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Re:Another day another GitHub incident on Monday October 19, 2026 @11:57AM (#50153984)
GitHub actions staying 'Queued', started 16 minutes ago for me
Re:2D Vehicles on Sunday October 11, 2026 @07:31AM (#50042079)
Yes, it feels like the memory I have of driving and sliding in GTA 1 and 2. Cool that you have posted this. I like the way you have modelled the physics as simply as possible while still giving a realistic feel.
Re:The CSS Zen Garden dream shipped on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @12:28PM (#49714979)
It's a pity. Spending so much time to ship the CSS dream (clean, well-thought-out) and then using AI-talk to share it with the world.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @02:23PM (#49234073)
Ah, that's very cool. Thanks for the link. Fun to see other HN folks on the same canvas!
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @02:13PM (#49233949)
The landing page is teasing. Then I clicked 'Open a Canvas', expecting to play around with a canvas to understand the tool. But bummer, a login screen. Maybe you can let people try before making an account?
Yes, your current situation does make a difference in what is important to you and which questions you have. And it also influences the balance at the interviewing table. I can imagine that it is frustrating to feel being evaluated against candidates who have the luxery of saying ‘no’ to a new job and can think critically if they want to work at the new place. Sometimes you have more freedom to say ‘no’ then you think. It can make a difference between night and day.
Re:Private company landing on the moon today on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:42PM (#39474341)
That livestream [0] looks like a pretty convincing scam to me, with 22k people viewing at the moment. And it indeed sounds like him. The real username is hidden behind the visible SpaceX[Live] name.
Thanks for the stats! Interestingly traveling by space shuttle comes down to 70.000 deaths per 1 billion hours traveled, compared 30.8 deaths per 1 billion hours flown.
For distance traveled flying is safer than any other form of transportation (maybe except trains?). I wonder however, what the stats are for time spent. How much safer is time spent flying, compared to other forms of transportation? Is it about equal, a bit safer or an order of magnitude safer?
Just out of curiosity, what are the things that you’re self-hosting? And what’s your setup for self-hosting?
There is a social issue around death that is quite complex. A wish for a sudden peaceful death at a certain old age is not an easy one. Family, doctors, society and laws should be aligned on this. Right now the norm (at least in the Netherlands) is too keep a person alive as long as reasonably possible.
Re:I Accidentally a Scheme on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @02:43AM (#38274263)
Yeah, good to hear. I also did this for nights on end. My strategy was to try to solve the puzzle myself first (in a reasonable amount of time) and then check the solutions of others. Always fun to see if I could make my solution faster/shorter/more elegant/etc. with the inspiration of the other solutions.
Re:I Accidentally a Scheme on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @02:34AM (#38274223)
I had a lot of fun learning Clojure. While I don't use it in daily practice, I learned a lot about elegancy, the advantages of data immutability and using code as building blocks. For learning I used the 4clojure website where you can solve interactive coding puzzles and learn from solutions of others. See: https://4clojure.oxal.org
Re:Is there a wider internet outage today? on Monday June 05, 2023 @04:56PM (#36203479)
There’s a saying on HN: major outages often come from DNS. It was also DNS in the recent WhatsApp outage thread. I’m wondering what the source of the possible broader internet slowness is.
In the latest release (v20.0.0) Puppeteer switches from Chromium binaries to Chrome for Testing binaries by default. Since the binary is different the change is marked as breaking.

Background document from Google about the new Chrome For Testing brand: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XJvxyqAQjhPfJ0rX84PjfXXb...

I don't know exactly what the impact is for the future of Puppeteer and Chromium. Maybe someone can share their thoughts on this.

This article is written with SEO in mind. Repeating the same information multiple times in different formats (explanation, faqs and ‘conclusion’).
Re:Looking at a website turns Bing Chat into a scammer on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:33AM (#34979402)
Would you say that Google search has found a way to beat SEO spam sites? If the comparison of the development of search engines and the development of AI chat holds up, then it seems to me that creating prompt injection will trump defeating it in the long run.
That’s lovely and frustrating. 1) The right answer could be visualized higher on the screen, to reduce eye movement. 2) My 15 minute progress was erased after checking the settings and trying out the options. Argh! But overall well done on this project!
Re:Why Domain Driven Design? on Friday November 25, 2022 @07:33AM (#33741795)
Years ago, when we just founded our company, I asked an experienced CTO: 'In your experience, what is the most expensive thing to adjust later on?'. He said: 'Changes in your datamodel'. That advice worked out well. We spent extra time designing our datamodel and it saved us quite a lot of money / time on refactoring later.

So making schema discussions as concrete as possible with Excel together with business stakeholders sounds like a smart thing to do.

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