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PrayagSon Incident with Github.com [resolved]

That excuse was valid a few months ago or back in 2025. Not anymore.

> have another look at that code

So true. beads[0] is such a mess. Keeps breaking often with each release. Can't understand how people can rely on it for their day-to-day work.

[0] https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

PrayagSon How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI

API only user or Max x20 along with extra usage? If it's the latter, how are the limits treating you?

PrayagSon Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

+1 to beads. Works great

PrayagSon Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

Been thinking of having Opus generate plans and then having Gemini 3 Flash execute. Might be better than using Haiku for the same.

Anyone tried something similar already?

PrayagSon Cloudflare was down

From their response headers, it seems like the request is coming from NGINX directly. How do they defend themselves against DOS attacks?

PrayagSon Cloudflare was down

I'm in India and we're affected as well.

PrayagSon Claude Opus 4.5

I haven’t used Cursor since I use Neovim and it’s hard to move out.

The auto-complete suggestions from FIM models (either open source or even something Gemini Flash) punch far above their weight. That combined with CC/Codex has been a good setup for me.

PrayagSon CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution

That used to be the case a few years ago as well, when Wayland/sway was still considered experimental.

I had tried Manjaro i3, and XFCE’s i3 variant but at the end it was actually more convenient to install the KDE version and then install i3 on top.

PrayagSon GPT-5-Codex

True. In my experience, it has been good to use for second opinions and code reviews. Usually in CC/Codex via an MCP like zen.

PrayagSon Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns

Ah then is there any material on the new hybrid system that you mentioned? TIA.

PrayagSon Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns

> another factor to consider is that if you have a typical Prometheus `/metrics` endpoint that gets scraped every N seconds, there's a period in between the "final" scrape and the actual process exit where any recorded metrics won't get propagated. this may give you a false impression about whether there are any errors occurring during the shutdown sequence.

Have you come across any convenient solution for this? If my scrape interval is 15 seconds, I don't exactly have 30 seconds to record two scrapes.

This behavior has sort of been the reason why our services still use statsd since the push-based model doesn't see this problem.

PrayagSon Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns

Is "v2" based on their paper around Monarch?

PrayagSon Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations

The whole subreddit is moderated poorly. I’ve seen plenty of users post on r/LocalLlama about how something negative or constructive they said on the Cursor sub was just removed.

PrayagSon OpenAI's new reasoning AI models hallucinate more

Claude also does that apparently. You give it a hint and it’ll lie about using that hint.

They talk about it here: https://www.anthropic.com/news/tracing-thoughts-language-mod...

PrayagSon A Comment on Mozilla's Policy Changes

Ungoogled Chromium removes those pesky manifestv3 changes as well? The ones which make uBlock basically non-functional.

PrayagSon Slack Is Down

It also seems like all integrations that use Slack webhooks are working. But the ones which are like a dedicated app are failing with the same `fatal_error` message.

PrayagSon Ladybird browser spreads its wings

As in Mozilla stopped developing officially? Because I have seen active development on GitHub and monthly updates on their blog.

PrayagSon Ladybird browser spreads its wings

Ikr. They're up to some questionable decisions since long.

- Acquire companies like Pocket, Anonym in multi-million dollar deals and also the millions in bonuses that the CEO likes to enjoy.

- At the same time, no significant expenditure towards developing its core software. Firefox is still ridden with bugs. They even went as far as firing the people that used to work on Servo, Rust, WASM, etc.

I think it's clear to them that there's not enough money to be made with small tricks like Pocket, VPN, Relay, etc. Firefox is still the only profitable product and contributes ~90% to Mozilla's revenue. Much of it coming from Google which is the one thing that people have been asking them to be less dependent on.

And we shouldn't be surprised if they double down on making more money off of Google and also introduce ads. Acquiring Anonym, an ads company, implies that it might have already started.

PrayagSon Show HN: Hacker News user experience enhancement browser extension

When is the Firefox version going live? Would love to try it out.

PrayagSon Use the XDG Base Directory Specification

https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja

This utility has been a lifesaver to clean up my home directory.

PrayagSon Why I program in Erlang (2012)

> After programming in elixir/erlang for ~8 years

Are Elixir and Erlang very similar? Do they belong to the same family?

PrayagSon Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

Hyperweb[1] does something similar and I prefer their UX.

The new Arc Browser[2] also has something similar implemented as a boost[3] (boost are short snippet-like extensions).

Just goes to show how less reliable Google Search is becoming because of ads and bot results. Platforms like reddit (I append 50% of my searches with "reddit") bring a more human touch. Totally agree with Paul's thoughts on reddit[4].

[1]: https://hyperweb.app/desktop [2]: https://arc.net/ [3]: https://arc.net/e/2CADECD1-9839-4057-9EA9-A9988ABC4B92 [4]: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1360263618508521480

PrayagSon Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?

Can you please share a link to your blog?

PrayagSon Clement Lefebvre: The Man Behind Linux Mint (2013)

Distros do not exist because people want different Linux images to run their containers on top of.

> Also 90% of the pain in (traditional) distros seem to be the UI stuff (Window Manager, drivers, audio, etc).

For a second I thought you're completely missing the point but then you say this lol.

PrayagSon How many Linux commands can a 7 year old learn?

Or cowsay: https://linux.die.net/man/1/cowsay

PrayagSon Experience Report: 6 months of Go

You mean this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31205072?

PrayagSon Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclusively to Mobile Games

So long friend...

PrayagSon Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

Is it just me or this seems to be an overengineered product? I mean hear me out,

- Workflows - Ever heard of scripts?

- Block editing - That is just vi mode inside bash/zsh.

- Terminal sharing has existed since so long.

- Forming commands - We got tldr for that.

- Fast and GPU accelerated - Open source terminal emulators have cracked that already. See alacritty and kitty for instance.

And on top of all this, when you factor in VC money, I don't see how this product can truly beat its alternatives.

PrayagSon Org Mode's new site

> Everytime I see an article about Org, I think how nice it would be to use it and feel comfortable in it, it just never worked out for me.

Came here to say exactly this!