Hacker News: Skinney

New comment by Skinney in "HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle"

Skinney — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:43:47 +0000

I'm not doing anything huge, but my local radicle node is connected to ten other nodes at present, one of which is my own hetzner-hosted seed. Even if half of these go down, I still have full access to all the repos I follow.

New comment by Skinney in "HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle"

Skinney — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:54:26 +0000

Wouldn't people discover HardenedBSD via google and then find the link to the code via the website?

I've personally never discovered projects through Github.

New comment by Skinney in "HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle"

Skinney — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:53:06 +0000

Radicle is local-first, so you can create issues and patches (pull requests) even when offline. It will sync when you're back online.

Also, my understanding is that ATProto is relatively centralized in practice, wheras in radicle every node is sort of equal.

New comment by Skinney in "HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle"

Skinney — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:46:47 +0000

The load will be spread across the network, but I guess the main benefit is that everything continues working even though HardenedBSDs official seed is down.

Every user has their own node, and everyone's node talks to several seed nodes. Even if the official HardenedBSD seed is down, there's still going to be another node to sync with.

Lix 2.95

Skinney — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:28:25 +0000

Article URL: https://lix.systems/blog/2026-03-25-lix-2.95-release/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533981

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Gren 26.03: Parser Improvements

Skinney — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:16:06 +0000

Article URL: https://gren-lang.org/news/260323_gren_26_03/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487868

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Skinney in "No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams"

Skinney — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:07:41 +0000

> You work for money.

I work for money because I need food on the table and a place to sleep. It doesn't motivate me much more than that. In fact, I wouldn't even call it motivation. It's a requirement to live.

There have also been studies that have found that money stops making people happier or more motivated once their yearly salary exceeds a certain amount (the equivalent of 700.000NOK here in Norway).

Some people are primarily motivated by making as much money as possible, sure, but most people I've worked with have found someplace else to work once their current job stops being interesting.

150.000 nodes in a Virtual DOM? No problem [video]

Skinney — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:00:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ACFrznLOg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191263

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Skinney in "Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better"

Skinney — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:36:05 +0000

> Having a register machine doesn't seem very useful...

Requires fewer instructions, so potentially faster evaluation, which is good for short-lived programs that ends before the JIT kicks in.

Stack machines requires less space per instruction, however, which reduces the size of the program (faster to load).

New comment by Skinney in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

Skinney — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:37:08 +0000

If it works anything like what we've got in Norway, they take a rough percentage, and once every year when the taxes are filed, the IRS equivalent charges or repays the missing amount.

Radicle 1.4.0

Skinney — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 07:03:28 +0000

Article URL: https://radicle.xyz/2025/09/04/radicle-1.4.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45135738

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Programming-Lang of the Future [video]

Skinney — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:16:45 +0000

Article URL: https://vimeo.com/1115794889

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45126390

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Skinney in "SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings"

Skinney — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:57:50 +0000

Litestream is already backing up your changes, so synchronous=normal seems reasonable.

New comment by Skinney in "Radicle 1.3.0"

Skinney — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:26:44 +0000

What sort of IDE plugin are you thinking of? As long as you have a git plugin it should work just fine (if you're thinking of something similar to github/gitlab plugins then I don't think there are any, but I'm not sure what those buy you).

It's possible to setup CI: https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/ash.radicle.garden/rad%3AzwTxy...

New comment by Skinney in "Radicle 1.3.0"

Skinney — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:24:48 +0000

It's "just" git, but you push to a special remote which will synchronize your repo on a p2p network.

There's also a CLI for issues and pr's, which also get's stored in your git repo.

New comment by Skinney in "Radicle 1.3.0"

Skinney — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:36:58 +0000

Anyone using radicle for a project with external contributors?

I've tried it with some of my projects and it seems promising, but I wonder what it'd be like to use it on one of my more successful projects.

Radicle 1.3.0

Skinney — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:33:42 +0000

Article URL: https://radicle.xyz/2025/08/12/radicle-1.3.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44874945

Points: 117

# Comments: 13

A pretty nice web framework

Skinney — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:17:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/blaix/prettynice

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725959

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

JEP 519: Compact Object Headers

Skinney — Thu, 22 May 2025 08:24:30 +0000

Article URL: https://openjdk.org/jeps/519

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44059953

Points: 73

# Comments: 10

New comment by Skinney in "Litestream: Revamped"

Skinney — Wed, 21 May 2025 10:22:55 +0000

If I’m deploying a new version of my app, the typical managed solution will spawn a new server instance with that new version, and once a health check has succeeded a couple of times it will reroute trafic to this new instance and kill the old one.

Previously this would be problematic, as the new instance might miss changes made by the old server. Is this fixed by these new changes?