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athorax··on Show HN: Apache Fory Rust – 10-20x faster serialization than JSON/Protobuf
I am confused on this as well, they list polyglot teams[0] as their top use case and consider not needing schema files a feature

[0] https://fory.apache.org/blog/2025/10/29/fory_rust_versatile_...

athorax··on Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools
I think the big difference is that these aren't AI generated bug reports. They are bugs found with the assistance of AI tools that were then properly vetted and reported in a responsible way by a real person.
athorax··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
Thats a bit uncalled for. This is a game made by someone shaped by their perspective on the world. It can be appreciated as such without applying your own additional intent.
athorax··on Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
$10/year for 10,000 messages is a tenth of a penny per message
athorax··on U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
Its a nice thought, but this is not at all reflective of reality
athorax··on U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
This is such a funny take. In China corporations operate at the behest of the government. In the US the government operates at the behest of corporations.
athorax··on Eels are fish
Hank Green recently did a couple of videos on the topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On2V_L9jwS4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C3lR3pczjo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElpRJQ2FZiM

athorax··on Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI
My guess is that there aren't that many folks using zed over neovim/emacs. It seems like a more suitable alternative to vscode or jetbrains IDEs which imo have at least the same level of financial risks involved. At the end of the day it is just an editor and moving to something is pretty minimal effort if things do go in a direction you don't agree with.
athorax··on Dotfiles feel too personal to share
It is less personal. I am writing code in the same style as the rest of the code base. Its more focused on correctness than my preferences. If someone critiques code in a PR I don't take it personally as it is usually in good faith.
athorax··on Dotfiles feel too personal to share
I feel similarly. For me I know it is because of my rejection sensitive dysphoria. The fear of someone seeing and judging something personal of mine is quite uncomfortable. I don't have the same issue with code I write professionally.
athorax··on What's wrong with the JSON gem API?
Why? JSON is name-value pairs https://www.json.org/json-en.html
athorax··on Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
Base64 encoded yaml files will also be LS-prefixed if they have the document marker (---)
athorax··on SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management
Unfortunately, teller is largely an abandoned project at this point.
athorax··on The jank programming language
Is tech bro in the room with us right now?
athorax··on Automatically Rewrite Container Image References in Kubernetes
Yeah curious what the benefit would be here vs configuring containerd mirrors https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/main/docs/host...

I guess if you don't control the platform you are running on this is a way to do it in "userspace"

athorax··on What Sam Altman told OpenAI about the device he's making with Jony Ive
It is so blatantly obvious OpenAI is paying these ridiculous prices for acquisitions to try and justify their own valuation. The emperor has no clothes, indeed.
athorax··on Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests
Go doesn't pull dependencies directly from GitHub, they are pulled from https://proxy.golang.org/ by default
athorax··on A Computational Proof of the Highest-Scoring Boggle Board
The article does indeed mention simulated annealing though?
athorax··on Optimizing Heap Allocations in Go: A Case Study
I would generally agree. It's good enough performance for most applications. For those that it isn't fast enough for (even with optimizations like these), it still allows for rapid prototyping to arrive at that conclusion.
athorax··on Optimizing Heap Allocations in Go: A Case Study

  The notion of stack vs heap allocation isn't something that even exists in the language. Users are expected to not worry about it... until, of course, until you're optimizing performance and you need to worry about it.
This is one of the best and worst aspects with Go. Anyone can write pretty performant code without having to understand the underlying memory model. If you get to the point where you are trying to optimize at this level, the benefits of using a more approachable language start to fall apart and you spend more time chasing implementation details.
athorax··on TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
Hmm, yes. Serving AI slop to children is certainly what we need in these trying times.
athorax··on Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app
What do you think the AI was trained on?
athorax··on Can't Driven Development
Good ole PAML stack :)
athorax··on 208 million Americans are classified as obese or overweight
This is the exact opposite of my experience. I'm 6' 185 lbs athletic build and wear almost exclusively slim fit larges. I would look like an overstuffed sausage in a small anything
athorax··on Can't Driven Development
This is just TDD. Your tests should be written to verify and gaurd against "cants" not verify the happy path
athorax··on Automatic braking systems save lives. Now they’ll need to work at 62 MPH
Interesting, Subaru's eyesight from that generation is notoriously bad. I have a 2020 Outback and it will slam on the breaks when a car in front of me is decelerating to turn even though it is fully out of the lane. It also will yell at me about overhead tree branches that are at least 2-3 feet above the car.
athorax··on Shfla: Shoegaze Hierarchical Fractal Language Architecture
I'm not understanding what this has to do with shoegaze. Did you just use that in the name for funsies?
athorax··on Fearless SSH: Short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure
It means there is zero trust of a device/service/user on your network until they have been fully authenticated. It is about having zero trust in something just because it is inside your network perimeter.
athorax··on Notcursus v3.0.10 Released
More like lotsofcursus amirite?
athorax··on IBM acquires Kubecost
One of the main value adds of these tools is to help identify and categorize workloads into OpEx and CapEx buckets
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