Hacker News: arandomhuman

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

arandomhuman — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:36:00 +0000

Because github does not offer the option to (and no, running github enterprise doesn't count).

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

arandomhuman — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:27:28 +0000

Not really a reasonable excuse considering this is completely broken for self hosted runners / paying customers (for a whole day).

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

arandomhuman — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:46:15 +0000

Can you share a source for this? it's not that I don't believe you but I've had difficulties finding one.

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

arandomhuman — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:47:54 +0000

Oh that is pretty gross, thanks for sharing. I was not aware of that process, that explains the cost they attempted to roll out for runners too a few months back.

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

arandomhuman — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:59:33 +0000

I love how even self hosted workers don't work during these outages - running jobs on their infrastructure being flakey is marginally acceptable, but the API to simply schedule workflows having this availability is mind boggling. Github just doesn't seem like a serious company anymore.

New comment by arandomhuman in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

arandomhuman — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:31:20 +0000

Wow this is really poor justification for its name, the folks at cloudflare really should not be overloading the term "Operating System" pointlessly like this.

New comment by arandomhuman in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

arandomhuman — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:26:31 +0000

This is really approaching peak AI psychosis

New comment by arandomhuman in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

arandomhuman — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:52:32 +0000

You need a "traditional" operating system to even run your LLM, or do you have your own custom collection of drivers you flash your machine with? :p

New comment by arandomhuman in "Devtools must be open source"

arandomhuman — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:35:29 +0000

Having an embedded scripting engine for large programs is nice for simplicity and keeping configuration modular - it would be messy to need to modify source constantly. It’s not an issue of it being difficult to compile something so much as it being pointlessly difficult to maintain.

New comment by arandomhuman in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

arandomhuman — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:11:37 +0000

jej

New comment by arandomhuman in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

arandomhuman — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:01:14 +0000

I think you're missing the forest for the trees with this statement and it makes your comment seem a bit reductive. It's not so much a dismissal of writing on a particular product (iPad) as much as the article is about optimal writing by hand, the best materials, and some of the reasoning as to why.

While you may be convinced writing on a screen or tablet is objectively superior to doing things the "old way" there is literature on the topic indicating otherwise you might want to consider - that being said, everyone is different in their preferences and anatomy. I for one can't stand to write on a plastic/glass surface with a stylus, the ergonomics feel wrong and my retention for journaling is significantly worse.

New comment by arandomhuman in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

arandomhuman — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:08:04 +0000

That’s a fair approach, thanks for elaborating. I think the main point of contention is there is an expectation this software should be more reliable, that doesn’t take away from your approach, running close sourced software like a harness (or operating system) is asking for problems.

New comment by arandomhuman in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

arandomhuman — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:18:24 +0000

Still, you are barely more protected than someone running this as non root at home. By your same logic you could “confine” the agent to any arbitrary directory on your filesystem and say it’s sufficient.

New comment by arandomhuman in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

arandomhuman — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:15:22 +0000

I disagree with this, Claude code does many malware like things and has its source obfuscation. Plan mode doesn’t even work.

New comment by arandomhuman in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

arandomhuman — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:23:02 +0000

probably a much smaller dependency graph (lesser usage of transitive dependencies)

New comment by arandomhuman in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

arandomhuman — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:33:41 +0000

friendly reminder: use vim :)

New comment by arandomhuman in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

arandomhuman — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:59:56 +0000

this is a very poorly framed argument, a company is comprised of people who make executive decisions such as the very topic we're making right now. they have the discretion to choose strategies at generating shareholder value that aren't so short sighted as to be on the wrong ethical side of this.

New comment by arandomhuman in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

arandomhuman — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:32:15 +0000

>Do they have a choice?

Yes, they absolutely have a choice. People can choose to not assist with transgressions against human rights in the year 2026 :)

New comment by arandomhuman in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

arandomhuman — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:03:24 +0000

The barrier to entry to generating code may be "I can think", but the barrier to entry for solving hard, distributed/multi-faceted engineering problems still remains quite high - agents can't really do this still to a decent level of efficacy reliably.

The progress models have made in the last 5 years aren't convincing me they'll bridge that gap too soon, although I can see how some people are convinced by how decent agentic harnesses make things. I know it's really easy to get very hyped with the current state of the technology, but try to have a bit of skepticism.

New comment by arandomhuman in "Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image"

arandomhuman — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:24:42 +0000

Aforementioned security vulnerabilities don’t strike as a potential reason to you?