Hacker News: collinmanderson

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

collinmanderson — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:14:21 +0000

Article URL: https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201003

Points: 281

# Comments: 189

New comment by collinmanderson in "98% isn't much"

collinmanderson — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:34:21 +0000

No, they would just ignore Firefox and not test against it, and might start to use chrome/safari-only features.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Tell HN: Fable 5 promotion extended through July 12, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT"

collinmanderson — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:26:32 +0000

This makes sense. Originally Fable was going to be available via subscription June 9th through June 22nd (~14 days).

It ended up being available 2.5 days before pulled, then was made available July 1 through July 7. (~7.5 days), so only ~10 days total.

Now they're giving us 5 more days, so ~15 days total, more similar to what they originally announced.

New comment by collinmanderson in "98% isn't much"

collinmanderson — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:54:51 +0000

Part of the problem is The US Government (and UK Government) use the "2% rule" on their websites and only officially support 98%.

I mentioned 3 years ago that Firefox at 2.2% is dangerously close the being unsupported on government websites, and at this point it's now at 1.9%.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36776603

https://analytics.usa.gov/ says "There were 1.66 billion sessions in the last 30 days." - so 2% is 33 million sessions if I did my math right.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

collinmanderson — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:08:21 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1150/

New comment by collinmanderson in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

collinmanderson — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:11:23 +0000

> no cooldown (or a much smaller countdown) for security fixes.

A supply chain attack would likely able to publish a "security" release just as easily as a normal release, so I don't think that would help much.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Django 6.1 alpha 1 released"

collinmanderson — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:55:48 +0000

Release notes here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/6.1/

Looks like there's some features to try to reduce the “N+1 queries problem”.

Django 6.1 alpha 1 released

collinmanderson — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:55:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/may/20/django-61-alpha-1-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213215

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

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

collinmanderson — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:18:44 +0000

> I just caught myself about to copy and paste it into Claude to see what it thinks because I'm worried that it doesn't make sense or it reads funny or there's something missing. That's the self-doubt that it's feeding on and what I need to fight back.

This is where I'm at. I feel like I need AI to review everything.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

collinmanderson — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:59:17 +0000

> As the victim of the one from last year

Background here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169657

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45187528

New comment by collinmanderson in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

collinmanderson — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:53:05 +0000

> Or are folks seriously proposing that the patch/mitigations should have been circulated to distro maintainers privately before going to mainline?

I always assumed that distro maintainers got early access to patches before going mainline but maybe that’s not true?

New comment by collinmanderson in "Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

collinmanderson — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:25:28 +0000

Github Copilot also lets you use other models when one has an outage.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

collinmanderson — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:02:47 +0000

> Disruption with Gemini 2.5 Pro model

> Disruption with Grok Code Fast 1 in Copilot

> Incident with Copilot Grok Code Fast 1

> Claude Opus 4 is experiencing degraded performance

It doesn't seem fair to blame Github for this? There's nothing they can do about it?

New comment by collinmanderson in "Days without GitHub incidents"

collinmanderson — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:28:34 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1150/

New comment by collinmanderson in "Ti-84 Evo"

collinmanderson — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:29:20 +0000

Shout out to https://ticalc.org/ - the design is pretty much unchanged.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Copy Fail"

collinmanderson — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:45:41 +0000

Yes. So cringy.

New comment by collinmanderson in "We need a federation of forges"

collinmanderson — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:00:11 +0000

Why not Just™ store all PR/Issues content as markdown on a separate branch along side the code itself? Why do we need a new protocol?

New comment by collinmanderson in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

collinmanderson — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:35:36 +0000

> Because we cannot name something leading with a trademark owned by someone else.

And this WSL project is going to run into the same problem.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

collinmanderson — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:32:53 +0000

> Proudly written without AI.

Looks like it's been updated now to be more clear. Amazing though.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

collinmanderson — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:37:01 +0000

I just want to point out this guide uses many of the same tasks I use when migrating websites between servers while minimizing downtown.

- reduce dns ttl (if not doing an ip swap)

- rsync website files

- rsync /etc/letsencrypt/ ssl certificates

- copy over database (if writes don't happen often and database is small enough, this can be done without replica, just go read_only during migration)

- test new server by putting new ip in local /etc/hosts

- turn off cron on old server

- convert old server nginx to reverse proxy to new server

- change dns (or ip swap between old and new server)

- turn on cron on new server