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jcrbenon Sonnet 5.5

Does that mean you're doing work week by week that is well-scoped and planned for that week and you can't pick up the work for next week until that week happens? It just seems like mostly programmers work on things that extend out for a long time and you can kind of just throw more at the problem and pull it forward earlier

jcrbenon Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

One of the main reasons I don't use the app is that it makes it harder to bookmark.

jcrbenon Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?

Section 230

jcrbenon Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets

The depreciation of a dam versus batteries can can weigh the benefits towards dams.

jcrbenon Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

Their customer service is surprisingly hostile. I still use them tho since I'm using them for low stakes stuff

jcrbenon OpenAI – How to delete your account

If you hammer their free tier with lots of nonsense queries that also probably doesn't help them. Definitely don't pay them

With that said, for the free tier I tend to use grok - another provider I will never pay

Anthropic does get money from me for now

jcrbenon I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool

Generally I'm using 'e' to go forward and 'b' to go backward

jcrbenon Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system

I'm not involved in the initiative so I can't answer the question definitively? I provided one of the major reasons that projects get switched from C. I think it's likely to be a major part of the motivation.

jcrbenon Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system

As a user, you may not be aware that C makes it relatively easy to create https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow which are a major source of security vulnerabilities.

This is one of the best reasons to rewrite software in Rust or any other more safe by default language.

jcrbenon Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system

C is unsafe.

jcrbenon Anaconda Raises $150M Series C

362 downloads over 20 hours isn't that impressive. Not saying Anaconda isn't great. Don't have much experience with it but I hope the devs get paid for all the value delivered, which I think is largem

jcrbenon Ask HN: Where do you guys find audiobooks?

I listen to a ton of audiobooks on oreilly which I have a subscription to from work.

jcrbenon Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

What was the actual risk of using SpringBoot tho?

jcrbenon The truth about soft plastic recycling points at supermarkets

The point is that we know the weathering process will shed microplastics.

https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/microplastics-ever...

jcrbenon The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News

Snapshot for posterity: https://web.archive.org/web/20250326005255/https://refactori...

jcrbenon Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas

I use monkeybrains with the same ipv6 problem. One workaround is to run a VPN. Planning to switch but haven't gotten around to it

jcrbenon Announcement: S3 Default Integrity Change

The issue is also discussed in the linked issue.

Maybe this will trigger a rethink in how s3 compatible storage systems work.

jcrbenon US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods

Technically it appears red dye no 3 was banned due to cancer and Delaney clause, however, keep in mind that I think the primary reason it was banned in California last year was all the studies correlating it to deleterious cognitive impacts on children

https://www.additudemag.com/red-dye-3-ban-adhd-news/amp/

https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/view/potential-impact...

jcrbenon US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods

I think the primary reason it was banned in California last year was all the studies correlating it to deleterious cognitive impacts on children

https://www.additudemag.com/red-dye-3-ban-adhd-news/amp/

https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/view/potential-impact...

jcrbenon Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment

Probably. Mentioned a couple manufacturers working on greener tires: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42273418

jcrbenon Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment

Michelin is at least looking into it: https://www.michelin.com/en/media/magazine/michelin-is-takin...

Nokia is also working on green tires with more biodegradation

https://www.nokiantyres.com/about-us/news-article/nokian-tyr...

jcrbenon Tell HN: Ubuntu 24.04 force enables password auth, need to disable differently

add `ssh_pwauth: false` if you can edit the cloud-init configuration - that's what I'm doing

jcrbenon The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve

Interesting summary - what's your take on opensuse? Seems like solid system but hasn't seemed to grow the way I'd expect

jcrbenon It is hard to recommend Google Cloud

Where did you see this documentation?

jcrbenon Hyundai is spending $1B to keep self-driving startup Motional alive

I don't think so. This is just for Aptiv's investment. Looks like Aptiv (APTV) will remain separate.

jcrbenon A Git client for simultaneous branches on top of your existing workflow

This convinced me that it's maybe worth trying. Given the number of tools out there and how easy git feels for me right now (pretty easy), that's a highish bar

jcrbenon Lawmakers Seeking to Outlaw Rent Price Fixing Reported by Propublica

It's also affected by the fundamental barriers to entry in offering a competing product - homes don't get built quickly and people can't move that easily.

jcrbenon Snaps. Why? Please Stop

You can pass a flag to the commands to hide them.

jcrbenon Ask HN: What are good books on SW architecture that don't sell microservices?

Fundamentals of Software Architecture is reasonable.

jcrbenon I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)

They recently sold Google Domains to Squarespace which is messy given how it was integrated with Cloud Domains https://cloud.google.com/domains/docs/faq