Hacker News: FrancoisBosun

Why we're choosing stewardship over an exit – Thoughtbot

FrancoisBosun — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:00:13 +0000

Article URL: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/why-we-re-choosing-stewardship-over-an-exit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678490

Points: 3

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New comment by FrancoisBosun in "I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus"

FrancoisBosun — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:52:40 +0000

Meh, I tell it "use uuidgen and get your randomness from that". Of course, that won't work on ChatGPT web, but works well enough on the command line.

The Accountability Problem

FrancoisBosun — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 02:22:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2025/the-accountability-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45631678

Points: 144

# Comments: 60

What climate skeptics taught me about global warming (2016)

FrancoisBosun — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:28:29 +0000

Article URL: https://perspicacity.xyz/2016/12/10/what-climate-skeptics-taught-me-about-global-warming/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45530655

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by FrancoisBosun in "Time travel? Or, just clever technology"

FrancoisBosun — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:25:44 +0000

Explained in the article:

> A producer sends a backing track to a performer - SyncDNA adds a slight delay to the outbound feed

The "backing track" is probably the beat or something similar.

New comment by FrancoisBosun in "You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB"

FrancoisBosun — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:12:33 +0000

I do the "same thing", but using PostgreSQL `EXPLAIN ANALYZE`. EXPLAIN ANALYZE has information about the number of rows returned, which means I know exactly which node in the query plan failed to return expected values.

New comment by FrancoisBosun in "Multiplex: Command-Line Process Mutliplexer"

FrancoisBosun — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:26:01 +0000

This has some overlap with Overmind / foreman / Procfile. To wait for another process to be started, I resort to using plain `sleep` or `dockerize -wait`.

Good job on building this!

New comment by FrancoisBosun in "Solid protocol restores digital agency"

FrancoisBosun — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 02:51:16 +0000

In the article, it is mentioned that « we can grant temporary access to cardiac-related data » (paraphrased). This is where it gets difficult: how am I to know that some data is cardiac-related or not? Is it important to share my thyroid levels or not? This is a very difficult problem. I wouldn’t know what to share for medical history.

New comment by FrancoisBosun in "Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby"

FrancoisBosun — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:19:56 +0000

Sorbet is nice, but for data structure enforcement and data validation, I much prefer the dry-rb ecosystem.

New comment by FrancoisBosun in "Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure"

FrancoisBosun — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:53:02 +0000

Heroku's 25 hours comes to mind... this is so infuriating and annoying.

From the Creators of Shortcuts, Sky Extends AI and Automation to Entire Your Mac

FrancoisBosun — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:03:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macstories.net/stories/sky-for-mac-preview/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44119493

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by FrancoisBosun in "Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?"

FrancoisBosun — Wed, 28 May 2025 12:36:36 +0000

You still need the timezone name to map back to UTC, in case you want to make some types of computations, usually along the lines of "how long ago was this" and "remaining time until this thing happens".

You may argue that we can use local time to make the computations and be done with it, but during DST transitions, local time jumps so the number of actual seconds won't be consistent.

New comment by FrancoisBosun in "Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library"

FrancoisBosun — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 03:55:23 +0000

I use an older iPad and the page crashed so hard the Home button didn’t do anything for about 30 seconds. The iPad eventually turned off, because I had pressed the power button, to no avail, a couple of times.

New comment by FrancoisBosun in "PanGui – A cross-platform UI library with a razor sharp focus on performance"

FrancoisBosun — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:20:40 +0000

C, C++, C#, and probably Rust. There’s a section about that. There’s a link to the FAQ I. That section.

New comment by FrancoisBosun in "Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file"

FrancoisBosun — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:42:02 +0000

Not so different from Word/Excel/Lotus 1-2-3 from the 90s! I like that most software saves-as-I-type now, but that was the workflow back then. Ctrl+S was the most used key combo on my keyboard back then. Now, it's `:w`.

New comment by FrancoisBosun in "Walking in short bursts consume 20-60% more energy than walking continuously"

FrancoisBosun — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:57:26 +0000

I hate shopping, because it’s start and stop all the time. I get tired after only 30m.

Then, I’ll walk home from the office (1h) and will have lots of energy to actually DO something.

The title resonated with me very strongly.

New comment by FrancoisBosun in "Putting a full power search engine in Ecto"

FrancoisBosun — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 12:02:29 +0000

This looks very, very interesting! Good work. My only nitpick is the ligatures. I believe pipelining in Elixir uses the |> operator, but the blog post uses a kind of triangle pointing to the right. Due to my previous exposure to Elixir, I guessed that it must have been |>, but if I hadn’t know, then I would be really confused when I tried to write that in my editor to replicate the code.

Building a Robust Data Synchronization Service with Rails

FrancoisBosun — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:56:17 +0000

Article URL: https://pcreux.com/2024/10/07/rails-data-sync-service.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41768064

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by FrancoisBosun in "Sapling: Source control that's user-friendly and scalable (2022)"

FrancoisBosun — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:05:11 +0000

I use Sapling as my main driver. I can commit or revert individual hunks just fine.

Musician charged with $10M streaming royalties fraud using AI and bots

FrancoisBosun — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:42:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/musician-charged-with-10m-streaming-royalties-fraud-using-ai-and-bots/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41459818

Points: 14

# Comments: 2