Hacker News: geenat

New comment by geenat in "Digg is gone again"

geenat — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:28:09 +0000

On reddit you can downvote spam, so I don't think it survives on the populated reddits.

New comment by geenat in "No right to relicense this project"

geenat — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:19:09 +0000

FastAPI's underlying library, Starlette, has been going through licensing shenanigans too lately: https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/issues/3042

Be really careful who you give your projects keys to, folks!

New comment by geenat in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

geenat — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:36:02 +0000

Tailwind was far ahead of its time in having an OSS business model overall friendly to users while still being able to fund development (Note: OSS projects like Minio, ScyllaDB and CockroachDB do a far more insidious "open core only", or "crazy licensing fees after x processes/users" , etc). It was great to see OSS succeed financially without ads or punishing users.

"Information should be free", sure, but lets not kid ourselves, these massive new AI companies are making themselves new gatekeepers with new artificial moats for themselves. Information is not federated / distributed anymore.

We need "GPL for AI" that restricts AI scrapers from performing content theft/repackaging.

New comment by geenat in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

geenat — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:10:40 +0000

I'm fairly convinced these are bot / LLM generated PR's in the first place; the content is nonsensical garbage.

New comment by geenat in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

geenat — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:08:03 +0000

I recently had a similar junk PR on my 1,700 star repository: https://github.com/gnat/surreal/pull/56

I'm fairly convinced these are bot / LLM generated; the content is nonsensical garbage.

PS: If an LLM needs a whole seperate fork to understand your content, the LLM is failing at it's job.

PS PS: I want to highlight that the PR itself also seems to be an excuse to get the library quantizor made pulled in as a new dependency. Nasty.

New comment by geenat in "Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface"

geenat — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 03:46:49 +0000

Oh man, tons of updates including DDL replication! V2 looks very impressive.

Now I'm curious how sharding/routing is handled- which seems like the final piece of the puzzle for scaling writes.

New comment by geenat in "The Nova Programming Language"

geenat — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:37:54 +0000

I like the idea of a "markdown for logic", with transpiliation to lots of different easy backends such as javascript.

Not convinced the language would actually be useful, but I like the ideas for portability.

New comment by geenat in "The fuck off contact page"

geenat — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:42:40 +0000

Udemy is famous for the fuck off style for paying customers.

New comment by geenat in "Rebecca Heineman has died"

geenat — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:53:18 +0000

If you're young, schedule an appointment and go in, get your blood work done. Does not require a family doctor. Last time there was barely any wait time for me.

The annual scheduled vists are for older people / seniors.

New comment by geenat in "Rebecca Heineman has died"

geenat — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:18:07 +0000

My mother had it detected well in advance, and is currently being treated, the cancer is in remission now.

I doubt Rebecca ever got that chance. Sure, surprise late stage cancer happens, but it's often caught when you get semi-annual checkups.

New comment by geenat in "End of Japanese community"

geenat — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:01:31 +0000

KB = Knowledge Base

MT = Machine Translation

In this context.

New comment by geenat in "Affinity Studio now free"

geenat — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:14:28 +0000

Adobe shitting their pants r n

New comment by geenat in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

geenat — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:18:55 +0000

3 days after posting this amazon is having public facing outages...

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/amazon-tech-outage-10...

I legit cannot buy anything on Amazon. Reddit and Epic Games are also broken.

New comment by geenat in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

geenat — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:46:39 +0000

Learned to code with Borland Turbo C++

Moved to Dev-C++

Nowadays just any editor and using GCC directly

Eternally greatful for open source, Microsoft charged thousands for Visual C++ back then.

New comment by geenat in "StageConnect: Behringer protocol is open source"

geenat — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 06:56:16 +0000

Behringer has been fairly consumer friendly over the years, it's much appreciated- its something I consider when buying audio stuff.

New comment by geenat in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

geenat — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:38:44 +0000

AWS has certainly had some pretty public facing downtime ;) I'd say its been roughly the same in my experience- the only way to avoid it IMHO is multi-region.

New comment by geenat in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

geenat — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:28:31 +0000

Yup. It's very good for the ecosystem for AWS to have good competition.

Amazon gets far too greedy- particularly bad when you need egress.

Also an "amazon core" is like 1/8th of a physical cpu core.

New comment by geenat in "Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach"

geenat — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:11:58 +0000

Why are they permanently storing government ID's?

New comment by geenat in "Litestream v0.5.0"

geenat — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:55:21 +0000

Advantages of Litestream over https://sqlite.org/rsync.html ?

New comment by geenat in "Python developers are embracing type hints"

geenat — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 11:45:11 +0000

Company selling a product based on what's being glazed in the article.

It's always a small vocal fraction or they'd be using a different language.