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panny··on Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
AI ruined everything. They have to protect "their" code.
panny··on Hudson News self-checkout terminals add 3% "employee benefit" surcharge in NY
Isn't this what HN has been asking for? Let the robot pay for the worker put out of work.
panny··on Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k
Let us count the excuses in the thread:

>back taxes

>asbestos

>shit hole places

>something wrong with it

>needs work

>jobs

>demand better of yourself

Love the last one. I'm reminded of an article I read yesterday, where the author complains about how all the affordable housing was built in low income areas! "Oh no! They built the affordable housing where the people who need it are at!! NOOO!"

https://citylimits.org/where-the-most-affordable-apartments-...

panny··on Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k
Now let's say the price collapses by 50%. You're stuck and can't sell in a "frozen" housing market... like how the housing market has been since May 2022. And the problem is structural. And it's only going to get worse as interest rates continue to rise to battle inflation. Here's a nice explainer.

https://youtu.be/qROG2uXPChY?t=608

panny··on 98% isn't much
>Venues did kick out a lot more than 2% of their existing customers until they upgraded their bloodstream.

Only temporarily. Some never mRNAed their bloodstream, then everyone with brain fog forgot about the Trump vaccine and the new normal went back to normal.

panny··on 98% Isn't Much
Do you sell the t-shirt also? :)

https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Best-Viewed-with-Interne...

panny··on 98% Isn't Much
I couldn't agree more. BTW, 98% of US users have JavaScript enabled in 2025.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/No-JavaScript_notes

panny··on Rust is in TIOBE Index top 10
Now remind me of every time you said Tiobe didn't matter when we pointed out Rust wasn't in the top 10 :)

I'm more interested in that massive collapse in python over the past year. Is it due to everyone running for the doors just before the AI bubble pops? Or did AI make rewriting everything Python into Rust a reality perhaps?

panny··on Anti-vaccers are fundamentally wrong about placebo-controlled trials
And if the article said they were right, you'd be [flagged][dead].

Fundamentally, this corner of the internet has made up its mind and will not consider the possibility of being wrong.

panny··on Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
Maybe Zuck is doing the soft walk back so he can justify a few more H1Bs now that he laid off lots of expensive Americans.
panny··on What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
>just learn SQL

Implying I use an ORM because I don't know SQL... I've reverse engineered embedded databases and written directly to the .dat files on production systems that deal with HIPAA data. I'm pretty sure I know SQL better than most people on HN. I still prefer an ORM.

Why? Because with my ORM, I can code gen faster than you can vibe code. I can build on top of the abstraction layer. The data model in the ORM is the M in MVC. The backend could be a SQL database, a file system, a REST service, that part is irrelevant. The M is the same, regardless of the backing store. View and Controller code still works.

I find most people who are anti-ORM are kinda junior and trying to flex their power to write SQL scripts as if it is impressive. That's why there's always this weird implying that ORM users don't know SQL.

panny··on Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory
Suggesting I'm an exotic animal for being budget and environmentally friendly is being a jerk too.
panny··on AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules
I really can't understand the moral compass of people who would pirate other peoples' works under "fair use" to train AI, only to turn around and try to claim ownership of them when AI regurgitates it.
panny··on Qualcomm Linux 2.0
I was just about to complain about being locked into one kernel version, being at the mercy of a single vendor, but you said it so much better than I would have :) Thanks.
panny··on America stopped reading: 100 years of survey data
Hi author, why didn't you include reading hyper text? I do this most of the day every day. Such as me just reading your blog post.
panny··on Supreme Court says AI-generated hallucinated precedents 'catastrophic'
Charge the lawyers with perjury and jail them? A computer can't be held accountable. Make the people accountable.
panny··on Tidal Says It Won't Pay Royalties for AI-Generated Music
No copyright, no need to pay. Information wants to be free and all.
panny··on Why can't India's government build a decent website?
Brain drain. Anyone in India who knew how to build a website was H1B'ed a long long time ago.
panny··on DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]
Short AI companies

???

Profit!

Not suggesting this is it, but you know, one possible angle.

panny··on Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
Maybe you should ask them for an ID to make sure they belong there.
panny··on Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark
Same thing https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/
panny··on Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best
Mass surveillance is bad, until I'm in charge of it. -- Parents demanding "age verification" laws
panny··on Stop asking AI if your startup idea is good
The only thing AI is better at than hallucinating is glazing (sycophancy).
panny··on Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia
Right hand side, just under the map. Date, Location, Result: Iranian Victory.
panny··on Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?
Like any good linux user, I have the "brother whatever-it-is"

https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-...

panny··on Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity
>From a privacy perspective, your objective is to stay away from people who have interest to snoop on your conversations.

>So from the perspective of your teen, they would benefit from using z.ai or ChatGPT or Claude, etc, rather than the local server where you can see all the conversations.

That is bonkers. If I were a parent, I would hope my child would trust me more than systems monitored by FBI/NSA/etc. Like, what sort of sick relationship do you have to have with your own family to trust them less than strangers who would sell you into prison slavery for a buck.

panny··on 28% Faster: The Blink Prototype vs. Apple's iOS Browser Engine
>Faster!

At what cost to system memory and battery life?

panny··on Facial recognition on public buses sparks debate over security and privacy
Step 1: Let vicious criminals like Decarlos Brown Jr. walk free over and over.

Step 2: Offer to remedy the problem if the people give up their liberty.

panny··on Software Engineers Face an AI 'Identity Crisis,' VC Partner Says
I use AI like the "ask" features in search engines. I can generate some quick boilerplate that would have been no fun to write, and is too one off to make a codegen template for.

I think I have more fatigue than identity crisis. It started around the time you guys began using agents and stopped carefully reading what it produced. When you put your project on autopilot and don't read your PRs from developers who actually read your code, found bugs, and are trying to fix it, then it's mildly infuriating.

panny··on Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too
Yesterday's story about airpods causing wearers to isolate themselves and become unhappier comes to mind. Headphones in your ears, display in your glasses... about the only way to connect with anyone will be to smell really bad I guess.
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