Hacker News: LaGrange

New comment by LaGrange in "The first new cat species discovered in 100 years"

LaGrange — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:38:14 +0000

> This particular one was actually being kept in a house because someone confused it for a "pretty housecat". After a while, the owner realized it didn't want to be tamed and contacted someone for help.

I mean, the dude tried to feed it "noodles, rice, and eggs" so I'm not sure if he'd be able to tame my very own house cat, even starting from the house cat's current stage of being entirely tamed.

New comment by LaGrange in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

LaGrange — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:20:13 +0000

You know what actually saves lives? Fewer cars.

New comment by LaGrange in "iPhone Duo"

LaGrange — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:43:08 +0000

> You now can have multiple iPhones.

Thanks, I'd rather pull my fingernails.

New comment by LaGrange in ".gitignore Everything by Default"

LaGrange — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:11:26 +0000

That's cute, too bad it's a config file mandated by your boss and it has to be called "terribletool.yaml."

New comment by LaGrange in ".gitignore Everything by Default"

LaGrange — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:46:19 +0000

Recovery from forgetting to add something is _much_ easier than recovery from adding some weird configuration file with plaintext private keys in it.

New comment by LaGrange in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

LaGrange — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:45:07 +0000

I mean NL is like, there are only really present at train stations, cost money to use, and they look pretty bad. I will say though that “used syringes compartment” is good, actually.

Warsaw and Posen were quite similar to NL by the time I left — paid toilets that weren’t all that great and sometimes outright gross. I’ve also been to Berlin and I wouldn’t call the experience amazing either. I don’t remember using public toilets in Serbia, Switzerland or Spain when I was there.

But so far European track record is not great. To the point where I’m a bit pleasantly surprised other places actually do this well.

New comment by LaGrange in "Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code"

LaGrange — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:18:16 +0000

You're joking, right? That's an incredibly outmoded view of capitalist "competition."

New comment by LaGrange in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

LaGrange — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:55:08 +0000

> I was surprised to read that Anthropic (and probably other data / model companies) are doing this and it's extremely disappointing, as working towards the benefit of humanity

Look, others talked about how this fetishising of paper books is quite silly (though I don't like it when the destructive scanning is just so one could feed it into a chatbot) but I have to say, all I can do after reading the above sentence is laughing bitterly. Anthropic is an American for-profit company, any talk about "working towards the benefit of humanity" is just marketing lies, and it's always incredible to see people treat those seriously.

_Of course_ Anthropic does that.

New comment by LaGrange in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

LaGrange — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:03:58 +0000

And now I find myself staring at Zig and Java as my preferred languages. Zig is very C-like, so I feel like I'm back to the 90s - except a bit less miserable in some ways, more miserable in others.

Even the fashion seems similar - at least based on the teens I saw at the concert I went to recently (I'm not exactly a frequent event-goer) - including, of course, the anorexia. I should check out how the demoscene and FastTracker music are doing.

New comment by LaGrange in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

LaGrange — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:17:59 +0000

It’s more than one thing but the surfactants are pretty bad.

New comment by LaGrange in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

LaGrange — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:11:30 +0000

Actually the aesthetic preferences of people I regularly work with are important to me.

New comment by LaGrange in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

LaGrange — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:10:39 +0000

In my own experience it works pretty well. In fact better than the autoformatters.

It was essentially not an issue. Sometimes I’d grumble about someone, but it would never get in my way the way black or ruff would regularly.

New comment by LaGrange in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

LaGrange — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:05:58 +0000

Gods forbid I talk to people I work with, learn their preferences, and figure out the way we can accommodate each other. Sounds like such a waste of energy. It’s so much better if we all acquiesce to the preferences of some people neither of works with!

New comment by LaGrange in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

LaGrange — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:40:57 +0000

Don’t forget to light some candles and invoke the name of the Omnissiah while you’re at it.

New comment by LaGrange in "Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed"

LaGrange — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:02:04 +0000

Yeah, that too. Like, being old enough to get my start largely in internet cafes means I actually _had_ in-person interactions with the type of person we're talking about - and they were _not_ nicer.

Being kinda big I might even stand a chance against one - unless they had a knife, which they probably IME did - but there was always at least 5 of the "lonely lost boys," at least one carrying a baseball bat everywhere.

New comment by LaGrange in "Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed"

LaGrange — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:59:20 +0000

> As a parent now (but oldest is only 5), it's stories like this which make me determined remain aware of the kind of stuff my kids get up to and continually explain that actions have consequences, even if those consequences are seemingly as trivial as making someone else feel shit about themselves.

Weird, somehow without significant parental surveillance or explicit explanation I somehow managed to _not_ do much of the awful stuff my acquaintances with much more engaged parents did.

Must have been my autism, I guess.

New comment by LaGrange in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

LaGrange — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:16:58 +0000

Yep, that. Sorry, growing up in Poland I know the amount of horrors the EU _prevented_.

Europe without EU isn’t democracy, it’s a bunch of fiefdoms.

New comment by LaGrange in "The new HTTP QUERY method explained"

LaGrange — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:24:30 +0000

I will keep using POST and not some weird thing that isn’t supported by a proxy living in the basement of a shoe store in Wageningen or whatever.

New comment by LaGrange in "There are no instances in ATProto"

LaGrange — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:59:00 +0000

Frontends and relays are far closer to “quacking like an instance.” That’s where your sysop’s power lives. The PDS itself isn’t very powerful - can’t meaningfully limit who you can talk to, for example.

New comment by LaGrange in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

LaGrange — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:30:37 +0000

By 2031 the best employer in Europe will be the water gangs.