Hacker News: cryptos

New comment by cryptos in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

cryptos — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:26:12 +0000

Maybe Peter Thiel and Elon Musk will meet again cryogenically preserved ;-) https://fortune.com/2023/05/04/peter-thiel-cryonics-cryogeni...

New comment by cryptos in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

cryptos — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:22:29 +0000

Everything will be folded in "X" eventually, anyway.

New comment by cryptos in "GitHub Actions down again today"

cryptos — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:19:31 +0000

Looks good, but I'm not sure about security: https://bearyangry.com/2026/04/29/carrot-disclosure-forgejo-...

New comment by cryptos in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

cryptos — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:54:34 +0000

It works as long as your are the only user. Sharing passwords with shared keepass files didn't work properly for me. It was the main reason to move to 1Password (and I never looked back).

New comment by cryptos in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

cryptos — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:46:38 +0000

Passbolt https://www.passbolt.com/ might be an interesting alternative. The feature set looks pretty good at first sight. The only real downside I see so far is that it doesn't have macOS and Linux apps. Other than Bitwarden it is real open source.

New comment by cryptos in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

cryptos — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:47:02 +0000

It is limited to ... well ... Firefox! Sometimes you need passwords elsewhere. Besides that Firefox (or other browser password managers) doesn't support more advanced use cases like shared vaults.

New comment by cryptos in "What async promised and what it delivered"

cryptos — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:37:54 +0000

I think that Java has a really good solution to offer: Virtual Threads. They share the same interface with native threads and free developers from the burdens of async programming. You only need to take care of some things like accidental thread pinning (through legacy code) and the use of ThreadLocal, but otherwise this complexity is hidden.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/core/virtual-threa...

New comment by cryptos in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

cryptos — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:14:00 +0000

Might be true, but Subversion was also good enough and a de-facto standard.

New comment by cryptos in "Java is fast, code might not be"

cryptos — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:34:47 +0000

`var` has nothing to do with dynamic typing. It is still statically (compile time) typed, so the type can not change at runtime. Compare that to JavaScript where you could easily switch the type of a variable from Number to String.

New comment by cryptos in "Java is fast, code might not be"

cryptos — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:40:14 +0000

It is not like auto-wiring would turn Java magically into a dynamically typed language!

New comment by cryptos in "Java 26 is here"

cryptos — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:08:29 +0000

In my opinion Helidon is the most refreshing of these frameworks. It supports virtual threads from the ground up and comes with clean, function, mostly annotation free APIs. It really looks like a Java framework should look today.

New comment by cryptos in "The MacBook Neo"

cryptos — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:59:42 +0000

Windows reputation is declining, so the operating system might be the actual crisis. Linux with modern desktops (e.g. Gnome 3) might fill the gap, but the market is far from broad adoption. Promoting and improving Linux desktop and apps would be a long endeavour, but betting only on Windows which degrades to a cloud and AI advertising surface might be fatal.

New comment by cryptos in "Sneak peek at the redesigned Stack Overflow"

cryptos — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:23:06 +0000

I fear that a redesign won't help in this (terminal) stage.

New comment by cryptos in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

cryptos — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:27:35 +0000

Do have any links to back this up? I'd be really interested.

New comment by cryptos in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

cryptos — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:26:37 +0000

Gradle could be used as an AI benchenmark on its own! The syntax of plugin DSLs changes all the time. Special credits could be achieved for handling old (Groovy) and new versions (Kotlin) of Gradle itself.

New comment by cryptos in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

cryptos — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:20:35 +0000

However, the cause it not really Java as such, but massive frameworks and tooling (e.g. Maven). Maybe AI will bring some fresh air to Java, because old truths might no longer be valid. But it will be hard to get rid of old habits because it manifested in AI training data.

New comment by cryptos in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

cryptos — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:14:18 +0000

Project Lombok rewrites code, however it misuses annotation processing.

New comment by cryptos in "Why Go Can't Try"

cryptos — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:01:57 +0000

My takeaway is that Go almost always prefers simplicity and not so much good software engineering. `nil` without compiler checks is another example, or designing a new language without generics. However the overall simplicity has its own value.

New comment by cryptos in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

cryptos — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:01:32 +0000

I don't like Bitwarden UI/UX. It looks not really polished. Especially the "folders" are akward. How the implemented it, calling them labels and designing them like labels would make way more sense. But the whole UI looks like software developers - and not designers - built it.

New comment by cryptos in "Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc."

cryptos — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 08:50:53 +0000

In the end, even Java code becomes machine code at some point (at least the hot paths).