Hacker News: ldng

New comment by ldng in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

ldng — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:33:18 +0000

It took a VERY VERY long time for these replacement products to appear.

New comment by ldng in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

ldng — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:05:28 +0000

Right.

But where are Frontpage and Dreamweaver now ?

New comment by ldng in "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026"

ldng — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:13:10 +0000

Strike that, not 3G, 2G and Edge !

New comment by ldng in "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026"

ldng — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:09:22 +0000

It. Was. Bad. But Apple managed to strongarm telcos and it came with free unlimited 3G.

New comment by ldng in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

ldng — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:59:41 +0000

Except it does not work ex-nihilo and the bubble busrt is going to be painful

New comment by ldng in "Apparently Google hates us now"

ldng — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:59:27 +0000

Have you ?

I've been a ddg user full time for 15+ years and I did see it improve quite lot over time. But quality dropped when Yandex was cut off.

Lately, I've noticed YET AGAIN being trapped in a bubble with results being to clever for their own good ... I did leave Google PRECISELY for the bubble effect ...

Not even mentioned the AI shenanigans with ridiculous results at times. DDG is not immune to enshitification. Way too many managers thinks they know better than the user ... they don't.

New comment by ldng in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

ldng — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:13:19 +0000

More often than people would like to admit, Google IS the scammer...

New comment by ldng in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

ldng — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:42:23 +0000

And people did but it is hard against Redhat that has actively made harder and harder to use Gtk+ outside GNOME.

New comment by ldng in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

ldng — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:40:58 +0000

Fair enough. A little warning would go a long way though.

New comment by ldng in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

ldng — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:41:45 +0000

hum, well, not that convincing :

Failed to open window: WebGPU context not initialized. Was Platform::run() called?

Not being able to load the component gallery does not inspire great confidence.

New comment by ldng in "Every GPU That Mattered"

ldng — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:13:46 +0000

Indeed. It was, sadly, more important than popular. Which, to my eyes, comfort the generated content theory.

New comment by ldng in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

ldng — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:52:27 +0000

The solution is simple : https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/artcl/I+want+to+...

Because you'll be stonewalled by devs because they can't really changer decisions made bu higher ups.

Edit: I'd sign it, but don't want manage and diffuse it.

New comment by ldng in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

ldng — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:02:48 +0000

And what would a better alternative look like ?

New comment by ldng in "Why I forked httpx"

ldng — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:15:14 +0000

They always were but it's clearly spiraling faster.

New comment by ldng in "FFmpeg 8.1"

ldng — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:09:54 +0000

Well, I don't how it is these days, but it hasn't always been describable as "Healthy".

New comment by ldng in "Can I run AI locally?"

ldng — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:09:45 +0000

It is a deceitful metaphor.

New comment by ldng in "Don't trust AI agents"

ldng — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:17:15 +0000

Plus, the "since there are more resources, let's add features" effect.

New comment by ldng in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"

ldng — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:01:58 +0000

Terrible argument. They always could learn and DIY.

New comment by ldng in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

ldng — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:02:31 +0000

I don't think you can sell at loss in Europe (not sure, happy to be corrected), so might be small but it'll still be positive. The bet is it will be high enough to be a deterrent. The other bet is that at some point the rest of the world will push back being a corporate dumpster.

New comment by ldng in "Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it"

ldng — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:36:20 +0000

And unreasonably expensive unless you are Big Corp. Die startups, die. Welcome to our Cyberpunk overlords.