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Exactly, humans famously have no memory until the age of 18

Not sure if this is an issue of Australian English vs American English but this is way too jargon-laden to mean anything at all to me.

I really don't understand the problem this is solving even after reading a bunch of comments. What's the use case where this would be beneficial?

I disagree, blog and vlog are combinations of existing words, scrabble is entirely made up.

No disagreement, but this article was posted 2 days ago, the argument isn't relevant right now.

The author closes by enumerating some of the things they like about Bun which are not included in pnpm. The list is basically: native TS support, a vite-style bundler and a vitest/jest style test runner.

Other than a bundler, Node already has all of these. Different test runner syntax maybe but otherwise TS "just works" out of the box and their built in test runner is totally capable. Not sure I see the need for such a lament over Bun.

> their value is, at least in principle, calculable

I feel this article does not spend enough time investigating the challenges of directly measuring the financial output of an engineering team. I agree it is theoretically possible, but I don't think the full answer is that people got lazy on cheap capital and didn't care enough to measure. I think it would be exceedingly difficult to put a dollar amount on the monthly output of most engineering teams due to the variety of tasks they cover, and the extreme challenge of knowing exactly why your customers are behaving a certain way. If you get 1000 more signups in a month, is that directly attributable to the engineering team's output? If anyone could have been concretely answering that question this whole time, I don't think they would have been ignoring the metrics.

I don't like any of this, but I'm not totally clear how this is substantially different from other fingerprinting technologies which I assume are used by every large tech company. Could anyone elaborate? The post isn't very clear why this is different from other data surveillance.

Cynical take: I didn't need to read to the bottom to know it was useless to track the correlation between drinking alcohol and dancing

Agree, it really depends on the tape for me. Painters tape has quite a nice sound as it's peeled

You think having fun has no influence on your life? You think sitting bored in a chair would give you an equivalent life experience?

It feels bizarre to claim that playing guitar for 30 minutes a day has no influence on your life. Surely it brings you joy or satisfaction or keeps your skills up if you're a professional. Why do you do it if there's no influence? Couldn't you use that time for something else?

Mobile users hate when site publishers forget this one simple ~trick~ meta tag.

Thanks, I realized after I wrote it that the size of their staff was really the variable I was missing. Agreed that's not a remarkably high rate with such a large engineering org.

This is different than a belief system protected by anti discrimination laws

Thousands of PRs a week generated by AI and requiring human review sounds like a ton, I wonder what their PR merge rate was before this?

What a tired headline, what a tired topic. Can't believe how much joy has been sapped from my life reading about AI

That makes it even less believable. They talked about how this tool has replaced some other tools such as flight price trackers. How in the world could that happen in 1 week to such a degree that you wrote a whole blog about it?

Wait I'm ignorant, how long has OpenClaw/Clawdbot existed? This person listed like 6 months of activities that they offloaded to the bot, I thought this thing was pretty new.

This response feels disproportionate to the comment's comment

I should have looked, this makes total sense that there would be a published policy on this. Thanks for clarifying.

I share these feelings; I don't use JVM anywhere and so booting up IntelliJ just for art felt weird. I eventually decided to write an SVG library in TypeScript heavily inspired by the OPENRNDR API [1]. Of course, if small community is one of your concerns, then I can't help you there, as the community for my library is just me.

[1] https://github.com/ericyd/salamivg

Is it a faux pas to submit your own blog to HN? Almost surely.

Even the conclusion feels unnecessarily contrived:

> The lesson for 2026 is clear: Do not trade the headlines. Trade the Anchor. And right now, the geopolitical anchor is in Türkiye.

I used Nannou for several months, it's actually how I got into creative coding and was my first real foray into Rust. I didn't find the compilation time to be a huge issue for me, but I did find the strictness of Rust to be a problem. Creative coding for me evolved into making beautiful (to me) visual patterns with code. I had no interest in understanding or fixing a mutable shared value because this code was meant to exist for only a few moments, not to power an enterprise system.

I eventually moved on to OPENRNDR [1] which I loved, but these days I just use TypeScript.

[1] https://openrndr.org/

To me, "no idea" simply means we don't have strong evidence to support any given conclusion, which I think is a well-defended position from the OP.

It's possible to be both anti-golf, and anti-water-waste-in-tech.

The more I work in engineering, the more I agree with pieces like this which suggest that a large part of the job is managing politics in your workspace.

Not trying to be rude but your very short reply is hard to understand. "Unreadable", "starting to slide off", I honestly don't know what you're saying here.

Does this product fix coworkers who don't know how/when to thread, never-ending questions that are answered by documentation they could have read, and a complete refusal by people with authority to make decisions in a documented channel? Oh, turns out my gripes with slack are more about the people using it.