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buster··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
As a developer myself i hear this so often. Yes, it's (probably) your job on the line as well, BUT everybody nowadays can be a developer. Maybe, don't call it developer. Everybody nowadays can built some software that fulfills some need (or just for fun). It's actually something good, isn't it?

Would you mind, if you could suddenly, over night, be a carpenter, a watch maker or glassblower?

buster··on 'The Odyssey' Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way
It's one of the greatest stories of all time directed by Nolan. CGI or not, whatever.
buster··on Immich 3.0
+1 for Ente. Replaced Google photos for me
buster··on GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
Is it fair when the one is heavily subsidized and the other one is not?

I think it's most fair to compare the plain token pricing that is used by everyone.

buster··on My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development
No it's probably the most important idea.
buster··on Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
> Forget maintaining stability, AI is a downright destabilizer. It worsens understandability, fixability, debuggability, teachability, guaranteability, all the bloody bilities.

This is just an assumption and the whole article falls flat if this turns out to be wrong. In my limited (as everyone else's) experience, working with agentic AI needs good documentation, good specification (spec driven, you know it's all the hype nowadays). Those alone lead to much improvement. Now take into account that probably your senior dev also has more time to think about the big picture, to improve all those little things that were a nuisance in the past but now are a mere "Claude, fix that" in a worktree away.. I would not bet on the assumption of this article.

buster··on Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained
I am not questioning the benchmark. But the benchmark is NOT measuring a real world application in a real world setting. Anyway, I am merely wondering IF there is a company out there affected, at all. I understand that this was only measured on a graviton 4 setting with very heavy lifting, without huge tables.

For example, this issue aside, I'd rather split such a workload into multiple smaller instances, naturally. Because the impact of a crash on this single node, heavy load, many cores, many clients scenario would be huge.

buster··on Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained
I'd rather like to know if any real world usage broke, before coming to the conclusion that an edge case synthetic benchmark is worth changing the kernel (back or wherever) where supposedly the change that broke the benchmark had real world benefits.

Since we will never know it might be a good idea to feature gate the change, change the default and let users decide to change it back. This may give some feedback on the lkml or else to decide if the change is worthwhile?

buster··on Claude Code Routines
He said "enterprises" not "competent programmers".
buster··on Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager
I'm using fman, which is like a lightweight graphical alternative to mc.
buster··on Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
I recently had to switch to macos for work and Jesus Christ is this not the pinnacle of engineering. Sure, I'm accustomed to my self configured Linux desktop but boy is Mac OS slow to use and hard to configure. And so keyboard unfriendly.
buster··on How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer
You hopefully know thats not true. But it's a matter of quality goals. Need absolute robustness? Prioritize it and build it. Need speed and be first to market? Prioritize and build it. You can do both in an agile way. Many would argue that you won't be as fast in a non-agile way. There is no bullet point in the agile manifest saying to build unreliable software.
buster··on The Terminal I Wished Existed, So I Built It
May be I don't understand but I can see that I press a short cut and can connect via ssh, right?

Either you included your own ssh client (battery included and such) and you'll forever be chasing the features your customers are missing from their client or you just launch the standard ssh client (or psql or whatever) but then, what's the benefit as opposed to some shell configuration?

Genuinely asking, maybe I missed it from the first glance or maybe you could include that on the front page..

buster··on Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app
I don't understand all the hate about ente, to be honest. Ente seems to try to solve the big tech lock in with their apps. Personally, i'm a very happy Ente Photos user, so what's the problem with Ensu? It's available on desktops and mobile, it's an app trying to give all a little bit more privacy and freedom and yet most comments are just hating on it. If you can vibe code Ensu in a week end, please do. Make a better clone if you want to, but don't hate on someone for their work for stupid reasons.
buster··on Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app
What do you when you say defunct photos platform?
buster··on Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier
Keep in mind that kagi offers a wide range of models, not just one. I wouldn't want to have multiple subscriptions (for chatgpt, anthropic, gemini etc.)
buster··on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyg1jg8xkmo

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/10/politics/us-will-take-gre...

buster··on Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
As far as I know sqlite has such tests and probably others.
buster··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
But that's not what is in the whole context. The whole context contains a lot of noise and false "thoughts". What the AI needs to do is to document the software project in an efficient manner without duplication. That's not what this tool is doing. I question the value in storing all the crap in git.
buster··on Software factories and the agentic moment
May be the point is, that the one engineer replaces 10 engineers by using the dark factory which by definition doesn't need humans.
buster··on Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?
Domain driven design?
buster··on Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
That or the Kagi Browser... Waiting for a Linux release.
buster··on $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
Sounds amazing, but i would rather be able to run the database locally and use the same in dev as in production. Is this possible?
buster··on Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem
I've not used Claude Claude yet, but why would it be bad if it gains features that people use? Did people ever complain about Photoshop to have too many features demanding some cognitive load? Excel? Practically every IDE out there? There is a reason people use those tools instead of the plain text editor or paint. It's for power users and people will become power users of AI as well. Some will forever stick to chatgpt and some will use an ever increasing ecosystem of tools.
buster··on Microservices should form a polytree
Isn't it the same wisdom as to avoid cyclic dependencies?
buster··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
I don't know I tend to either come across new tools written in Rust, JavaScript or Python but relatively low amount of C. The times I see some "cargo install xyz" in a git repo of some new tool is definitely noticeable.
buster··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
Awesome, love it!
buster··on Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto
I fail to see how it makes it much easier to review a lot of interdependent branches where branch C needs new logic from branch B which needs commits from branch A. Sounds like a nightmare to me.

People should really try to work on trunk.

buster··on Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains
It's a preview, isn't it? The pages says win, mac, Linux.
buster··on Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks
Thanks, but do you realize that you explained it to me using agent systems and ecosystems and open collaboration but i still don't know what it does for the user?

Can it book flights for me? Is it supposed to be some kind of autonomous intelligent bot that does "stuff" for me? What stuff? From the sibling comments it sounds like "we" are putting LLMs together and hope that something emerges? What?

Ultimately, i ask what openagents.org does for me as a user.

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