lagniappe

Re:Building for the Future on Friday May 08, 2026 @12:50AM (#48058683)

I want to agree, however, it will take every bit of that time for some to find new placement. These AI cuts aren't just making it harder to keep a job, but harder to get a job as well.

Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @11:21PM (#48045070)

I appreciate you

Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @11:19PM (#48045056)

Thank you :)

Ask HN: What Are You Building?

Posted by lagniappe on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @08:39PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Curious what everyone is working on

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Re:Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @12:24AM (#48018017)

Watch your mouth.

The Science of French Fries

Posted by lagniappe on Sunday May 03, 2026 @08:07PM
from the foodcrumbles.com dept.

https://foodcrumbles.com/science-making-perfect-fries/

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Re:Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time on Sunday May 03, 2026 @08:05PM (#48002987)

I'm so tired of the surveillance state.

Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless ... on Saturday May 02, 2026 @07:57PM (#47991786)

    microsoft locked as spam and limited conversation to collaborators 6 minutes ago

Re:Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres on Friday May 01, 2026 @02:38PM (#47978388)

Fossil really has it all.

Re:Where the Goblins Came From on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:37AM (#47958990)

They can fix this but they can't fix "You're absolutely right!"

Re:Warp is now Open-Source on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @05:55PM (#47941384)

If you expect payment then put that in the license. Yes it's a dick move, but those are the terms the original developer chose.

Re:Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @11:04AM (#47935660)

Are we assuming the lack of a recorded period is the criteria? If yes, what if you just forgot to add it that month, or have hormonal issues, or abnormal BMI?

Re:I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @10:47AM (#47935394)

>The Danes do it best, they basically shut down the country for 3 months every summer and have an unspoken agreement that nothing will get done.

Is there a skeleton crew to run grocery and fuel?

Re:I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @10:45AM (#47935366)

>After five years at Shopify, employees get a paid month off to do whatever the hell they want. I took mine in April 2026.

Bleak.. Only a month after five years.

Re:Hear your agent suffer through your code on Friday April 24, 2026 @01:01PM (#47892941)

That sounds like farts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7mYzSZdNPE

The Library Freedom Project

Posted by lagniappe on Thursday April 23, 2026 @10:13AM
from the libraryfreedom.org dept.

https://libraryfreedom.org/

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The Beauty of Bonsai Styles

Posted by lagniappe on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @12:31AM
from the longwoodgardens.org dept.

https://longwoodgardens.org/blog/2023-05-17/beauty-bonsai-styles

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Re:Cloudflare Email Service on Friday April 17, 2026 @12:50AM (#47802531)

god mode code from Doom

Re:Cloudflare Email Service on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:38AM (#47793647)

It's cloudflare, they type iddqd before every request.

Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:33AM (#47793570)

Then who is Rocinante?

Re:Shares in shoe brand Allbirds rise 580% after it pivots from footwe... on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:00AM (#47793097)

Reminds me of Long Island Blockchain

Re:Claude may require identity verification in some cases on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @08:58AM (#47778365)

Prove it

Re:Why AI Sucks at Front End on Monday April 13, 2026 @08:52AM (#47751267)

Tell that to the junior devs.

Re:DIY Soft Drinks on Monday April 13, 2026 @08:31AM (#47751050)

The 90's were a magical place. Best we can do now is Clear Pepsi.

Re:Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTM... on Saturday April 11, 2026 @01:31AM (#47727714)

This thing is so fun. My best was 17, better than 94% :)

Re:Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S. on Sunday April 05, 2026 @01:06PM (#47651438)

Youre getting baited by a green name, Boudreaux

Re:Writing Lisp Is AI Resistant and I'm Sad on Sunday April 05, 2026 @12:15AM (#47646052)

That's you at the time not knowing LLM fundamentals with regards to context management.

Re:The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @11:22AM (#47504008)

>Most of the traits you were born with - intelligence, conscientiousness, height, bone density, grip strength, resting heart rate - follow a bell curve.

Is this written by AI?

Re:Hacker mints $80M USD worth of USR stablecoins on Monday March 23, 2026 @08:01PM (#47496857)

PYUSD is run by PayPal afaik.

Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves ... on Sunday March 22, 2026 @02:09PM (#47480353)

Cloudflare considered harmful