Hacker News: oftenwrong

I Built My Own Alaska to Argentina Bike. How Did It Do? [video]

oftenwrong — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:47:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vaz0_87ZFk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897816

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Pressurizing a Chicken Coop to Clean it [video]

oftenwrong — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:29:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYspl74j5eM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855429

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by oftenwrong in "How version control will evolve for the agent boom"

oftenwrong — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:04:05 +0000

I am anticipating a move away from git-style version control entirely.

One possible shape is something like unison-lang's CAS AST model:

https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/

This model has some significant downsides for humans, but less so for automatons. It eliminates some major problems of software development like merge conflicts, dependency hell, etc.

New comment by oftenwrong in "In praise of memcached"

oftenwrong — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:46:48 +0000

Seems that it is already supported: https://docs.memcached.org/features/flashstorage/

New comment by oftenwrong in "Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub"

oftenwrong — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:39:26 +0000

Somewhat similar: https://github.com/facebook/dotslash

New comment by oftenwrong in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

oftenwrong — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:09:43 +0000

I still have my copy of Learning Perl. Mostly because it represents a milestone in my learning. I have kept and obtained a number of other books simply because they are antiquated, special and/or classics that are interesting to read even if they are not that useful to me, like Codd's relational book, or Calendrical Calculations. I hope the AI is trained on these sorts of books, so that the knowledge can live on in a different way.

Hello TinyTree

oftenwrong — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:33:48 +0000

Article URL: https://tinytree.dev/blog/hello-tinytree/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258701

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Apartments Are the Climate Solution Hiding in Plain Sight

oftenwrong — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:34:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sightline.org/apartments-are-the-climate-solution-hiding-in-plain-sight/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028911

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by oftenwrong in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

oftenwrong — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:36:36 +0000

I have long used underscores for _emphasis_, but I never made the connection that it was meant to resemble an underline until now.

New comment by oftenwrong in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

oftenwrong — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:23:35 +0000

I might be missing your sarcasm, but this is a common approach for large scale builds. Virtual filesystems are used to provide a pre-computed tree hash as a xattr. In a more typical case, you can read the git tree hash.

New comment by oftenwrong in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

oftenwrong — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:41:19 +0000

Surely the school streets are a great benefit for families, yes? That seems as pro-child as public space allocation could be.

Traffic safety improvements frequently die by popular vote

oftenwrong — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:49:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91505393/traffic-safety-improvements-frequently-die-popular-vote-time-stop-that

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433779

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Adding Up What Urban Highways Cost

oftenwrong — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:43:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-03/mapping-the-economic-toll-of-downtown-freeways-in-us-cities

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273789

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by oftenwrong in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

oftenwrong — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:11:11 +0000

>The browser extension doesn’t work half the time. In addition to being frustrating, that makes it a less secure system, as one of the benefits is that it only fills the password on the specified domain. A lack of reliability of the extension leaves people more vulnerable to phishing, since they have to copy/paste passwords out of the app.

This is my main frustration with it as well. It is one of the main features in my mind, and it often does not work. It seems to work for many sites I use on desktop (Firefox on Linux, Mac), but doesn't work well at all on Android (Android app and Firefox). I can understand if this issue is outside of 1password's control because it possibly is due to specifics of Android's APIs, but I would prefer transparency in the matter.

New comment by oftenwrong in "Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail"

oftenwrong — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:40:07 +0000

I have used savevers.vim for many years as a way to recover old versions of files.

https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=89

It is comparatively unsophisticated, but I need it so infrequently that it has been good enough.

I do like the idea of maintaining a complete snapshot of all history.

This is a good application for virtual filesystems. The virtual fs would capture every write in order to maintain a complete edit history. As I understand it, Google's CitC system and Meta's EdenFS work this way.

https://cacm.acm.org/research/why-google-stores-billions-of-...

https://github.com/facebook/sapling/blob/main/eden/fs/docs/O...

New comment by oftenwrong in "Gawk 5.4.0 is released, with replaced MinRX matcher"

oftenwrong — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:03:04 +0000

https://github.com/mikehaertel/minrx

New comment by oftenwrong in "I Don't Like Magic"

oftenwrong — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:39:43 +0000

    #!/usr/bin/env java --source 25
    void main() {
        IO.println("Hello, World!");
    }

New comment by oftenwrong in "Spotify Honk AI Agent"

oftenwrong — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:23:33 +0000

Seems that the Google-style approach would be a good fit: mostly one codebase with a well-defined dependency graph, and build/test infrastructure that supports fast and comprehensive validation. This would seem to obviate the need for the catalog system described, but probably requires more investment in the build system.

The NIMBY Buyout Plan (2025)

oftenwrong — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:52:38 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/@boydinstitute/p-181929360

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963885

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by oftenwrong in "What functional programmers get wrong about systems"

oftenwrong — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:09:46 +0000

This is one of the main problems I have banging my head on for the past decade, and many of the things mentioned, like Buf, Unison, and more, I only stumbled upon randomly on my own. It's refreshing to read an article on this subject simply because it's so under-discussed. I also wonder to what degree these problems have been solved within the high walls of the tech giants like Google and Amazon.