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New comment by ilikepi in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

ilikepi — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:14:02 +0000

There's a name for this sort of phenomenon...

https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/242/escape-goat/

DNSimple Infrastructure Instability Issue

ilikepi — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:29:57 +0000

Article URL: https://dnsimple.statuspage.io/incidents/s5rkdrmr3d2d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46964519

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ilikepi in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

ilikepi — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:50:37 +0000

This seems like a nice breakdown of some options:

https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/

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New comment by ilikepi in "Show HN: Every 5x6 Nonogram"

ilikepi — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:36:39 +0000

Every 5x5 Nonogram was featured previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140918

The improvements are solid! I think 5x6 was the right call...it's a good balance of being able to reuse strategies from 5x5 but also having to develop some new strategies.

New comment by ilikepi in "Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729"

ilikepi — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:05:10 +0000

Just note that listing is for an item from a third-party seller. Walmart's website includes listings from their third-party marketplace unless you explicitly filter them out.

New comment by ilikepi in "FlightAware Map Design (2024)"

ilikepi — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:57:45 +0000

This may interest you: https://adsb.exposed/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39990346

New comment by ilikepi in "Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI"

ilikepi — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:09:54 +0000

> I've seen codebases that enforce these commit prefixes such as "chore", "feat", "bugfix" etc. Is there any real value to that?

It's a choice some teams make, presumably because _they_ see value in it (or at least think they will). The team I'm on has particular practices which I'm sure would not work on other teams, and might cause you to look at them with the same incredulity, but they work for us.

For what it's worth, the prefixes you use as examples do arise from a convention with an actual spec:

https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/

New comment by ilikepi in "M5 MacBook Pro"

ilikepi — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:00:11 +0000

> Or otherwise you can enable the app exposé feature to swipe down with three fingers and it will show you only windows of the same app.

If you have an Apple keyboard, CTRL-F3 (without the Fn modifier) will do the same. Not sure if there are third-party keyboards that support Mac media keys, but I'm guessing there are some at least...

New comment by ilikepi in "Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025"

ilikepi — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:35:05 +0000

Welp, now that there is confirmation that lawyers are involved, the chances there will be any of sort of open and transparent reconciliation process have plummeted.

Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025

ilikepi — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:48:23 +0000

Article URL: https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-org-aws-root-access-event-september-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45530832

Points: 280

# Comments: 159

New comment by ilikepi in "Gem.coop"

ilikepi — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:17:58 +0000

Er...FYI, your [2] link is to a discussion about an article written by the person to whom you are responding.

Personally, I think the reason this post about gem.coop has been flagged is that we've reached the point at which new HN threads about things related to the recent RubyGems shake-up quickly devolve into people rehashing the DHH "aspect" of it all. So it has become less about flagging the actual target of the post and more about flagging the parts of the discussion that seem to go nowhere.

EDIT: expanded

New comment by ilikepi in "Gem.coop"

ilikepi — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:13:47 +0000

There have been several releases with incremental but still notable performance improvements. The overall cadence has been pretty steady, intentionally targeting roughly one minor release per year since 2019-ish, with handfuls of quality of life improvements in each. Arguably RubyGems and Bundler are infrastructure, so the major feature is stability. What sort of big feature are you imagining is missing from your dependency management system?

New comment by ilikepi in "Pasta Cooking Time"

ilikepi — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:57:19 +0000

Not sure what post you have in mind, but Kenji Alt-Lopez's video[1] on the topic is excellent. If I remember right, it's based on work he did with a well-known food publication (or show or something)...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb0Elaa6gxY

Ruby Central Is Not Behaving in Good Faith, and I've Got Receipts

ilikepi — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:05:46 +0000

Article URL: https://jaredwhite.com/articles/ruby-central-is-not-operating-in-good-faith

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45357222

Points: 67

# Comments: 121

New comment by ilikepi in "Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]"

ilikepi — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:00:49 +0000

This thread has probably run its course, and newer postings[1] have more information, but I'll respond anyway if it's helpful...

> How can they remove maintainers from their own projects? If my project is yawaramin/foobar...

The official RubyGems projects in question were under a GitHub organizational account, not a single user's account. A subset of the maintainers had the "owner" flag on the org. One of those folks basically initiated the takeover. See [2] for a more detailed recounting.

[1]: Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348390 - September 2025 (107+ comments)

[2]: https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/#the-takeover

New comment by ilikepi in "Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]"

ilikepi — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:04:23 +0000

There is some more context on a post[1] in /r/ruby, including the fact that the maintainers and others had been working on a proposal[2] for a formalized organizational governance structure as recently as yesterday. The latter also adds some context into Mike McQuaid's involvement: the proposal was influenced by the structure put in place by the Homebrew project.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1nkzszc/ruby_centrals...

[2]: https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/pull/61

New comment by ilikepi in "The GitHub website is slow on Safari"

ilikepi — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:30:47 +0000

Ah, since Atlassian has been increasingly messing with Trello over the past couple years, it has really gone to shit. I currently have a Firefox profile dedicated solely to it, using >2 gigs of memory and about 1/3 of an M1 core. It has cumulatively used about a day's worth of CPU time in since I booted in 6 days ago. In contrast, the profile dedicated to Slack is using 750 MB and has burned about 27 minutes of CPU time.

New comment by ilikepi in "Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets"

ilikepi — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 04:35:54 +0000

One reason might be that one owns more than one set...for example, living in an area that has both hot summers and cold winters, we have summer sheets (sateen) and winter sheets (fleece).

New comment by ilikepi in "I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files"

ilikepi — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 03:25:19 +0000

> One is that with some frontends you can't actually get the raw context window so the LLM is actually more capable of seeing what happened than you are. The other is that these context windows are often giant and making the LLM read it for you and guess at what happened is a lot faster than reading it yourself to guess what happened.

I feel like this is some bizzaro-world variant of the halting problem. Like...it seems bonkers to me that having the AI re-read the context window would produce a meaningful answer about what went wrong...because it itself is the thing that produced the bad result given all of the context.

New comment by ilikepi in "Every 5x5 Nonogram"

ilikepi — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:13:02 +0000

Woohoo, thanks! :)