Hacker News: Pet_Ant

New comment by Pet_Ant in "Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI"

Pet_Ant — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:04:32 +0000

I wonder how easy this would be to port to Guix?

New comment by Pet_Ant in "Inside the 24 hours that led to pulling Fable 5"

Pet_Ant — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:47:03 +0000

I expected a Peter Molyneux game. Worth checking out if you wanted a Sims-informed RPG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable_(video_game_series)

Apparently there is a new one still coming out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable_(2027_video_game)

New comment by Pet_Ant in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

Pet_Ant — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:12:13 +0000

Mickey Mouse was already a legally distinct Oswald the Rabbit.

New comment by Pet_Ant in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

Pet_Ant — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:25:33 +0000

I hope people pronounce this as „pig-dog” and has a mascot that looks like „man-bear-pig”

New comment by Pet_Ant in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

Pet_Ant — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:48:48 +0000

> If I as a human want to make a clean room reimplementation of some API or application, I must not have read the source code of the original implementation.

That is the difference between necessary and sufficient. Clean-room is sufficient to guarantee avoiding copyright, but it is not necessary. The line legally is south of there, but that position was chosen because they didn’t want to crossing and it was easier to argue for legally in court.

tl;dr: clean room is overkill for avoiding copyright infringement

New comment by Pet_Ant in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

Pet_Ant — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:44:06 +0000

I mean ”hey artist, take this stolen character and make them legally distinct” is already a common thing.

New comment by Pet_Ant in "Canada in Technical Recession"

Pet_Ant — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:37:31 +0000

Considering all of Trump’s shenanigans it’s impressive it’s just that. With Hormuz, tariffs, and America first, this is the equivalent of a fender dent after spinning out on black ice.

New comment by Pet_Ant in "More Dads Are Scaling Back at the Office for Kids and Housework"

Pet_Ant — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:21:20 +0000

During the AI layoffs they’ll be the first to go and we’ll be back to the always working bread winner dad. Not saying I like it, just saying that’s my read of the tea leaves.

New comment by Pet_Ant in "The case against boolean logic"

Pet_Ant — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:15:27 +0000

I took a course in advanced logic and there is actually a really broad and diverse world of them that is fascinating. Contextual logic for one.

New comment by Pet_Ant in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

Pet_Ant — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:49:54 +0000

> That's asking every company to prove a negative before rolling out new features.

That’s not as rediculous as it seems. That’s sort of model that drug manufacturers follow. It would also mean that if internally they see troubling behaviour they know they have to stop.

Practically, it would be corporate cover up. And applied earnestly it would make these businesses unviable.

New comment by Pet_Ant in "Desmond Morris has died"

Pet_Ant — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:19:31 +0000

“The Naked Ape” is seminal work. When I found it in the bargain bin of used bookstore I was incensed!

New comment by Pet_Ant in "Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)"

Pet_Ant — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:29:03 +0000

Considering the popularity of Factorio and Satisfactory I'd recommend RoboRally. It gets a bit silly but it's accessible.

For much more depth I recommend Dominant Species by GMT.

New comment by Pet_Ant in "Getting Ziggy with It – Re: Factor"

Pet_Ant — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:25:06 +0000

I’d love to see Factor ported to bare metal so we could write a modern Forth operating system.

New comment by Pet_Ant in "WFH is becoming a benefit again"

Pet_Ant — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:13:04 +0000

I work remotely following a divorce because my children live here. It's not something I would choose for myself and will be looking to move once they graduate.

New comment by Pet_Ant in "Amazon Employees Say AI Is Just Increasing Workload"

Pet_Ant — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:07:18 +0000

That's because everyone else has access to the same tools. If you don't become more productive then you will be replaced with someone who will.

They only way it'd help you is if you controlled access to AI and it was a competitive advantage for you over a fellow developer. A rising tide lifts all boats... but you are only paid for how much taller you are than the other boats.

It's important to understand that AI is capital, and it's to the owner of the capital go the spoils. Your capital is in your skills, but they are a commodity and thus you have limited leverage.

Who benefits from AI is smaller businesses who could not afford custom application development at previous development costs. It's like faster laptops and better IDEs didn't boost developer salaries.

New comment by Pet_Ant in "China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built"

Pet_Ant — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:42:14 +0000

What about if they added “wings” to trains? That could generate some lift reducing the effective weight is my shower thought.

No idea how much the wings would add versus the lift help.

New comment by Pet_Ant in "NetBSD 11.0 RC1"

Pet_Ant — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:42:09 +0000

> New port to the RISC-V processor architecture. NetBSD 11.0 is the first stable release to include support for 64-bit RISC-V

This is very exciting!

New comment by Pet_Ant in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

Pet_Ant — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:32:10 +0000

After my dates of employment I will parethetically add (bankrupt) or (shutdown) to indicate that it wasn't related to me personally. My best job was 18 months.

New comment by Pet_Ant in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

Pet_Ant — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:28:30 +0000

Checking for updates and pulling in plug-ins. Both are valid.

New comment by Pet_Ant in "What does Werner Herzog's nihilist penguin teach us? (2017)"

Pet_Ant — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:08:52 +0000

My personal favourite work of his is "Happy People: A Year in the Taiga". Most of the people are doing immediate purposeful work and are much more present. There is so much resilience (the bear destroyed hut), and there is also tragedy in it as well (the fire).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_People:_A_Year_in_the_Ta...