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waynesonfire··on Commenting and approving pull requests
> new development task (i.e. on something like Jira), or it is completed before the PR merges.

You've never written an TODO comment? I find them useful.

waynesonfire··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
So.. sign up. "Get Sight for free". Ads everywhere bro.
waynesonfire··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
> It has barely hit 50% and it's already plateauing.

That makes sense. The majority of IPv6 deployment is mobile.

The next wave of adoption requires ISPs start offering residential IPv6. Once this happens, router manufacturers will innovate around the IPv6 offering as a differentiator, making it easy to deploy by end-users. IPv6 wifi APs will then become ubiqutious and so forth across other services. Has to start with ISPs.

waynesonfire··on Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet
Best comment in this thread. An AI-based education system as you described, would deploy the _technique_ the KA bot is built around, sparingly and at narrow times, to deliver a lesson to great effect.

The poor engagement of the KA bot becomes clear--a teaching technique in not an education system.

waynesonfire··on Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet
You built a wikipedia-rabbit-hole chat bot.

Which explains the poor engagement you observed. To me it seems like a _technique_ I'd expect a skilled educator to deploy, sparingly in narrow use-cases, when it's nescessary to probe a students interest.

waynesonfire··on State of Homelab 2026
180/year? That's ~150watt server. That's a very powerful NAS. You'll be paying $200 per month form a cloud provider for such performance. A performant home low power NAS can be build that will consume easily, 30-40W. It won't need to be upgraded for over a decade. Ideally, 5x HDDs with 5 year warranty. The only expense is rolling upgrades of HDDs as storage fills up.

Backup to cloud glacier storage is ~$1.20 per TiB-month

Cost is absolutely a factor. self-hosting can't even be touched. And, the that's just the start of the value proposition.

waynesonfire··on SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
Sorry to pop your bubble, but a SaaS is the worst possible option.
waynesonfire··on Every Law a Commit – US Law in GitHub
sloooooooooooooooooooooooooop
waynesonfire··on Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]
Very cool. My first instinct was to buy a Clojure book.. so for those that had the same,

Programming Clojure, Fourth Edition 4th Edition is on pre-order scheduled to be released May 2026.

https://pragprog.com/titles/shcloj4/programming-clojure-four...

waynesonfire··on HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)
All the sudden it's a bad idea now that you can have people talk to a chat bot for 15 minutes.
waynesonfire··on Having Kids (2019)
There is significant suffering in the world. You and everyone else are drawing lottery tickets everyday. Kids are far from its only source or cause. I'm ill equipped to unpack the meaning of life, but I am certain that suffering is fundamental--your comment is probing at this idea.

This is a very difficult subject since there exists un-imaginable suffering and it's hard to reconcile that. That life is a gift under the umbrella of un-imaginable suffering. Perhaps, that's what spirituality tries to do, I don't know.

waynesonfire··on Astral to Join OpenAI
> They raised 4M USD

What was their pitch?

waynesonfire··on Astral to Join OpenAI
And, they buy a company writing tooling for Python in not Python.
waynesonfire··on Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m
Your reward is the endorphin hit from writing this comment.
waynesonfire··on SSH has no Host header
> multi human single user system

A rather niche use-case to promote certificate auth... I'd add the killer-app feature is not having to manage authorized_keys.

waynesonfire··on Why I love FreeBSD
>> There was a long and hot thread about 'Rust in base' recently. …

Maybe this,

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/the-case-for-rust-in-the-...

?

waynesonfire··on Why I love FreeBSD
I just hope FreeBSD dosen't get bit by the Rust in the kernel initative. Maybe it'll have to deal with it eventually, when, for example, expanding the compatiblity layer to support interoperability with Linux. But, maybe by then, at least Rust will have gone through its hype test gauntlet and we can see it for what it is instead of being tainted by a polticial power grab.
waynesonfire··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
> open source their code do not care about profit.

Ah, how naive. You're not squinting hard enough.

waynesonfire··on “This is not the computer for you”
Depending on your process, there is nothing wrong starting with this tool (Neo) first. It's a classic dilemma. For your first tool, buy the cheapest one possible to get the job done. Once the tool becomes understoond, it's limits reached, it's place in the process discovered, then, buy the most expensive one you can afford.

The Neo is the right first tool for many people.

waynesonfire··on Levels of Agentic Engineering
Your techinque doesn't keep the kool-aid flowing. Shut up. /s

The more I try to use these tools to push up this "ladder" the more it becomes clear the technology is a no more than a 10x better Google search.

waynesonfire··on I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years
If you use an LLM at work to produce code, does the company own the copyright to that code? ... hmmm.
waynesonfire··on We might all be AI engineers now
> my whole career using regex and never fully grokking it

Sorry to hear that, nobody ever told me either. Had you invested a bit of time earlier in your career, it would have paid dividends 100x fold. The key is knowing what’s wheat and what’s chaff. Regex is a wheat.

With that said, maybe you tried.. everyone has their limits.

waynesonfire··on UUID package coming to Go standard library
what a bunch of drama in the comments.
waynesonfire··on Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android
Which camera brands / models don't phone home or have "smart" ai features built in provided over a proprietary cloud app?
waynesonfire··on Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework
Legit question, am I missing anything not playing with agents? Like, what's the killer-app feature vs chatgpt prompt?
waynesonfire··on MacBook Neo
Looks like a bunch of great trade-offs to give value to customers in this economy.
waynesonfire··on Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores
Or better yet, remove it all together. Why promote this type of deceivement?

It looks to be a pretty massive messaging compaign promoting this deceptive wording.

waynesonfire··on A case for Go as the best language for AI agents
If hadoop did it, so can you. I'm talking about a project that stretched Java 8 to, and arguably beyond, its intended operational boundaries. Unlikely that you’re leaning on this boundary. It's Spring Boot upgrades that will be giving you troubles.
waynesonfire··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
If you’re hiring for a UX / product hybrid, I’d welcome the opportunity to connect you with a candidate.

They operate fluently across user research, synthesis, and interaction design — but more importantly, they are disciplined about ensuring the team is solving the right problem before optimizing the solution. Strong conviction around first-principles framing, epistemic rigor, and problem selection as leverage.

Core strengths:

- Structured discovery and incisive problem definition - Translating ambiguous signals into coherent product theses - Systems-level thinking across UX, engineering, and business constraints - Driving execution with clarity, precision, and accountability

A thinker who prizes discernment over velocity and correctness over noise.

If your team values intellectual honesty, strategic acuity, and taste, I’m happy to make an introduction.

waynesonfire··on Software 3.1? – AI Functions
Obvisouly you have never built software. English is a terrible programming language, you cannot have ambiguity in defining your computation.
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