Hacker News: leadingthenet

New comment by leadingthenet in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

leadingthenet — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:09:03 +0000

> I suppose they could also all be in Israel's pocket though.

Now you're getting it.

New comment by leadingthenet in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

leadingthenet — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:56:09 +0000

git-worktree has been a thing for a decade+ and AI agents seem to be using them just fine in my experience. This is a solved problem.

New comment by leadingthenet in "I stopped following the news"

leadingthenet — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:58:12 +0000

If the last couple of weeks are anything to go by, I'd strongly argue the quality of discourse on any ICE/Trump/Tariffs-related topics have been at exactly Reddit-level, along with the most upvoted opinions mirroring those on Reddit almost to a tee.

I vaguely remember checking one of those ICE posts out the other day, and there was not a single comment going against the grain that was neither flagged nor heavily downvoted, out of over a hundred. Nuance/dissent wasn't even vaguely on the cards.

I don't know what your definition of Reddit-like is, but that's mine.

New comment by leadingthenet in "Pandas 3.0"

leadingthenet — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:40:56 +0000

I've been sleeping on this, works like a charm!

New comment by leadingthenet in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

leadingthenet — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:31:51 +0000

You're right: I didn't answer the question, because I suspect it was asked in bad faith to begin with, given that a simple online search would yield ample evidence. Much of which has already been discussed here on HN.

Given that you've dismissed said evidence provided in other comments as not compelling and/or you attacked the source without addressing the evidence, I think my concern was well placed.

New comment by leadingthenet in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

leadingthenet — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:48:52 +0000

At this point I suspect anyone who even asks that question of concern trolling. The evidence is overwhelming.

New comment by leadingthenet in "Learning C3"

leadingthenet — Thu, 29 May 2025 22:12:28 +0000

https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2024

New comment by leadingthenet in "Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion"

leadingthenet — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:55:26 +0000

> People have free speech, but obviously that doesn't mean you are free to say things that could be considered hateful or factually untrue.

So people don't actually have free speech.

New comment by leadingthenet in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

leadingthenet — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:20:40 +0000

The actual outcomes of those different voting systems is still a dominant US that is increasingly leaving the rest of the Western world behind.

So maybe we should be learning from them?

New comment by leadingthenet in "The Future of European Competitiveness"

leadingthenet — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:40:01 +0000

We are getting old, are having few if any children, yet our social contract is built on a series of Ponzi schemes that become unmaintainable under such circumstances. The temporary band-aid fix of mass migration is seemingly bringing many old and proud nations to a boiling point. We like our regulations, we like our welfare state, we like our extensive holidays and work life balance, and we’re not willing to budge on any of them, really. There’s too many contradictions in the system now. I’m not sure what it would take for this “will” to materialise, but I’m afraid if it does happen, it’ll come about due to some form of neo-fascism than a glorious rejuvenation of our current political order.

If the will doesn’t materialise, well, that’s exactly what civilisational collapse looks like in the historical record.

Either way, I’m not really seeing the optimistic outlook for Europe.

New comment by leadingthenet in "EU ChatControl is back on the agenda"

leadingthenet — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 11:42:04 +0000

> Those Romanians are not Hungarian citizens.

Those “Romanians” are absolutely Hungarian citizens, as it is a precondition to voting in Hungarian elections.

New comment by leadingthenet in "EU ChatControl is back on the agenda"

leadingthenet — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 11:39:30 +0000

We’re rapidly approaching that reality, yes.

Maybe Switzerland?

New comment by leadingthenet in "OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic"

leadingthenet — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:12:24 +0000

Once they all start doing it, it won't matter.

New comment by leadingthenet in "PyPy has been working for me for several years now"

leadingthenet — Thu, 30 May 2024 18:49:23 +0000

There's also https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg

New comment by leadingthenet in "Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore"

leadingthenet — Mon, 20 May 2024 17:10:11 +0000

I have the exact same problem, except on Uber Eats.

New comment by leadingthenet in "Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (2021)"

leadingthenet — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:18:03 +0000

I feel like everyone making comments along this line is completely missing his point.

It's not wrong that 0 is the behaviour of C/Ruby, it's just that 1/2=0.5 is the expected result of much of Python's target audience.

New comment by leadingthenet in "A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Mathematics"

leadingthenet — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:01:52 +0000

In fact, this seems to link to an even newer version of the text.

New comment by leadingthenet in "Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap"

leadingthenet — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:21:34 +0000

It's not just about emissions, though. Single-use plastics literally just accumulate in landfills until the end of time, while glass is highly recyclable (and one of the few economically viable ones).

New comment by leadingthenet in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

leadingthenet — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:32:58 +0000

> The cultural Revolution was sudden.

The Cultural Revolution could only have happened due to the very specific ideological backdrop that existed in China at the time. The heights of it were sudden, but it didn't come out of nowhere.

New comment by leadingthenet in "Gemini and Google's Culture"

leadingthenet — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:52:31 +0000

> So RLHF is the attempt to correct for the biases on the internet.

...or it can be used to reinforce a specific ideology. Completely dependent on who does the RLHF and what their motivations are.