Hacker News: nightpool

New comment by nightpool in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

nightpool — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:05:46 +0000

> This is like comparing big pharma with generic manufacturers who can skip the R&D. While these drugs are not 1 to 1 copies, we are still comparing apples to apples, but with a 90% price cut.

Weird! It's almost like distillation is bad for the long-term growth of the industry, just like generic manufacturers would be if they could release the generic versions of drugs 2 weeks after the original R&D completes.

Very strange sentence to include in an article after saying "I don't care at all about distillation" up at the top. Can the author not hear themselves?

New comment by nightpool in "Gitea 28.0"

nightpool — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:25:15 +0000

It's very widely discussed as having one of the most active regulators in the world, you can see some articles about the UK's current push for heavy regulatory burden for websites here:

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/20/death-of-a-forum-how-the... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/13/the-uks-new-under-16-soc...

It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to comply with the UK's current regulatory regime. Great for large players and horrible for small websites or ones struggling with profitability.

New comment by nightpool in "Gitea 28.0"

nightpool — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:25:41 +0000

Ah, do you live in the UK? I'm sorry about your government. Unfortunately VPNs are the only way to get reasonable service in the UK right now.

New comment by nightpool in "Gitea 28.0"

nightpool — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:30:08 +0000

Unfortunately, seems like this is Forgejo's best suggestion on how to compare the two: https://i.imgur.com/j1665QR.png. Not sure that page helps much if you're not already bought in to a free-software-absolutist mindset

New comment by nightpool in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

nightpool — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:10:38 +0000

why is that more likely?

New comment by nightpool in "Sonnet 5.5"

nightpool — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:40:15 +0000

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14604842-real-time-cy... says that Cyber Verification Program doesn't apply to Opus 5.5 yet, they hope to roll it out for 5.5 "soon"

New comment by nightpool in "Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton"

nightpool — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:24:48 +0000

Both Anthropic and Internet Archive have gotten sued into oblivion by publishing companies once, there's no way they're going to do something even more flagrantly illegal

New comment by nightpool in "Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton"

nightpool — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:13:14 +0000

Unfortunately copyright law does not have a squatters-rights exception

New comment by nightpool in "Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees"

nightpool — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:01:21 +0000

That seems pretty sub optimal

New comment by nightpool in "Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees"

nightpool — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:35:32 +0000

That's what damage deposits are for, no?

New comment by nightpool in "Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees"

nightpool — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:34:45 +0000

If you worked in housing in Seattle you would know it's not really legal or practicable for landlords to exclude pets, considering the expansiveness of ESA designations. Almost every landlord already excludes pets outside of ESAs

New comment by nightpool in "Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5"

nightpool — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:57:56 +0000

I think this is a good example of "AI tools are not as good as users think they are". If you're having problems with AI tools not checking to see if a component already exists, then they're not ready for prime-time on your codebase. The solution isn't to stop caring whether or not you're using reusable components, the solution is just to acknowledge (regretfully!) that AI coding is not good enough to meet an appropriate quality standard without more supervision than you've been able to use it with in the past.

New comment by nightpool in "Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce""

nightpool — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:00:12 +0000

I think part of the issue is that a lot of programming languages don't make a strong distinction between the two, and only provide the (more powerful) fold, but in a way that makes reduce operations harder to reason about (like OP said, with 0 types).

Associativity also makes fold hard. It's not super trivial to know when you might need e.g. left fold vs right fold

New comment by nightpool in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

nightpool — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:44:14 +0000

Ah, you're right, my mistake—wasn't reading the username carefully enough

New comment by nightpool in "Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE"

nightpool — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:31:02 +0000

Are you sure? The change says "A malicious template repository could be used to read arbitrary data from the Forgejo host" (emphasis added). Couldn't an attacker create a template repo and then immediately create a new repo from their own template, causing the Forgejo process to execute their template code on the server?

New comment by nightpool in "Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE"

nightpool — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:27:42 +0000

What does the error message mean by "Your search request"? Why is viewing a single file in a repository considered a search request? That smells like poor caching somewhere

New comment by nightpool in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

nightpool — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:56:38 +0000

Thanks Mustafa! This was a great article—I'm curious, did you consider the non-technical / organizational costs in keeping the two codebases in sync as a separate factor? Do you foresee more organizational overhead as part of this decision? How are you planning to manage that? E.g. small implementation difference between the iOS and Android app increasing the support burden or bug burden and causing duplicated team effort.

New comment by nightpool in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

nightpool — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:41:52 +0000

This is a great point that I wish the Shopify article went into in more depth! Would love to hear if they considered this

New comment by nightpool in "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"

nightpool — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:07:44 +0000

> The traffic still has to flow from an india provider to the international leg and back via the domestic provider.

Right, but Cloudflare doesn't have to pay for it in that case. If Cloudflare sends you to their Indian POP, then they have to pay their Indian service provider for traffic. If they send you to their France POP, then they have to pay their French ISP for traffic. The Indian provider cannot claim any of Cloudflare's traffic in that case, because the Indian service provider wouldn't have any relationship with Cloudflare

This is very standard for places with high ISP costs, like South Korea and India. You can see a lot of discussion about it online. I agree with you that Cloudflare should be more transparent if / when they make different routing decision for Free/Pro plans based on bandwidth costs, but I don't think their decision itself is unreasonable at all. Indian bandwidth is very expensive.

New comment by nightpool in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"

nightpool — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:29:32 +0000

Do you have any sources for this? My understanding is that all of the discussion about prediction market wildfires are completely speculative, nobody has actually started a wildfire for a prediction market payout yet.