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Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:35AM (#47714366)
Makes sense to me. The new coding agents are drastically changing software development, and I think there's a lot of space for innovation in how version control tooling works in this new world.
Re:Native Instant Space Switching on macOS on Thursday April 09, 2026 @05:05PM (#47710098)
I've seen this sentiment often. For example, in a discussion about slow nvm load times: "Does adding 0.5s delay to opening your terminal really affect your productivity?"

I agree that these small things are not bottlenecks to my productivity. I can work just fine despite them. However there is some intangible effect they have on my mindset when I'm working. The more "snappy" my computer feels, the easier it is to enter a sort of flow state. Small bits of friction here and there add up.

This looks great, and like it could address a need in ecosystem. Also, the admin dashboard is such a great feature of django, nice job building it from the get-go.
I believe we already saw something like this happen with the PG&E power outage in San Francisco in December. The waymo post-mortem [1] describes the outage causing a backlog of RA requests, which seems to have resulted in cars blocking roads an intersections. I would imagine they've improved the system after that incident, however.

[1] https://waymo.com/blog/2025/12/autonomously-navigating-the-r...

Re:Building a TUI is easy now on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:16PM (#47007946)
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Re:Vouch on Sunday February 08, 2026 @04:16PM (#46938598)
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Re:State of the Fin 2026-01-06 – Jellyfin on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:20PM (#46516280)
> Am I missing something here wrt Jellyfin clients?

Unfortunately, I don't think so. I had many issues with playback on ATV using Swiftfin. Infuse works very well, so it is worth the ~$15 yearly to me. I am hopeful that Swiftfin will improve over time, they have a few dedicated developers working on it.

Re:State of the Fin 2026-01-06 – Jellyfin on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:04PM (#46516025)
Which app are you using on your TV? I've had success direct-playing 4K content with the jellyfin Android TV app. On AppleTV, Infuse works well. Infuse isn't free, but it is worth the money to me.
Re:Uv format: Code Formatting Comes to uv (experimentally) on Thursday August 21, 2025 @08:04PM (#44979669)
This is cool. Is there a way to call ruff’s linter? Like `uv lint`, which would call `ruff check`.

To your analogy, it’d be like `cargo clippy`

Re:Never write your own date parsing library on Friday July 25, 2025 @05:27PM (#44688687)
"The Hunt for Red October" had an interesting way of handling this with the Russian speakers. The movie starts with them speaking Russian with English subtitles, does a slow zoom into the Russian-speaker's lips, and switches to English mid-sentence.
Re:Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @02:12PM (#43106111)
Looks like it is for http requests only? If so, wireshark is not an apt comparison.
Re:The Joy of Nand2Tetris on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:14AM (#43086876)
Do you have a recommendation for a book or course that teaches these things better? In particular FSMs.
Re:WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @02:49PM (#42068249)
Did you read the article? It is about the CPU cost of using WebSockets to transfer data over loopback.
Re:Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 on Thursday October 24, 2024 @11:10PM (#41941906)
This update is great news. I was disappointed to see the issue that got raised last week, and I had started to consider looking for alternatives. I’m going to assume an honest mistake on their end and keep recommending their product. However, if they make a similar move again, I will assume the worst and move on.
Re:Developing with Docker on Thursday October 24, 2024 @11:26AM (#41936468)
> What if running the linters was as easy as: … $ docker compose exec web /scripts/run-linters

This seems to ignore the fact that I also run linters in my IDE to get immediate feedback as I’m writing code. As far as I know there’s no way to combine these two approaches. Currently I’m just careful to make sure my local ruff version matches the one used in CI.

It may be possible with VS Code dev containers, but last time I looked at those I was turned off by the complexity.

Re:DevToys v2.0 Preview on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @12:24AM (#40654503)
This looks like it could be a really great tool. I was excited to try it, but unfortunately the app is pretty unusable for me on Ubuntu. It has been frequently crashing with "an unhandled error has occured". When it's not crashing, it seems to be running at 5-10 FPS. It also seems to be hogging CPU, with some WebKit process running at 250+% CPU.

This is just a preview, so I'm hopeful the developers can work these issues out. Judging by their website, I could see this being a useful tool!

Re:The Home Assistant Green is here on Sunday September 17, 2023 @05:05PM (#37549305)
I recently discovered the home-assistant supervisor [1] repository. It's awesome to see such a well-designed, mature, and actively maintained open-source python application. I've found that there's no shortage of high quality python libraries and frameworks to learn from, but open-source applications aren't as common. I love coming across repos like this so I can study their design.

[1] https://github.com/home-assistant/supervisor

Re:You Can't Optimize for Rest (2021) on Thursday June 01, 2023 @06:59PM (#36158603)
Can you describe more what you mean? Are you suggesting one could live by selling their home and purchasing a new one every 2 years, and doing something with credit secured by the home(s)? How does that relate to rest?
Re:Taxonomy of Procrastination on Monday May 15, 2023 @02:24PM (#35952453)
What is a self discipline workout?
Re:Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @09:56AM (#32824335)
Where does Murphy come from?
Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to dedicated sound cards? on Thursday September 01, 2022 @12:17PM (#32678634)
> No interference

This has not been my experience at all. For my 5" powered studio monitors, the _only_ way to get a interference-free signal from my desktop computer was with an optical cable to an external DAC.

Re:Are GPUs Worth It for ML? on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:01PM (#32651943)
Can you describe what you mean by that?
> good commenting skills take years to master

As a newer developer, it’s nice to hear you say that. I often find that I spend more time deliberating over comment wording and variable names than I spend writing the code itself!

Re:Fzf – a command-line fuzzy finder on Sunday March 20, 2022 @02:34AM (#30740630)
There are instructions for enabling it in the package manager docs: apt-cache show fzf
Re:Linux on an M1 Mac on Friday March 18, 2022 @12:05AM (#30718643)
Does it really get the same great battery life of the M1 running MacOS? In the case of my dell XPS laptop, for example, it gets pretty good battery life if I use the windows 10 OS that it shipped with, but when I run Ubuntu, the battery life is horrible.
Re:Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @12:53AM (#30524226)
Nice. Simple and fun for a few minutes. I got 45
Re:Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself? on Saturday June 12, 2021 @04:44PM (#27487299)
That’s awesome, is the source available?
Re:Firefox 89 Tab Appearance on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:49PM (#27395612)
A great deal of customization can be done. The TST GitHub wiki has a nice page dedicated to these tweaks, you may be able to find what you need there:

https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo...

This kind of thing is really inspiring to me. Are there any similar projects I can contribute to? I would love to work on software that has such a clear positive impact on someone's life, like in this video.
Just put your game in my steam wishlist! I love typing games, and its nice to see new ones getting created.

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