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New comment by Too in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

Too — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:27:46 +0000

Mods, I think there is something wrong with the front page algorithm. This post has been stuck there for more than a year now.

Among with assorted thoughts on AI or new model point release announcements.

New comment by Too in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

Too — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:27:41 +0000

> 36 billion ads needing review annually

This would mean every single user gets 10 uniquely personalized ads per year.

Even if that wasn't hilariously unreasonable by several orders of magnitude, if the moderation cost was was included in the cost of serving ads, this would all self regulate and only serious actors would participate. Treating it as a public bulletin board while still raking in a percentage of the impressions for sure is a nice business model, but not what's best for the rest of the society. Maybe ads just shouldn't be such a lucrative business.

New comment by Too in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

Too — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:25:31 +0000

Gerrit manages stacked changes with standard git tooling, except for the tiny change-id hook. Similar stable change identifier is also what enables Jujutsu to do its magic. Standardizing around something like this would be greatly beneficial, instead a ”gh” CLI is now needed to push a commit.

New comment by Too in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

Too — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:04:08 +0000

This emphasizes the problem even more. Only one out of ten people use the force push approach, most others add commits to the PR.

Allowing two different workflows – even within the same project – just shows the lack of strategy for how this should work.

Re-educating when and when not force-push is a holy sin is also a barrier to alignment.

New comment by Too in "Superlogical"

Too — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:30:35 +0000

On iOS the whole page jumps up and down when you try to grab it.

New comment by Too in "Superlogical"

Too — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:05:27 +0000

> We're also addressing the most common papercuts of existing tools, such as making scrollback, selection, and scrolling all work natively.

Goes ahead and butchers the browser scrollbar.

New comment by Too in "Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL"

Too — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:33:34 +0000

Does this mean that AV1 on Youtube will finally not melt my CPU, while my nvidia GPU is asleep, or is this just an enabler that will require more work to build upon?

New comment by Too in "You only need the frontier model for one single edit"

Too — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:05:41 +0000

> The mistake is upstream of the architecture diagram. People price agents the way they price people: senior time is expensive, so minimize senior involvement.

> But the expensive part of an agent's day is not the fixing, building, or even the thinking. Opus fixing things does not cost money. Opus reading things costs money.

Heh, another rediscovery that agents and humans are alike. By the time I've researched a Jira ticket and made it unambiguous enough to outsource, I might as well have written the code myself instead.

New comment by Too in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

Too — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:07:19 +0000

Even without AI, a large part is also that everything easy and relevant has already been asked and answered. 10 years ago, there was still demand for low hanging ”how do I reverse a string in programming language X”. On top of that, languages and libraries today tend to have a lot better documentation.

What’s left to ask now is ”plx fix my homework” - [pastes error log unique to the posters environment]. Something that Claude is very good and very tolerant at.

New comment by Too in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

Too — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:34:05 +0000

Fill with what stuff exactly?

The only thing I want to inherit from the parent process is its cwd and environment variables, even those are often overridden. The rest can easily be passed explicitly through other channels like pipes or command line arguments.

Back to the example from the article. It makes no sense that a git-subprocess forked from a web server need to have any process state inherited from the web server.

New comment by Too in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

Too — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:25:48 +0000

This does not match my experience. Terraform validate will check for types and you have great IDE support with refactor, find usages, resource documentation and everything else you might expect. You can of course build a monster of untyped dictionaries but that’s true for almost any language. Do you have examples of something else that the validation step does not find?

New comment by Too in "Linux is good now"

Too — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:50:02 +0000

Sure you can secure boot the kernel and the game binary itself but then you have all the surrounding support from the OS that also need to interop without being tamperable. Screenshots, network and input devices for example are routed through user space before reaching the game, and they can be used to make cheats. Now some of those layers are getting more isolated, for example with Wayland. Even so, that means your secure boot chain must go all the way up to include a non tampered window manager too, taking you closer and closer into reinventing a Android like console OS.

New comment by Too in "Linux is good now"

Too — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:30:40 +0000

> The best Valve could do is offer a special locked down kernel with perhaps some anticheat capabilities and lock down the hardware with attestation.

That would require essentially turning it into a console or Android.

New comment by Too in "Why users cannot create Issues directly"

Too — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:43:42 +0000

GitHub desperately needs a feature to pin comments in issues or sort by reactions.

Very often in those infamous bugs that has been open for years, having hundreds of ”me too” comments, there are gems with workarounds or reproductions, unfortunately hidden somewhere under 4 iterations of ”click to load 8 more comments”, making it difficult to find. This generates even more ”anyone know how to solve this” spam, further contributing to the difficulty to find the good post.

New comment by Too in "Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc."

Too — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:29:49 +0000

What’s the benefit of manually pasting a massive prompt and enable egress to make queries over http vs just using MCP?

New comment by Too in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

Too — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:13:12 +0000

That’s if you run a OS version older than 5 years. You can still update to a newer Ubuntu version for free and get another 5 years if you pick an LTS version.

New comment by Too in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

Too — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:06:05 +0000

To be honest Linux desktop has been ready for the past 4-5 years or so. Long gone are the days where Bluetooth suddenly stopped, external monitors crashing and when closing the lid only put the laptop to sleep every fifth time. Heck, even Wayland, wireless printers and usb-c docking stations work these days, even with nvidia. You might even find some games.

It’s become a boring appliance that just works every time. Just they way I want it. I even forgot how to use grub.

New comment by Too in "Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed"

Too — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:51:42 +0000

Beyond LiteralString there is now also t-strings, introduced in Python 3.14, that eases how one writes templated strings without loosing out on security. Java has something similar with Template class in Java 21 as preview.

New comment by Too in "Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems"

Too — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 06:59:16 +0000

When was the last time you used a library computer, let alone logged onto a private service with it? This was a bad idea even 20 years ago. In today’s security climate, aw hell no.

New comment by Too in "Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed"

Too — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:57:11 +0000

Simple: include those relevant details in the exceptions instead of hiding them.