Hacker News: heavensteeth

New comment by heavensteeth in "Git hosting that never leaves Europe"

heavensteeth — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:27:56 +0000

- "a platform built for humans, not AI."

- "Bots are welcome. Slop gets blocked."

- "No AI buttons bolted onto every surface."

yet the entire website appears to be itself AI slop. is the codebase vibecoded too? I seem to get a "connection lost" toast notification every time the page loads despite it being a wholly static page.

your service is founding itself on a promise (forges in general are of course not a novel concept) that i feel you're failing to uphold.

New comment by heavensteeth in "Australia is the safest place during a global catastrophe, study suggests"

heavensteeth — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:45:09 +0000

While it doesn't represent modern war at all, of course, I've always enjoyed the knowledge that Australia was bombed very little during WW2 despite "neighboring" the Axis Japan simply because it was too far away and planes of the era could not reach it. The only capital city that saw aerial warfare was Darwin because it's the only one on the north coast.

New comment by heavensteeth in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

heavensteeth — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:22:02 +0000

I agree whole heatedly with severing ties with Yandex, but no, Europe still continues to funnel billions of Euros to Russia; €5.57B in goods (plus €7.81B in exports) and €3.63B in energy[0] in Q1 2026.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

New comment by heavensteeth in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"

heavensteeth — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 01:45:08 +0000

> and decide to go past the “this was mostly built by AI” part

I got that feeling just seeing the title use "native" as a synonym of "not a website".

New comment by heavensteeth in "I hate compilers"

heavensteeth — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:04:08 +0000

I'm surprised by the amount of heckling this post received almost immediately! And a lack of constructive input.

I for one enjoyed the article and understand what you're getting at.

New comment by heavensteeth in "Meta to give staff 30min breaks from keylogging"

heavensteeth — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:07:57 +0000

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383220

New comment by heavensteeth in "Last.fm is now independent"

heavensteeth — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:46:27 +0000

> Then it forces me to thumbs down the music, which also isn't what I want to do, because I have no idea what effect it's having on my recommendations.

I feel this. Social media algorithms can be so complex and opaque now that I have to consciously consider what repercussions my interactions have. I have so little idea what interactions affect recommendations on e.g. Instagram that it almost feels random.

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

heavensteeth — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:21:47 +0000

That's Go.

New comment by heavensteeth in "QBE – Compiler Back End"

heavensteeth — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:55:15 +0000

This is exactly my gripe unfortunately, it feels like needless fragility. IIRC the author has said they believe it wouldn't be too difficult to patch QBE to work as a library, but from what I've seen the code is somewhat terse and eccentric.

New comment by heavensteeth in "X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior""

heavensteeth — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:28:49 +0000

Most social media has been has been utterly untenable forever, but Twitter and Discord are the most troublesome in my experience. It's so hard to create and use a new account on those sites without the rigmarole of captcha (due to suspicious activity) -> banned (due to suspicious activity) -> captcha (due to suspicious activity) -> verify email (due to suspicious activity) -> banned (due to suspicious activity) -> verify phone number (due to suspicious activity). Then, want to follow someone, or join a guild? Hmm.. your account reputation is too low. Try again in a week?

I don't know how people do it. I can only figure it's my fault for running Linux or Firefox or not Signing in with Google™, upsetting the data harvesting overlords.

New comment by heavensteeth in "Em Dash in Reddit Comments"

heavensteeth — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:36:42 +0000

His hands aren't just cold — they're dead.

New comment by heavensteeth in "Laptops with Stickers"

heavensteeth — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:03:13 +0000

I struggle to believe you don't understand what they mean. There is many a homophobe in the world. GP isn't saying homophobia is good, simply that espousing a pro-LGBT viewpoint may upset people. Maybe they deserve to be upset, but that doesn't change that it may become your problem.

New comment by heavensteeth in "Ratatui – App Showcase"

heavensteeth — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:15:53 +0000

The author doesn't like HN.

New comment by heavensteeth in "If you'd built a "tool" that stupid, why would you advertise the fact?"

heavensteeth — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:44:11 +0000

Given the list of non-university .edu domains is static (or even decreasing assuming some expire), couldn't you keep a list of those instead?

New comment by heavensteeth in "Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT"

heavensteeth — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:46:16 +0000

The first thing I checked was how hashing is implemented and two things stand out to me:

1. Input must be valid UTF-8. 2. stdin is read to EOF instead of being read incrementally

Neither are ideal and can make ut unfit for a fair few use cases.

New comment by heavensteeth in "Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads"

heavensteeth — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:29:10 +0000

Did you vibe code this by any chance? It's clearly insecure.

Oh, yes, you did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44656840

New comment by heavensteeth in "Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker"

heavensteeth — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:16:04 +0000

I found a pretty cool 80kb docker image that is just a copy of busybox httpd, which makes creating a docker image out of static files very simple.[0]

[0] https://github.com/lipanski/docker-static-website

New comment by heavensteeth in "Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit"

heavensteeth — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:06:53 +0000

I tried Podman on my messing around VPS but quickly reverted to rootless Docker.

The straw that broke the camels back was a bug in `podman compose` that funnily enough was fixed two hours ago[1]; if `service1` has a `depends_on` on `service2`, bringing down `service1` will unconditionally bring down `service2`, even if other services also depend on it. So if two separate services depend on a database, killing one of them will kill the database too.

Another incompatibility with Docker I experienced was raised in 2020 and fixed a few months ago[2]; you couldn't pass URLs to `build:` to automatically pull and build images. The patch for this turned out to be a few lines long.

I'm sure Podman will be great once all of these bugs are ironed out, but for me, it's not quite there yet.

[1]: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/pull/1283

[2]: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/issues/127

New comment by heavensteeth in "Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks"

heavensteeth — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:54:08 +0000

> even if cash is legal tender and they, by law, _have_ to accept cash

this is not true as it is not what "legal tender" means. Legal tender is something that the government must accept as payment, not private enterprise.

> Businesses don’t have to accept cash.[0]

> There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services.[1]

[0]: https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-servic...

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm

New comment by heavensteeth in "Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced"

heavensteeth — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:11:58 +0000

I'm not a psychologist but some of these extrapolations seem insane to me.

> Using Czech police records, American and Czech researchers compared rape rates in the Czech Republic for the 17 years before porn was legalized with rates during the 18 years after. Rapes decreased from 800 a year to 500. More porn, less rape.

> In addition, the legalization of porn was associated with a decrease in another despicable sex crime, child sexual abuse. Under Communism, arrests for child sex abuse averaged 2,000 a year. After porn became legal, the figure dropped by more than half to fewer than 1,000. More porn, fewer sex crimes.

The country's entire foundation shifted from underneath it; an empire collapsed around it. How could they possibly isolate the legalisation of pornography specifically as the cause of decreased rape? Why not the legalisation of private enterprise? Is it not feasible that living in a repressive, controlled, surveilled society caused men unrest?

Perhaps the studies cited went into more detail, but "Lots of rape in 1985, less rape in 2005. Porn was legalised between then, ergo porn caused this." does NOT convince me.