Hacker News: mtndew4brkfst

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

mtndew4brkfst — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:35:45 +0000

If Slint's licensing terms don't bother you, that's cool. They are more restrictive than most of the Rust ecosystem being dual Apache/MIT, though.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

mtndew4brkfst — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:54:50 +0000

Was there some new developments with this project that renewed interest recently? I started learning Rust in 2018 or 2019 and I think "good Rust GUI" research is probably at least that old.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak"

mtndew4brkfst — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:41:35 +0000

Why would it be more spooky if Apple in particular did this vs all the other hardware vendors that ship a pre-installed OS?

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "How to periodically sync a Git repository with its remote"

mtndew4brkfst — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:10:49 +0000

Doesn't serve the same purpose as OP, but for the opposite direction, `git maintenance register` is a built in if all you need is periodic fetching and GC:

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-maintenance#Documentation/git-m...

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell"

mtndew4brkfst — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:03:19 +0000

It's feeding it to a remote endpoint:

https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/blob/5f279584f4f6532871a74d...

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

mtndew4brkfst — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:58:59 +0000

Small nit, but PR description bodies might wind up as part of a commit message verbatim, depending on repo settings and the merger's personal behavior. It's an easy outcome, the merger doesn't need to copy and paste or anything, and I think it might be a default or popular setting for squash-merges.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

mtndew4brkfst — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:06:53 +0000

It has once even force pushed to github, which doesn't allow branch protection for private personal projects.

This is only restricted for *fully free* accounts, but this feature only requires a minimum of a paid Pro account. That starts around $4 USD/month, which sounds worth it to prevent lost work from a runaway tool.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "A Message from the Ruby Central Board"

mtndew4brkfst — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:19:21 +0000

Colorful is an odd way to spell "vocally bigoted".

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

mtndew4brkfst — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:29:49 +0000

The amount of questions I fielded about web3, coins, ledgers, etc as an IC speaking with customers or internal leadership was around an order of magnitude lower, and well-known brands weren't trying to sell me any of them. It was much rarer for it to get shoved into a product it wasn't helpful for, too.

Never thought I'd feel nostalgic about that era...

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

mtndew4brkfst — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:24:51 +0000

Not limited to here, of course. Net-new publications to ArXiv for some (most?) CS subcategories are >=90% about models, transformers, training, quantization, or some other directly related field, or how to apply these towards a different specialty.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "The future of version control"

mtndew4brkfst — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:41:29 +0000

A demo as "the future of" something doesn't really resonate with me. It's like saying a melodic motif and a couple well-written lines of lyrics are "the future of" my new music career.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "The future of version control"

mtndew4brkfst — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:25:02 +0000

If you haven't heard of it yet, Mergiraf uses tree-sitter grammars to resolve merges using syntax-aware logic and has a pretty good success rate for my work.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers"

mtndew4brkfst — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:50:05 +0000

Not speaking for others, but Niko's writing is IMO strongly shading the wording used to describe positions that do or don't align with his own views.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "No AI in Node.js Core"

mtndew4brkfst — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:44:10 +0000

Because people who enjoyed working with Elixir otherwise but don't want to participate or support that kind of environment have mostly left when the trend became clear. So the folks who are sticking around are the ones who are neutral-to-positive on AI. This means explicitly or implicitly surveying that group for opinions on AI's place in development work, such as while designing a conference schedule, are going to be missing most of those voices who might once have objected. It will continue to skew harder towards favoring AI in the future with most of the possible sources of more-critical opinions leaving.

That to me seems to match the definition of survivorship bias quite well?

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Dial9: A Flight Recorder for Tokio"

mtndew4brkfst — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:37:34 +0000

Seems to be pretty substantially AI-assisted during its development.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "No AI in Node.js Core"

mtndew4brkfst — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:22:15 +0000

Well, survivorship bias means that Elixir is loudly populated by AI maximalists now. Just go look at the last several years worth of US/EU Elixirconf talks schedules, it's maybe a third of each cohort and included in keynote slots.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?"

mtndew4brkfst — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:19:13 +0000

Now we watch this viewpoint proliferate thousands and thousands of times over, even if it's less commonly stated so baldly, and yet people still wonder where the doomer viewpoints stem from?

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Beagle, a source code management system that stores AST trees"

mtndew4brkfst — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:47:08 +0000

I find Mergiraf pretty pleasant to use and frequently pretty helpful as a time-saver. Handles TOML and Rust for me, and I have way fewer manual interventions, especially after supplementing it with rustfmt rules to not do a bunch of merged use statements in one go. Easy to configure as a jujutsu tool as well.

https://mergiraf.org/

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO"

mtndew4brkfst — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:03:34 +0000

I think my point doesn't really land. I was trying to express the idea "S3 is not a standard where AWS is the reference implementation, it is a successful commercial product with many many copy cats".

Their only real inherent commitment here is to whatever backwards-compatibility expectations are being set for their first-party SDKs. If they fulfill that but other vendors can't or won't follow suit, the outcome is gonna be different than it would be for an actual standard rather than an assumed one. There is no meaningful leverage for the third parties to exert to force a community-favored outcome if Amazon decides otherwise.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Little Free Library"

mtndew4brkfst — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:53:40 +0000

The ones in my neighborhood are full of religious evangelism titles or bad self-help books.