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Re:Show HN: isometric.nyc/snow on Monday February 23, 2026 @12:08PM (#47125174)
Spectacular! I'm morbidly fascinated by the variance in how well different streets have been plowed.
Does this remind anyone of pranking the new hire? "Go to the hardware store and fetch some rainbow paint"
This is fascinating! Did the attempts start as soon as you started up the server, or did it take a little while to get going?
There's no TLD for the latter.
Re:Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users on Friday January 30, 2026 @02:00PM (#46828428)
This is wild. Not sure if it's more of a reason not to use ClawdBot, or not to get into crypto.
Re:OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:44AM (#46826603)
I went to install "moltbot" yesterday, and the binary was still "clawdbot" after installation. Wonder if they'll use Moltbot to manage the rename to OpenClaw.
Re:Heathrow scraps 100ml liquid container limit on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:54AM (#46796137)
Sad to see no mention of Manchester airport in this. Seems like they flag every third bag for manual screening.
Re:How I Estimate Work as a Staff Software Engineer on Saturday January 24, 2026 @12:13PM (#46745375)
A lot of this felt very familiar. Having multiple plans does seem like a good way to hedge against the unknown, but I can also see that you'd end up with the "secret 5th" plan when all of those unknowns eventually stack up.

Planning is inaccurate, frustrating, and sadly necessary.

I got a classic and obvious 419 scam email today. Kind of felt like I'd gone back to a simpler time.
Re:Are we all plagiarists now? on Saturday January 24, 2026 @11:49AM (#46745098)
I really don't know how I feel about that Ctrl/Control joke.
Re:I protect my forgejo instance from AI Web Crawlers on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:26PM (#46357035)
I'd see this as coming down to incentive. If you can scrape naively and it's cheap, what's the benefit to you in doing something more efficient for git forge? How many other edge cases are there where you could potentially save a little compute/bandwidth, but need to implement a whole other set of logic?

Unfortunately, this kind of scraping seems to inconvenience the host way more than the scraper.

Another tangent: there probably are better behaved scrapers, we just don't notice them as much.

Re:Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @01:12PM (#46292024)
Given they've been essentially subsidizing self-hosted orgs for a while, I'm kinda surprised they didn't do this before now. Probably wanted to lead with the price cut for everyone else.

It'll be interesting to see how this affects third party companies providing GitHub runners.

Interesting approach! I can see promise in the vet tooling assuming the module keeps up with GitHub's schema well.

If you had to pick, what's the "killer" feature for you with this module?

Re:Hack a Day "YouTube over Dial Up" on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @01:33PM (#45428517)
That change in the definition of broadband is wild.

YouTube is a great proxy for speed testing, when I was building remote desktop applications it was one of my go-to performance tests.

Re:Traefik's 10-Year Journey from Zero to Standard on Saturday September 27, 2025 @11:51AM (#45396806)
Congrats on a decade! Time flies. I think I first heard about Traefik from a GopherCon talk, and it quickly became a default for me when working with Kubernetes.

Still not entirely sure how to pronounce the name though...

Re:The YAML Document from Hell on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @03:36PM (#45351719)
I think I've tried to start using anchors at least once every year or so when I get annoyed with a particularly repetitive file. Never managed to get my head around it. Just seems so shoe-horned in and if anything makes the document harder to follow.
Re:For the Founders: What are your launch strategies? on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @03:27PM (#45351598)
Can't really speak to any successes so won't share specific strategies, but from what I've seen there is very much no one-size-fits-all. The best options vary a lot depending on the target audience, differentiators and even the temperament of the founders themselves.

Try everything and keep doing what works for you, I guess.

Re:The energy cost of your AI query on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @03:15PM (#45351470)
Nice to see such a broad range of comparisons, easy on the eye too.

The oven example is an interesting one, seems a lot more "real life" than the others. Almost makes me want to use my oven less...

Re:Getting AI to work in complex codebases on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @03:09PM (#45351408)
There's also the more insidious gap between perceived productivity and actual productivity. Doesn't help that nobody can agree on how to measure productivity even without AI.