https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mshishHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:33:26 +0000Maybe, but I think one of the points is that the marginal cost of both understanding that legacy code base and safely refactoring it are increasingly trending down thanks to agentic coding tools. It changed the value and risk tradeoff for legacy apps, if deployed properly. There's still a lot of work (too much) to get the harness in place to make high confidence changes to legacy, critical apps. If someone makes that more automated, we'll be in a very different place for legacy refactoring and it will look a lot more like the clay molding the article discusses.

]]>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:59:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165690mshishhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165690https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165690It's too bad you have to rely on signature spoofing to be able to use this as an alternative (but obviously I understand why). The spoofing looks narrowly scoped on LineageOS, but in general I imagine it creates some risk.

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