Hacker News: Chris2048

New comment by Chris2048 in "Zig Zen Update"

Chris2048 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:32:40 +0000

Are you a Perl dev?

New comment by Chris2048 in "Shell, Awk, and Make Should Be Combined"

Chris2048 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:44:08 +0000

Previous submissions:

2024-02 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39517139

2019-11 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21639918

New comment by Chris2048 in "Shell, Awk, and Make Should Be Combined"

Chris2048 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:42:13 +0000

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

Shell, Awk, and Make Should Be Combined

Chris2048 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:45:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/13.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405699

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by Chris2048 in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

Chris2048 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:19 +0000

What do you mean by ~"PoW unlocks unlimited scraping"?

New comment by Chris2048 in "Legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival"

Chris2048 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:51:42 +0000

Presumably he meant on Facebook, not on Facebook..

New comment by Chris2048 in "The worst job interview I ever had"

Chris2048 — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:26:44 +0000

Maybe this is the guy they trained the LLMs on?

New comment by Chris2048 in "The worst job interview I ever had"

Chris2048 — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:10:12 +0000

And an extra import. also, it sounds like they where looking specifically for knowledge of built-in operators.

New comment by Chris2048 in "AI Agents Are Tools, Not Replacements"

Chris2048 — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:38:25 +0000

> Amplifiers, Not Substitutes

the kind of heading AI would write..

New comment by Chris2048 in "OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control"

Chris2048 — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:59:22 +0000

The PCB images are the, but sadly just images, no privet PCB layout format is provided.

New comment by Chris2048 in "LLM Policy for Rust Compiler"

Chris2048 — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:55:15 +0000

Maybe a network of ppl who can vouch they meet in real life?

I don't know if having your name/ face a secret is still acceptable? Maybe tiers of devs (anon vs other) on that one?

New comment by Chris2048 in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"

Chris2048 — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:42:36 +0000

Uh, no it isn't.

New comment by Chris2048 in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

Chris2048 — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:44:57 +0000

Why is an analogy needed? Just engage with what actually happened.

New comment by Chris2048 in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

Chris2048 — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:41:35 +0000

> "but the letter of the law didn't say I couldn't!" doesn't make you any less of a thief.

Yes it does. And it's moot because the apples were offered for free, no restriction on usage.

New comment by Chris2048 in "Bun ported to Rust in 6 days"

Chris2048 — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:28:57 +0000

Did you change the url to "twitter.com/jar.." rather than "x.com/ja.."?

The latter might save a redirect.

New comment by Chris2048 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

Chris2048 — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:39:40 +0000

It's been repeated many times that the rejection of the Bun PR was unrelated to their AI-policy. It's also not clear they've "fumbled the ball" given how many projects are complaining about slop PRs.

New comment by Chris2048 in "The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number"

Chris2048 — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:18:43 +0000

If they are calling via a business caller ID then what's the problem - just treat the associated business as responsible.

New comment by Chris2048 in "Forking the Web"

Chris2048 — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:07:24 +0000

It's as if nothing was learned from AI winter[]! it's obviously a technology dead-end.

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

New comment by Chris2048 in "America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy"

Chris2048 — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:20:55 +0000

> there could have been NO impact at all

True, but if you contaminate water, and people, with chemicals not supposed to be there; I feel the burden should be on you to prove the chemicals are not harmful.

> you could use the same logic to not make any advancement ever

No you couldn't - the measures taken to prevent contamination were inadequate, they could've innovated while also following the rules. And if not, no business is owed a viable business model, certainly a random strangers heath isn't worth the price of profiting from easy-to-clean carpets.

> We just can't necessarily quantify that as easily.

Quantify what?

> can attribute once thought "inert" chemicals to problems

we (or America) have a whole system of classifying chemicals as safe for human consumption or not. Whatever was thought about PFAS, I don't believe they had been proven safe enough to dump into drinking water?

New comment by Chris2048 in "PySimpleGUI 6"

Chris2048 — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:20:57 +0000

> They tried to make it a sustainable project

> with the hope of sustaining the project with donations.. the amount has been too small to support the project

So shut it down, lock the repo, invite new maintainers indefinitely. It's only non-sustainable for the price the author is asking. It'll still be FOSS even if no longer maintainer by the original author, whether a new maintainer steps in or not.

And if they want to fork it an create a commercial alt, no problem - anyone can!

The problem arises, IMHO, when they develop (accept contributions) or propagate (lock-in) a FOSS project in good-will, then somehow leverage their position as a FOSS maintainer transform it to non-FOSS.