Hacker News: degenerate

New comment by degenerate in "Flighty Airports"

degenerate — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:43:28 +0000

Misery Map adds two crucial pieces of context: the delays between airports, and rain/snow on the map, which often is the reason for delays. It's nice to see it all together.

New comment by degenerate in "Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs"

degenerate — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:46:04 +0000

From a project management perspective, the 5 examples don't help me understand how/why I might switch from Playwright/Cypress to this framework. It seems like Bombadil is a much lower-level test framework focusing on DOM properties but in the "Why Bombadil?" introduction you say "maintaining suites of Playwright or Cypress tests takes a lot of work" ... I'd like if there was an example showing how this is true, perhaps a 1:1 example of Playwright vs Bombadil for testing something such as notifications clearing when I click clear. Basically, beefing up examples with real-world ones that Playwright users might have written is a good way to foster adoption.

New comment by degenerate in "Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play"

degenerate — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:29:15 +0000

You would likely be interested in the Starcraft BWAPI: https://www.starcraftai.com

You can watch the matche videos from training runs: https://www.youtube.com/@Sscaitournament/videos

I don't think BWAPI has ever integrated modern AI models, but I haven't followed its progress in several years.

New comment by degenerate in "GitHub is down again"

degenerate — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:46:49 +0000

Many teams work exclusively in GitHub (ticketing, boards, workflows, dev builds). People also have entire production build systems on GitHub. There's a lot more than git repo hosting.

New comment by degenerate in "Web Design Museum"

degenerate — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:07:49 +0000

YouTube design changed almost every year until 2020! Wild.

New comment by degenerate in "Why Do Kind Strangers Return Our Wallets?"

degenerate — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:07:32 +0000

"empathy" "right" "help" "hope" "same"

None of those words appear in the article. I can deduce that the author of this article would never return a wallet. If they are this perplexed at the good deeds of others, and need to turn to science for a reason, they are as dense as a brick.

Reasons:

- because kind strangers have empathy

- because kind strangers want to do what is right, and help others

- because kind strangers would hope the same thing is done when they lose their own wallet

New comment by degenerate in "Equinox.space"

degenerate — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:49:00 +0000

You would likely enjoy Myst: https://www.gog.com/en/game/myst_masterpiece_edition

New comment by degenerate in "Postgres vs. File Systems: A Performance Comparison (2022)"

degenerate — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:32:52 +0000

Are you testing performance with pgbench or something more custom/advanced?

New comment by degenerate in "What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientists have an answer"

degenerate — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 13:54:54 +0000

I briefly searched and couldn't find it either - here is the IMDB for others to reference: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0605181/

New comment by degenerate in "Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long"

degenerate — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:52:04 +0000

Some teammates agreed to do this, but it's not known what files will be edited ahead of time, so a large job often has formatting edits anyway.

New comment by degenerate in "Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long"

degenerate — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:31:31 +0000

Lines with actual code changes aren't a problem for me, it's the automated IDE indent/spacing/bracketing that really drives me up a wall and fatigues the hell out of me.

But this might only be a problem with those of us working on legacy codebases. The kind of PRs I see in OSS projects I could review 1000 lines at a time - it's so clean!

New comment by degenerate in "When America first dropped acid"

degenerate — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:53:00 +0000

Better than commenting "paywall blocked" is to provide an archive link: https://archive.is/vH7vF

New comment by degenerate in "Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time"

degenerate — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:17:51 +0000

I imagine some OSS authors don't consider someone visiting the GitHub readme before visiting their website. I can't fathom thinking like that, but it must have never crossed their mind.

Here's the screenshots: https://stellarium.org/screenshots.html

New comment by degenerate in "ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format"

degenerate — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:27:08 +0000

The PDF is worse, so there is no simple answer to this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.12907v1.pdf

At least the HTML version pairs each author with their affiliations, instead of the PDF which has all the names on page 1, and all the affiliations on page 2. That's completely unreadable.

New comment by degenerate in "Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 years with the leading K8s package manager"

degenerate — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:24:35 +0000

Thanks everyone that replied, I thought I was doing something wrong!

New comment by degenerate in "Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 years with the leading K8s package manager"

degenerate — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:14:56 +0000

Any advice/ideas/articles/references on using kustomize efficiently?

I love the idea of using a tool bundled with kubectl for zero dependencies, but their examples and tutorials are horrible. I can't figure out how to use it correctly to have 1 copy of YAML that would deploy to 5 different environments. It seems I would need multiple copies of kustomization.yaml in multiple folders, if I have multiple namespaces/pods/etc...

New comment by degenerate in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

degenerate — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:09:24 +0000

When a user search includes a non-indexed repository, GitHub needs to include a warning message along with the search results, something similar to what you just mentioned:

"One or more repositories of this search is not yet indexed, please try your search later for accurate results."

Likewise for the 2nd case.

New comment by degenerate in "The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster"

degenerate — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:23:31 +0000

navigate the UI disaster to read about the UI disaster...

I don't consider this story a UI disaster. Generating different 4-digit codes across terminals for the same object, and recycling those codes regularly... that's a data handling disaster.

New comment by degenerate in "Install Windows the Arch Linux Way"

degenerate — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:51:50 +0000

Or for more options use Rufus: https://rufus.ie/en/

New comment by degenerate in "Google settles account settings lawsuit less than one week after being filed [pdf]"

degenerate — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:07:53 +0000

If you want to disable Google location history (AND/OR) limit data collection to 3 months, you can do that here:

https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols?settings=loca...