Hacker News: cinericius

New comment by cinericius in "Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down"

cinericius — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:25:32 +0000

Sad to see that they don't seem to have made it commercially viable. My hope is that the codebase will find a second life now that it is open source.

Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down

cinericius — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:23:33 +0000

Text from the email:

garnix is shutting down

Hi everyone,

We wanted to let you know that garnix is joining forces with Shopify.

We are sad to announce that, as part of this transition, the hosted garnix service will shut down on July 15th 2026. But we are open sourcing the garnix codebase, available here (https://github.com/garnix-io/garnix-ci); we hope this will help you smoothly move to using your own instance or a shared one. If you are interested in operating a public community instance, please get in touch — we’d be happy to talk.

We will also be deleting all user data on July 15th. This includes build artifacts. Be sure to download what you want to keep before then.

Thank you all for using garnix and for the feedback and support over the years. While we are excited about our next step at Shopify, we will also miss working with this community. From the very first, with generous donations in our Open Collective days and thoughtful feedback, you've been great.

Note: the GitHub link does not resolve as of posting. I suppose it will shortly.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309371

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New comment by cinericius in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

cinericius — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:13:59 +0000

Looking at Dane's career history on LinkedIn, it appears that he has only ever been in product and some variety of manager, and his degree is in 'Engineering Management System'. It's an odd choice given that the previous two CTOs (Lee and John) were extremely technical and how core technology is to Cloudflare.

As with any organisation where the CTO is not technical, there will be someone who the 'CTO' has to ask to understand technical situations. In my opinion, that person being asked is the real CTO, for any given situation.

New comment by cinericius in "N8n raises $180M"

cinericius — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:23:45 +0000

Is it hard to pull off? Give people a cut of the revenue from new paying customers who first visit by clicking their referral link. Everyone else does the work for you, but you lose control of the brand as people who only care about making a quick buck use your name to spam low-quality videos and medium articles.

New comment by cinericius in "Some thoughts on personal Git hosting"

cinericius — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:54:18 +0000

They want to have control over where their code lives, and not have their code subject to the terms of the service of the platform they use.

For example, I might want to host my code privately on GitHub and not have Microsoft use it to train their LLMs. That doesn't seem to be possible:

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/135400

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/171080

New comment by cinericius in "Bear is now source-available"

cinericius — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:33:32 +0000

I argue that the natural winner-take-all dynamics of the marketplace are not beneficial to the the mission of free and open source software. In fact, having no safeguard against large organisations making money this way is actually hugely detrimental to the mission by enabling these companies to ensnare unsuspecting users in a web of both their own proprietary software as well as all that free and open source software has to offer.

New comment by cinericius in "Bear is now source-available"

cinericius — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:18:28 +0000

Not a lawyer, but my understanding is there is a strong feeling that AGPL can be roughly ignored if a service provider provides some level of indirection (e.g. a proxy) between the user and the software. Then, the software is somehow not being accessed over a network and thus they are not required to release the source.

New comment by cinericius in "Bear is now source-available"

cinericius — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:06:55 +0000

As far as I understand it, the stance of the 'Open Source' crowd is that if Amazon can't make it one of their AWS offerings then it isn't true open source, and they'll get very upset at you if you claim it is.

I'd like to see some recognition from this crowd of the "free-ride competition" problem as this author puts it. What Herman is doing is a service to us all, and we should find a term (better than 'source-available', which is cold and doesn't capture community projects accurately) that people can promote themselves under without much weeping and gnashing of teeth.

EDIT from a comment in a thread way down, that summarises my point:

New comment by cinericius in "Ask HN: How are you dealing with the job market anxiety?"

cinericius — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:53:39 +0000

Your GitHub profile is stellar, I can't imagine interviewers see one like yours very often.

New comment by cinericius in "Are your GitHub Actions running?"

cinericius — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:55:44 +0000

Having problems with receiving push-related webhooks as well.

New comment by cinericius in "Ask HN: Which recent research paper blew your mind?"

cinericius — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:11:37 +0000

If it did exist, there's some delicious irony in an original paper on replicating data in a highly-available manner being lost.

New comment by cinericius in "Nibbles of Rust – Restructuring Patterns"

cinericius — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 11:32:05 +0000

Since the author mentions at the end that they were motivated to write and publish this as a part of a writing group, I'd like to say that this was a very pleasant read. Tightly-scoped but insightful and informative!

New comment by cinericius in "The Price of a Harvard Lawyer"

cinericius — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:14:35 +0000

This is barely ever the case anymore but the quality can be very high. Especially if the people who are eligible to receive it is restricted. If you take the view that the value of standing out and snagging a top student is somewhere in the 6-7 figures, spending $100 a head on swag isn't at all unreasonable - most companies just don't see it that way.

New comment by cinericius in "Apple avoids job cuts because it didn’t overhire like Google and Amazon"

cinericius — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 17:31:27 +0000

> You seem to be saying that the lack of focus is caused by the perception of a permanent easy revenue stream. But I think the causation is actually the reverse of that. The lack of focus is more like a breadth first search for additional sustainable revenue streams undertaken because they know the golden goose can't lay eggs forever.

I think the difference is urgency. They probably do know that the golden eggs will stop coming at some point, but they don't believe it'll happen for a long while. Perhaps as a consequence of this, they very rarely commit to projects in a life-or-death way. At this point it's a HN trope to state this, but I do believe the reputational damage done by this lack of commitment to any of its fledgling projects is doing massive harm to Google's ability to find new revenue streams.

New comment by cinericius in "How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki"

cinericius — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:21:34 +0000

I love the main part of the foldout. I have no interest in art or watercolour painting but it really makes me want to give it a go.

New comment by cinericius in "Stripe increases fees for EU and UK-based businesses in April"

cinericius — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:08:25 +0000

What's the ballpark figure for the payments for this side project? $200 seems extreme unless your side project is charging $10,000~ per payment.

New comment by cinericius in "Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow"

cinericius — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 18:19:08 +0000

You could refer to Java as a "little known programming language" and use this as a defence.

New comment by cinericius in "Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”"

cinericius — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:13:56 +0000

Does an adblocker not solve this problem for you? I see very few advertisements day to day, but I go out of my way to not watch TV live and turn up to the cinema late because I dislike ads as much as it seems you do.

New comment by cinericius in "Ask HN: Discord banned me with no recourse"

cinericius — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:38:32 +0000

This isn't true. I've been banned and then unbanned in this exact scenario - they re-enabled my account after 2 days. I had my messages flagged as spam for a further 6 weeks, but it was eventually resolved. My only contact with Discord was emailing support@.

New comment by cinericius in "Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down"

cinericius — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 14:14:58 +0000

One of the reasons for this is probably that all (minus Stadia, it seems) of the products you've mentioned might have had bad starts but ended up gigantic successes:

>PS3

performed extremely well, beating Xbox 360 by a fairly thin margin.

>Gaikai

sold for $380M USD to Sony (most people consider this a success, even if you think it should have been more.)

>Xbox One

lost to the PS4 by a factor of two but was still successful (50 million est. lifetime sales)

Even if every single thing he was in charge of failed catastrophically, anyone who isn't looking closely is going to see someone with a huge amount of industry expertise working on some of the largest and most successful products to ever exist full stop (not just in gaming.)