stephenlf
Re:/dev/null: social network for developers
on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:25PM (#50121460)
Weird, especially because it DOES have likes.
Re:/dev/null: social network for developers
on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:13PM (#50121256)
I signed up for TextLog a few weeks ago. I love the text-only social network, but their European infra meant too much latency for my US-based browsing. Maybe this will scratch that itch!
Re:/dev/null: social network for developers
on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:12PM (#50121240)
Is this a real question? If so, here’s a real answer:
GitHub is the single most widely adopted, developer-specific OIDC identity provider.
If it’s facetious, then WSL BABYYYYYY
Re:Google Playground: Create and play custom games
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:11AM (#49993135)
I predict a very orthogonal outcome. This is an interesting experiment. If it gains some traction, Roblox and Minecraft are both very well situated to build a similar product and dominate the market.
Re:The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:16AM (#49815626)
I agree with this post. I’ve never found the GitHub wiki experience to be particularly ergonomic. I don’t have any issues with it, but it’s no more convenient than a simple /docs folder. And from there, it’s almost trivial to turn /docs into GitHub pages. Similar effort for a much better end product.
Wikis typically connote distributed, anonymous edits. This feature is partially covered by git already.
Re:The "omarchy" stuff is getting weird and weirder
on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:33AM (#49692036)
The whole thing reads like an odd parody. “A modest proposal.”
Re:Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers a...
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:34PM (#49685791)
> Follow a complete course, change real manifests and see what cpak accepts, refuses or changes. Professional paths lead to an exam and a public, verifiable credential.
Holy Claude
Re:US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Se...
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @11:03AM (#49684785)
Robin Hood?
Re:Pandas Should Go Extinct
on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:50PM (#49668584)
Besides the performance benefits, I use Polars at work because it’s just (subjectively) nicer to work with. The “pl.col” API lets you create arbitrary generated/virtual columns anywhere you want, declaratively. You can throw in these column expressions in wherever without actually computing their values and storing that in memory. Very powerful stuff.
Re:118M Queries per Second on Neki
on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:35PM (#49663149)
I watched an interview that Casey Muratori did with Tyler Cloutier (SpacetimeDB founder and spokesperson) [1]. One of the points that Tyler is that, given modern CPU architecture with cache lines, a distributed database needs to fan out to at least 50-100 nodes to beat the throughput of a cache-optimized, single node database.
It’s cool to see the flip side of that argument. Planet scale is answering the question, “what does it look like when you DO fan out your workload to >100 nodes?”
There’s a place for both technologies. Very cool stuff.
Re:I need a clear Python roadmap?
on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:01AM (#49653388)
Re:What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @08:12AM (#49642454)
How is that simpler?
Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence'
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:25PM (#49635415)
The entire internet is breathing a sigh of relief
Re:Fortune Telling Fraud
on Monday September 07, 2026 @06:57PM (#49603900)
This scam has apparently resurfaced among Esty spell vendors
Re:Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution (via str...
on Monday September 07, 2026 @05:12PM (#49603044)
“Widely regarded” still applies, I think.
Re:Simple Is Not Small
on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:28PM (#49602014)
Yeah that example was pretty flimsy and contrived.
Re:It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
on Sunday September 06, 2026 @06:20PM (#49591514)
Comparatively, this is what it's like getting all of this working across browser versions, platforms, and so many other things:
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I don’t know what this picture was supposed to be, but a 404 demonstrates your point perfectly well.
Re:Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:19PM (#49544394)
Pair programming worked well for me in college because my peers had about the same level of background knowledge and the goal was well defined. At my day job, pair programming doesn’t work as well, since the knowledge gaps in different parts of the system are too great. We don’t have a cohesive skill set.
Illumos Doors: Unix Built-In RPC Mechanism
Re:uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache
on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:02AM (#49509256)
uv is the backbone of any modern Python library. I’m excited to see improvements.
Re:uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache
on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:00AM (#49509232)
uv is the backbone of any modern Python library.
Re:I built a scanner to find a SaaS worth cloning. Its best answer was...
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @06:07PM (#49503330)
Do you know anybody who wants to read AI-generated research papers? I don’t. Do you?
Re:Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions ...
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @02:28PM (#49501396)
This isn’t the only ridiculous thing Anthropic does to promote Claude. They still don’t support AGENTS.md
Re:A lightweight Git CLI extension that adds S3:// support
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:23AM (#49499495)
The text on this website cuts off on my browser (iPhone 15 Safari). Phone-width websites have been solved for over a decade, so I’m not sure how the devs missed this. But I’m sure that the developers nailed the git extension.
Re:California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-veri...
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:13AM (#49499409)
This IS systemd we’re talking about.
Re:Bug Blindness
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @09:09AM (#49498331)
Asking others for feedback is absurdly powerful.
Re:
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @09:11AM (#49489628)
Kudos for finding the perfect name
Re:Show HN: Trading experiments, 5 years, all reproducible. The answer...
on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:49AM (#49464023)
This whole page sounds AI generated. If the author couldn’t bother to write a decent promotion, why would we think that the book was even half decent?
Re:Queryable Executables
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:21PM (#49443023)
Fantastic ideas. The SQL Injection to ACE pipeline is incredible.