Hacker News: exploderate

New comment by exploderate in "What About Rails?"

exploderate — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:38:00 +0000

I think one can just wait till DHH loses interest, can't be long now.

New comment by exploderate in "Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake"

exploderate — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:45:10 +0000

Thanks, this was much more insightful and on topic, than the complains about llm usage in the article.

New comment by exploderate in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

exploderate — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:52:05 +0000

No, developers definitely do not remember what they did two months ago. If you are busy, even two weeks is a problem. That is why we discuss documentation so much, self-documenting code, tickets and tests.

Well, and "intention" is a mine field of its own.

New comment by exploderate in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

exploderate — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:05:18 +0000

So the agents used DseWiki as a message board, tried to evade page deletion.

Additionally this is reported:

"The researchers also found efforts to tamper with the website itself. Lukasz Olejnik, a visiting senior research fellow at King’s College London, said this amounted to a hacking attempt. OpenAI disputed that characterization based on its analysis of the material Thursday."

New comment by exploderate in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

exploderate — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:37:21 +0000

It's not matter of "can", it's a matter of "how much does it cost?" and "who pays for that?".

New comment by exploderate in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

exploderate — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:27:14 +0000

They are a non-profit with a mission to support free software:

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/en/bylaws....

However, they do this because of copyright status and harmful code:

"7. You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5). "

New comment by exploderate in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

exploderate — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:50:36 +0000

You are probably talking about Kahn. The international Criminal Court is not part of the UN. It is distinct from the International Court of Justice.

As of October 2024, there are 125 states parties to the Rome Statute, which are represented in the court's governing body, the Assembly of States Parties. Countries that are not party to the Rome Statute and do not recognise the court's jurisdiction include China, India, Russia, and the United States.

Member states represent around a third of the world population.

New comment by exploderate in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

exploderate — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:55:00 +0000

Especially since their costs might be multi-year investments. It's too early to judge the quality of those investments.

New comment by exploderate in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

exploderate — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:43:17 +0000

That data is not stolen. It's still there.

New comment by exploderate in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

exploderate — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:46:54 +0000

> Gemini CLI is an open-source AI agent

This is not good for open-source. Claude is not open-source, copilot-cli is not and antigravity-cli isn't either.

Apparently the major players decide to keep the secret agent source, well, secret.

New comment by exploderate in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

exploderate — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:55:57 +0000

Ah wow, that must be the most expensive mouse pointer ever. I wonder if it can also click links. I just tell AI to "click this" and it will figure out what is under the pointer, query a graph of UI widgets and trigger a "click" event for me. Maybe with a sub-agent that has application context, "this is a browser".

If we manage that, my plans for a pure XML based shell might not be too futuristic '' ...

New comment by exploderate in "Apt-bundle: brew bundle for apt"

exploderate — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:33:57 +0000

Or just homebrew on Linux?

New comment by exploderate in "Apt-bundle: brew bundle for apt"

exploderate — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:04:19 +0000

So, this is better than `dpkg --get-selections/--set-selections`? Oh, because it's partial?

New comment by exploderate in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

exploderate — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:57:24 +0000

What, of course we do?

Summarizing, explaining pages directly, without copying to another app. Reading pages out aloud. Maybe even orchestrating research sessions, by searching and organizing...

New comment by exploderate in "XSLT RIP"

exploderate — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:42:55 +0000

I wish there was a native XSLT library for Golang. Every model wants to shell out or requires CGO.

New comment by exploderate in "Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel"

exploderate — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:33:33 +0000

The one line "article" on lwn.net has a link to this email:

  From: Kent Overstreet @ 2025-09-11 23:19 UTC
 
  As many of you are no doubt aware, bcachefs is switching to shipping as
  a DKMS module. Once the DKMS packages are in place very little should
  change for end users, but we've got some work to do on the distribution
  side of things to make sure things go smoothly.

  Good news: ...

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bcachefs/yokpt2d2g2lluyomtqrdv...

New comment by exploderate in "Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts"

exploderate — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:52:52 +0000

This will make working with Google Docs easier, as they can copy&paste from Markdown.

New comment by exploderate in "Multiple security issues in GNU Screen"

exploderate — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:12:47 +0000

Yes, that's why all the cool kids switched to tmux 17 years ago. The only argument the screen camp had was "no serial port support in tmux". To which we answered something about a smaller more modern code base...

New comment by exploderate in "Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google"

exploderate — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:24:55 +0000

Can you explain how? Or is your argument "One guy in a basement in Bulgaria could build Firefox for 50 Stotinki."?

New comment by exploderate in "2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls"

exploderate — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:15:15 +0000

> I don't think it's a generation thing, I think it's that what we generally consider normal has changed, but that some people got left behind in the old normal.

Isn't that the definition of a "generational thing"?

Now I have to think every time, is this someone I have to text first? Or do they consider texting then calling redundant? Anyhow, I think both are important communication techniques, adults should be able to do remote direct verbal and async written.