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What do you mean by “not optimized enough“? Binaries created with Free Pascal Compiler are very small, compilation time is super fast and runtime performance was never an issue for the typical system/userland programs. I think in many ways on par or ahead of other mainstream system programming languages.

You are not alone - my first thought was 'oh, HN is trying to bring back the disappointed hackers'. All this AI hype over every little model update fart is so exhausting and boring …

Same journey like me!

Reading helps: https://github.com/rhsev/fileregister#what-you-can-do-with-i...

> Streets, parks, trees

You forgot the biggest and probably the most sensitive dump: the (deep) sea.

> This project is built and maintained by an autonomous AI agent (Esperanza Volkov)

Does HN policy allow postings of agents? This would be a surprise to me.

> for always-on agentic computing

Don’t know, but this as main ad headline feels almost like a threat to my personal home computing needs

Something like this can only come from Japan. It's more than just craftsmanship; it's deeply rooted in the culture. Impressive!

What the heck are "TSR"s? Is this common knowledge?

> who wins the long-term race

Isn’t the race between Chinese open-weight models and the others more decisive for the future?

This is really astonishing. Are there no checks and balances in place for design decision in such a critical system component? What were the thoughts of all the major distros when they decided to go with systemd then?

I recently looked into disk usage of journald and was also shocked. My next step towards peace of mind is https://www.devuan.org/os/init-freedom

Will try it out as next distro for my Debian system, longtime experience with Void Linux (runit) on another box is great.

Fully agree. In good 'ol times, we had (and still can have!) GNU Autotools where the maintainer created distributions and the end user's (packager) system just needed to have rudimentary support for building programs from source (POSIX-compliant make, shell, compiler, linker etc.).

I know, speaking for GNU Autotools will get me downvotes and nasty comments, but there are many things the GNU Operating System got right and stable, mature distributions like Debian show still its heritage.

Besides this and jank, there is also Janet; playing in the league of Lisp to standalone binaries. It’s also cool!

https://janet-lang.org/

> Artificial Intelligence is writing about as well as humans

Does he really hold on this until the end of the article? (sorry, I had no time to read through it). It doesn't matter how well and sophisticated the writing is, what counts is the human connection. A human is talking to me through the writing. I am not interested in having communication with a machine, I want the vibes only humans can send and receive …

Unfortunately written by an AI - that completely takes the wind out of the content and makes me not even want to read any further. The distinction between “production” and “non-production” is also questionable. For an evaluation, I recommend the following original articles (certainly not AI-generated):

- https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html

- https://sqlite.org/different.html

- https://sqlite.org/quirks.html

I am self-hosting my (secondary) email and have only implemented SPF and DKIM. This works fine on a practical level for me. What would be the benefit of setting up DMARC on top?

Off topic: nice, retro website look!

Buzzword bullshit bingo is a must for anyone who wants to ride the hype.

The most absurde thing is that nobody will ever read those notes, transcripts anyhow.

The most important information is this:

> participants will contribute engineering resources

If it works out as planned, we will see. Apart from this, I am not overwhelmed by the claim of this project. It favors centralization and corporate circles, exactly the opposite of what the hacker ethics promotes for good reasons.

> Btw this was initially coded without AI, but I've used it for the recent clean up and features

Then it makes sense to update the submission title. To me it reads as if the project was written completely without the help of AI (which might be a quality badge to some), but it is not 100% true then.

Anyhow, cool project ;)

The path is not closed; it must be earned through trust. It has always been this way. Also, note that "pull requests" are a GitHub invention; the concept is not native to Git or most other SCM systems. Before, you would have to submit your patch by email. It would be reviewed by the "maintainer" (or BDFL), who would then accept or reject it. If your contributions are accepted several times, you may be able to earn the rank of "maintainer."

Returning to the topic at hand, the challenge for new developers is to earn trust. I bet there are ways to do so aside from the muddy swamp of GitHub's (AI) bazaar.

There are great Open Source projects doing fine with the cathedral style, just look at Sqlite and its siblings (Fossil, …).

So I do not see a problem with Ladybirds decision, in contrary, IMHO it strengthens the human aspect of software development and puts the brakes on AI free riders

I am happy with https://github.com/pyrmont/churlish

Not by me, but by the mods. They also changed from "full of hallucinations" to "and most citations were hallucinated". Maybe a rep from "EY Global" filed a complain ;)

> This is a refreshing attitude!

Well, I think the attitude is that costs are allowed to escalate faster and more steeply than the features delivered. From that perspective, semantic versioning is a handy tool for adjusting pricing strategies. IMHO, it (versioning) only makes sense for open-source projects, where you can clearly see the actual changes made with each version upgrade. Anything else is more than a little suspicious…

I am a happy user of dateutils [0], but I will try out Biff and see which one is more ergonomic.

[0]: https://www.fresse.org/dateutils/

As is often the case in the GenAI space, this also appears to be a solution to a non-existent problem.

Can't comment on Mercurial, but "for all my personal project where I don't need to care what anyone else thinks" I am using Fossil. Ever since that decision, I've felt a bit, well, held back, or rather, I don't feel quite as comfortable as I do at home when I have to use Git.