Hacker News: jeltz

New comment by jeltz in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

jeltz — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:37:42 +0000

Then you would be exceptionally bad at selfhosting as Github has like one nine of uptime.

New comment by jeltz in "Waymo in Dallas"

jeltz — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:13:27 +0000

So you are pro-bus? Because Waymo is the faster horse for someone in Dallas while a working public transit would be the paradigm shift.

New comment by jeltz in ""Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023)"

jeltz — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:07:53 +0000

And following Clean Code gives you neither. The book is written by someone with a very limited experience and the advice is either basic and obvious or harmful. People should just stop reading that book.

New comment by jeltz in ""Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023)"

jeltz — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

I don't think any such benchmark should exist. As long as the function only does one thing there is no upper limit. Artificially splitting a large function only reduces readsbility. What would you name the parts? do_stuff1(), do_stuff2(), do_stuff3()?

I have seen very clean codebases with a handful very long functions, but they were no issue she nice they only did one thing.

I personally write quite short functions but I have never understood why people take issue with large functions. Those are one of the easiest things to fix in a bad codebase. It is much harder to clean up after someone who used too small functions.

New comment by jeltz in "Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area"

jeltz — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:35:45 +0000

No, what they failed to recognize was indigenous land management that had been abandoned for many decades. In remote areas smallpox moved quite far ahead of European settlers.

New comment by jeltz in "Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability"

jeltz — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:28:10 +0000

Yes, but getting an exception approved can be a huge pain in some places.

New comment by jeltz in "Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability"

jeltz — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:25:29 +0000

Many large organizations like banks have requirements like this and they solve it through a mix of automatic scanners, e.g. Trivvy, and self-deception as not all systems are actually scanned in any sufficiently large org.

New comment by jeltz in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

jeltz — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:15:39 +0000

This is not about an aspiring painter though. This method is intended for an already accomplished painter. Not saying how effective it is but your comparison is not relevant.

New comment by jeltz in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

jeltz — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:08:26 +0000

Maybe it matters if you do not have the right to push to the main repo but still want both your PRs to live there. Is there a way to do that without stacked PRs?

New comment by jeltz in "Our position on open-weights models"

jeltz — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:11:29 +0000

The Northern Alliance contain some people who are probably even worse than the Taliban so while you are technically right I am not sure it matters.

New comment by jeltz in "Our position on open-weights models"

jeltz — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:05:16 +0000

Something which Trump wants to change. Trump has already done a lot of silence critical media and he wants to do more.

New comment by jeltz in "Our position on open-weights models"

jeltz — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:57:20 +0000

We do well enough. It either happened naturally, or less likely due to a lab accident. If there is a cover up it is to hide incompetence.

New comment by jeltz in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

jeltz — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:23:58 +0000

Given their history with previous other marketing stunts I do not expect any retrospective. The technology is real but I have little faith in open and honest communication from Anthropic.

New comment by jeltz in "How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?"

jeltz — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:21:24 +0000

They bought the maintainers, not the code.

New comment by jeltz in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

jeltz — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:18:57 +0000

It was expected. These LLM rewrites seem to work amazingly at first and then you realize there is a ton of work remaining.

New comment by jeltz in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

jeltz — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:58:14 +0000

> Tesla is the only Western electric car company in the top 20

WV is number 6 in the top 20, and BMW is number 10. And while Tesla has good sales now their lack of innovation is a huge risk.

https://www.blackridgeresearch.com/blog/list-of-global-top-e...

New comment by jeltz in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

jeltz — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:54:24 +0000

Exactly. Tesla is way behind the competition.

New comment by jeltz in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

jeltz — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:26:22 +0000

There are some really bad linters out there like Rubocop so if they have had experience with those I get it.

New comment by jeltz in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

jeltz — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:45:05 +0000

Probably, because in my 20 year career I have encountered it plenty except back the first couple of years as a junior developer when I did not know my tools and did not know that I should do this.

New comment by jeltz in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

jeltz — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:06:38 +0000

I still would want the history easy to reach because when I find weird code I almost always reach directly to git log.