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Hi Neil, fun to see you on HN. I agree with your points and I you summarized it very well as "Ultimately, open source is built on trust".

AI is destroying trust in open source and many other areas and I think this will discourage teams from publishing their source code in the future.

On the other hand, personal connections are becoming even more important, which is unfair to the younger generation and people who don't live near tech hubs.

Re: on Monday June 01, 2026 @02:32AM (#48353308)
Here is an official response from the Bundeswehr (German):

https://www.bundeswehr.de/de/organisation/zahlen-daten-fakte...

Re:Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:32AM (#47789012)
This document is an Internet-Draft (I-D). Anyone may submit an I-D to the IETF. This I-D is not endorsed by the IETF and has no formal standing in the IETF standards process.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thain-ipv8/

Re:Bring Back Idiomatic Design on Monday April 13, 2026 @04:08AM (#47749179)
I thought this is how it works for most software. What are the exceptions to this rule?
Re:Why the heck are we still using Markdown? on Friday April 03, 2026 @02:23PM (#47630156)
Markdown has a lot of weird choices and works best for longer documents.

Check out my "Advent of Markdown" where I go through surprising markdown behavior: https://mastodon.social/@timokoesters/115643467322561173

Re:LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs on Sunday March 29, 2026 @04:57PM (#47567236)
Do you have advice for building up this network for graphics development? I'm a Master's student building a custom rendering stack with wgpu and it's difficult to meet people interested in specific skills like rendering.
Re:How Markdown Took over the World on Saturday January 10, 2026 @05:02AM (#46564349)
Markdown has a lot of weird choices and works best for longer documents.

Check out my "Advent of Markdown" where I go through surprising markdown behavior: https://mastodon.social/@timokoesters/115643467322561173

I'm the author of the spec issue this blog post is based on: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/852

In my implementation for the Conduit Matrix server, the /sync order is used for everything. The timeline is just one list that grows on one end for incoming events and on the other end for backfilled events.

I think it's important that the message order does not change, because that's very difficult to communicate to the user.

For TLS certificates, the certificate authority has to look up IPs to verify the domain. So the security is still based on DNS, right?
I often hear complaints about DNS. How secure is it in practice and why are there little efforts to fix it?
Re:Fonts you only pay for once on Sunday October 27, 2024 @02:33PM (#41964580)
You can find many professional fonts in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36793029, but almost all of them require expensive licenses or even monthly fees. swisstypefaces.com licenses include all formats with unlimited usage for a one-time fee.
Re:Ask HN: Best way to communicate in Q4 2024 internet? on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @04:45AM (#41856939)
I hope that MIMI (More Instant Messaging Interoperability) will get more attention when it's ready.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/mimi/about/

Re:Piracy on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @06:29AM (#41706613)
Legally, you are allowed to sell the license (at least in Germany). We need to force distributors to give us tools to do it.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023) on Friday September 01, 2023 @05:04PM (#37356158)
Location: Germany

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rust

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timo-k%C3%B6sters-44329522a/

Email: [email protected]

I'm the creator of the Conduit Matrix Server open source project https://conduit.rs . I also like working with computer graphics (e.g. https://plotf.xyz ) and am interested in building optimized software with Rust.

Re:Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @12:18PM (#37051384)
This looks like a great project!

I have a question: Why is it necessary to specify the device for every Tensor? Wouldn't it be possible to set the device once and then all allocations are made to that device?

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