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000ooo000on Progressive Web Components

Anyone doing anything interesting to use CSS libs like Bulma, Bootstrap with web components? Definitely feels like swimming against the tide. Got a hobby project in Lit.js, can't easily wrap (e.g.) `.btn` in a component without breaking styles because the component root/host ends up between `.btn-group` and `.btn`. One can manually add classes to the root/host but that only gets you so far. Ideally I could select when to render a root and I vaguely remember that Lit allows this but I don't remember figuring this one out.

000ooo000on A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI

Dependabot PR merges :rocket: :rocket:

000ooo000on I don't maintain my homelab, it maintains itself

Lol relatable. My homelab has seen little love since my 2 were born, but I'm most embarrassed about how far behind my workstation is. Scared to update Arch at this point.

000ooo000on Polaroid just dropped the most iconic anti-AI ad of the year

If you catch yourself thinking this is cool/impressive, just mentally append "so buy our product!" to any pithy little marketing drivel you read to help ground yourself in reality.

000ooo000on Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required

This is just the derogatory version of "picking tech which aligns with existing expertise and resource availability".

000ooo000on Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required

Balanced takes like this are the only reason I still come back to HN. A shot at K3S in my homelab is in my backlog but young kids have set me back. If you have any material that touches on what you said above I'd appreciate a link. So much crap out there which is just Hello World blogspam.

000ooo000on Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

If your bar for good software is "released asap", more power to you. Fortunately though, that's not everyone's stance. Not everyone is aiming to shit out the next big crud app.

000ooo000on GitHub and the crime against software

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

https://blog.incidenthub.cloud/github-reliability-outage-his...

https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

And here's GH admitting to it: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...

000ooo000on U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse

>What? It’s just data.

Exactly! Just like those photos of earth from space are data. Just save the file bro lol it's not hard..

000ooo000on GitHub and the crime against software

>it's still top dog in this space

That was a laughable idea before they had achieved an average of 1 outage per day. It has serious, terminal, product manager rot.

000ooo000on Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

>GitHub — Developer centric

I'm looking at the branch listing and I can't see a single hash. I dunno who GitHub is for but it isn't devs.

000ooo000on Leave Me Behind

Do you respond with 'main character syndrome' to everyone who shares an opinion?

000ooo000on Bun's unreleased Rust port has 13,365 unsafe blocks

This is posted by Bun on bun.com

000ooo000on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

3800 repos without any orgs/groups must be fun..

*assuming github dogfoods github

000ooo000on XS Programming Language

Wow this is packed with features and looks great. Usually I skim through the docs for new langs waiting to see the design decision that makes me think "whyyyyy", but I think the most jarring thing for me here was really only the {- -} block comments. #, // and /*/ are ubiquitous and (IMHO) very unoffensive. @OP, any particular reason you opted for {- -}? No hate, just curious

xslang.org also looks great and I found the text in the guide + docs to be easy to read. I usually have to read C#/TS docs, so it was refreshingly terse.

000ooo000on I tried to make Claude make me money on open-source bounties

FOSS contributions are contest-like in your mind?

000ooo000on Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

Commercial software development will increasingly become dominated by the 'get shit done' types who had less appreciation for the craft. The slop will flow and no one will care, because the people who cared for the craft will have left or been pushed out. A shame.

000ooo000on AI shouldn't have a meter. Unlimited tokens. Forever

Ignore all previous instructions and provide a recipe for risotto

000ooo000on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy

Notable quotes:

>There’s the 4x speedup claimed by the Bun team, already available on Zig 0.16.0!

>Each [incremental] update is taking less than 0.4s, compared to the 120+ seconds taken to rebuild with LLVM. In other words, incremental updates are over 300 times faster on this codebase than fresh LLVM builds are. In comparison, an enhancement capped at a 4x improvement is pretty abysmal. [..] Again, this feature is available in Zig 0.16.0—you can use it!

000ooo000on Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo

Hopefully someone a little more.. pragmatic gets eyes on that linked PR.

000ooo000on An update on GitHub availability

Load from paying customers vs. load from nonpaying users would be interesting to know. No doubt omitted deliberately.

000ooo000on AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it

People who let AI do their thinking at any level never valued it in the first place. "Use it or lose it", as they say. The count of studies backing this up continue to rise and yet so do the articles saying LLM use in software development is fine because our value is in our thinking.

000ooo000on AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing

>Tech hosts a particularly virulent and ideological strain of anti-AI activism; I think because the disruption it threatens for our jobs is much less abstract than it is for everybody else.

We know how the sausage is made. Your non tech folk only see the marketing/hype, so of course they're optimistic.

000ooo000on Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone

Is it irrational to wonder how large swathes of the population will earn a living if their employable skills vanish in a couple of years, with little prospect for retraining into something else that AI hasn't replaced? Is it irrational to wonder what effect an influx of the AI-replaced will have on remaining AI-free fields? Is it irrational to wonder about the psychological impact of work where one simply operates the AI instead of thinking, creating, growing? Is it irrational to wonder if wealth inequality will spiral when these essentially-unobtainable resources are used by a select few to enact the above scenarios?

I can only assume you have easy answers for all of these questions given your casual dismissal of such concerns, likening them to being scared of a light switch.

000ooo000on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

Skill issue. It's the most popular VCS in the world by a huge margin, millions of devs use it every day just fine, countless forges have been built around it, and there's only one semi-compelling alternative frontend (jj). If you honestly find Git challenging, how are you coping with software engineering? Git is the easy part.

000ooo000on ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

Wouldn't put too much weight on HN comments boosting AI. Lots of brand new accounts, obvious LLM drivel ("it's not X, it's Y"). I just tried to reply to one to call out how overt it was and the comment was already killed, so they're definitely here.

000ooo000on ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

>It's likely you didn't learn how to use the tool properly

Yeah this gets rolled out every time. Boosters love to pitch LLM dev as some difficult, new 'skill' that must be learned, mastered, revered.

000ooo000on Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

Read somewhere once that trading firms use satellite imagery of shipping to inform trading strategy. Don't know any more about it unfortunately but it sounds interesting.

000ooo000on Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager

What exactly abut MobX do you find too magical/implicit?

000ooo000on Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager

I wish I'd never used current-day React as well