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New comment by jonathrg in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

jonathrg — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:43:26 +0000

The JSON types are string, number, boolean, null, object and array. So how could the suggested code possibly work? Do you want JSON.parse to do arbitrary code execution like Python's pickle?

New comment by jonathrg in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

jonathrg — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:12:11 +0000

Bitbucket is okay to use, the main problem like with every Atlassian product is that it is dog slow.

New comment by jonathrg in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

jonathrg — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:07:03 +0000

How do you know what you were downvoted for?

New comment by jonathrg in "Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++"

jonathrg — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:04:34 +0000

Having a type safe generic ring buffer and such is nice

New comment by jonathrg in "Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++"

jonathrg — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:11:24 +0000

You definitely need discipline to use C++ in embedded. There are exactly 2 features that come to mind, which makes it worth it for me: 1) replacing complex macros or duplicated code with simple templates, and 2) RAII for critical sections or other kinds of locks.

New comment by jonathrg in "MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO"

jonathrg — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:57:25 +0000

I have no reason to trust that the fork itself is competently maintained when the author did not even bother to write the announcement.

New comment by jonathrg in "PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI"

jonathrg — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:40:36 +0000

But it is fine. If I disagree with a project's values I'm not going to contribute to it, and they wouldn't want me there either.

New comment by jonathrg in "PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI"

jonathrg — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:38:44 +0000

They explain why in their AI policy. It's an ethical stance. Of course they wouldn't notice if there aren't clear signs of LLM-ness, but that's not the main reason why they forbid it.

https://docs.postmarketos.org/policies-and-processes/develop...

New comment by jonathrg in "PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI"

jonathrg — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:25:41 +0000

It's fine for a project to have moral/ideological leanings, it's only weird if you insist that project teams should be entirely amoral.

New comment by jonathrg in "PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI"

jonathrg — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:11:26 +0000

Very happy to see PostmarketOS take an uncompromising stance and also providing justification for it.

Texas Instruments to Acquire Silicon Labs

jonathrg — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:24:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ti.com/about-ti/newsroom/news-releases/2026/2026-02-04-texas-instruments-to-acquire-silicon-labs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886170

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New comment by jonathrg in "Are We Loong Yet?"

jonathrg — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:50:24 +0000

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson

New comment by jonathrg in "Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates"

jonathrg — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:42:27 +0000

And I better not see any capacitors on there remembering any charge!

New comment by jonathrg in "Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed"

jonathrg — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:48:13 +0000

Stuff like that is a good argument for using structured logging, but even if you are just parsing text logs, surely you can make the parser be a bit more specific when retrieving the log level.

New comment by jonathrg in "Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed"

jonathrg — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:25:38 +0000

Oh that makes sense.

New comment by jonathrg in "Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed"

jonathrg — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:11:49 +0000

4xx is for invalid requests. You wouldn't log a 404 as an error

New comment by jonathrg in "Please just try HTMX"

jonathrg — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:32:58 +0000

Rust is doing great.

New comment by jonathrg in "Cloudflare was down"

jonathrg — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:41:08 +0000

Why not? They have been proudly vibe coding for a while.

New comment by jonathrg in "Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground"

jonathrg — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:45:36 +0000

It's unbelievable to me that Github allows repo admins to edit other people's comments.

New comment by jonathrg in "Do you know that there is an HTML tables API?"

jonathrg — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:23:40 +0000

This is not an improvement. Having named variables for things is good actually. They will need to be declared again immediately once you want to modify the code. insertCell(i).innerText = c is a nonsense statement, it should be 2 lines for the 2 operations