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Re:Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance
on Monday August 17, 2026 @06:33PM (#49338586)
Problem with Gitlab is that they will never stop adding features.
Re:Zed DeltaDB
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:26PM (#49188522)
Snapshots have an intention behind them as a chunk that the programmer thought of. It has infinite flexibility depending on the programmer/team. IMO they are a necessary feature, but the article considers it a bug. It’s an explicit and deliberate chunking of code writing process which is what you want in a chaotic “collaborative” environment. The system doesn’t get to decide but you decide when to commit.
Re:Claude Fable 5
on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:14PM (#48465146)
It's interesting that we are seeing a time when subscriptions are not preferred and usage-based billing is.
Pay-as-you go isn't a common thing in SaaS. For example, except for AWS SES, all email providers are bulk-subscription based.
Re:GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation
on Sunday April 26, 2026 @04:14PM (#47913803)
Any recommendations for a trustworthy registrar?
Re:An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
on Thursday April 23, 2026 @02:42PM (#47879766)
Interesting. All 3 seems like they’re obviously going to impact quality. e.g, reducing the effort from high to medium.
So then, there must have been an explicit internal guidance/policy that allowed this tradeoff to happen.
Did they fix just the bug or the deeper policy issue?
Re:Vercel April 2026 security incident
on Sunday April 19, 2026 @02:24PM (#47826420)
I am not following the logic. If you’re a hobbyist, sure.
But the argument is if you’re using Vercel for production, you’re paying 5-10x what you’d pay for a VM, with 4gb.
So then what’s the rationale? You can’t be a hobbyist but also “it’s pay time” for production?
Re:Tell HN: AWS us-east-1 services are down
on Monday October 20, 2025 @04:00AM (#45641049)
What do you do if not AWS?
Re:Tell HN: AWS us-east-1 services are down
on Monday October 20, 2025 @03:58AM (#45641039)
workos is down too, timing is highly correlated with AWS outage: https://status.workos.com/
That means Cursor is down, can't login.
Re:Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense
on Monday July 14, 2025 @05:05PM (#44565287)
What changed? 2017 HN would be very different on this take.
Re:Hypercapitalism and the AI Talent Wars
on Monday July 14, 2025 @05:03PM (#44565265)
No, I can’t find a single article praising wealth concentration.
Re:Hypercapitalism and the AI Talent Wars
on Monday July 14, 2025 @06:03AM (#44558228)
Not trolling. It has served me better than most heuristics.
If there is something subjective and if you cannot find a critique of it, it’s usually a super power to assume the opposite is true barring obvious exceptions.
Re:Hypercapitalism and the AI Talent Wars
on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:40AM (#44557406)
What’s wrong with extreme wealth concentration? It’s not like hoarding cash. The wealth is the stake in companies they built or own.
We need more wealth concentration, simply because opposite of this is the prevailing normie zeitgeist. You can just write it off based on how popular it is to hate wealth.
Re:Grok 4 Launch [video]
on Thursday July 10, 2025 @04:55AM (#44518851)
It encourages the 80% into group think. Flagging is a signifier that “you should not dare to think that was a good comment. Move on and don’t think for yourself”.
Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @02:38PM (#44054689)
I agree somewhat, you can feel the tension on HN with respect to labor vs capital. Which is funny because the entire premise of YC is to infuse capital and get a huge leverage over bootstrappers.
Re:Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history
on Thursday December 12, 2024 @12:24PM (#42401164)
Chess engines should come with another metric bar: "The twitchy-ness" of the position aka the gradient of primary eval metric as you pareto the possible moves from best to worst. The stronger this gradient, the more risky it is to play, and more changes to make a mistake.
Re:The Astronaut Wore Prada
on Saturday October 19, 2024 @07:58PM (#41891789)
Great article by Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-17/michae...
Re:US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software in 2.4M cars after fat...
on Friday October 18, 2024 @10:54PM (#41885290)
That seems extreme. They’re the biggest force to combat Climate Change. Tesla existing is good for the world.
Re:SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days b...
on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @04:49AM (#41846433)
:-D Nice. The future we deserve. Now only if there was a company that was into one drop blood testing!
Re:SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days b...
on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @04:05AM (#41846097)
We need more safetyism culture. We need to ban root access completely by 2030. 10-factor security for login. 256 digit OTP and you must insert a drop of blood to login.
At least, we’ll be super secure!
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video]
on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:04PM (#41833848)
100% politically motivated. Same with our DOJ which has been weaponized like never before.
Like that famous quote, Show me a man and I’ll find a crime
Why are the American progressives against progress?
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video]
on Sunday October 13, 2024 @01:38PM (#41829882)
https://x.com/marionawfal/status/1845351598874120662
I dug into it, found this clip. Elon says that it’s those two tiny knubs! Saw a few pictures and yes, I confirm, it’s not the grid fins.
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video]
on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:59AM (#41828579)
Do you know what the entire booster is hanging off of? It can't be the fins. How is the load transferred to the arms?
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video]
on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:23AM (#41828282)
Insane!
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video]
on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:14AM (#41828207)
Need to remove regulations instead and fast track SpaceX.
Every fucking time we don't need to increase the size of the Government. It only gets bigger. Never smaller.
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video]
on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:09AM (#41828155)
Better than both, NSF's stream: https://x.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1845442658203734384
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video]
on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:05AM (#41828111)
Closeup of chopsticks as they were catching the booster, best clip from Everyday Astronaut's livestream: https://x.com/kagurazakimoto/status/1845447451592765820
Re:Show HN: I've Built an Accounting System
on Friday September 20, 2024 @10:00AM (#41602108)
It’s autist, I’ll allow it.
Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC
on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @10:45PM (#41575236)
Yes, it started with Trump’s administration. Amazing work and you’re seeing its fruition come true.
“T.S.M.C. Is Set to Build a U.S. Chip Facility, a Win for Trump”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/trump-tsmc-us-...
Re:Why freedom of speech is a wicked problem
on Friday September 13, 2024 @09:19PM (#41536737)
They still broadcast to millions of people despite of being occasionally wrong. Individuals can support them or not, they can be funded by other means (WaPo by Jeff Bezos). It doesn’t change the central point I was trying to make: they put out incorrect information to an extremely large audience. Often corrections are late and the damage is done. Viewership of correction is a few magnitude of orders less.
I am not advocating banning them. I was trying to make a point that by the extension of OP’s logic, the existence of press seems in line with their characterization.
Re:Why freedom of speech is a wicked problem
on Friday September 13, 2024 @02:56PM (#41534037)
By that extension, NYT or Fox News should be banned as they have and they do broadcast incorrect information all the time.