Hacker News: l0b0

The Requirement of Requirements in Software Projects – Yakir Havin

l0b0 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:42:36 +0000

Article URL: https://yakirhavin.com/blog/the-requirement-of-requirements-in-software-projects/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003129

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Data Engineers Should Be Held to the Same Standards as Bakers

l0b0 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:10:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hermit-tech.com/blog/data-engineers-and-bakers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888168

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Nightly Rust Development with Devenv

l0b0 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:18:27 +0000

Article URL: https://paperless.blog/nightly-rust-devenv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538168

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Research Replication Attempt

l0b0 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:18:11 +0000

Article URL: https://paperless.blog/research-replication-attempt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538166

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Testing desktop notifications with NixOS

l0b0 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:18:00 +0000

Article URL: https://paperless.blog/desktop-notification-tests

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538164

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

I am not a Software Engineer

l0b0 — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:05:28 +0000

Article URL: https://huronbikes.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-not-a-software-engineer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198724

Points: 71

# Comments: 11

Galileo's Basilisk

l0b0 — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:30:44 +0000

Article URL: https://hexmhell.writeas.com/galileos-basilisk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146451

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

BMW deploys the humanoid robot AEON in production sites in Germany

l0b0 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:46:59 +0000

Article URL: https://robotics.hexagon.com/bmw-deploys-aeon-hexagon-robotics-humanoid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181868

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by l0b0 in "Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?"

l0b0 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:09:02 +0000

You should try some good homemade lutefisk. No, not just lutefisk, that's like judging burgers by only eating the patty. Rather with all the accoutrements: fried bacon, pea stew, boiled cherry potatoes, and white sauce.

New comment by l0b0 in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

l0b0 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:47:09 +0000

"GOG GALAXY is a long-lived product with a large and complex C++ codebase." Also known as a shitshow. Hopefully the new engineer(s) will be encouraged to at least add some tests and refactor things to stay sane.

No mention of a license, though. I guess it'll stay closed source.

New comment by l0b0 in "The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy"

l0b0 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:17:55 +0000

Maybe it's time for some decently funded other organisation (not a teracorp) to take over Firefox specifically, then let Mozilla go its own way into the sunset. No idea how that could be arranged, though.

New comment by l0b0 in "FFmpeg moves to Forgejo"

l0b0 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:26:10 +0000

Just about every week I find "new" GitLab bugs which, after a quick search, turn out to be 5+ years old, with lots of community engagement, but seemingly zero movement from GitLab itself. I wonder what GitLab devs actually work on, because none of the new features in the last couple of years seem as impactful as fixing one of those bugs would be. (I still prefer it to GitHub, especially the CI model.)

New comment by l0b0 in "Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?"

l0b0 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:15:33 +0000

Pinboard (still decent, just don't expect your money back if you pay for the permanently broken PDF export feature) until I can self-host Linkding[1].

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+l...

New comment by l0b0 in "The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality"

l0b0 — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:51:02 +0000

"May shrink on first washing" or something like it seems to be pretty common; you might've accidentally tried something on which had that labelling (or didn't, which would suck).

New comment by l0b0 in "The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality"

l0b0 — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:43:52 +0000

No mention of value engineering? Isn't that what every big company does to a successful product? Barely-noticeable quality decreases compound over years, and more noticeable ones are rationalized away as necessary for survival. It doesn't take a genius to see where that leads.

Also enshittification, the more general trend where an initial offering is excellent, maybe even provided at a loss, to spread the word and provide great feedback, and then more and more money is squeezed out of it while riding consumer satisfaction lag, until the offering is taken behind the shed and mercy killed.

New comment by l0b0 in "Bayeux Tapestry Will Return to the U.K. for the First Time in 950 Years"

l0b0 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 08:18:09 +0000

It's happening now, not in 950 years.

New comment by l0b0 in "Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful"

l0b0 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:45:50 +0000

It's mostly just semantic drift. "REST" is less of a mouthful than "JSON over HTTP". Nobody ever realised the potential of discoverability.

Artificial Innovation

l0b0 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 10:40:45 +0000

Article URL: https://4u.lol/writing/artificial-innovation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44498773

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by l0b0 in "Ask HN: Have you not accepted or left a job because it was immoral?"

l0b0 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:45:49 +0000

"Not only is there no reward, nor can you ever expect a reward, for doing the right thing, it also often comes at a personal cost."

That's too cynical. I take personal satisfaction in not taking such jobs, and that's no small award.

New comment by l0b0 in "Ask HN: Have you not accepted or left a job because it was immoral?"

l0b0 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:44:03 +0000

Absolutely, although it never got as far as an actual job offer before the rejection. A couple of minutes of online searches should be enough to highlight any horrible behaviour before even applying.