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New comment by iand in "IPFS Maintainers Winding Down"

iand — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:09:03 +0000

Except no-one knows what shipyard is and it could more easily be mistaken for the end of IPFS.

Maintainers of IPFS are winding down is much more informative for those not in the space.

IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

iand — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:48:45 +0000

Article URL: https://ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-the-end-of-ipfs-at-shipyard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421489

Points: 308

# Comments: 157

New comment by iand in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

iand — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:25:56 +0000

But this was the neoliberal globalist agenda for the past thirty years. Lower trade barriers, export manufacturing to low wage workers with poorer conditions. The result is lower automobile costs for American consumers at the expense of blue collar jobs evaporating.

New comment by iand in "Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You"

iand — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:11:17 +0000

How is the fediverse different. Can't the owner of an instance post as you? Can they read all your data stored on their instance and pass it to anyone they want to?

New comment by iand in "Iroh 1.0"

iand — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:48:28 +0000

The site is referring to Iroh's preference for using IETF standards rather than rolling their own.

New comment by iand in "Why I gave the world wide web away for free"

iand — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:51:43 +0000

And yet at that time we already had a stranglehold of Compuserve and AOL. The talk was of walled gardens, safe spaces compared to the horrific wilds of the open Internet. The web broke down those walls.

New comment by iand in "Introducing Our New Name"

iand — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:12:28 +0000

Lu-anti seems like two syllables to me

New comment by iand in "Go automatically downloads a newer toolchain if needed"

iand — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:41:49 +0000

Imagine if Python had as strong a compatibility promise as Go

New comment by iand in "Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind"

iand — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 11:04:06 +0000

It's real and I have it. I was astonished when I discovered other people see pictures in their head. It doesn't restrict my creative thinking but I am a spatial thinker.

When I solve an imaginary logic problem such as advancing the hands on a clock I can't see the before and after states but I can infer their positions by the directions they must point and then read the new time from that.

New comment by iand in "[dead]"

iand — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:55:56 +0000

I tried it but the two images it generated looked nothing like me and were of the wrong gender and ethnicity

New comment by iand in "Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users"

iand — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:17:30 +0000

"To use passkeys, you just use a fingerprint, face scan or pin to unlock your device, and they are 40% faster than passwords — and rely on a type of cryptography that makes them more secure. "

Who wrote this sentence? It's just a mess.

New comment by iand in "ASUS Chromebox 5"

iand — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:39:59 +0000

It's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebox which is a class of small computer that run ChromeOS

New comment by iand in "Midjourney AI Guide"

iand — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:22:05 +0000

I have done this too. How did you get the bot to use your MJ credits? I found that the bot still uses the credits of each person who invokes the command.

New comment by iand in "Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls"

iand — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:27:05 +0000

Automatically grant every patent application but equally allow every granted patent to be challenged at no cost causing the patent rights to be suspended. The patent owner then has 5 years to prove the claims in court at their own cost.

New comment by iand in "Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11"

iand — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 20:44:41 +0000

As if Hacker News is a single homogeneous unit

The Filecoin Energy Dashboard

iand — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 16:14:07 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@filecoingreen/introducing-the-filecoin-energy-dashboard-46d2cbe14d39

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29431602

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Jim Browning scammed into deleting his own YouTube channel

iand — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:12:19 +0000

Article URL: https://nitter.42l.fr/JimBrowning11/status/1419765976074268682

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27972682

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by iand in "Alphafold"

iand — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 23:27:41 +0000

It means that the conversation isn't producing much of value despite lots of activity, like an inefficient lightbulb that wastes energy by emitting heat instead of light.

New comment by iand in "On the evilness of feature branching"

iand — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 23:19:13 +0000

A question for people practising trunk based development: how do you perform code reviews?

New comment by iand in "The Idempotency-Key HTTP header field"

iand — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 01:31:24 +0000

Yes, see here https://www.rfc-editor.org/pubprocess/tools/