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New comment by pan69 in "Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls"

pan69 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:32:04 +0000

What's even worse is that, when you do this on the description of a story or task, everytime it comes up with a slightly different format of how it's going to layout the "enhanced" description.

New comment by pan69 in "The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014)"

pan69 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:31:14 +0000

It's more like two collisions rather than two parties.

New comment by pan69 in "What it means for an API to be RESTful"

pan69 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:53:08 +0000

Anyone working in an organisation where teams are trying to map business logic errors into HTTP status codes?

Wasn't Fieldings original dissertation meant as a formalisation of the web? I.e. it had nothing to do with APIs until later, when that became popular in the mid 2000s?

The amount of nonsense conversations / meetings I have been in over the years around designing "RESTful" APIs, endless discussions, I can no longer keep count. Because, unless you're working on an academic research project, everything in REST becomes a compromise.

At this point I am starting believe that REST has done more harm than good for the industry.

New comment by pan69 in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

pan69 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:25:24 +0000

I scanned through it and settled on Design H as well, birds and buildings. One thing I started to notice while looking over the design that I had a strong preference for the number to be in the corners. The last two one are "portrait" which feels weird to me but might be more appealing to a younger generation.

New comment by pan69 in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

pan69 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:59:29 +0000

I have switched to vocalised morse code. My colleagues love me.

New comment by pan69 in "Shrimple – A Simpler, Nicer Markdown"

pan69 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:21:36 +0000

> I sort of lament the use of lines under headings, as they look visually better for human readers of Markdown

Maybe I am spoiled but I rarely read markdown directly. As a user of vscode I do ctrl + shift + v on a markdown file and read the rendered version.

New comment by pan69 in "Does average person understand that all disc media dies too?"

pan69 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:18:14 +0000

> The problem is most people don’t realize how short disc media’s lifespan is.

I have audio CDs from 1990 that play just fine and look to be in tip-top condition. Not so much CDs I have burned in the 2000s, they seem to fade, clearly a different manufacturing process. However, based on my older audio CDs, it seems that, if manufacturers want to produce quality, they certainly can.

New comment by pan69 in "Does average person understand that all disc media dies too?"

pan69 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:13:42 +0000

Furthermore, a physical book (or disc) can't just be "taken away".

New comment by pan69 in "Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1"

pan69 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:30:09 +0000

Does anyone remember ToolBook? I spend a couple of years from the mid to late 90s working with this daily, crossing from Windows 3.11 into Windows 95/98. It's a bit Visual Basic-esque, as a matter of fact, Paul Allen was a founder of the company that produced it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToolBook

New comment by pan69 in "Amazon seller reveals glimpse of shadow bribery market"

pan69 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:31:02 +0000

"We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and work backwards." - Jeff Bezos

Backwards indeed.

New comment by pan69 in "DocumentDB – a MongoDB compatible open-source database"

pan69 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:54:59 +0000

Not super familiar with Azure, but didn't they already have Cosmos DB? Or is that just MongoDB under the hood?

New comment by pan69 in "Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?"

pan69 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:58:14 +0000

Ah, right. I never knew it went away (sott of) then then came back. That is kinda worrying indeed.

New comment by pan69 in "Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?"

pan69 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:50:03 +0000

Does anyone has experience with AWS CodeCommit? It might not be what OP is looking for but since we're talking about moving away from GitHub. Personally I already pay for GitHub so I don't mind paying for something else. Just wondering if anyone has experience to share.

https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/

New comment by pan69 in "Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen"

pan69 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:27:08 +0000

Great write up. Reminds me of Cosmodoc, which is similar source but analyzes Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure instead of Commander Keen.

https://cosmodoc.org

New comment by pan69 in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

pan69 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:32:50 +0000

I think GP is referring to EGA which also used address 0xA0000 but you had to program it in it a planer mode of 16 colors out of a palette of 64. VGA provided backward compatibility with this but introduced the 256 color modes with mode 13h being the linear addressable 320x200 res mode, however this mode sacrificed 3/4 of the video memory. This mode was also referred to as "chained" mode as it chained all 4 bitplanes together for convenient linear addressing. There was also unchained mode, sometimes referred to as mode-x which allowed you to access all 256kb of video memory, resize the virtual screen, page flipping, etc. at the cost of compute overhead. Lots of tradeoffs to be made in those days. Some amazing looking 16 colors VGA games were produced in the early 90s, one that comes to mind is Gods by Bitmap Brothers.

New comment by pan69 in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

pan69 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:17:30 +0000

It's certainly the most rudimentary. Small optimisation on the inner-loop would be to pre-calculate the scanline offset before going into the pixel loop:

    int s = y*screenRect.w;
    
    for (int x = 0; x < screenRect.w; x++) {
       pixels[s + x] = argb(255, frame>>3, y+frame, x+frame);
    }

New comment by pan69 in "Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made"

pan69 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:28:24 +0000

I suppose the argument being made is more about the meaning of human made rather than GenAI.

New comment by pan69 in "EU should expand to 40 states – including Canada"

pan69 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:32:51 +0000

Israel?

New comment by pan69 in "Angular v22"

pan69 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:45:49 +0000

   import {signal} from "@angular/core"
   import {form} from "@angular/forms/signals"

So, signal comes out of core and form comes out of forms/signals. This must be a terminology thing I don't get.

Other than that. Looking forward to try Angular again after a decade of absence. I think it looks pretty good.

New comment by pan69 in "Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?"

pan69 — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:05:32 +0000

If not an abstraction, how would you describe it then?