Hacker News: arandomhuman

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?

New comment by arandomhuman in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

arandomhuman — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:17:50 +0000

Are you ESL by any chance? You’re missing the forest for the trees.

New comment by arandomhuman in "A decade of Docker containers"

arandomhuman — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:38:59 +0000

The duplication is a necessity to achieve the isolation. Having shared devels and hordes of unit files for a multi tenant system is hell - versioning issues can and will break this paradigm, no serious shop is doing this.

For running your own machine, sure. But this would become non maintainable for a sufficiently multi tenant system. Nix is the only thing that really can begin to solve this outside of container orchestration.

New comment by arandomhuman in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

arandomhuman — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:54:16 +0000

Wikipedia clearly has never been shown to have faults regarding accuracy.

New comment by arandomhuman in "The tech monoculture is finally breaking"

arandomhuman — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:09:50 +0000

>Looking at my own purchases from 2025, the pattern becomes obvious...

Is it me or does this list really goes against almost everything preceeding in the article?

New comment by arandomhuman in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

arandomhuman — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:17:04 +0000

>Claude code can deliver the first 90%, but we all know it is the last 90% that differentiates.

So most software is 180% of 100%? :p

New comment by arandomhuman in "I can't recommend Grafana anymore"

arandomhuman — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:58:45 +0000

This article comes off sort of low effort and mentions a lot grievances without actual pinpointing precise issues. I think leveraging OTEL as a general processor with a generic output is a good idea, but discounting Grafana for implementing multi tenancy solutions and alloy which is pretty fucking good is kind of pointless.

New comment by arandomhuman in "The AI coding trap"

arandomhuman — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:56:08 +0000

Probably something about how using LLMs for coding is such an amazing opportunity or something judging by how he implies the author would be surpassed due to information asymmetry.

New comment by arandomhuman in "PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA"

arandomhuman — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:10:18 +0000

so it's a "bare metal" virtual machine? Or are they actually using the bare metal offerings for the cloud provider?

New comment by arandomhuman in "Next.js 15 Markdown Boilerplate"

arandomhuman — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:38:32 +0000

I was expecting a sort of MD to HTML conversion since it's hard to think of a simpler way of doing this. I don't see how react or nextjs constitutes this being easy or simple unless you're targeting folks with domain knowledge with those ecosystems.

New comment by arandomhuman in "Show HN: A Language Server Implementation for SystemD Unit Files"

arandomhuman — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 05:02:47 +0000

thanks, not familiar with this in all entirety, will keep this in mind and always welcome for contributions expanding functionality :)

New comment by arandomhuman in "Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge"

arandomhuman — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:08:26 +0000

Yeah, people have gone to jail for a few copies of content. Taking that large of a corpus and getting off without penalty would be a farce of the justice system.

New comment by arandomhuman in "Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge"

arandomhuman — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:05:40 +0000

No but he coincidentally passed away after he was accused of it.

New comment by arandomhuman in "Show HN: A Language Server Implementation for SystemD Unit Files"

arandomhuman — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 05:38:26 +0000

it's that bad these days? Yikes :( I will not be redeeming.

New comment by arandomhuman in "Show HN: A Language Server Implementation for SystemD Unit Files"

arandomhuman — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 05:18:47 +0000

I think a user of _not_ neovim they'd have to implement their own js client. I honestly can't say much but with INI style formatting it's been mostly based on contstants rather than abstract syntax tree parsing which is unique and a bit of a problem in its own right. I haven't implemented a language server before so this was a learning experience, but I was very pleasantly surprised how adding it to my neovim configuration was. I am hoping at some point it's added to "mason" so it's even easier.

I would create a vscode client, but I am not really very familiar with that ecosystem. Welcoming anyone to implement this in any other editors. This is just the language server implementation with no assumption regarding clients.