Hacker News: dustedcodes

New comment by dustedcodes in "10 Years of Let's Encrypt"

dustedcodes — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:10:35 +0000

> The CEO at my last company (2022) refused to use Let's Encrypt because "it looked cheap to customers".

Spoken like a true dinosaur. How can a certificate based on open, public and proven secure protocols be cheap?

> So my question: has anyone actually commented to you in a negative way about using Let's Encrypt?

No, but I personally judge businesses which claim to be tech savvy if they don’t have an ACME issued certificate, because to me that instantly shows I’m not dealing with someone who has kept up with technology for the last 10 years.

New comment by dustedcodes in ".NET 10"

dustedcodes — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:53:00 +0000

> archived version becasue original one gives 404

Thanks, fixed now. I literally just migrated from GCP to Hetzner over the weekend and was about to finish the migration today :)

New comment by dustedcodes in ".NET 10"

dustedcodes — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:11:22 +0000

That's not what Microsoft's own sponsored benchmarks say:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23

New comment by dustedcodes in "Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';"

dustedcodes — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:41:08 +0000

> unrelated but jesus christ I'm so pissed at west as a russian > So if I sell my appartment in Russia and want to transfer money to Europe now I would need to prove this is not money I pillaged from Ukraine.

Just stay at home then, whats the problem? If you are so pissed with the West then why is it a problem that you cannot come here? Just stay in Russia then.

New comment by dustedcodes in "Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';"

dustedcodes — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:53:54 +0000

This works as designed. Sanctions like these are meant to piss off the people living in terrorist states so that you either rise up and rid yourself of all terrorist roots or you accept that the rest of the world doesn’t want to play ball with terrorists or terrorist enablers.

New comment by dustedcodes in "AI.gov"

dustedcodes — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:10:01 +0000

Until you come here and realise that your 300k US job only pays 60k here, of which you get taxed more than a third of it and then your taxes only buy you a 2 year NHS waiting list where by the time you get to see a doctor your tumour has grown to the size of a tennis ball and you’re going to die because you couldn’t get healthcare fast enough.

New comment by dustedcodes in "AI.gov"

dustedcodes — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:39:58 +0000

Oh man... we here in the UK and EU look at the US with envy. Our governments are so inept to even understand basic economics (currently the UK is trying to tax itself to growth), whilst the US government is enabling their own people and US businesses to flourish in emerging markets like AI.

New comment by dustedcodes in "Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX"

dustedcodes — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:25:56 +0000

Very cool, reminds me of SigNoz.

How would I self host this in k8s? Would I deploy a ClickHouse cluster using the Altinity operator and then connect it using the HyperDX local mode or what is the recommended approach to self-host ClickStack?

New comment by dustedcodes in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

dustedcodes — Mon, 19 May 2025 21:17:27 +0000

I tried it and found it to be such an abomination. I can’t understand why any self respecting software developer would use Windows with a bastard linux like WSL instead of just using actual Linux. Feels like a massive skill issue.

New comment by dustedcodes in "Getting forked by Microsoft"

dustedcodes — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:26:22 +0000

This is not the first or last time this has happened. Microsoft does it intentionally and when they get caught they then give a fake apology and pretend it was a mistake. These mistakes keep happening and the pattern is always the same, MS teams engaging with a developer to learn all about their business idea and then they steal it:

https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

New comment by dustedcodes in "UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex"

dustedcodes — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:28:07 +0000

Isn't what you described here just a variation of chromosomes? We know there are more than two combinations, but Sex is still determined binary via the existence or absence of the Y chromosome, no?

New comment by dustedcodes in "UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex"

dustedcodes — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:44:01 +0000

> biologists and anthropologists recognize that human biological sex is complex

Have you got any credible sources which support this statement? I have only seen papers which confirm that sex is binary and immutable.

UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex

dustedcodes — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:12:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgq9ejql39t

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43707144

Points: 20

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Project T0 Stardust – The First 3D-Printed Tennis Racket

dustedcodes — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 07:27:33 +0000

Article URL: https://impactingtennis.com/project-t0-stardust-the-first-3d-printed-tennis-racket/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43689948

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dustedcodes in "Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date"

dustedcodes — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:59:58 +0000

Am I the only one who finds it weird that people want to migrate their tweets? Is it just sentimental feelings or what is the purpose of that? To me tweets have always just been in-the-moment brain farts. People have tens of thousands of tweets with the vast majority being just completely irrelevant now and really rather uninteresting. This reminds me of people who keep all their school notebooks in shelves from when they were 5 years old, as if you'd ever go back and look at some scribbles from 50 years ago.

New comment by dustedcodes in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

dustedcodes — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:06:52 +0000

C# has become a poor jack of all trades, trying to be Java, Go and F# at the same time and actually being a shity poor version of all of them. On top of that .NET has become a very enterprisey bloatware. In all honesty, I'm not surprised that they went with Go, as it has a clear identity, a clear use-case which it caters for extremely well and doesn't lose focus with trying to be too many other unrelated things at the same time.

Maybe it's time to stop eating everything that Microsoft sales folks/evangelists spoon feed you and wake up to the fact that only because people paid by Microsoft to roll the drum about Microsoft products telling you that .NET and C# is oh so good and the best in everything, maybe it's not actually that credible?

Look at the hard facts. Every single product which Microsoft has built that actually matters (e.g. all their Azure CNCF stuff, Dapr, now this) is using non Microsoft languages and technologies.

You won't see Blazor being used by Microsoft or the 73rd reinvention of ASP.NET Core MVC Minimal APIs Razor Pages Hocus Pocus WCF XAML Enterprise (TM) for anything mission critical.

New comment by dustedcodes in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

dustedcodes — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:40:22 +0000

Meanwhile .NET developers are still waiting for Microsoft to use their own "inventions" like Blazor, .NET MAUI, Aspire, etc. for anything meaningful. Bless them.

New comment by dustedcodes in "400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure"

dustedcodes — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:00:05 +0000

must be a paid troll, no self respecting intelligent engineer would find the Azure portal good. it’s horrible ux, really convoluted and complicated, very unintuitive, horizontal scroll is a joke when the web scrolls vertically, tiny fonts making everything hard to read and screens overloaded with so much shit and yet they managed to not put on the screen the main thing that developers would care about. it’s a complete joke

New comment by dustedcodes in "400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure"

dustedcodes — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 14:46:17 +0000

I am constantly forced to use Azure by idiotic companies which use .NET and the entire .NET mono culture which fetishises Azure and I can say with clear conscience that Azure is the shittiest dumbest most ill engineered clusterfuck of a cloud that has ever been unleashed on developers. It’s so bad that in the last 5 years even some of the most die-hard C# shops in the UK have changed their leadership and started to move away from Azure because they cannot afford to ignore the absolute insane state of it. Literally at every junction where Microsoft could have gone with a feature in Azure one way or another they somehow managed to not only pick the worse of the two, they somehow managed to bastardise it even more beyond anyone’s imagination.

The social media censorship era is over (for now)

dustedcodes — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:58:11 +0000

Article URL: https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-social-media-censorship-era-is-over-for-now-c28c82f2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42636115

Points: 2

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