Hacker News: numbsafari

New comment by numbsafari in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

numbsafari — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:56:33 +0000

Exactly. Considering you could buy an iPhone and a MacBook Neo for roughly the same cost … will be very interesting to see this device in action. Can iOS replace MacOS for a user that doesn’t need a local Xcode? Can I spend $2k for the device I use in my pocket and on my desk… and put the rest of my money into cloud/server infrastructure if I have that need?

New comment by numbsafari in "macOS Container Machines"

numbsafari — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:48:40 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice if services like Codespaces or Coder or Gitlab would allow you to target running on their hosted/integrated platform, or let you launch that same container completely locally? Sometimes I wanna take my “remote” dev environment off-line but still benefit from the integrated UX.

New comment by numbsafari in "Dopamine Fracking"

numbsafari — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:44:01 +0000

.. and here I am wanting better minivan options that can pull a travel trailer.

New comment by numbsafari in "Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)"

numbsafari — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:33:02 +0000

This is how I grew up. Using fidonet via my local RPGA group.

New comment by numbsafari in "The real cost of owning a home"

numbsafari — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:38:12 +0000

How many times are they gonna double count the insurance a property taxes?

New comment by numbsafari in "Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart"

numbsafari — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:48:48 +0000

“Just pixels on a screen”

What is wrong with you?

New comment by numbsafari in "Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart"

numbsafari — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:19:32 +0000

These are teenage girls, not adult men. This isn’t graffiti, but highly realistic sexual depictions.

There’s a massive difference.

New comment by numbsafari in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

numbsafari — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:46:40 +0000

Do explain the Somalia connection you perceive. Please, go on…

New comment by numbsafari in "My graduation cap runs Rust"

numbsafari — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:27:15 +0000

Throwing it away after single use is madness.

New comment by numbsafari in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

numbsafari — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:20:42 +0000

It’s actually both.

New comment by numbsafari in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

numbsafari — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:59:29 +0000

Are you aware of non-GPL FOSS licenses?

New comment by numbsafari in "Zed 1.0"

numbsafari — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:40:45 +0000

Umm… zed supports remote dev over ssh… what’s your concern?

New comment by numbsafari in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

numbsafari — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:32:53 +0000

I would have assumed the opposite is true. Do you have any data to back that up?

New comment by numbsafari in "Highlights from Git 2.54"

numbsafari — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:34:16 +0000

Tools growing unexpected code execution is how we keep having problems with secrets and other important things being stolen. If you add this feature to git, generally, then anybody cloning a git repo is going to have to deal with the fact that `git clone` might run arbitrary code. `git clone` is like `cp`. Do you want `cp` to unexpectedly run code? It should never do that.

Why force git to be a build tool?

Just document how to execute the scripts/checks that will be used by ci. Provide a simple script in the repo that folks can intentionally execute.

New comment by numbsafari in "My adventure in designing API keys"

numbsafari — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:14:52 +0000

How are you storing the API key in your database?

New comment by numbsafari in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

numbsafari — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:59:19 +0000

Go to an ER or UC and have them dress a wound for you. They will use a healthy dose of petroleum jelly and generally tell you to stay away from antibiotic ointments.

New comment by numbsafari in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

numbsafari — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:05:33 +0000

... because if _use_ of a product creates a liability for the maker, you are very quickly headed toward liability for gun manufacturers. [ed: this is very much discussed in the decision, by the by]

Expect to see heavy lobbying from the music and video industry to create some kind of "Know your Customer" regime internet service providers in order to create such a liability.

I wouldn't call this a slam dunk for privacy or liberty, given what it is going to force the various actors to do in response.

For now, though, let the file sharing flow!

New comment by numbsafari in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

numbsafari — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:47:05 +0000

Ask Claude

New comment by numbsafari in "Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers"

numbsafari — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:24:44 +0000

There's clearly a change going on in the US government, and it very well may be that organizations such as Mozilla, FreeBSD, and Apache could all lose their 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in years to come.

At the end of the day though, 501(c)(3) status is a purely US concept, doesn't apply to international organizations internationally, and doesn't necessarily mean that you "can't" do what anyone is discussing here. It just means that folks gonna have to pay taxes and "donations" can't be written off on the taxes of donors.

Perhaps, at the end of the day, not pursuing tax-exemption/charity status is a more honest approach. It certainly doesn't precluding doing any of what has been discussed, it just changes the financial efficiency.

New comment by numbsafari in "Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers"

numbsafari — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:58:18 +0000

> The goal of this "faculty" would be sustainable OSS maintenance (which involves both leadership and contribution), rather than publishing research and teaching classes.

OSS isn't commercial, per se.

Universities "ship" plenty of "products":

https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/services/hubzero

https://www.scala-lang.org/scala-core/