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New comment by matthewbauer in "GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code"

matthewbauer — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:45:48 +0000

Might want to check your git logs if you are using the Merge Queue feature. This afternoon, we found that Merge Queue was silently reverting changesets in the merge queue. Acknowledged by GitHub, but could be a very hard problem to debug if you aren't looking for it.

GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code

matthewbauer — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:45:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zsg1lk7w13cf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881672

Points: 121

# Comments: 45

New comment by matthewbauer in "Put the zip code first"

matthewbauer — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:41:33 +0000

Yeah city is not fully a function of zip. ~I think state is though.~* I believe when multiple cities share a zip code USPS uses the larger one. Usually the wrong city will get delivered though, probably not guaranteed.

* correcting myself, some zip codes do cross state lines

New comment by matthewbauer in "Productivity gains from AI coding assistants haven’t budged past 10% – survey"

matthewbauer — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:48:46 +0000

It seems like they should be able to “overweight” newer training data. But the risk is the newer training data is going to skew more towards AI slop than older training data.

New comment by matthewbauer in "LLMs as the new high level language"

matthewbauer — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:23:15 +0000

I don’t think you can do that. Or at least if you could, it would be an unintelligible version of English that would not seem much different from a programming language.

New comment by matthewbauer in "Agent-shell: A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP"

matthewbauer — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:47:00 +0000

There's also https://github.com/manzaltu/claude-code-ide.el if you're just using claude code.

I like that agent-shell just uses comint instead of a full vterm, but I find myself missing a deeper integration with claude that claude-code-ide has. Like with claude-code-ide you can define custom MCP tools that run Emacs commands.

New comment by matthewbauer in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

matthewbauer — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:56:49 +0000

https://matthewbauer.us

New comment by matthewbauer in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

matthewbauer — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:12:19 +0000

I went by it a few weeks ago. There's a gate on the driveway, and I assume some kind of security presence. Probably no different than anyone under constant public scrutiny.

Purpose Designed for Scale: How We Built It – Lithic

matthewbauer — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:17:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lithic.com/blog/purpose-designed-for-scale-how-we-built-it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690392

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by matthewbauer in "TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process"

matthewbauer — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:58:40 +0000

Hard to know what OP meant, but I took it as an oblique reference to China.

New comment by matthewbauer in "Why We're Moving on from Nix"

matthewbauer — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 17:27:32 +0000

I mean you can do it in Nix using overlays and overrides. But it won’t be cached for you and there’s a lot of extra fiddling required. I think it’s pretty much the same as how Bazel and Buck work. This is the future like it or now.

New comment by matthewbauer in "Why We're Moving on from Nix"

matthewbauer — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 16:18:32 +0000

Not sure on the exact take of the OP, but:

Package maintainers often think in terms of constraints like I need a 1.0.0 <= pkg1 < 2.0.0 and a 2.5.0 <= pkg2 < 3.0.0. This tends to make total sense in the micro context of a single package but always falls apart IMO in the macro context. The problem is:

- constraints are not always right (say pkg1==1.9.0 actually breaks things)

- constraints of each dependency combined ends up giving very little degrees of freedom in constraint solving, so that you can’t in fact just take any pkg1 and use it

- even if you can use a given version, your package may have a hidden dependency on one if pkg1’s dependencies, that is only apparent once you start changing pkg1’s version

Constraint solving is really difficult and while it’s a cool idea, I think Nixpkgs takes the right approach in mostly avoiding it. If you want a given version of a package, you are forced to take the whole package set with you. So while you can’t say take a version of pkg1 from 2015 and use it with a version of pkg2 from 2025, you can just take the whole 2015 Nixpkgs and get pkg1 & pkg2 from 2015.

New comment by matthewbauer in "The next generation of Bazel builds"

matthewbauer — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:19:58 +0000

What? Isn't wasm just a bytecode? How could you write rules in wasm?

New comment by matthewbauer in "Vanguard's Average Fee Is Now Just 0.07% After Biggest-Ever Cut"

matthewbauer — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:55:51 +0000

It used to be you could buy fractions of a mutual fund, but not ETFs. Recently, brokerages have started allowed you to do fractional ETFs as well though.

New comment by matthewbauer in "Streets GL – 3D OpenStreetMap"

matthewbauer — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 03:20:12 +0000

Very cool! It looks like it assumes everything is flat, but I bet you could pull in elevation data from OSM as well.

New comment by matthewbauer in "Jimmy Carter has died"

matthewbauer — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 23:33:14 +0000

Had never heard of “mayaguez” until now. It actually happened under President Ford not Carter.

New comment by matthewbauer in "Springfield, KS"

matthewbauer — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:47:42 +0000

I have no idea either, but it seems like some kind of art project. There is no city named Springfield in Kansas.

New comment by matthewbauer in "The "Quiet Quitting" Myth Is Toxic for Tech"

matthewbauer — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 15:38:10 +0000

I guess there's differing definitions. One definition was deciding you're going to quit, but not putting in any notice, and basically trying to delay getting fired as long as possible to collect a paycheck. Potentially even getting another job on top (overemployed), which sounds like it could be fraud.

New comment by matthewbauer in "The "Quiet Quitting" Myth Is Toxic for Tech"

matthewbauer — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 15:34:12 +0000

In my experience, higher level of pay doesn't mean there's less coasters. Like, the $150k job could just as well have a lot more expectations than the $300k. Size of company seems like a much bigger factor: you can't hide your low productivity when there's only a few other engineers. And ironically, bigger companies can pay a lot more & get a lot less from their engineers for it.

New comment by matthewbauer in "Charset="WTF-8""

matthewbauer — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:03:21 +0000

You can just show the user the transliteration & have them confirm it makes sense. Always store the original version since you can't reverse the process. But you can compare the transliterated version to make sure it matches.

Debit cards a pretty common example of this. I believe you can only have ASCII in the cardholder name field.