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New comment by officialchicken in "Deno Is Joining Cloudflare"

officialchicken — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:30:53 +0000

There is nothing that requires a VC to sell part or all of their shares when an IPO occurs. And you can read their S1[0] to verify.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519...

New comment by officialchicken in "Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'""

officialchicken — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:07:39 +0000

SET TIME ZONE 'UTC'; // or GMT, PST, etc.

New comment by officialchicken in "Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'""

officialchicken — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:58:43 +0000

Rookie pseudo-footgun - assumed skill exceeds capability error - usually accompanied with blameshifting pronunciation as demonstrated here. Anyone familiar with UTC/tz from another platform (e.g. excel) would be mostly immune or able to quickly identify and remedy.

New comment by officialchicken in "The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026"

officialchicken — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:25:35 +0000

I really hope this is my last x86-64 CPU, Intel has become an incompetent steward. The "killer feature" for AVX-2(56) at the time of original release was basically lag/jitter-free video playback. IMO, 512 should have never been released for desktop CPUs and restricted to servers. One day I will to switch to a mainstream Neoverse dev box running linux. I also target Cortex-M in rust, so it's got a lot of the typical issues related to missing docs (e.g. bringup of non-heterogenous cores, meaning that M3/M4 still can't be used in a big.little chip)

New comment by officialchicken in "Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust"

officialchicken — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:54:54 +0000

Reuse is bad / NIHS is good and it's hard to reach token metrics using accepted engineering practices. That leads to the point of having the LLM invent a new specialized job security chip architecture for your IR just to run CRUD app.

New comment by officialchicken in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

officialchicken — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:25:19 +0000

I bought a tablet to use with Krita and settled on Manjaro because Ubuntu had so many tablet issues. Everything I tried is especially bad with 4k touchscreen/pen. I started with KDE, then Gnome but DE really didn't matter because they're all so terrible - it's now for watching videos or travel only.

New comment by officialchicken in "9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game""

officialchicken — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:11:54 +0000

And then the US advertisers came up with "hydration breaks".

New comment by officialchicken in "Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors"

officialchicken — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 10:29:46 +0000

There was a case at the highest court in Spain where LaLiga[0] sucessfully claimed that illegal streaming was causing hundereds of million of euros in damages. They essentially petitioned for mass blocking of IPTV, causing Cloudflare, NordVPN, ProtonVPN and a few others to get caught up in a sloppy and stupid dragnet. Whenever there is a football match on, a not-so-small chunk of the internet becomes unavailable. After the match is over, it works again.

[0] https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/news/official-statement-in-rela...

New comment by officialchicken in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

officialchicken — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:41:44 +0000

Or is it? Could it be the well established low-effort tendency when the dominant culture is shopping centers, vehicles, similar eating establishments, and the style of suburban housing to a large extent? That would surely encourage the LLM to emit in a similar manner. That sameyness provides a signal of comfort and familiarity.

New comment by officialchicken in "The most important product decision is what you don't build"

officialchicken — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:40:46 +0000

Building the thing right > not building anything

Building the right thing != not building anything

New comment by officialchicken in "OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm"

officialchicken — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:50:07 +0000

Seriously, Are we nunchaku yet? If so, I would like a Bruce Lee edition in classic yellow.

New comment by officialchicken in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

officialchicken — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:37:26 +0000

No company is measured by "value provided" on any market, it's a feel-good metric. And you\re playing word-games now despite even saying you're not trying. Like I stated earlier, it's entirely a sophomoric take. And now I understand why.

New comment by officialchicken in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

officialchicken — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:43:18 +0000

I've been looking for a site like robotica.dev that pulls together news and events from multiple sources. The funding page is awesome and unexpected, a really useful mini-crunchbase for robotics.

New comment by officialchicken in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

officialchicken — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:41:42 +0000

I can't agree with 4 - it's sophomoric reasoning at it's best. The code is the product, it's what the system (human/ai/factory/combo/etc) is producing. The IC will always be more familiar with the nuance and the implications of the decisions than the manager. There is only one real stat to track - profit. As for the size of your team, not all human developers are equal, but agentic tend to behave similarly. A small team of highly coordinated things will always outproduce a pile of generic ones acting will little or no methodology. Please deeply re-evaluate at a philosophical level what quality over quantity really means for delivering outcomes.

New comment by officialchicken in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

officialchicken — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:26:19 +0000

Trained to obey? More like instructed to obey in an observable manner.

New comment by officialchicken in "Show HN: Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software"

officialchicken — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:07:34 +0000

Magical LLM pixie sprinkles ... is that where magic smoke comes from?

New comment by officialchicken in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

officialchicken — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:59:21 +0000

Hanlon's Razor - Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The security requirements are well beyond "sandbox". Which have problems with kids pissing in them. They need pristine clean rooms and fully isolated (physically) and partitioned networks.

New comment by officialchicken in "Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU"

officialchicken — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:12:12 +0000

Me too, despite being delightfully surprised by the BOM widget in the article.

New comment by officialchicken in "AI-Written Code Is Still Your Code. Are You OK with That?"

officialchicken — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:06:04 +0000

The balance sheets of the AI providers are pretty clear on this ownership thing: I shouldn't own it, NVidia should. Instead, I should pay at least once a very large amount to initially produce it. And then I should have a recurring usage-based monthly fee - for a license allowing me to say it's "my code". That's on top of hosting fees, etc.

New comment by officialchicken in "Htmx 4.0"

officialchicken — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:48:53 +0000

Is it though? It doesn't need to be perfect to last. Good engineering practices certainly embrace timeless concepts. I understand if you are working in a feature-factory, but creating inheritable code should be given more consideration however much programmers dislike thinking about things like ROI.

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New comment by officialchicken in "Deno Is Joining Cloudflare"

New comment by officialchicken in "Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'""

New comment by officialchicken in "Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'""

New comment by officialchicken in "The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026"

New comment by officialchicken in "Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust"

New comment by officialchicken in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

New comment by officialchicken in "9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game""

New comment by officialchicken in "Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors"

New comment by officialchicken in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

New comment by officialchicken in "The most important product decision is what you don't build"

New comment by officialchicken in "OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm"

New comment by officialchicken in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

New comment by officialchicken in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

New comment by officialchicken in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

New comment by officialchicken in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

New comment by officialchicken in "Show HN: Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software"

New comment by officialchicken in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

New comment by officialchicken in "Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU"

New comment by officialchicken in "AI-Written Code Is Still *Your* Code. Are You OK with That?"

New comment by officialchicken in "Htmx 4.0"

New comment by officialchicken in "AI-Written Code Is Still Your Code. Are You OK with That?"