Hacker News: lmz

New comment by lmz in "Now is the best time to write code by hand"

lmz — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:23:42 +0000

My point is that the coding LLMs are another point on the reliability / ease of use spectrum. We already mostly moved to another point with HLL compilers from machine language. This is another leap where the transform is unreliable but it's very easy to use (and it could preserve output edits, to some indeterminate extent).

New comment by lmz in "Now is the best time to write code by hand"

lmz — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:23:01 +0000

Yes Assembly is deterministic (barring severe hardware bugs). But that's the point. People are no longer writing Assembly.

New comment by lmz in "Robots eat cars"

lmz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:03:32 +0000

More customers for the related Space exploration company.

New comment by lmz in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

lmz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:44:09 +0000

> Now what should happen if the text editor decides to modify /etc/hosts without your knowledge?

Pop up a UAC prompt of course. It worked so well for Vista.

New comment by lmz in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

lmz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:05:26 +0000

A program touches a system file. Is it due to its own logic, or is it your editor saving a file?

New comment by lmz in "Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair"

lmz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:55:09 +0000

I think you're confusing Corsair with Crucial/Micron.

New comment by lmz in "Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice"

lmz — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:41:47 +0000

A DMCA takedown is targeted at the host and is a pre-lawsuit thing ("we claim X and if you take it down now your host is safe" via the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions). If they escalate to lawsuits then not sure it's significantly different in Germany vs the USA. It's not like Europe is free from things like blocking all of Cloudflare because the football league wants to.

New comment by lmz in "Android Developer Verification"

lmz — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:00:23 +0000

Phone scammers guiding users to install apps.

New comment by lmz in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

lmz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:08:50 +0000

If only they were better at border control, maybe they wouldn't all get killed off.

New comment by lmz in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

lmz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:59:26 +0000

It's painting border enforcement as somehow immoral. There is no sin in trying to be better at it than those before.

New comment by lmz in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

lmz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:20:52 +0000

This kind of flawed thinking again. Like the natives didn't fight and lose wars against the manifest destiny types.

New comment by lmz in "Sylve – Proxmox Alternative by FreeBSD"

lmz — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:12:07 +0000

But it's got a separate entity providing paid support?

New comment by lmz in "Sylve – Proxmox Alternative by FreeBSD"

lmz — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:35:45 +0000

Surely that's "on" FreeBSD not "by" FreeBSD?

New comment by lmz in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

lmz — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:10:47 +0000

Micron is killing its Crucial consumer brand, not supplies to consumer brands who use its chips. Hynix never had a consumer brand for RAM I don't think?

New comment by lmz in "Why I forked httpx"

lmz — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:46:21 +0000

That's just an example. It does have defaults: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.net.... (search for "If this method is not invoked")

New comment by lmz in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

lmz — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:28:02 +0000

You just said majority without any numbers in the original post. I think you'll agree that the calculus would be quite different for 60% vs 85% of effort being from a single company.

New comment by lmz in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

lmz — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:10:58 +0000

> This means that even though Red Hat, at this stage in it's development, has a majority of contribution, the project itself can never be taken over by a single entity.

If it's one company with the majority of contributions then they can just stop contributing (or put their efforts into a proprietary fork) and all that you're left with is the code and the name. Which is maybe better than "just the code", but not by much.

New comment by lmz in "Migrating to the EU"

lmz — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:53:21 +0000

If the goal is to stay away from US or European influence then the Russians would be a better bet.

New comment by lmz in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

lmz — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:48:19 +0000

Most likely to be a router, configured to fail over.

New comment by lmz in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

lmz — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:25:18 +0000

Also any app-specific bindings would I guess require some hooking (input interception / injection) at the software level.