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Re:OccupySaaS on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:12AM (#50333651)
You are right on all accounts. You might even be right these folks are naive and even delusional. That doesn't make it impossible to turn out great though. Let's wait and see.

Richard Stallman must have looked almost as delusional when he started a free compiler and an OS in the 80s.

Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:12AM (#50316398)
For the folks out there that remember the USSR, am I the only one getting strong Правда vibes from that headline?
Re:Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:30PM (#50265338)
I didn't mean nginx didn't have these. They are just not in core and require me to jump through hoops to get them.

Modern proxies have these features built in and don't need plugins or sidecar containers.

Re:Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:03AM (#50254884)
> Nginx / envoy should be your default choice for most use cases.

Nginx was there like 15 years ago and it feels it has been stuck there with no progress ever since. No metrics, no ACME certs... I moved to Traefik and never looked back.

Tbh, it doesn't seem much different than having to watch out for not stuffing PII in logs.

Besides, with wide events, it seems possible to apply data lineage ideas and mark certain fields as sensitive and restrict access to them.

Re:JetBrains Thinkrail on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:48PM (#50235927)
Interested in the SPEC.md format and workflow. Where can I learn more?

EDIT: found it at https://thinkrail.ai/blog/thinkrail-sdd/

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Also... why bun?! I just finished purging it from all my systems, ha! It'd be cool to have plain pnpm support.

google2shell would have been nice :D
Re:Bringing uv and ty together on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:37AM (#50220687)
> keeping them as standalone tools seems most natural

It's natural to us, purists, but I doubt people care. Everyone wants a single tool that allows them to `uv check` and `uv run` in every project without having to install anything.

Re:The game industry is broken – can we fix it? on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:05PM (#50142285)
Holy slop wall, Batman.

Happy for you, though. Or sorry it happened.

Re:macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:01PM (#50142238)
Why, yes, of course, have all the devs in the world spend $25 and tons of time each, because Apple doesn't care about devs nor users.

/s

Re:The game industry is broken – can we fix it? on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:16AM (#50138705)
Can't agree more. We need more "betting" societal stigma.
Re:The game industry is broken – can we fix it? on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:15AM (#50138698)
Oh, well. I might have a bridge to sell you. :D
Re:The game industry is broken – can we fix it? on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:04AM (#50138630)
The US dollar has lost 20% of value over the past 5 years. You can print money out of thin air, but you can't print industrial output (or good games).
Re:The game industry is broken – can we fix it? on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:01AM (#50138605)
You need the team of 500 to do the "telemetry" and microtransactions parts.

The game industry has merged with the gaming industry.

Re:Unikernels were hard. key word: were on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:05AM (#50041515)
Take this with a grain of salt. I haven't run unikernels in prod, so it's all a figment of my imagination.

> Tools such as `strace`, eBPF, `lsof`, `ss`, etc. have tremendous value.

But doesn't their value lie in getting you access to the core of the OS that you wouldn't be able to touch otherwise? What if your network stack was a library you could instrument just like you do with the rest of your app code?

Also, I don't need a tool to tell me I'm being punished by the IO or CPU scheduler if I am the only one using the CPU and IO :)

Re:Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale on Saturday September 26, 2026 @04:10AM (#49854309)
Yeah, people have been advising against DISTINCT for ages. I guess that piece of common wisdom somehow got lost in this age of AI wonders. :D
I have no idea what problem the project solves. Maybe you could add a paragraph at the top.

Right now it reads like "something doing something with AI" which is pretty much any project nowadays.

B...b...b...but who's going to take care of AML procedures and FATF regulations. We'll get drowned in money laundering! :D
> Writing code is not hard. Writing correct code is.

Now add the time dimension - keeping code correct as the business and the people in it change.

That's how I explain to people that LLMs will not replace us developers.

Re:As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:08AM (#49219041)
Too bad nobody needs to eject a floppy disk anymore :D
Re:Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books on Sunday August 02, 2026 @08:21AM (#49143844)
I've gotten yearly performance reviews that have been obviously ChatGPT-generated. People are just lazy.

Some HR systems even support that and have AI writing/rewording integrated.

Corporate hellscapes intensifying, I guess.

Re:What liberal arts education is for (2024) on Saturday August 01, 2026 @05:41PM (#49138758)
Are we reading the same letter?

1 Corinthians 13 has inspired millions. I think I know several movies quoting it.

Re:What liberal arts education is for (2024) on Saturday August 01, 2026 @03:01AM (#49131851)
I stand corrected. I probably went through the Freshman list only.

> The Bhagavad Gita

Well memed, sir!

Re:What liberal arts education is for (2024) on Saturday August 01, 2026 @02:21AM (#49131625)
St. Paul's writing has this effect on people. It's either a burst of love and joy or seething hatred. Never in the middle. :D

> There are curricula based on the Great Books.

List not including the greatest book of them all... What did they mean by this?

Re:Three Theses on the Literacy Crisis on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @01:16AM (#49079664)
Literacy and reading used to be cool and kids read because successful people around them did. I remember that being the case as recently as the 80s and 90s in my small post-Communist country.

Then culture changed [1]. Now we have different role models with mumble rap and songs about "muh pu*y". Is it a surprise kids don't read anymore?

All the issues with schools, infrastructure and technology are secondary. The spark is gone.

[1] Well, it didn't change all by itself and people that changed it have names and addresses, but that's not a HN post.

Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon on Sunday July 19, 2026 @12:22PM (#48969459)
Love the deceleration narrative :)

"No, sir, we haven't reached the peak of this tech... It's those open models! Please, keep pumping dollars into the market!"

It's okay to record everyone around you all the time because:

1. Women do it. 2. The government does it. 3. Private businesses do it.

What?!

> Roblox made a change where you’re not allowed to share your games with friends unless you do “age verification”

My son had a similar "making games" interests and I just showed him the Godot engine. Roblox bosses are doing you a favor. Act now :D

Re:M/PC – A Concatenative OS on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @01:43AM (#48814057)
> Unix pipes are basically concatenative, I've often thought how much mileage you could get out of going more in this direction.

You might enjoy the "Shell Has a Forth-like Quality" article. It's changed my shell scripting a lot.

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/01/13.html

Re:Organic Maps on Sunday July 05, 2026 @11:24AM (#48794969)
Yeah (2) is the killer feature especially in totalitarian shitholes (pretty much every country nowadays) full of money grab ops disguised as police checkpoints and cameras.

I wonder if we can build a decentralized version of such a reporting service.

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