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Akronymuson Web development is fun again

So far, eqch and every time I used an LLM to help me with something it hallucinated non-existant functions or was incorrect in an important but non-obvious way.

Though, I guess I do treat LLM's as a last resort longshot for when other documentation is failing me.

Akronymuson I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

With proton, at least, you can just use your own domain and if they ever get bad, you just point the MX record to some other service, or self host, and pretty much have it taken care of.

Akronymuson Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans

IMO the vidya gaem awards [0] are far superior to the game awards.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXMcq_LJ8ro

Akronymuson Floor796

Or the black hole https://floor796.com/#t3r3,28,997

Akronymuson 'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them

As someone currently looking for a new job, I stopped bothering with cover letters because they didn't make the faintest of differences. After many dozens of rejections I am just burnt out about writing them.

Akronymuson 30 years of <br> tags

Just FYI the 's got swallowed by the HN formatting and made the stuff inbetween italic.
struct { char *name; char *value}
can bypass the formatting by prepending 2 spaces

Akronymuson History of Declarative Programming (2021)

I thought fp was more avoiding mutability/reassigning values to identifiers

What you wrote makes me think more of the point free style

Akronymuson Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?

Yeah, that seems like a fair way to put my feelings into words.

Akronymuson Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?

> This is the correct answer.

Where does that saying come from? I keep seeing it in a lot of different contexts but it somehow feels off to me in a way I can't really explain.

Akronymuson Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?

I'd love to say yes, but it's basically unenforcable if the comment doesnt disclose it itself.

Akronymuson How private equity is changing housing

IMO the main problem with them is that actual competition isnt really possible. Most of the time, you just can't develop newer/denser housing where they are taking over neighbourhoods, so no real competition is possible which allows them to distort the market for their own gains.

Akronymuson Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

https://youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q

relevant video for that.

Akronymuson Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

Also what about individual sites having 99% uptime while behind CF with an uncorrelated uptime of 99.9%?

Just because CF is up doesnt mean the site is

Akronymuson Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

Yes, the current status is that cheaters can play distingushable from humans. But my point was more that, if we create a system that allows cheating that still is equivalent to a good player, then it just feels like playing against good players. Which, to me, feels like it'd be mission accomplished.

This is one of the cases where ML methods seem appropriate.

Akronymuson Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn?

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191

Akronymuson [dead]

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191

Akronymuson What Is "Open Recursion"? (2013)

Am I understanding it correctly that those lambda functions are lexically bound rather than creating closures, in the "Open" section?

Akronymuson Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

If cheaters play indistingushable from normal people, the seems like mission accomplished.

Akronymuson The Junior Hiring Crisis

I'd say that "normal" (notjunior, not senior) level people have the hardest time ATM. Most jobs are either for juniors or seniors, not inbetween (anecdotal data from my experience job hunting for the last year in austria)

Akronymuson Google unkills JPEG XL?

what does pyramidal mean in this context?

Akronymuson Unifying our mobile and desktop domains

I use that trick to still get the vector layout. No version past that is to my personal liking.

Akronymuson New layouts with CSS Subgrid

> Grid doesn't have it's own element like table does, so you have to use css to apply that display to a div.

Well, OOTB, yeah. I personally like to make use of custom html elements a lot of the time for such things. Such as <main-header> <main-footer> <main-content> <content-header> etc, and apply css styles to those, rather than putting in classes onto divs. Feels a lot more ergonomic to me. Also gives more meaningful markup in the html. (and forces me to name the actual tags so I use much less unnecessary ones)

Akronymuson Ask HN: Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles?

I don't think it'd benefit HN at all at this time, as the country of origin just isnt relevant most of the time, and would just invite flamewars. I believe that flagging/downvoting is a good enough tool to deal with stuff, as the HN mod team puts in the work.

Maybe once the site gets 10x as big and the mod team gets overwhelmed, it could serve a purpose, but I doubt that to ever be the case.

Akronymuson YouTube Is Awful. I'm Not Posting There Anymore

May I recommend de-arrow and sponsorblock as well?

Akronymuson GitHub: Git operation failures

With people properly using them or not?

I am fairly certain that the vast majority comes from improper use (bypassing security measures, like riding on top of the cabin) or something going wrong during maintenance.

Akronymuson GitHub: Git operation failures

I am genuinly sorry about that. And no, I am not happy about what I've done.

Akronymuson GitHub: Git operation failures

Tbh, I personally don't trust a stopped escalator. Some of the videos of brake failures on them scared me off of ever going on them.

Akronymuson Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

I am pretty sure @dang wrote about it on here before, but I can't seem to find it.

Akronymuson Why do we need dithering?

One thing with dithering writeups that always bothered me: There never seems to be coverage of how to calculate colour similarity when there are multiple different colours involved, rather than just black and white gradients.

I am trying to implement it for myself, but really struggling to find any proper literature on that, that I am actually able to understand.

Akronymuson GPU Benchmarks – Animation Error Methodology White Paper

Editorialized title to make it fit within the title length + make it less clickbaity.