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New comment by esseph in "Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia"

esseph — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:36:06 +0000

https://www.allergicliving.com/2026/08/10/fecal-transplant-p...

You can probably just put some poop in a gelcap... (this is not medical advice!)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7359198/

New comment by esseph in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

esseph — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:27:14 +0000

Great name.

Frank Dux was a fraud! :)

New comment by esseph in "Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia"

esseph — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:55:33 +0000

Some of you aren't real introverts that grew up in the country and it shows :P

New comment by esseph in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

esseph — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:19:19 +0000

"Forgejo was created in October 2022 after a for profit company took over the Gitea project. It exists under the umbrella of a non-profit organization, Codeberg e.V. and is developed in the interest of the general public."

https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/

New comment by esseph in "Incident with Github.com"

esseph — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:45:12 +0000

Yes, laws, regulations.

They're fucking useful tools of curbing shitty but not yet illegal behavior that is at BEST a dishonest attempt to avoid contractual accountability.

Yes, a fucking law. Maybe a whole set of them!

New comment by esseph in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

esseph — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:43:04 +0000

Pipelines are not magic. You want a couple of primitives in there, variable substitution, maybe lite secret management. Depending on the type and languages you work across they could also be 100% unique to each company, language, project, and industry. LLMs have also further made pipeline creation pretty trivial.

If you can use or make a GitHub action you will be just fine in GitLab, CircleCI, Jenkins, or a couple of shell scripts hacked out over pizza and beer on a weekend.

There's no pipeline moat, to put it another way.

New comment by esseph in "Incident with Github.com"

esseph — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:23:05 +0000

> The network effects isn’t that much

There are people in this thread that have said their biggest reason for not moving away is the network effect.

New comment by esseph in "Incident with Github.com"

esseph — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:20:11 +0000

> HN is heavily anti-US

This is a very distorted lens.

Many on the outside might say the US is very pro-self and anti-everyone-else right now! America first, right?

Well, take a random country. We'll make a made-up one called Tristonia. Should Tristonia do things in Tristonia's best interests? Absolutely! If Tristonia had some kind of military or economic threat from another country, should they take steps to protect their country, resources, and people from the threat? Absolutely! The same thing the US would do.

Most of these people aren't necessarily anti-US, they're against being beholden to another country, especially one that has been incredibly... inconsistent, as of late.

New comment by esseph in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

esseph — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:07:53 +0000

> It's clear that updating the status page as quickly as possible isn't even something github cares about.

Status pages for large companies are social, political and legal tools, and not technical indicators. It has always been this way, and likely always will unless some laws were passed.

New comment by esseph in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

esseph — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:03:27 +0000

Your first concern is not the reliability of GitHub (lost $$$) or any dark patterns they push, or their security, but the network effect?

Source repository should be its own thing.

Artifacts repository arguably should be its own thing.

PRs, own thing.

CI, own thing.

The Balkanization has always existed. Lot of stuff that isn't on GitHub.

New comment by esseph in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

esseph — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:52:20 +0000

No, it's not what you said.

Gitea is a fork of Gogs.

Forgejo is a fork of Gitea.

Codeberg folks forked Gitea to create forgejo.

New comment by esseph in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

esseph — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:47:53 +0000

Cargo cult nonsense.

New comment by esseph in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

esseph — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:05:28 +0000

Companies come and go but humans and relationships can stay for a lifetime, often through multiple companies.

You may have it backwards.

New comment by esseph in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

esseph — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:33:41 +0000

Going to be hard to pry something away from people it benefits.

New comment by esseph in "Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)"

esseph — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:07:13 +0000

It is actually true!

New comment by esseph in "The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators"

esseph — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:17:55 +0000

It's a different type of beauty. The beauty is not the arrangement, it's what was never put into the code because it was never actually required.

New comment by esseph in "Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel"

esseph — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:16:08 +0000

oh: https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20260527189/sam...

New comment by esseph in "Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel"

esseph — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:03:19 +0000

They have lost 12 executives in the past year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/14/open-ai-ipo-red-flag.html

New comment by esseph in "Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel"

esseph — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:13:58 +0000

> Thankfully, I don't believe OpenAI does this - they are far more honest and seem to care about their reputation.

Bro. Sam Altman?

New comment by esseph in "First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists"

esseph — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:01:43 +0000

> Shutting down rail strikes

Congress, but President signed. And it was broadly bipartisan!

The House voted 290–137, and the Senate voted 80–15 to pass the measure, which was then signed into law.

The entire US government looked at working people and said, basically: "No, you are not allowed to take time off work for cancer treatments".