Hacker News: blain

New comment by blain in "PHP 8.2.35"

blain — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:31:11 +0000

Great that its out but if you depend on pecl for additional extensions and need to rebuild docker container it will probably fail because pecl is having issues for last few hours[1].

[1] https://status.php.net/

It says pecl.php.net recovered but downloading source for extensions ends up with 504 most of the time.

New comment by blain in "Open-source version of Adobe Creative Suite, built with Rust, using AI"

blain — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:58:28 +0000

Link to the actual suite's homepage https://getartcraft.com/apps

Personally its great to someone put AI to good use. It probably won't dethrone Adobe but this might be a good free alternative that will work for many.

New comment by blain in "Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor"

blain — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:20:53 +0000

I actually use Reaper a lot for something else and tried to use it for gigs too but Reaper seems to be able only to receive osc commands, couldnt find a way to send any. I think its possible to write custom cpp extension for that but cpp is not my comfort zone.

New comment by blain in "Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor"

blain — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:02:04 +0000

My use case is pretty unique I guess and not something you built audionaut for. I do small live gigs in a local place where I sometimes need to operate lights, screen and play music at the same time and need something I can cue things to multiple software/devices through osc, websocket, tcp during music playback. I know there is already software for that but I didn't find anything I could run and quickly operate during the rehearsal before the event.

I was just wondering if you planed to add some features like markers or cue for integrations.

New comment by blain in "Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor"

blain — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:46:37 +0000

Congrats on the launch!

I tried to built something similar in go and wails but quickly hit roadblock with some critical features that required high time precision.

I wonder if I could use it for my use case, do you have any roadmap?

New comment by blain in "DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows"

blain — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:44:35 +0000

How can website be this slow, i can barelly scroll down on mobile.

New comment by blain in "Russian missile strikes take out popular piracy websites"

blain — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:11:33 +0000

Not sure about taking piracy sites out. 1337x is up with this note:

> Missile strikes on datacenters in Ukraine have knocked multiple servers in our network offline. We are working to restore them.

RIP MiroHost though, I can't image how bad this is for some people.

New comment by blain in "Zed DeltaDB"

blain — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:36:52 +0000

Although I agree and I hit same roadblock I found that wsl is working well when you open the project with special "projects: open folder in WSL" command, see my comment here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/26857#disc...

Nevertheless it could have been working better.

New comment by blain in "A PHP server that can handle 10x as many concurrent requests as Nginx+PHP-fpm"

blain — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:46:58 +0000

I wonder if it would be possible to run Wordpress on this. The issue with Workermen or Swoole is that they doesnt provide request data through globals and some headers are absent which Wordpress is a heavy user of.

New comment by blain in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

blain — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:47:01 +0000

Does governments have any say in this? If not then most MEPs of mentioned countries are too in favor of Chat Control. This is what it says when you click on one of the 4 countries.

New comment by blain in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

blain — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:27:27 +0000

I'm really confused by the article. What the hell does unlicensed mean? Does unlicensed means free (as in free personal onedrive accounts)?

New comment by blain in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

blain — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:41:05 +0000

Well, apparently Deno is also a slop now: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16766#issuecomment-4...

New comment by blain in "Aperio Lang"

blain — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:16:40 +0000

Seems interesting but the github repos seem private. Github links from the docs dont work.

New comment by blain in "AI is making me dumb"

blain — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:53:47 +0000

> learning new things

I wonder lately, doesn't that all new knowledge push out the old knowledge? As in new things replace old things we know. I don't know any studies on this but do we have infinite capacity for knowledge?

What about retaining it? I catch myself asking AI wondering about random things that pop into my head, reading it, maybe using that knowledge once and later no longer remembering what it was. Maybe if you use that knowledge in practice from the get go but projects get so complicated sometimes it seems like there is not enough space in my brain for things AI is learning me.

New comment by blain in "OpenAI will start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers"

blain — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:47:21 +0000

> Come on man, putting ads is not enshittification.

Sure man, until ads became unbearable and intrusive. The good old times are gone. This is the future.

New comment by blain in "FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service"

blain — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:53:16 +0000

> German provider with 4 shared cores, 4GB of RAM, 120GB of SSD disk space, and a 1Gbit/sec internet connection

Where on earth did he find €4 VPS with these specs. For example Hetzner's cheapest VPS has 2 shared vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVME SSD.

The cheapest I found is https://contabo.com/en/vps/ but it still doesn't have 1 gb/s connection with that price.

Edit: typo

New comment by blain in "The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt"

blain — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:07:13 +0000

> They're usually liberals

The irony.

Aside from that I also thought EU is more left than right wing right now. Nothing what they try to push this term of office seems right wing to me.

New comment by blain in "AI won't use as much electricity as we are told (2024)"

blain — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:01:22 +0000

I thought you will say a cheaper energy but global warming works too.

Also its called climate change now.

New comment by blain in "Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks"

blain — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:59:00 +0000

I usually agree with the sentiment but for some reason this implementation is so smooth on my old laptop I like it.

New comment by blain in "Tailwind Is the Worst of All Worlds"

blain — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:28:36 +0000

I'm sure many still like Tailwind but I never liked it, maybe because I worked with pure CSS or SCSS for many years before it.

In the end its just another library that if you learn it well it will work for you and it has as many downsides as any other library ever used.

By the way the article seems a bit like an advertising for vanilla-extract library.