Hacker News: beart

New comment by beart in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

beart — Sat, 16 May 2026 00:42:17 +0000

I was shocked when ABC laid off Clare Malone years back. It seemed incredibly short sited and sudden, to fire a public figure without ceremony or reason. It marked, at least to me, a beginning decline in quality.

New comment by beart in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

beart — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:34:22 +0000

There were specific games keeping me on windows, mostly online PVP. At some point I switched anyway and I don't regret it at all. Now when my friends suggest a game and I'm not able to play it, I just do something else or we choose a different game. There are so many great games out there now, and more release every week. Plus, as I've gotten older, it has become more apparent the fun is in socializing, not the game itself.

My point is, you may find the one or two games holding you back won't be missed much.

New comment by beart in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

beart — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:07:00 +0000

There is a time window - https://docs.npmjs.com/policies/unpublish

New comment by beart in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

beart — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:04:59 +0000

Not sure what the law is exactly, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't end up working out in your favor.

New comment by beart in "Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise"

beart — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:05:51 +0000

You aren't wrong. However, this article does offer some additional advice on this matter, and some potential reasons why it might still be desirable to pin your deps in package.json.

https://docs.renovatebot.com/dependency-pinning/#pinning-dep...

Some exerts:

> If a lock file gets out of sync with its package.json, it can no longer be guaranteed to lock anything, and the package.json will be the source of truth for installs.

> provides much less visibility than package.json, because it's not designed to be human readable and is quite dense.

> If the package.json has a range, and a new in-range version is released that would break the build, then essentially your package.json is in a state of "broken", even if the lock file is still holding things together.

New comment by beart in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

beart — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:24:34 +0000

In Michigan, refusing the roadside breathalyzer is $150 automatic fine. Refusing the chemical test once at the station is an automatic 1 year suspended license and 6 points, even if you are subsequently let go without charge.

New comment by beart in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

beart — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:12:50 +0000

My understanding is the tools that Steam provides as part of it's developer platform are top notch. And there are a lot of integration points such as cloud saves, social, match making, achievements, store, and so on. There is also a robust CD pipeline.

I can easily see this providing value above and beyond most other retailers that would sell video games. For example, Best Buy takes a 30% cut for physical merchandise, without providing any of the above mentioned features.

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

beart — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:27:27 +0000

If you are on github/gitlab, renovate bot is a good option for automating dependency updates via PRs while still maintaining pinned versions in your source.

New comment by beart in "Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now"

beart — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:18:38 +0000

You are assuming these people were just following procedure. This is not accurate. There is at least one case where data was taken and intended to be improperly used at a private company.

These people are more than useful rubes. They actively committed unethical (if not illegal) acts.

New comment by beart in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

beart — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:01:58 +0000

AI is non-deterministic. Can it still be considered an abstraction over a deterministic layer?

New comment by beart in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

beart — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:46:30 +0000

> nearly every other project uses it for some reason instead of fetch (I never understood why).

Fetch wasn't added to Node.js as a core package until version 18, and wasn't considered stable until version 21. Axios has been around much longer and was made part of popular frameworks and tutorials, which helps continue to propagate it's usage.

New comment by beart in "Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry"

beart — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:14:37 +0000

Firefox is still ahead of Chrome in several areas.

    - multi account containers
    - ublock origin (and extensions in general)
    - extensions on Android

Firefox has also recently improved tabs with a number of features. I haven't used Chrome in a long time, so I don't know if these exist there.

Firefox just works, and blocks ads, and doesn't randomly decide I'm not allowed to do things it doesn't' approve of anymore (like block ads with ublock origin).

What features does Chrome provide in the last year (that presumably would not yet be copied by Firefox)?

New comment by beart in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

beart — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:06:58 +0000

It had problems in 8. I would frequently type my search term, see it was the number one result. I would then attempt to arrow or tab down and hit enter to launch that result. Between arrowing down and hitting enter, the result list would update/reorder and suddenly I'm launching some unknown program. Happened all the time.

New comment by beart in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

beart — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:51:37 +0000

This entire article is based on a one sentence tweet with zero details provided.

"Ya I hate that. Working on it." - Could mean anything, which I would argue in this case, is equivalent to being meaningless. Does this mean Hanselman has a team with tickets lined up for the next sprint to allow offline accounts as a first-class workflow? Or does it mean he sent an email to the relevant stakeholders asking, "Hey guys, what can we do about this"?

I am not encouraged that we will see a change in momentum from Microsoft on this issue.

New comment by beart in "FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers"

beart — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:24:51 +0000

Hey, sorry I'm a bit lost trying to follow your comment. Who are "We" that you are referring to?

New comment by beart in "Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost"

beart — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:49:52 +0000

How about Sonar as in SOund Navigation And Ranging?

New comment by beart in "Why Node.js needs a virtual file system"

beart — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:27:33 +0000

Outside of sqlite, what runtimes natively include database drivers?

New comment by beart in "Shall I implement it? No"

beart — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:20:31 +0000

The switch from plan mode to build is not always clearly defined. On a number of occasions, I've been in plan mode and enter a secondary follow up prompt to modify the plan. However, instead of updating the plan, the follow up text is taken as approval to build and it automatically switches to building.

Ask mode, on the other hand, has always explicitly indicated that I need to switch out of ask mode to perform any actions.

This is my experience with Cursor CLI.

New comment by beart in "You can turn Claude's most annoying feature off"

beart — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:41:39 +0000

The first time I recall encountering this sort of feature was in one of the early sim city games. I wonder if this being a feature of Claude indicates the humanity of some engineer behind it, or if it is a deliberate effort to apply humanity to the agent.

New comment by beart in "The window chrome of our discontent"

beart — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:05:32 +0000

The Windows 8 equivalent server edition also included the upgrade to Metro UI. I don't know, I guess MS figured IT wanted to provision Windows services using a surface tablet?

I actually really did like Windows Phones though. I can imagine a world with a third competitor in that space today... But MS didn't seem to have any understanding or ability to develop an ecosystem that works. Even when they were literally paying people to write apps for their app store, it was just terrible.