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mollerhoj··on You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript
"I think the author is saying" - Wait, are you not the author? This seems dishonest.
mollerhoj··on Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy
This seems like a strange combination of proposals:

1) PUT, PATCH, and DELETE methods: Logical and obvious extension, no extra syntax, but easy to get around today by just using POST for everything.

2) Buttons actions without forms: Just syntax nicety to avoid a single form tag, unconsequential and just adds implementation complexity.

3) Partial page replacement: Would completely revolutionize js-free html capabilities, but the draft is unfinished..

It would seem to me that the author should have just made the thrid proposal, and not wrapped it in a project of two much less consequential proposals?

mollerhoj··on Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI
the execution model of cargo-nextest makes my test suite extremely slow to run - Most of my tests rely on postgres. Since cargo-nextest uses a separate process per test, there is no efficient way to share the connection pool.
mollerhoj··on SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
"feels like using a 30years old database"
mollerhoj··on Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage
Its a bit confusing to claim that "The things your current stack can't give you because it doesn't own the DAG" and use DataBricks as your example: DataBricks includes jobs and pipelines, so it very much owns the DAG, no?
mollerhoj··on Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
this is not big news in dk, it will be up again soon - i dont know of any mitid services that are life-or-death enough to have people panicing about an hours downtime
mollerhoj··on Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
Interesting, they have one of my games[0], but somehow managed to misspell my username. There must have been a manual process, or even OCR somewhere?

0: https://flashpointproject.github.io/flashpoint-database/sear...

mollerhoj··on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu
nuts are ultra processed?
mollerhoj··on Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software
Software engineering is not engineering. No need to pretend that it should be. We dont rebuild a bridge 3 times before we get it right, but in SE thats a pretty good approach
mollerhoj··on Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software
Theoretically correct, but worse is better - consider how many things we could have asked of C or javascript before they become standards.. Practically, a spec is something to prioritise alongside all the other things we wish for
mollerhoj··on “Dynamic Programming” is not referring to “computer programming”
I prefer the Danish term: Datalogi
mollerhoj··on Zig's New Async I/O
single threaded, memory requirements, function coloring
mollerhoj··on Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language
Our long winters + free education sure doesn't hurt either - what better way to spend the yearly 6 months of darkness than working on a new proglang?
mollerhoj··on We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible
Interesting point about db recovery: I guess your db is small enough that you can do multiple full backups without issue? Or do you backup the WAL only?
mollerhoj··on I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
it is not strange that these systems don’t do incremental compiles? Things are literally paged.. Why does newer systems such as typst do full compiles when a single page is edited? I know that all subsequent pages might be affected, but surely, one could workaround this by allowing sloppy but fast compile options for subsequent pages, that sacrifices correct layout for something decent?
mollerhoj··on I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
But that doesn’t make much sense - by your account Latex would also be a mix of closed and open source, since closed source web apps exists for writing Latex.
mollerhoj··on We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible
This stack appears to be a solid choice for building generic CRUD applications, regardless of immediate ISO certification needs. Would it be feasible to package this as a ready-to-use solution for greenfield projects that may pursue ISO certification in the future? Which components would still require manual setup, and why?
mollerhoj··on We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible
Did you look into prepackaged solutions such as kamal/dokku/caprover for parts of this? What were you missing from those?
mollerhoj··on Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
i dont think youre very representative of the general population
mollerhoj··on When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history
Too bad Googles BERT gets all the credit, when the real innovation was ULMfit
mollerhoj··on Real Time Chess – A physical chess board without the concept of turns
Highest rated youtube comment: "Send us a board and we’ll make a video of Magnus Carlsen playing on it! We’ll cover your expenses of course."

Man that'd be fun to watch

mollerhoj··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
It's weird that you'd guess (wrong) that I'm an "LLM bull", then start generalizing the actions of this supposed group. Hallucinations are a problem, no news value there. Sabine seems not to be able to get value out of LLMs, and concludes that they aren't useful. The logic is not exactly impressive.

It's a tool. It can be useful, it doesn't always work. Some people claim it's better than it is, some people claim it's worse. This isn't exactly rocket science.

Regardless of the tweet in question, Sabine is a grifter. Her novel takes on academia being some kind of conspiracy of people milking the system, and of physicists not being interested in making new discoveries are nonsensical and only serves to increase her own profile. Look at this video of her trying to convince the world she received an email that apparently proves all her points correct. My BS detector tells me she wrote that email herself, but you be the judge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFUDPqVmTg

mollerhoj··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
Sabine is an obvious grifter. Crazy to see her on the frontpage of HN
mollerhoj··on Our interfaces have lost their senses
ironic how broken this site on my phone
mollerhoj··on Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working
Not always, kings and queens still exist. Powerless perhaps, but rich
mollerhoj··on Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees
One guy burns down a shop. A capitalist comes in buys the ground, builds a hotel.

Unless they were coordinating this, how on earth is it the same?

mollerhoj··on Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes
I know this is a very unpopular take on HN, but coming fra Scandinavia id like the police to have a system to scan for child pornography etc. We trust our gov. Hard to believe I know.. I’m not sure if it would be technically possible to design a system where the backdoor could really only be used by the gov somehow
mollerhoj··on Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find
Genuine question: I run a co2 calculator site. where should I redirect donations for maximum impact?
mollerhoj··on Merry Christmas Everyone
In Scandinavia languages, xmas is still called Yule. Not sure if having the same name is enough to prove that its a continuation?
mollerhoj··on React 19
How are these two scenarios comparable?
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