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New comment by allknowingfrog in "Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”"

allknowingfrog — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:04:12 +0000

Ruby on Rails would agree with you. I've been working in web development for a decade now, across a couple of languages and frameworks, and I've only ever stored UTC. I currently work a lot with time-series data, and I'd rather not know what hack makes it possible to track events that occur during a DST transition.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Coding is not solved"

allknowingfrog — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:20:28 +0000

You somehow squeezed "you're holding it wrong" and "LLMs are actually good now" into the same sentence. I wasn't sure it could be done.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "What About Rails?"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:32:18 +0000

I'm not seeing how DHH's success has any bearing at all. The captain has announced that the ship is sinking. In fact, he left in a lifeboat several months ago. Whether or not he was a good captain has nothing to do with how the remaining passengers should handle his departure.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "What About Rails?"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:15:46 +0000

Yeah, the author's opinion would be way more justified if Rails were an open-source project with thousands of contributors and not just the hard work of DHH himself in total isolation.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "I'm Tired of Being on the Network"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:59:12 +0000

My phone is pretty much always in my pocket, both in the sense that I always have it, and in the sense that I rarely use it.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

allknowingfrog — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:38:14 +0000

The third sentence: "Neither Reuters, the United Nations, or other western countries were able to independently verify any claims about the incident."

The fifth sentence: "Several UN members requested access to the area for verification, which was not provided".

I have no idea what actually happened, but it sure sounds like the Wikipedia article has some doubts.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Markdown in /src"

allknowingfrog — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:34:56 +0000

You have to track the thing that you expect humans to understand. I still prefer for the code to be that layer, and yet somehow I'm still employed and overseeing a profitable codebase. The software industry is vast and varied.

Essays of this nature should generally be prefixed with "if you happen to work in exactly the same way that I do..."

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

allknowingfrog — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:56:31 +0000

I think your source is undermining your claim. That Wikipedia article strongly suggests that the whole event was fabricated by Russia.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"

allknowingfrog — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:23:01 +0000

Wikipedia confirms your explanation and I have no reason to doubt it. Wyoming has the Occidental Hotel, which introduced me to the term, but I never made the connection that its a simple pair of Latin antonyms. I'll correct this in my mental list of "fun facts".

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:26:44 +0000

Or maybe it reflects a genuine desire from some subset of regular HN readers? Is it spam when three different articles about the latest Anthropic model make the front page? Or the latest Apple product release?

New comment by allknowingfrog in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"

allknowingfrog — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:30:04 +0000

I was taught somewhere along the way that the term "Orient" for the East comes from the idea that maps were once oriented in that direction.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:00:54 +0000

That's fair. REST isn't much of a standard. MCP can be just as badly designed and documented as REST, but at least there's a standard for authenticating and listing the options. Reading through other top-level comments, this seems to be the theme. MCP usage is mostly driven by ease of connection.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:59:13 +0000

A layer than honestly doesn't do much, as I understand it. What does MCP as a protocol actually solve? Is it more than a bandwagon?

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

allknowingfrog — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:16:04 +0000

You're making an argument about self-control in a conversation that is explicitly about factors other than self-control.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]"

allknowingfrog — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:25:41 +0000

If The Cuckoo's Egg is one of the best ones, I can skip the rest. It's a fun story, but not particularly well-told in my opinion. Cliff Stoll is a cool guy who does cool things. I guess I just don't appreciate him as an author.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language"

allknowingfrog — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:56:20 +0000

Have the Rust and Zig communities been outright lying to me? I know very little about the details. I genuinely thought that the overhead of GC was a well-established tradeoff in language design.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:32:36 +0000

The quoted text says "slower". It does not claim that GC makes those languages slow overall.

Are you arguing that GC is not inherently slower than other memory management strategies (e.g. the Rust approach)? Or just that the cost is not worth optimizing away?

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

allknowingfrog — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:09:04 +0000

It's a long-standing tradition. Our forefathers famously said "NIMBY" to taxation without representation.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Learning a few things about running SQLite"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:20:36 +0000

Is this something that the authors of SQLite actually claim? I don't think anyone else can decide what something is meant for.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:59:20 +0000

Isn't Wright sort of famous for designing structures that leak when it rains? My understanding is that Falling Water House is a beautiful money pit.