Hacker News: bleuarff

New comment by bleuarff in "The Future of CSS"

bleuarff — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:08:05 +0000

Reactivity is updating the DOM whenever the underlying data is updated. That's one of the most basic reason for existence of all js frameworks. There's TC39 Signals proposal to bring that natively, but for now as said above the choice is either use a framework or recreate one. It's surprisingly easy nowadays using Proxy.

New comment by bleuarff in "What's Earth's dominant species by mass?"

bleuarff — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:00:37 +0000

I read Children of Time after seeing it recommended here (awesome book btw), but I wasn't aware it wasn't a standalone. Great news!

New comment by bleuarff in "Forgotten Woodlands"

bleuarff — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:47:45 +0000

Or the Pont-neuf ("new bridge") in Paris being the oldest one in the city.

New comment by bleuarff in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

bleuarff — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:37:15 +0000

These things are of course possible without the help of AI, but I don't think they're trivial. That requires some specific knowledge, and making it easily obtainable is one less barrier to entry for people interested in it. Such attacks would require both knowledge and access, and I think preventing both is a better strategy than focusing on the physical aspect only.

New comment by bleuarff in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

bleuarff — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:39:11 +0000

If these systems allow anyone with an internet access or a few grands to run an open model to obtain the necessary information to e.g. build a bomb, spread an infectious agent, hack water or electrical infrastructures, I think that creates significant threats to the population.

New comment by bleuarff in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

bleuarff — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:18:25 +0000

The necessary IQ for destroying the world is dropping. Op does not say it's low enough today, but that will probably come sometime. Denying the possible harm these tools are capable of doesn't help.

New comment by bleuarff in "1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer"

bleuarff — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:41:57 +0000

Without disregarding other lines of work, but from the neolithic revolution to the early modern times, the vast majority of the population were farmers. Quoting Brett Deveraux:

"Prior to the industrial revolution, peasant farmers of varying types made up the overwhelming majority of people in settled societies (the sort with cities and writing). And when I say overwhelming, I mean overwhelming: we generally estimate these societies to have consisted of upwards of 80% peasant farmers, often as high as 90 or even 95%." (https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-an...)

New comment by bleuarff in "Mario Meets Pareto"

bleuarff — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:02:52 +0000

There's no ultimate best player/build. When you factor in that each cart has different stats depending on the terrain, there's a "best" build for each track.

New comment by bleuarff in "The true power of regular expressions (2012)"

bleuarff — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:05:06 +0000

You don't control these external resources, and now the explanation of what your code does is tied to a site that could be taken down tomorrow, leaving you with a dead link and an unexplainable regex.

New comment by bleuarff in "The true power of regular expressions (2012)"

bleuarff — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:49:28 +0000

I'm wary of external urls in code. Some plaintext comment would come in handy for the day the link inevitably goes dead.

New comment by bleuarff in "Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them"

bleuarff — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:40:40 +0000

What's your time estimation for the last 2 points? Last I heard TSMC is not willing to commit dozens of billions to build new fabs for what might be a fad. Granted, they're not theonly foundry, but that's a signal nonetheless. Given the current craziness around hardware, I doubt the stabilization will come soon. Probably not before token costs soar.

New comment by bleuarff in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

bleuarff — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:07:43 +0000

I don't know for devs, but that's the message we get from upper management.

New comment by bleuarff in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

bleuarff — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:18:04 +0000

I've been using Feedly ever since the death of Google Reader. If you ignore all the ai bullshit it's simple to use and I've had no issues with cross-device sync.

New comment by bleuarff in "A recent chess controversy"

bleuarff — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:34:30 +0000

It's to be expected per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

New comment by bleuarff in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

bleuarff — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:27:03 +0000

Because it's never been considered an interesting target, compared to npm's reach?

New comment by bleuarff in "Vanishing home field advantage in English football"

bleuarff — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:22:12 +0000

Interesting. Any source on why/when the switch happened?

New comment by bleuarff in "AnimeJs v4 Is Here"

bleuarff — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:25:46 +0000

Handling resize is a different beast than being responsive. Working for every viewport dimension under the sun is not the same thing as gracefully handling an animation while the viewport size changes - the latter is much more challenging.

New comment by bleuarff in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

bleuarff — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:08:51 +0000

Yes it is, but it's my understanding that this is the actual testimony from Tulsi Gabbard, part of the conversation.

New comment by bleuarff in "Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday"

bleuarff — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:59:26 +0000

Here in France, we have strict laws, and on-calls MUST be paid in some form or another. When we were bought by a US company, mgmt tried to set up on-call shifts for us - we had never needed them for the 10 years prior -, until they learnt of labor laws and went "fuck it, you're on call mon-fri, 10am - 6pm". I'm forty, have a family, and no amount of money could justify that I can't shutoff my phone at night, or prevent from going on a walk on weekends because "uptime". I've never been so glad of french worker protections.

New comment by bleuarff in "The Palletrone is a robotic hovercart for moving stuff anywhere"

bleuarff — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:31:54 +0000

I, for one, thought of a similar concept from Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.