Hacker News: Redoubts

New comment by Redoubts in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

Redoubts — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:59:26 +0000

We have rights and representative republics to restrain the will of the people for a reason.

New comment by Redoubts in "EFF is leaving X"

Redoubts — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:04:32 +0000

There was a recent leadership change at the EFF

New comment by Redoubts in "EFF is leaving X"

Redoubts — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:02:04 +0000

They're still on youtube with low hundreds of views. Surely video content requires more effort to boot.

New comment by Redoubts in "EFF is leaving X"

Redoubts — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:58:01 +0000

> Nate Silver, [...] made a post about this recently

Yeah and he put together an insane chart + data that's not tethered to reality.

New comment by Redoubts in "Ethiopia gets $350M World Bank financing for its digital ID project (2024)"

Redoubts — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:34:29 +0000

> I’ve been seeing a phrase “id/acc”.

I'm curious where, because the top google hits for this are a one-like twitter post, and your comment.

New comment by Redoubts in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Redoubts — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:34:30 +0000

> There's absolutely no proof that happened.

Pathetic.

New comment by Redoubts in "iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life"

Redoubts — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:00:26 +0000

Honestly the best way to get stuff fixed is to work there, and report shit directly to PMs/BRB while living on the dailies.

Short of that yeah, everything is a black hole :/

New comment by Redoubts in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

Redoubts — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:27:52 +0000

nobody joins a million person discord, it's too crowded

The Business of Check Cashing

Redoubts — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:35:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-business-of-check-cashing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936550

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Redoubts in "Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes"

Redoubts — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:42:21 +0000

This is a very funny reply, given how distant from the truth your posts have been here

New comment by Redoubts in "Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes"

Redoubts — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:50:11 +0000

Posts like this make it clearer to me every day why Trump won twice

New comment by Redoubts in "Al is killing programming and the Python community"

Redoubts — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:54:40 +0000

Why can't you just ignore the bad projects? AI is probably super annoying if you're a maintainer getting slop PRs; but if you're a professional I don't see how this can vex you that much.

New comment by Redoubts in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

Redoubts — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:48:17 +0000

> - The stdlib (Foundation) is not identical on all platforms even today. This has been a major thorn as releases constantly have discrepancies and subtle bugs that are hard to diagnose and track down. Even Swift 6.1 broke non UTF-8 string encodings by just returning "nil" on Linux and took until Swift 6.2 to be fixed (nearly a year).

sad, I was doing server side around v4/5 and this was the biggest issue at the time for me (lots of stuff was not implemented and you only found out at runtime). that this is still a problem is very disappointing...

New comment by Redoubts in "Astrological CPU Scheduler"

Redoubts — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:03:28 +0000

> A fully functional sched_ext scheduler that makes real CPU scheduling decisions based on real-time planetary positions, zodiac signs, and astrological principles. This actually loads into the Linux kernel and schedules your system tasks. Because if the universe can influence our lives, why not our CPU scheduling too?

Astrological CPU Scheduler

Redoubts — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:02:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zampierilucas/scx_horoscope

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775391

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by Redoubts in "Yes, It's Fascism"

Redoubts — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:09:40 +0000

> isn't there some point where you might consider putting your finger on the scale to help stop the slide into authoritarianism? This seems like the moment, maybe?

posting isn't praxis. what do you think more articles on this site will achieve?

New comment by Redoubts in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

Redoubts — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:23:10 +0000

this feels like the setup to a Dilbert strip

New comment by Redoubts in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

Redoubts — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:23:21 +0000

> Scott Adams based Dilbert on his career at Pacific Bell in the 80s. Can you imagine quitting Pacific Bell in the 80s to, uh, found your own Pacific Bell?

Idk man, imagine quitting HP in the 70s to make your own HP or IBM. Inconceivable

New comment by Redoubts in "Python numbers every programmer should know"

Redoubts — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:23:30 +0000

> Attribute read (obj.x) 14 ns

note that protobuf attributes are 20-50x worse than this

About St Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean

Redoubts — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:52:17 +0000

Article URL: https://sainthelenaisland.info/index.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412398

Points: 2

# Comments: 0