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aarondfon Tin: full-text search for Postgres

> When one develops using open-source software they have an obligation to follow the licenses.

Agreed!

> They also have a moral obligation to be respectful of the work upon which they’re building.

Respectfully, completely disagree!

Open source is a license, not a moral framework. Your only duty is to abide by the license. If you want to enforce that everything built on top of a particular open source package also be open source, that belongs in the license.

aarondfon Shopify acquires Tailwind

Yeah! So is Taylor otwell, the primary source to whom I linked.

aarondfon Shopify acquires Tailwind

Pretty well https://x.com/taylorotwell/status/2093329899083759634?s=46

aarondfon Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

I was at Big Sky Dev Con when they unveiled the GameBoy game. I kid you not my jaw dropped. I thought it was some sort of like emulator gimmick until they said "everyone can take a physical cartridge home!"

One of the most delightful little swag stunts I've ever seen, and emblematic of the HTMX crew just how much they care about craft and delight in everything they do.

aarondfon Railway Blocked by Google Cloud

I added the qs because it defaulted to a story from 3 months ago.

aarondfon Warp is now open-source

soloterm.com is closed source

aarondfon Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

woah hey! you're speaking the shibboleths!

aarondfon Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

I'll take that bet

aarondfon Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

I think you're conflating a talent pipeline with ease of running PHP. Those are not the same thing at all

aarondfon Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

> We should fund open source!

> Not like that!

aarondfon Quantization from the Ground Up

My word... samwho is doing some of the best technical explainers on the internet right now.

aarondfon OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

I've run into that issue while developing https://soloterm.com.

If you respond twice to their theme query probes, the whole thing bricks. Or if you're slightly out of order. It's very delicate.

aarondfon Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday

damn framerate looks good

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

> But the good news is that we can increase our chances of encountering good luck.

Every phrase in the article was carefully selected to make it clear that we're trying to increase the odds. Nothing is sure. But if you play the game right, the odds of winning go up

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

My role? My role as a what?

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

I understand. I am, however, impotent against OpenAI. If I publish code to GitHub, I understand it will be used for training. I'd rather get the win for my family than try to fight a megacorp. I'm sorry.

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

Unfortunately we have to play the game according to the rules on the field. You can decide to opt out entirely (which is fine) or you can play the game and try to win. Personally, I will play and try to win.

That means I will make things, talk about them, and accrue social and/or actual capital for me and my family. I can't stop any megacorp from training on my code, and it's futile to try. I CAN build cool things, talk about them, and get cool jobs or friends or a following or whatever. I understand not everyone is comfortable with this tradeoff.

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

And guess how you make friends in high(er) places...

by...

publishing your work and making friends in your industry

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

No easy answers, I'm afraid. But I would still say you can get lots of social capital from creating things and talking about it. And these days, that can get you past the LLM-inundated HR front door if you want a job. If you hang out on twitter long enough you'll see people go from "hey I made this cool thing" to "hey cloudflare/vercel/etc hired me to come work on cool-thing-adjacent thing!"

It's a pretty repeatable pipeline. And having proof that you can DO something makes you stand out. Maybe moreso than ever!

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

Very well said

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

You had me in the first half! <3

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

Hey! I wrote the article a few years ago. Fun to see it on HN again.

It was here back when I wrote it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071137

Lots of comments talking about how this is just some sort of ploy to feed the machine. I don't know what to tell you. I can only tell you it changed my life and the lives of many others. Hope it can help you too!

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

Then define luck as "connecting with fellow nerds." Still works

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

Totally. An engineer, who (at the the time) works in marketing! Makes sense to me :D

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

I'm a software developer who was, at the time, working in a marketing role. Happy to answer questions.

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

I wrote the article. I'm not a marketing droid, I don't work for GitHub, just a guy recounting his personal experiences and hoping to help others.

aarondfon Publishing your work increases your luck

Hey! I wrote the article. Having an OSS project take off changed my life. YMMV

aarondfon The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful

I think you're conflating the cost to consumers to use AI and the cost to run AI. Sure, it's a house of cards, but the cost to consumers still rounds to zero.

aarondfon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)

hell yeah, Rainmaker rules

aarondfon PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

Very nice of you to characterize me as such, I truly appreciate it.