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New comment by LowTechHN in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

LowTechHN — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:39:36 +0000

> Japanese caved (PM resigned after doing so)

Look what happened to the last guy!

New comment by LowTechHN in "Death to px, long live ch"

LowTechHN — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:36:06 +0000

Thought a magic number is when you hard code a number in logic instead of pulling from a data source

New comment by LowTechHN in "ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data"

LowTechHN — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:20:10 +0000

“Protected” is the same thing at the technical level. Both would 401 or 403 to the unauthorized user.

I think they are asking how it actually works not for product marketing

New comment by LowTechHN in "ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data"

LowTechHN — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:11:13 +0000

You go, I’ll stay

New comment by LowTechHN in "Ask HN: At what point does "clean architecture" become technical debt?"

LowTechHN — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:44:58 +0000

If both React and Angular are installed and actively controlling different parts of the UI (seen it) I think it’s worth spending the ~8 hours on the replatform.

If the main database is a mix of JSON saved in S3 and “the good data” is in mongodb atlas, it’s worth spending the ~12 hours on the migration.

But if it’s going from one fotm framework to another, or syntactic sugar type changes, I don’t think it’s worth sinking time into.

Should be a clear problem:solution to any architectural choice starting with the core problem.

New comment by LowTechHN in "ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data"

LowTechHN — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:45:28 +0000

If I keep it vague I can do things like:

    let { type } = customer;

    type = “premium”;

    setCustomer({ type });

It’s only slightly more verbose if I named the variable:

    customerType

In many cases, the data I’m dealing with is outside my name control and commonly has something like { type } (e.g. )