Hacker News: Sytten

New comment by Sytten in "Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions"

Sytten — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:17:30 +0000

Jokes on them I am still running Windows 10 and not planning to move my gaming PC to Windows 11 (hardware not supported).

New comment by Sytten in "Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust"

Sytten — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:31:39 +0000

I really wish people would stop using the language as an argument and that commenter would also move on to a more interesting debate.

In your discussion the first comment from an ex kuzu dev made an excellent point that rust for databases in an excellent language to ship faster with confidence while reducing real problems of concurrency and corruption.

At some point it becomes intellectual dishonesty to dismiss a language because of vibes instead of merit.

New comment by Sytten in "Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust"

Sytten — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:18:41 +0000

Knowing if it is embeddable or server would be nice in that table

New comment by Sytten in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

Sytten — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:30:17 +0000

Trademark are always scoped to particular domains it is not universal, if you look up mouser you will see they listed the usage for electronic components, distribution and related. No mention of software. They might fight you since you do have to protect your trademark but in theory you could open a mouser restaurant and trademark that name for food distribution. As long as the customers is able to tell the difference it is fine.

New comment by Sytten in "The Cost of Indirection in Rust"

Sytten — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:21:05 +0000

Also to note that the inline directive is optional and the compiler can decide to ignore it (even if you put always if I remember)

New comment by Sytten in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

Sytten — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:22:53 +0000

The best thing I did to help with my tinnitus what Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. If you perceive the sound as something dangerous than it bothers you way more.

Like others pointed a bad night sleep definitely increases the perceived sound.

Also the stress in the shoulders doesn't help.

New comment by Sytten in "A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines"

Sytten — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:59:09 +0000

We have been working on an issue triager action [1] with Mastra to try to avoid that problem and scope down the possible tools it can call to just what it needs. Very very likely not perfect but better than running a full claude code unconstrained.

[1] https://github.com/caido/action-issue-triager/

New comment by Sytten in "Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal"

Sytten — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:03:55 +0000

Unless ~800k users cancel it is still a net positive for them and that is with the current relatively small contract they have. The reality is that money is in B2B.

Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues

Sytten — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:58:33 +0000

Another day, another Github outage.

Files are not loading, cannot create repos, etc.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237018

Points: 52

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New comment by Sytten in "SpacetimeDB ThreeJS Support"

Sytten — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:35:08 +0000

From a technological risk perspective I would never tie myself to a vendor like that. I know people do it all the time, but you are totally at the mercy of the vendor increasing price and having no choice but pay since you are so tightly integrated. Always add an interface is my moto.

New comment by Sytten in "Don't trust AI agents"

Sytten — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:35:46 +0000

I am a caveman, I don't understand the need for a personal assistant. What are you guys using it for?

New comment by Sytten in "AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]"

Sytten — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:27:09 +0000

They still need to be able to connect to one of the network no? So a home network without guest would be fine is my understanding?

New comment by Sytten in "What podcasts are you listening to?"

Sytten — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:30:57 +0000

Security Cryptography Whatever: Discusses in depth cryptography and papers on that topic

Oxide and friends: From oxide conputers, great tech interviews and various tech topics

Geopolitical cousins: weekly take on geopolitics that doesn't feel dreadful

The red line: If you want deep analysis of conflicts and militaries from experts

New comment by Sytten in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

Sytten — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:45:59 +0000

From my experience at our startup, AI is still pretty shit at Rust. It largely fails to understanding lifetime, Pin, async, etc. Basically anything moderately complex. It hallucinates a lot more in general than JS for comparable codebase size (in the 250k lines range).

New comment by Sytten in "Password managers less secure than promised"

Sytten — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:49:00 +0000

We will see when the attacks are public, a lot of the malicious server attacks we have seen in the past were kinda of overblown. Not discounting OP but it is very easy to get into clickbait territory.

New comment by Sytten in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

Sytten — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:52:05 +0000

Forced savings like done in Quebec, Canada is likely the best model for most people even though I dont like it as an individual that knows how to manage its portfolio. It also has the benefit of creating a sovereign wealth fund that can invest locally and be an economic driver but independent from the government.

New comment by Sytten in "AI is going to kill app subscriptions"

Sytten — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:17:35 +0000

And we will all love from fresh water and love, can't wait for that world!

Seriously, you pay for software so people can make a living to improve it. It is a service like anything else.

New comment by Sytten in "NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed"

Sytten — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:55:26 +0000

Newpipe is great, I tend to spend too much time on youtube. This at least limits it. It does break from time to time.

New comment by Sytten in "Covering electricity price increases from our data centers"

Sytten — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:05:11 +0000

This is all good and well wishes as long as investors are willing to pour money into the bubble. When the music stops is where we will see the true colors. Corporations are optimized to make money, governments should be optimized to protect people.

New comment by Sytten in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

Sytten — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:14:42 +0000

It is interesting to see yjs with hoccuspocus being used. I am currently considering our options for real time document editing + full text search.

Seems like a common approach is something like using yjs for sync with a temporary LSM storage like rocksdb for updates and then periodically snapshot to postgres for full text search and compaction.