Hacker News: aarondf

New comment by aarondf in "Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now"

aarondf — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:41:58 +0000

Sorry the last images I see are from 13 hours ago. Are those for the 2 RCE ones?

New comment by aarondf in "Tin: full-text search for Postgres"

aarondf — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:01:08 +0000

> When one develops using open-source software they have an obligation to follow the licenses.

Agreed!

> They also have a moral obligation to be respectful of the work upon which they’re building.

Respectfully, completely disagree!

Open source is a license, not a moral framework. Your only duty is to abide by the license. If you want to enforce that everything built on top of a particular open source package also be open source, that belongs in the license.

New comment by aarondf in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

aarondf — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:40:20 +0000

Yeah! So is Taylor otwell, the primary source to whom I linked.

New comment by aarondf in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

aarondf — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:22:35 +0000

Pretty well https://x.com/taylorotwell/status/2093329899083759634?s=46

New comment by aarondf in "Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy"

aarondf — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0000

I was at Big Sky Dev Con when they unveiled the GameBoy game. I kid you not my jaw dropped. I thought it was some sort of like emulator gimmick until they said "everyone can take a physical cartridge home!"

One of the most delightful little swag stunts I've ever seen, and emblematic of the HTMX crew just how much they care about craft and delight in everything they do.

New comment by aarondf in "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"

aarondf — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:25:49 +0000

I added the qs because it defaulted to a story from 3 months ago.

Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]

aarondf — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:23:54 +0000

Subsequent thread: Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204770

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201484

Points: 560

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New comment by aarondf in "Warp is now open-source"

aarondf — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:48:52 +0000

soloterm.com is closed source

New comment by aarondf in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

aarondf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:07:37 +0000

woah hey! you're speaking the shibboleths!

New comment by aarondf in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

aarondf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:46:17 +0000

I'll take that bet

New comment by aarondf in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

aarondf — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:38:14 +0000

I think you're conflating a talent pipeline with ease of running PHP. Those are not the same thing at all

New comment by aarondf in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

aarondf — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:17:06 +0000

> We should fund open source!

> Not like that!

New comment by aarondf in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

aarondf — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:27:04 +0000

My word... samwho is doing some of the best technical explainers on the internet right now.

New comment by aarondf in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

aarondf — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:15:33 +0000

I've run into that issue while developing https://soloterm.com.

If you respond twice to their theme query probes, the whole thing bricks. Or if you're slightly out of order. It's very delicate.

New comment by aarondf in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

aarondf — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:27:34 +0000

damn framerate looks good

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:04:22 +0000

> But the good news is that we can increase our chances of encountering good luck.

Every phrase in the article was carefully selected to make it clear that we're trying to increase the odds. Nothing is sure. But if you play the game right, the odds of winning go up

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 23:02:51 +0000

My role? My role as a what?

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:54:02 +0000

I understand. I am, however, impotent against OpenAI. If I publish code to GitHub, I understand it will be used for training. I'd rather get the win for my family than try to fight a megacorp. I'm sorry.

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:42:59 +0000

Unfortunately we have to play the game according to the rules on the field. You can decide to opt out entirely (which is fine) or you can play the game and try to win. Personally, I will play and try to win.

That means I will make things, talk about them, and accrue social and/or actual capital for me and my family. I can't stop any megacorp from training on my code, and it's futile to try. I CAN build cool things, talk about them, and get cool jobs or friends or a following or whatever. I understand not everyone is comfortable with this tradeoff.

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:34:22 +0000

And guess how you make friends in high(er) places...

by...

publishing your work and making friends in your industry