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Re:How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:10AM (#49921931)
Not sure why you are being downvoted here.
Re:Jemalloc 5.4.0 on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:06AM (#49751847)
> Why is this on the HN front page?

This question was not necessary. You know the answer, because people upvoted this.

Re:I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:40PM (#49730428)
Thanks for sharing!
Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Monday August 31, 2026 @05:24AM (#49507616)
From the title, I knew what it was about.

This Super Metroid guide is some crazy stuff I'll always remember. I was reading it and then a 10 minutes later I noticed, it was such unique feeling. Definitely a piece of art.

Re:25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA on Saturday August 29, 2026 @03:23AM (#49487710)
You people are crazy.

Post a article about a C++ program and the entire world is coming at you saying Rust is better because it's safer and you are crazy to use such language is 2026.

Post about food safety. And suddenly safety is negligible because it's not that much.

Keep going guys.

Can we stop pretending people health is insignificant because it is statistically insignificant?

How many people will consume this, how many people will get sick?

How many more product will be dangerous. Are we waiting for more death to just have bare minimum safety measures?

Re:Git at Any Scale on Friday August 21, 2026 @04:18AM (#49385288)
I can't disagree with this in the current state.

But I believe it would be easy to fix with limitation for the free accounts (CI time limit, total size of repo limit etc.)

Re:Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @06:18AM (#49019305)
What is the point of the comment?

I read it as "some forks are successful", and well, you need to fork to be a successful fork.

Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:40PM (#49011432)
Fair. I should have said that the boycott is totally on a different level.
Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @07:51AM (#49005261)
It happens to be Russian. So people boycott it.

You may note that when US goes to war nobody boycott the US.

Re:Codeberg bans vibe coded projects on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:18AM (#49004409)
> I was kind of thinking of switching to codeberg, but now I am questioning their decisions here.

It reads to me that you are afraid of getting your project removed if you ever move. No need to pretend you care about the morality of their decision.

Re:Minikotlin on Friday July 17, 2026 @10:03AM (#48947539)
I was expecting a a link to the source code after the "written in C".
Re:Telegram Serverless on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @11:31AM (#48922378)
The title made me realized that there is less and less use of the "serverless".

Which was one of the most non-sensical word to say "You don't maintain the server".

Re:Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:44PM (#48909555)
I find his comment interesting. It's just mundane feedback, but still a feedback.

Likewise, you could ignore his comment but decided to engage.

Re:The Git history command deserves more attention on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:31AM (#48907530)
> claiming that reputations are always deserved. I find that to be bullshit.

You are creating you own frustration. If you read the thread again I never said this. You just got obsessed with the word "reputation" and never let go.

People are not hallucinating being confused by git. That's my original message. You can be at peace now.

Re:The Git history command deserves more attention on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:17AM (#48907279)
> "yes it has a reputation for being confusing, but much of it is undeserved"

This is not what is written here:

> Git is not nearly as confusing as people make it out to be. They just never take the few hours it takes to understand it. Which is a sad state of affairs for such an essential tool in the belt of any software engineer.

> just does not cut it, if you call yourself a professional.

Re:The Git history command deserves more attention on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:13AM (#48907216)
> You've made one and only one point in this thread so far: I'm addressing only that point. You've provided no other elaborations. You're saying "it has a reputation for being confusing, therefore it is confusing." That's a bullshit statement, IMO.

I'll repeat myself, I can show you thousands of messages point out how git is confusing. I can show you plenty of message saying "I used X it was fine, but I used git and it's cumbersome", please show me the same amount of messages telling "I used git it was fine, but I used XXX and it's cumbersome."

Re:The Git history command deserves more attention on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:27AM (#48906526)
You are moving the goalposts.

I could show you thousands of message backing up the confusion.

But you can keep nitpick irrelevant part of messages and pretend you are very smart.

Re:The Git history command deserves more attention on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @07:13AM (#48904970)
This is irrelevant to the topic.

I didn't ask why git was widely used. I didn't say git was useless.

Again, there were version controls before git came out.

Re:The Git history command deserves more attention on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @07:01AM (#48904873)
> Similarly if a VCS has a reputation for being “simple”, people might gravitate to it, learn it first, then parrot conclusions that git is too complicated because they never really gave git a chance in the first place (often they do take the time to read the other VCS’s documentation, and if they would have done the same for git they would have had no problems.)

I don't think I need to reply to a comment that illustrate the main point of this sub thread.

Re:The Git history command deserves more attention on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @06:45AM (#48904745)
You conveniently cherry picked the least relevant part of my message.

No one said everything should be easy as pie.

There are other software similar to git that have not such reputation. Version control is not new.

Re:The Git history command deserves more attention on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @06:26AM (#48904593)
There is no aggression.

If your product has a reputation to confuse users compared to other products, your product confuses users.

Let's not start to bend reality just to back up some narrative because after reading a N hours documentation everything is OK.

Re:The Git history command deserves more attention on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @06:03AM (#48904426)
> Git is not nearly as confusing as people make it out to be.

The people are confused, it's a fact. So it is confusing. Stop gaslighting people.

Re:Write code like a human will maintain it on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:30AM (#48861317)
Yes. But definitely not this year.
Re:Write code like a human will maintain it on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:51AM (#48860806)
AI is trained on a various range of code quality, including very low one.

I'm paid to provide good quality code and not flood my company with more average code than it should.

In my previous job, I could regularly reduce a PR code down to 10-20%% of its size because someone overlooked something or was just "overengineer" a feature.

AI are such "bullshiters" that they produce more text than necessary.

Code bloat was already real, but from my personal experience it becomes realer with AI. The outcome of this will likely be apparent when no one can dive into any code base because of the amount of fluff in it (and you will obviously need more AI to deal with this).

Re:Microsoft Fire IdTech Team at Id Software on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @12:01PM (#48819665)
> why wouldn't they just sell it?

Serious question, is there any kind of entities that can be owned, but not "dismantled", if you don't want it you need to try to sell or make it independant.

Would there be any chance to make it a thing when a company is bought?

Re:CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @10:12AM (#48818164)
This is incredibly helpful. Thank you!
Re:CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:54AM (#48815202)
Sorry for the slight off-topic:

Is there any standard protocol/format for "layers" that could be added to such Map apps?

Let's say I want to write a plugin to add my own kind of data, and then I want to export this new kind of data so that someone can import them.

Or I want to create a website with my own data on top of existing one.

Re:The 2-Year Apartment Rule on Thursday June 18, 2026 @04:34AM (#48582516)
I know it's just a blog post, but I wish I knew what "level" of mold and roaches we are talking about.

Seeing mold in joints is not unusual depending on the conditions, but it's also easily fixable.

For cockroaches either there is none in your area, either get one in a year "by mistake", but if it's a recurring events the problem is likely food or garbage that sits longer than it should.

Re:Epic Games announces Lore version control system on Thursday June 18, 2026 @02:43AM (#48581638)
Maybe because they want contributions.

They have probably enough _bigger_ projects that dogfoods it.

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