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Arcuruon GitHub is having issues now

Reminder to all OSS projects: it is extraordinarily easy to setup a simple CI job to keep your code in sync between multiple Forges. And getting email notifications from a second Forge is 0 extra effort.

At least give people the option to start moving away from GitHub to contribute to your project. It will, ultimately, be better for the ecosystem.

Arcuruon Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

No, they're testing removing it from the Pro tier for new subscribers.

Arcuruon My Google Workspace account suspension

If a service offers "Login with Google/Apple/Facebook/etc" you should never do that if they offer a username/password. It just increases the single point of failure. Avoid places that only offer the "Login with Foo" if at all possible (looking at you Tailscale).

As an ex-googler, the only reason I was comfortable keeping even my personal email there was because I could reach out internally if there was a problem. I left Google, and left gmail behind too.

Arcuruon My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix

> If anything, the extra material for the case would be the perimeter length times the perimeter wall width times the height

That's what they did?

Perimeter length = 2*335mm + 2*235mm

Wall height diff = 2mm

Wall width = 1mm

(2*335 + 2*235) * 2mm * 1mm = 2,280 mm^3

Arcuruon Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people

Does any service offer hosted Forgejo Actions Runners? Or Forgejo compatible CI?

I want to pay for CI on my Codeberg projects, but I've been struggling to find something where I can just pay by the minute. I have projects that benefit from large CI runners but my usage is low enough that it makes no sense to host my own.

Arcuruon Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV

Oh wow, I really enjoyed Dollhouse but I didn't know that! I was always confused why Season 2's plot went by so quickly. Thanks.

Arcuruon Your phone is an entire computer

I seem to recall the Carriers having some pretty strict requirements on the devices that can connect to the mobile networks. Anyone know if that's (still) the case?

I'm not trying to defend Apple here, I'm just curious if there would be some kind of carrier validation issues if you slapped a full desktop OS on a phone.

Arcuruon BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

It's good to see this getting some continued development. I looked into it last year[1] and I thought it showed a lot of promise so I've been very disappointed that I never saw a newer model.

[1] - https://jackson.dev/post/dont-sleep-on-bitnet/

Arcuruon Meta acquires Moltbook

Could be worse, you could be stuck working at Meta.

Arcuruon Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

The actual source article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-re...

Arcuruon A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran

lol fair enough. I only meant that in this case the amount is so small as to be insignificant. If you can choose when the US/Israel bombs Iran then 500k is nothing.

Arcuruon A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran

Are you seriously suggesting that someone timed this military strike in order to make $500k?

Arcuruon MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO

There are several companies I've seen that use a CLA primarily to sell AGPL exceptions so they can actually fund development, Element for example [1]. Some even word the CLA to require them to keep contributions available under an OSI-approved license.

I'm a fan of that model. IIt allows for a path to funding, a legal framework to keep contributed code open, and also allows them license agility to more permissive license ass needed. I've started using that for my own larger projects too.

https://element.io/blog/synapse-now-lives-at-github-com-elem...

Arcuruon Gemini 3.1 Pro

Did you stop using the more detailed prompt? I think you described it here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/gemini-3/

Arcuruon Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

I'm not sure I'll ever understand why they replaced their working ~50 line shell script with a Rust program that just shells out to the same nix-* commands. I appreciate that there are some safety benefits, but that program is just not complex enough to benefit.

Arcuruon Stay Away from My Trash

So...donations? Sponsors?

Arcuruon Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k

From what I can piece together from Wikipedia/news that is ~1000-1200 athletes in the most recent 4 year cycle (~600 for Summer Olympics, ~250 for Winter, and ~200-400 for Paralympics). That therefore requires ~$200-250M per 4 year cycle.

Granted, that's 20 to 60 years down the line...

Oh this explains it:

> Starting with the Olympic and Paralympic Games Milan-Cortina 2026, and going at least through the 2032 Games, every U.S. Olympian and Paralympian will receive $200,000 in financial benefits for each Games in which they compete:

Arcuruon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://jackson.dev/

Arcuruon Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

Eidetica, a planned decentralized database for local-first applications. I'm building out unstable features to get it to a point where I can show off the concepts but it's still fairly brittle.

I recently added better backend support for deployments, converted everything to async Rust, and setup Nix/Docker releases. I'm planning to build out some better example apps and workflows next, but everything will stay pre-alpha/unstable for now so that I can avoid getting locked in to any foundational issues. There are still a number of low-hanging breaking issues blocking the end-to-end usage which I'll need to address.

https://github.com/arcuru/eidetica

Arcuruon Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS

For others, the page where this info comes from is https://tailwindcss.com/sponsor

Arcuruon .io prices doubled in 5 years

Given the issues surrounding .io it is a pretty bad choice for a domain these days anyways - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io#Future

Arcuruon Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

> We are introducing a $0.002 per-minute Actions cloud platform charge for all Actions workflows across GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners.

Charging for self-hosted runners is an interesting choice. That's the same cost as their smallest hosted runners [1]

[1] - https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-...

Arcuruon Elevated errors across many models

When I was at Big Corp, I loved reading the internal postmortems. They were usually very interesting and I learned a lot. It's one of the things I miss about leaving.

A tech company that publishes the postmortems when possible always get a +1 in my eyes, I think it's a sign of good company culture. Cloudflare's are great and I would love to see more from others in the industry.

Arcuruon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

https://github.com/arcuru/eidetica

Eidetica - a decentralized database built in Rust, intended for local-first apps. It's still unstable but I'm progressing relatively rapidly. In the past ~month I have:

- Flown to SF to attend a conference in this niche: https://syncconf.dev/

- Added password based, transparent, end-to-end encryption

- Improved my custom CRDTs

- Added an index to store configs and metadata

- Built support for using sqlite + postgres for Eideticas backend (not pushed yet)

Once I finish the backend work I'll hopefully take a bit of a break though. I'm supposed to be retired.

Arcuruon Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust

> Time-Travel Queries: Query historical data at any point in time:

The example here looks like it may be storing the full history of transactions? Is that right? That's a pretty high cost to pay for something that's not touted as a marquee feature.

I'm working on a DB[1] that stores full transaction history but it's so that I can support decentralized synchronization. It's in service of my marquee feature so I need to pay the cost of storing history, but I'm surprised that Stoolap also seems to be doing it for a local embedded database.

[1] https://github.com/arcuru/eidetica

Arcuruon Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

I agree GIMP is a bad name, but is it really a 'solid' competitor to Photoshop? My impression has been that it was never close to being competitive on features. I've only used either of them very briefly so I may be wildly wrong though.

Arcuruon Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI

Personally I really like the normalization of these "Permissively" licensed models that only restrict companies with massive revenues from using them for free.

If you want to use something, and your company makes $240,000,000 in annual revenue, you should probably pay for it.

Arcuruon Ghostty is now non-profit

I give a lot of money to the free things I use as well, but even if I used Ghostty I'd struggle to give them any money since the founder is extraordinarily wealthy.

Please fund projects that actually need it, and don't voluntarily gift money to a literal billionaire.

> I get asked the same about terminals all the time. “How will you turn this into a business? What’s the monetization strategy?” The monetization strategy is that my bank account has 3 commas mate.

Original post: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964785527741427940

Arcuruon Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

For a while now I've been dual hosting my projects on both Github and Codeberg and adding a note in the README's [1] explaining the situation. I donate to Codeberg and run my own self-hosted forgejo runners for actions, and maintain much of my testing on both platforms.

I push to Github and then an Action mirrors the code to Codeberg automatically.

I'd fully switch over except practically everybody is on Github and nobody is on Codeberg, and I've had more outages with Codeberg than Github over the past year.

It really feels like there could be some good tooling in this area to make working through multiple Forge's easier and not force things to be centralized so much. Hopefully more projects moving out of Github makes it easier and gets more people contributing elsewhere.

[1] https://codeberg.org/arcuru/eidetica#repository

Arcuruon Google Antigravity

It will be very funny if it's vim, since Bram Moolenaar who created and ran it worked at Google from 2006 to 2021.