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minusfon Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

It is a useful skill. But regardless of the theme at hand there is also

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

People change all the time, and things need to be reevaluated from time to time.

So another skill is to disengage with our heroes when the values start misalign.

minusfon How I wrote JustHTML, a Python-based HTML5 parser, using coding agents

Thank you for the clarification, that was not entirely clear to me from the post.

You also mention that the current "optimised" version is "good enough" for every-day use (I use `bs4` for working with html), was the first iteration also usable in that way? Did you look at `html5ever` because the LLM hit a wall trying to speed it up?

minusfon How I wrote JustHTML, a Python-based HTML5 parser, using coding agents

while it's mentioned in the post, it seems to me a bit burried:

isn't this more like a port of `html5ever` from rust to python using LLM, as opposed to creating something "new" based on the test suite alone?

if yes, wouldn't be the distinction rather important?

minusfon Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

Made possible in turn by giving safe haven for user content on the big social networks. Turned out to be a double edged sword.

When Rupert tried to lie about voting machines, he was fined couple of hundred mils. All the social networks mouthpiece accounts spouting nonsense suffer no repercussions whatsoever.

minusfon Scammers prey on young Chinese desperate for jobs in bleak economy

The hong kong police had to release this statement recently:

HKPF reminds the public that the following websites are not the official Hong Kong Police Force website.

1. 96o.1ss5623.com 2. joshhyoung.icu 3. amylfraser.xyz 4. tiaflowe.icu

minusfon Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?

nobody is gonna mention TeX? so i will.

yes, i have TAOCP on the shelf and yes guilty of "one day i'll ready it".

but every now and then i open them up and just flip thru that magnificent typography.

Knuth has not just written up all these things, he has developed an entire typesetting system (complete with fonts) to bring technical publishing screaming and kicking into the 20th century (when other software thought kerning and hypenation were creatures from space). it's the only program deserving a version number approximating PI.

minusfon A new, independent sovereign AWS cloud in Europe

Anybody knows how Amazon is making this happen regarding Law enforcement, US jurisdiction, etc?

minusfon 1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4th, 2023

> 1.1.1.1 has a WebAssembly app called static_zone running on top of the main DNS logic that serves those new versions when they are available.

webassembly? what is that word even doing in a post mortem about DNSSEC failures?

minusfon Rupert Murdoch steps down as Fox and News Corp chairman

none of the news anchors should get the kind of dramatic powers they acquired over time. obligatory reference to Network (1976)

here is a fantastic analysis of Network and rise of the news anchors in the framing of Network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlCLZIn38ao

minusfon The Future of the Vim Project

not a heavy :! user, what i used there worked, but afaik neovim recommends :te . that's one of the bigger differences. neovim was very proud to have a fully integrated terminal

minusfon Google Maps has become an eyesore

apple maps doesnt have cycling maps for _amsterdam_. none of the eu countries do where i have been

minusfon Why is DNS still hard to learn?

behold the dns camel:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/slides-10...

minusfon Why I’m quitting Hacker News

https://twitter.com/short_straw/status/1655352280202313734

actually i'm off to lobsters. we are all just giving YC nerd cred for free they dont deserve.

anybody has an invite? ;)

minusfon Why I’m quitting Hacker News

so why dont i see that with ai related stuff? hn has been basically a gpt news site the last 4 months. quite sick of it actually. i dont remember even 5 climate change big threads recently, it's like the issue doesnt exist here at all. climate change is not only political - there's tons of research and science involved. but it's better to know someone put gpt on self driving cars that can cook asian fusion hallucinated recipes. hn has its blind spots just like any other site.

minusfon ‘Massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints

"your call can be recorded for training purposes"

minusfon WP20 and Audrey Scholars

you must be going to some different hn site.

overall i find it balanced. certain topics will draw certain vocal crowd more and then it will look unbalanced.

on the other hand it's really funny to see "modern development practices and patterns" mentioned in a topic about WP.

are you sir one of them expert technologists from tok tik?

i agree that WP is a cautionary tale but one thing they got really well: never do a rewrite from scratch while being the top dog. it must have been hard to resist that siren song and now we'll have WP till the heat death of the universe.

minusfon Nintendo updates 3DS to block Bannerbomb3 despite eShop discontinuation

goold old games, gog.com

minusfon Nginx 1.25.0: experimental HTTP/3 support

.htaccess is self inflicted pain, no need to downvote :)

minusfon Nintendo updates 3DS to block Bannerbomb3 despite eShop discontinuation

the doom community would like a word with you outside :)

(and the whole gog crowd, me included as well)

minusfon Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)

> Pretending “restaurant quality” is anything besides twice as much butter and salt as you’d dare use at home.

until you read Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and start watching the epicurious yt channel.

the "4 levels" and "pro chef vs home cook" epicurious playlists are amazing eye openers, where they exactly highlight the actual difference in skills and knowledge.

but sure, anyone can cook well, even a rat.

minusfon Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

mr knuth has dedicated his life's work to mathematical correctness down to the typographic level of the books he wrote.

last i heard he was not much into hallucinations...

what he wrote i read as a huge praise for the field.

minusfon Apple dives into display-making to cut reliance on Samsung

a valid strategy for sure.

otoh i hope to be burried with my m1 airbook (for home use) -- i hope never to buy another notebook class device, and just keep replacing the battery every 5 yrs.

minusfon Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service

> All prices are clear.

except the free tier? isn't that what people writing here about? never knowing when the free ride ends? up until now even the content type was not clear...

minusfon Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service

as other comments mentioned, CF is more like a "hey we noticed ..." kind of company and dont go around raising bills willy nilly, very different from AWS, etc.

minusfon Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service

it's really not hard to get a huge CF bill. just turn on the bot detection. i have seen monthly bills that could pay a developer's monthly salary.

minusfon The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems

1blocker can do that for now.

minusfon Intel One Mono Typeface

it's a nice font but the'r' is pulling my eyes to the floor :D

fira mono forever! :p

minusfon Go with PHP

a rewrite from scratch is a pipe dream for almost everything bigger than "hello world".

just ask WordPerfect.

any kind of home grown business app will have corner cases and requirements spaghetti that would take much more time to figure out than to write actual code.

and if the person asking you to do a rewrite just shrugs when you ask "where is the test suite?" walk away asap.

minusfon Go with PHP

    5 + 5 = <?= 5 + 5 ?>

why use echo? php _is_ html :D

minusfon Go with PHP

what this page means is: go with laravel.

wordpress is also php. dont go with php.