is removed when the constant is removed.

Re:When deployments are easy, code becomes simpler on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @10:26PM (#37400706)
As an aside, those “feature flags as a service” tools have some neat features, but are just way too expensive for what most apps probably need: simple binary flags that can change at runtime.

Example: just use a database table. Query and cache in memory for 60s. If you want, build a simple internal web page or tool to toggle flags. This works, and scales (from experience).

Do many apps really need A/B testing or segmented rollout? Maybe, but probably not.

Re:*@gmail.com on Thursday August 31, 2023 @07:08AM (#37335359)
Isn’t that functionally the same as “ignore dots”?

Meaning they can just strip out the dots when matching email addresses: either on login/signup or mail routing.

Re:How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary? on Sunday July 09, 2023 @08:52AM (#36654090)
You’re probably thinking of debug symbols, i.e. the PDB file that is generated alongside the binary. You can generate this for both Debug and Release builds (should be on by default in fact). It’s super useful for debugging crash dumps from production, and for exception logging in web apps.

You can think of this like a source map, but only files and line numbers.

Re:Megalodon shark was warm-blooded on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @06:02PM (#36593085)
Another common spot to easily find Megalodon and other large shark teeth is the Savannah River just past the shipping ports. The river dredging from a few years ago created a few new “islands” where shark teeth are plentiful.
Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened? on Friday June 23, 2023 @07:49PM (#36453785)
> what's going on here and how every single website has this new slowness

Everyone and everything uses OAuth/OIDC.

Re:The Many Faces of Distinct in PostgreSQL on Monday May 22, 2023 @08:38AM (#36030642)
And as long as you never rename the departments.
Re:Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit on Saturday December 10, 2022 @08:36PM (#33939065)
There’s a great classic pilot training video that covers this topic too: https://safeblog.org/2016/01/14/automation-dependency-childr...

It’s really great info for a lot of professions, not just aviation.

Re:Ask HN: Software architects – what’s your typical day look like? on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @09:16AM (#33880104)
This is basically my own experience as well.
Re:What working with Tailwind CSS every day for 2 years looks like on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @11:14AM (#33789407)
How do you distinguish what is "layout" versus "style"?

I know there are some obvious things, but like you said CSS is used for both. So there is a lot "grey area". Especially when "style" can affect the "layout".

Re:Terminal.Gui: A Cross Platform Terminal UI Toolkit for .NET on Thursday October 13, 2022 @05:40PM (#33196823)
Maybe funny 4-5 years ago, but these days it’s incredibly well supported across Windows/Linux/MacOS.
Re:Walgreens Turns to Prescription-Filling Robots to Free Up Pharmacists on Monday October 03, 2022 @09:55PM (#33075979)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

Humans aren’t perfect, but computer programs are only as good as the programming.

Re:Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic on Saturday October 01, 2022 @10:47PM (#33052347)
Curious how it compares to https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace

And are there any other similar projects.

Re:How to identify and misidentify a brown recluse spider (2005) on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:14PM (#32527653)
I’ve been told that spiders can be beneficial for getting rid of (i.e. eating) other pests - actual insects. Obviously if I find a spider in my living space, I’ll relocate it outside. Since almost spiders, in the US, are virtually harmless, they’re pretty easy to move with a cup/tissue/paper/whatever.
Re:Postgres 15 improves UNIQUE and NULL on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:35AM (#32055307)
Coming from an MS SQL Server background, this behavior surprised me.

While SQL Server generally does treat null values as not equal in query predicates, for the purpose of unique constraints/indexes it’ll treat them as the same value. I guess this does go against the spec? But it makes sense as a human when looking at a tuple and deciding if it is “unique” or not.

On that note, now I wonder what SQL Server does with nulls in a DISTINCT or GROUP BY. I suspect that it’ll treat all nulls as the same.

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