Hacker News: barelysapient

New comment by barelysapient in "Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees"

barelysapient — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:10:01 +0000

Microsoft isn’t known for great judgement.

New comment by barelysapient in "Cal.com is going closed source"

barelysapient — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:57:47 +0000

I hate how this sounds...but this reads to me "we lack the confidence in our code security so we're closing the source code to conceal vulnerabilities which may exist."

New comment by barelysapient in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

barelysapient — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:17:07 +0000

But we're not talking about speed cameras or a private entity with exclusive contract with the police to provide traffic enforcement.

We're talking about Flock. A company offering surveillance as a service. Per their website:

>Trusted by over 12,000 public safety customers including cities, towns, counties, and business partners.

If Flock's argument holds then most of the CCPA be circumvented this same way. All it takes is a few entities and clever contract language.

New comment by barelysapient in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

barelysapient — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:00:46 +0000

If that's a valid excuse than the CCPA isn't worth the paper its written on.

New comment by barelysapient in "I just want simple S3"

barelysapient — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:40:17 +0000

Unlike the author, I run SeaweedFS without issue locally and with acceptable transfer speeds.

New comment by barelysapient in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

barelysapient — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:31:31 +0000

Is it just me or does this describe most of Microsoft software at the moment? I tried to sign into my personal microsoft account to setup an oauth flow and I was greated by an infinity repeating error dialog about some internal service that had failed.

At work, I use outlook. The number of times I've gotten caught in an auth loop where I enter again and again my creds + tfa only for the screen to flicker and start all over again.

Complete garbage.

New comment by barelysapient in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

barelysapient — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:09:47 +0000

Cloudflare tunnels

New comment by barelysapient in "Stop picking my Go version for me"

barelysapient — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:49:38 +0000

Heavily regulated industry with a lengthy change control process for this sort of thing.

Personally, I love all of the new Go stuff and I'm using the current version on my personal projects.

New comment by barelysapient in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

barelysapient — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:48:25 +0000

Different users. Many people care about privacy and aren’t using Meta products. And many businesses care about it too and have information policies to protect their IP.

New comment by barelysapient in "Stop picking my Go version for me"

barelysapient — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:59:52 +0000

This just got me. Datadog decided that they only support the current and last major versions of Go. So, 1.26 and 1.25. But in my cause we're still on 1.24.13 which was released by the Go team less than two months ago.

Datadog won't be getting a renewal from us.

New comment by barelysapient in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

barelysapient — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:40:59 +0000

I'd prefer we instead all use Non-violent Communication. No need for permission. The world would be more beautiful place if we all had giraffe ears.

New comment by barelysapient in "The MacBook Neo"

barelysapient — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:17:05 +0000

I had the same experience looking at thinkpads a few years ago. I finally just gave up and bought a macbook.

New comment by barelysapient in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

barelysapient — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:01:59 +0000

Wow. We need this so bad.

New comment by barelysapient in "Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker.""

barelysapient — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:27:36 +0000

Or send your own email recapping the conversation.

New comment by barelysapient in "SQG (SQL to Code Generator) v0.10: Java Streams and List Type Support"

barelysapient — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:41:57 +0000

Love SQLC, this looks good too. Syntax is almost identical.

New comment by barelysapient in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

barelysapient — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:41:41 +0000

This assumes companies would have refunded consumers.

Obviously if a company did this, refunding consumers was the last thing on their mind.

New comment by barelysapient in "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project"

barelysapient — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:53:36 +0000

The more things change the more they stay the same.

New comment by barelysapient in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

barelysapient — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:49:42 +0000

Completely agree with this take.

I've started what I'm calling an agent first framework written in Go.

Its just too easy to get great outputs with Go and Codex.

https://github.com/swetjen/virtuous

The key is blending human observability with agent ergonomics.

New comment by barelysapient in "Why Go Can't Try"

barelysapient — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:52:46 +0000

Go got a ton right. Especially for being almost 20 years old. But errors is one thing that needs a v2. I love Zig's enumerable errors and deferErr function.

New comment by barelysapient in "Go-Native Durable Execution"

barelysapient — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:07:46 +0000

After spending way too much time debugging runtime problems with python based workflow tools, I’ve been implementing something very similar: DagGo.

DagGo is a type based workflow tool with observably written in Go. Jobs are compile time safe. I’m planning to bring it to feature parity with tools like Dagster over the next few months.

https://github.com/swetjen/daggo