Hacker News: lucas_t_a

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Kirkland Roundabouts"

lucas_t_a — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:36:19 +0000

you really cut through this one

New comment by lucas_t_a in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

lucas_t_a — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:36:06 +0000

there must be an reasonable assumption of what counts as such in the first place. being modifiable and publicly available in both source and binary form sound like enough to me.

New comment by lucas_t_a in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

lucas_t_a — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:22:24 +0000

it would be pointless to force software that can be modified to remove an age-verification to have age-verification. but maybe they can move to force distributed copies of linux to have age-verification, hopefully dealing with those complaints

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Improving C# Memory Safety"

lucas_t_a — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:38:12 +0000

C# is too much of a you hold it wrong language, you can easily avoid the problem you describe, but it is such a pain, i do like the fact that the language constantly improves in all directions so it definitely does not remove its positive sides when you do a thing in the right way

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Googlebook"

lucas_t_a — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:49:01 +0000

good luck scrapping very specific information in a bunch of dynamic websites before AI.

New comment by lucas_t_a in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

lucas_t_a — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:01:30 +0000

concatenating cats is useless use of cat, you can just provide more arguments instead

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake"

lucas_t_a — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:36:35 +0000

it did decide that javascript is necessary to enable correct contrast

New comment by lucas_t_a in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

lucas_t_a — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:19:53 +0000

please no more popups on vscode, im begging you