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New comment by allknowingfrog in "Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:48:43 +0000

I think both can be true. Ideally, we should do more to address the social issues that cause people to drink and drive, but revoking licenses is still a good short-term move. We could outlaw AI policing while we work on deeper issues with law enforcement.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "A New Chapter for Ruby Central"

allknowingfrog — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:17:01 +0000

Does anyone know how this fits into the larger picture of recent Ruby drama?

A New Chapter for Ruby Central

allknowingfrog — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:15:44 +0000

Article URL: https://rubycentral.org/news/a-new-chapter-for-ruby-central/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47880274

Points: 2

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New comment by allknowingfrog in "Do you even need a database?"

allknowingfrog — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:49:42 +0000

I've used foreign keys and unique indexes to enforce validity on even the smallest, most disposable toy applications I've ever written. These benchmarks are really interesting, but the idea that performance is the only consideration is kind of silly.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

allknowingfrog — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:48:11 +0000

I think this is too soon to call. No one questions whether AI can build things. We question whether they can build stable things that work as expected and stay online in the long run.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

allknowingfrog — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:45:36 +0000

I think "make a product" is the important point of disagreement here. AI can generate code that users are willing to pay for, but for how long? The debate is around the long-term impact of these short-term gains. Code _is_ a means to an end, but well-engineered code is a more reliable means than what AI currently generates. These are ends of a spectrum and we're all on it somewhere.

You ever notice how everyone who drives slower than you is a moron and everyone who drives faster than you is a maniac? Your two camps have a similar bias.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins"

allknowingfrog — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:26:26 +0000

Isn't this easily defeated by closing the betting before the wheel starts spinning? Is that not standard practice anyway?

New comment by allknowingfrog in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:49:24 +0000

I deal with a fair amount of newline-delimited JSON in my day job, where each line in the file is a complete JSON object. I've seen this referred to as "jsonl", and it's not entirely uncommon for logs and other kinds of time-series data dumps. Do any of the popular JSON CLI tools work with this format? I didn't see any mention of it here.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

allknowingfrog — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:39:14 +0000

I'm proposing that DST is an awkward solution to the problem. You're suggesting that we should use the awkward solution and then also stack another solution on top. Why not cut out the extra step?

New comment by allknowingfrog in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

allknowingfrog — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:26:35 +0000

> Uncle Steve is zero hours ahead.

Uncle Steve is the same number of hours ahead that he has always been, and that's a thing that could be looked up just as easily as finding his time zone. I think the author is greatly exaggerating the degree to which time zones solve any of the problems mentioned. Uncle Steve might be on a different sleep schedule from me, regardless of whether or not he's in a different time zone.

Days of the week definitely become interesting in a global UTC system, but noon used to literally mean "the sun is at it's highest point". I suspect that people would grumble for a year or two and then forget that another system ever existed.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

allknowingfrog — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:13:27 +0000

Well, I'm not one of those people. I like waking up with the sun and driving to work in the daylight. The idea that DST solves anything absolutely blows my mind. If you want the ability to start your work day earlier and end it earlier, that seems like a worker protection bill that needs to be passed. DST is the kludgiest kludge that ever kludged.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go"

allknowingfrog — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:52:48 +0000

Well, find and sed have modern "fd" and "sd" alternatives. Naming it "gt" allows you to claim that your version save 33% compared to typing "git".

New comment by allknowingfrog in "A distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage"

allknowingfrog — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:07:23 +0000

This is news to me. What motivates you to reach for an S3-backed queue versus SQS?

New comment by allknowingfrog in "ai;dr"

allknowingfrog — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:52:17 +0000

I could stand to hear less from both the enthusiasts and the detractors. My HN experience has changed substantially in the last couple of years.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out"

allknowingfrog — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:27:27 +0000

Everyone acts like the electoral college was a blunder. The founding fathers studied the democracies of ancient Greece, and they made a very intentional choice to guard against unfettered democracy. You were supposed to be involved in local politics, where you could actually know and evaluate your representatives. Those representatives were supposed to make national decisions on your behalf, including choosing the president.

I'm not qualified to know who will make a good president. You probably aren't either. Pushing the process further into American Idol territory would make it worse, not better.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder"

allknowingfrog — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:59:20 +0000

Is "founder" the right word for living off of savings for 8 years while trying various things? I haven't done anything more impressive, but I also don't describe myself as a founder. If someone killed me tomorrow, I'd be "murdered", not "assassinated".

New comment by allknowingfrog in "The Day the Telnet Died"

allknowingfrog — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:34:02 +0000

Preventing the traffic from being distinguished is the whole premise. Port 23 gets blocked because everyone uses it for telnet, and everyone expects bad actors to know that. If everything moves to 433, we'll end up with a variety of routing systems and no focal point for attack. The only alternative is to disallow port filtering in core internet infrastructure.

We can either have a standard and accept that bad actors will use it against us, or we can accept the chaos that results from abandoning it.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Systems Thinking"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:43:17 +0000

I've only ever built something that worked by first building a couple of things that didn't. No amount of theory or specification can replace what you learn by actually building and interacting with a system. Accept that there will be a version 2.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Painless Software Schedules (2000)"

allknowingfrog — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:02:38 +0000

"When you have to pick fine grained tasks, you are forcing yourself to actually figure out what steps you are going to have to take."

That process isn't free. For many features, it's the largest share of the work.

New comment by allknowingfrog in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

allknowingfrog — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:18:57 +0000

Americans pay a pretty hefty health insurance penalty when they leave steady employment to start their own business. There have definitely been better times to be an entrepreneur in this country.