Hacker News: nothrows

New comment by nothrows in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

nothrows — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:16:55 +0000

generics were a slippery slope. give it a decade and Go will be indistinguishable from c++

New comment by nothrows in "Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump"

nothrows — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:57:19 +0000

Cloudflare is junk. Their entire billion dollar service can't distinguish my (DAILY) GET request to mainstream news sites from bot traffic, nothing they say or do is of any value. I've had the same IP for decades.

New comment by nothrows in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

nothrows — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:46:08 +0000

This is sort of hilarious if you think about it. The Firefox browser is completely written in Rust. Now Ladybird is a "human-directed ai" Rust browser. Makes you wonder how much of the code the two browsers will share going forward given llm assisted autocompletes will pull from the same Rust Browser dataset.

New comment by nothrows in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

nothrows — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:41:52 +0000

My wife was complaining about her Windows 11 laptop crashing. I tried everything and even did fresh installs. Still crashing (and honestly pretty slow). I gave up on Windows and installed Ubuntu and Chromium for her. She can instagram, facebook, save her memes, and its all fast. No crashes. She's a happy camper now. I think a lot of (even) non technical people would like Linux a lot more than they realize if they gave it a shot.

New comment by nothrows in "Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw"

nothrows — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:15:03 +0000

Here are a few links to petitions you can sign to help out and ground boeing:

https://groundboeing.com

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/ground-boeing-737-...

https://www.change.org/p/your-government-ground-the-boeing-7...

New comment by nothrows in "Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw"

nothrows — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 03:40:46 +0000

man fuck canada and the usa. how are we the only ones in the world to not care about safety. even if its a 0.5% chance 150+ people die, isn't that enough to warrant temporarily grounding a handful of planes. sigh common

New comment by nothrows in "Runnit – Make Terminal Shortcuts"

nothrows — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 04:24:18 +0000

> runn cu "curl https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js" ; run cu

-- vs --

> alias cu="nodejs <(curl -s https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js)" ; cu

I dunno man... aha.

New comment by nothrows in "Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction"

nothrows — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:28:11 +0000

I recently discovered I score very low on VVIQ. Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire. I don't have full on Aphantasia. But listening to how for other people reading a book is like watching a movie in their heads blows my mind. Being able to imagine with any level of depth sounds pretty amazing. As a kid I never really played pretend or was into fiction. But I'm curious that possibly long form reading is on the decline is associated with lower abilities to imagine in the general public?

New comment by nothrows in "Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road"

nothrows — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:30:35 +0000

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ws23jj...

site seems slow or down here's cache

New comment by nothrows in "Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard"

nothrows — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:57:58 +0000

Got this email from them a couple days ago:

We’ve noticed you haven’t used your XXX@XXX.com Dropbox account in over one year and have closed your account for you. Devices connected to this account have now stopped syncing. Any remaining files in your account will be subject to deletion.

Sincerely, - The Dropbox Team

There goes my files. Fuck dropbox. Stick to google drive.

New comment by nothrows in "Dropbox buys HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M"

nothrows — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:47:29 +0000

Got this email from them a couple days ago:

Sincerely, - The Dropbox Team

There goes my files. Fuck dropbox. Stick to google drive.

New comment by nothrows in "Ask HN: How to incorporate machine learning into day job?"

nothrows — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:11:07 +0000

Try implementing a genetic learning algorithm to send and reply to your work emails. For the fitness score try using your yearly salary in dollars. I haven't yet implemented this, but theoretically there's no upper bounds to how much money this will earn you.

New comment by nothrows in "React Redux 6.0 released"

nothrows — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 07:38:35 +0000

I'm curious about the direction react redux will take with the new hook api. What will the react redux hooks will look like? Will that be something that lands soon in an alpha?

New comment by nothrows in "The State of the TclQuadcode compiler (2017) [pdf]"

nothrows — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 04:27:38 +0000

TCL is fun to write. And with Tk desktop apps are fast and easy to whip up. Kicks Atoms Ass for internal apps and doesn't eat all your ram. I don't get why its gets so much flack. It's sort of a fun mix between lisp and perl. I hope it never dies.

New comment by nothrows in "Ripgrep 0.10.0 released (PCRE2 and multi-line support)"

nothrows — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 03:37:55 +0000

sticking with ack. a tool for humans with decent .ignore file support. ag and rg never seem to ignore the subdirectories I want.

Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study

nothrows — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:33:58 +0000

Article URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplastics-1.4575045

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16793888

Points: 316

# Comments: 159

New comment by nothrows in "Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street"

nothrows — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 23:35:56 +0000

> “The pedestrian was outside of the crosswalk. As soon as she walked into the lane of traffic she was struck”

Uber has some fucking shitty programmers guaranteed. They murdered this lady. Think about it:

Smart cars basically have 360 degrees of sensors. There’s no way it didn’t detect that lady coming up on the car and the fact that it kills her says to me there was no counter measure. It probably didn’t even slow down until the moment of impact. That's some fucking elementary school shit.

> Chance of Collision? 100%. Maintain Speed

In structural engineering if you designed a bridge poorly and it collapsed killing people you'd lose your ability to practice engineering. The same should be applied.

New comment by nothrows in "In Praise of ADHD"

nothrows — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:16:36 +0000

man fuck articles like this. I was diagnosed with ADHD in elementary. school was extremely difficult for me and I even flunked grade 2, but was pushed onto the next grade after my parents complained. My parents didn't believe in giving me the meds. I graduated high school with honors, but it took hours and hours of study because I was never able to focus. Then I started university... I was completely overwhelmed and dropped out. We've built a society where its a detriment not to be able to focus, denying your children a level playing field is absolutely cruel.

New comment by nothrows in "How GraphQL Replaces Redux"

nothrows — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:58:09 +0000

I reread it several times trying to understand how simply using GraphQL allowed you to eliminate the need for all actions / stores for your entire client side stack. It wasn't until I looked into Apollo that I understood what you had actually implemented.

New comment by nothrows in "How GraphQL Replaces Redux"

nothrows — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:38:48 +0000

TL;DR click bait. The author is replacing Redux with Apollo - a client side graphql library that HAS BUILT IN STATE MANAGEMENT, which he fails to differentiate or mention... Apollo is similar to the firebase event / subscription model.

https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/tutorial-graphql-subscriptio...