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New comment by hambes in "Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? (2014) [pdf]"

hambes — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:47:30 +0000

I am not scientist enough to judge this, so please someone enlighten me: most categories i've read through that find a shift do so with an increase of about 0.1-0.2 standard deviations. that does not sound significant to me. is that enough to make the claims this study makes?

New comment by hambes in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

hambes — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:23:52 +0000

the article mentions three types of stakeholders: contributors, debuggers and incident responders. it entirely fails to mentions consumers, who mostly care about backwards compatibility of changes, and thus about the type of a change. once the type is established, e.g. a change is breakimg, the consumer next cares about the scope to make downstream adjustments.

the part about broken promises regarding breaking changes is _kind of_ fair, but only assuming tooling isn't able to track reverts. accidental breakages occure with every approach and better to have an approximation than no information at all.

New comment by hambes in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

hambes — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:28:13 +0000

I've always wanted to do this, but can't get over the linux tty only supporting 256 colors. If I could get that higher and maybe add unicode support, I'd love to go tty only.

New comment by hambes in "Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha"

hambes — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:58:59 +0000

then the military would also act life-saving, since they are defending the attacked country

New comment by hambes in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

hambes — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:07:47 +0000

because approval processes take time which i can use to keep working

New comment by hambes in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

hambes — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:41:24 +0000

I agree that a `gh stack` command is not needed, but this feels to me like just a better UI feature for a good git workflow. It literally is about making multiple smaller PRs that build on top of each other.

Go-overlay: Nix overlay for complete go development environment

hambes — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:24:59 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/purpleclay/go-overlay

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749663

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

California to require age verification for all OS including Linux

hambes — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:39:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/california-introduces-age-verification-law

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47228947

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

Go's secret weapon: the standard library interface

hambes — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:17:04 +0000

Article URL: https://fredrikaverpil.github.io/blog/2025/12/28/gos-secret-weapon-the-standard-library-interfaces/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148791

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by hambes in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

hambes — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:48:28 +0000

for one thing the ingress nginx is retiring[1], so they're probably revsiting alternatives, maybe even the service meshes for the new gateway api.

1: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01/29/ingress-nginx-statemen...

Self-referential functions and the design of options (2014)

hambes — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 09:41:29 +0000

Article URL: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2014/01/self-referential-functions-and-design.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932826

Points: 15

# Comments: 3

New comment by hambes in "Direct Current Data Centers"

hambes — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:25:02 +0000

yes, i do realize that. thank you for expanding on my point.

New comment by hambes in "Direct Current Data Centers"

hambes — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:23:33 +0000

demand for AI is not high, which is the current problem of the industry and the reason that AI companies are trying to shoehorn their technology into products everywhere.

these companies and the author of the article are trying to increase capacity for something that barely anyone wants in the software they use, which makes it all the more wasteful.

New comment by hambes in "Direct Current Data Centers"

hambes — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:35:29 +0000

it is difficult to comprehend for me that soneone spends all this time thinking through and calculating how to harness as much energy as possible and then wants to use it for large language models instead of something useful, like food production, communication, transport or any other way of satisfying actual human material needs. what weird priorities.

New comment by hambes in "Parametric CAD in Rust"

hambes — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:31:42 +0000

I've been doing a similar thing using GhostSCAD[1], which is a relatively thin wrapper around OpenSCAD in Go. Not as typesafe, but my language of choice.

[1]: https://github.com/ljanyst/ghostscad

New comment by hambes in "Proving (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious"

hambes — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:47:25 +0000

is that first sentence entirely broken or am i having a temporary lapse in cognition?

New comment by hambes in "Git Rebase for the Terrified"

hambes — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:58:53 +0000

To add to the very short "valodating the result" section, let me recommend `git range-diff`.

Range diff takes two commit ranges and compares thor commits pairwise, wich is perfect for rebases, since after the rebase all commits still exist and should be mostly identical, just at some other place in the history.

Use it like `git range-diff main..origin/mybranch main..mybranch` to compare the local, rebased branch with the upstream branch.

This let's you easily verify that eitger mothing changed or that any conflicts were resolved well.

New comment by hambes in "Meta announces nuclear energy projects"

hambes — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:13:40 +0000

sure, let's build more energy sources with finite fuel supply and negative environmental impact while there's better options available <.<

New comment by hambes in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

hambes — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:33:19 +0000

Why would I need claude code for remote programming, if I could just use ssh and tmux?

New comment by hambes in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"

hambes — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:01:37 +0000

thank you!