Recent submissions

Comment · 2 days ago
Or if it is your key and your air-gapped hardware wallet gets hacked because someone didn't use the right RNG. Crypto is apparently never yours; you're just holding on to it for some future criminal or nation state.
Comment · 2 days ago
Seems like the difference is millions of lines of code and thousands of servers now, vs none of either back then (unless you count some erlang ATT switching code for the phone call you make to the pizza shop).

Making a phone call, then paying with cash, is just crazy efficient. What exactly have we even gained?

Comment · 3 days ago
Comment · 8 days ago
Yeah, this is 99% of the benefit for me. And it's not theoretical. My company saw performance issues using pure random IDs with MySQL way back in 2015; and consequently rolled our own UUIDv7 that we're still using to this day.
Comment · 10 days ago
haha, yes, sorry.
Comment · 10 days ago
> bog standard markings for AC and DC

Well, yeah, but I wouldn't call a single "~V" UI label "discovery". Mine actually auto-switches between AC and DC, which fits better, I think. But it's still just a tiny part. If I try to measure the ohms of a rubber tire, I don't get a little Clippy character popping up to explain resistance to me.

Comment · 10 days ago
How could this happen to a project with 55k commits in three years?
Comment · 10 days ago
6.1 Sol does this too. Like, line break after a function, but absolutely nowhere else. This solved it for me:

- Use paragraph-oriented formatting: give distinct logical steps room to breathe. Keep closely related statements together, but separate changes of purpose and a block's final result with blank lines. Prefer readability over vertical compactness.

Comment · 14 days ago
Wow. Is DS the only model that consistently puts one leg behind the frame? I don’t even remember Opus ever doing that.
Comment · 15 days ago
If you also constantly lie, then people will complain about the lying.
Comment · 16 days ago
> I don't know why anybody would.

Well, there's really two things going on here: consumer vs professional. Does an electrician need to "discover" the modes on her multimeter? Naw. Do I need to discover where the wiper controls are on the car I just rented? Absolutely! But I'm not a huge fan of UI fluff that helps me discover things on my work machine.

Comment · 16 days ago
As someone who runs a super-boring, stock tiler with zero decoration or bling; couldn't agree more. It's this kind of thing that gets new users interested in Linux. _I_ started using Linux because I saw some video of wobbly windows, and desktops on a giant rotating cube.
Comment · 17 days ago
Google knows all about virtual phone numbers and won't accept them. If you don't have a number issued by a large telco, forget about creating a Google account.
Comment · 18 days ago
I was kinda hoping I'd get to the end and it would say, "In fact, this entire post was drafted by Argon!"
Comment · 18 days ago
That's the big agent play for everyone. What good is this thing unless your whole family has an iphone, you use iCloud for email/calendar/contacts, you have HomeKit running your house, AppleTV, etc? Failing that, it's a big, voice-activated kitchen timer; just like everything else.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton