Hacker News: anttiharju

New comment by anttiharju in "Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes"

anttiharju — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:49:21 +0000

clap's derive is so nice

New comment by anttiharju in "Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes"

anttiharju — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:27:30 +0000

Really happy to see 0.16 come out.

I did a really tiny contribution about zig cc supporting -exported_symbols_list, which together with the hack of filtering out -liconv makes for a very viable linux -> macOS Rust cross-compiler. There's a few caveats but those have been manageable so far.

Absolutely in awe of Zig as a project.

New comment by anttiharju in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

anttiharju — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:15:51 +0000

I would second their experience, works well for me

New comment by anttiharju in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

anttiharju — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 04:45:33 +0000

What pains are you experiencing? Cdk has far exceeded Ansible and Terraform in my experience.

New comment by anttiharju in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

anttiharju — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 04:40:47 +0000

Github being less and less reliable nowadays just makes this more true.

In the past week I have seen:

- actions/checkout inexplicably failing, sometimes succeeding on 3rd retry (of the built-in retry logic)

- release ci jobs scheduling _twice_, causing failures, because ofc the release already exists

- jobs just not scheduling. Sometimes for 40m.

I have been using it actively for a few years and putting aside everything the author is saying, just the base reliability is going downhill.

I guess zig was right. Too bad they missed builtkite, Codeberg hasn't been that reliable or fast in my experience.

New comment by anttiharju in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

anttiharju — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 04:35:16 +0000

I think cdk is the one to use nowadays. Infrastructure as real code.

New comment by anttiharju in "Ask HN: What is your opinion on non-mainstream mobile OS options (e.g. /e/OS)?"

anttiharju — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:29:51 +0000

I've Fairphone 6 with e/OS. Works well. Ok, some caveats:

- mobilepay does not work (I think Danes have an issue with non-mainstream platforms for whatever reason)

- the default browser does not work for some of the authentication flows when it integrates as the in-app browser. But it does give one dark theme on hn so I can just keep it on my homescreen while fireflx is the default for compat reasons.

New comment by anttiharju in "Lix – universal version control system for binary files"

anttiharju — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:41:19 +0000

for office files one can also unzip and zip to store them in git as plaintext

New comment by anttiharju in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK"

anttiharju — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:01:02 +0000

I would like to live in less historical times.

I'm a Finn.

New comment by anttiharju in "For me, Hacker News is probably the best community on the internet"

anttiharju — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:08:05 +0000

Tangentially; I keep finding I flag things accidentally due to mainly browsing on mobile.

New comment by anttiharju in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

anttiharju — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:28:02 +0000

Secrets that you store in github actions secrets?

New comment by anttiharju in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

anttiharju — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:30:28 +0000

What do you mean? Simple env prints get masked as *** in logs

I guess one can always just echo the secret to a file and upload-artifact it

New comment by anttiharju in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

anttiharju — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:28:10 +0000

Could be, not familiar with Bazel. Thanks for mentioning it now can check it out.

New comment by anttiharju in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

anttiharju — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:24:34 +0000

https://anttiharju.dev

New comment by anttiharju in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

anttiharju — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:29:32 +0000

Second the Nix approach. One can even build a github actions-compatible container out of a flake and have actions run in it. I have done so for my personal projects https://github.com/anttiharju/compare-changes

New comment by anttiharju in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

anttiharju — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:26:05 +0000

One can get the ssh access with self-hosted runners but it is problematic because uncovering secrets becomes trivial.

New comment by anttiharju in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

anttiharju — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:24:27 +0000

> What is the advantage that github actions provide that people put up with it?

It's the default CI system on github and you get relatively free compute.

New comment by anttiharju in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

anttiharju — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:18:16 +0000

GitHub could invest a lot more in actions for sure. Even just in basic stuff like actions/checkout@v6 being broken for self-hosted runners.

New comment by anttiharju in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

anttiharju — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:15:37 +0000

Does this discredit the answer?

New comment by anttiharju in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

anttiharju — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:53:39 +0000

This also helps one to avoid the expensive macos runners