Hacker News: greybeard69

New comment by greybeard69 in "Codeberg: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions"

greybeard69 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:49:26 +0000

Codeberg is a German non-profit. If you're going to be hyperbolic, at least get it somewhat right.

New comment by greybeard69 in "PHP's Oddities"

greybeard69 — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:40:42 +0000

Mate, not to be rude but your entire comment isn't based on factual analysis; it's a rant about unrelated languages.

New comment by greybeard69 in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

greybeard69 — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:04:23 +0000

Turtles all the way down.

New comment by greybeard69 in "I’ve banned query strings"

greybeard69 — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:59:41 +0000

My rule of thumb is that if you want to keep your code clean, always returning an empty collection is preferable to returning an empty response on that branch. You don't need a guard clause to null/undef-check before consuming the result. The rule applies whether we're consuming the response from a repository or an http request.

New comment by greybeard69 in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

greybeard69 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:12:44 +0000

Full Self-Driving 2.0

New comment by greybeard69 in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

greybeard69 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:44:36 +0000

No one cares.

New comment by greybeard69 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

greybeard69 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:55:00 +0000

To my understanding the main problem is DynamoDB being down, and DynamoDB is what a lot of AWS services use for their eventing systems behind the scenes. So there's probably like 500 billion unprocessed events that'll need to get processed even when they get everything back online. It's gonna be a long one.

New comment by greybeard69 in "A Clausewitzian lens on modern urban warfare"

greybeard69 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:10:02 +0000

Islamic beliefs as some sort of bad monolith vs Western beliefs as some sort of opposing good monolith is a painfully narrow and frankly bigoted view of human existence, warfare, and statecraft. I'll point you at Gaza and rub your nose directly in it.

New comment by greybeard69 in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

greybeard69 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:44:33 +0000

wild speculation and conjecture