Hacker News: peterhadlaw

New comment by peterhadlaw in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

peterhadlaw — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:59:24 +0000

Cold-blooded murder ~= "compassion". Got it. Cool.

New comment by peterhadlaw in "EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown"

peterhadlaw — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:12:56 +0000

What voting are you talking about? By not giving funding it's exactly that. A vote. A choice. I also stopped donating to the EFF when they showed they are shifting more political (non-tech space) than privacy focused etc. Does the EFF hold an annual vote I missed as a sponsor?

New comment by peterhadlaw in "Staying ahead of censors in 2025"

peterhadlaw — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:45:33 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bMzFDpfDwc

New comment by peterhadlaw in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

peterhadlaw — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:47:27 +0000

What about cheap cellular modems built in?

New comment by peterhadlaw in "A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification"

peterhadlaw — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:37:25 +0000

Nanny state

New comment by peterhadlaw in "Renaming the default branch of Rust-lang/rust"

peterhadlaw — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:36:40 +0000

> We've chosen main specifically as it's the default for newly-created repositories in GitHub and the renaming will leverage the GitHub tooling built to make this easier.

Suuuuure.

The original master -> main folks should have been laughed out of the room the first time around. At this point it's a religion.

New comment by peterhadlaw in "Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely"

peterhadlaw — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:38:43 +0000

It just works.

New comment by peterhadlaw in "[dead]"

peterhadlaw — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:22:12 +0000

I used to not like history class growing up, now it's quintessential to understand it so people like this don't soil and twist the definitions of words. The irony of people misusing and abusing this word is that often THEY exhibit fascistic tendencies.

New comment by peterhadlaw in "Republican governors oppose 10-year moratorium on state AI laws in GOP tax bill"

peterhadlaw — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:28:06 +0000

"care"

New comment by peterhadlaw in "Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App"

peterhadlaw — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:53:33 +0000

I had a situation, admittedly niche, where some git based package dependency wasn't being updated properly (tags vs. commit hashes) and thanks to poetry being written in Python I was able to quickly debug and solve the problem. I think it's more a matter of core functionality (that affects everyone) vs. more esoteric or particular use cases (like dataframe libraries) that make sense to FFI.

New comment by peterhadlaw in "Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf"

peterhadlaw — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 02:36:23 +0000

Dang, was hoping for something terminal based <3 but thank you

New comment by peterhadlaw in "Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf"

peterhadlaw — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 02:26:29 +0000

Which open source agentic tooling are you using. I'm a fan of Aider but I find it lacking the agentic side of things. I've looked at Goose, Plandex, Opencode, and etc. Which do you like?

New comment by peterhadlaw in "Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS"

peterhadlaw — Sun, 25 May 2025 19:59:36 +0000

I've been personally involved in the hiring process of our startup and I give you my word the school you went to makes no difference. In fact one of my favorite coworkers that I had an honor to work with was self taught and had a philosophy degree. In fact I've seen big school degrees go straight to heads and egos and been actively an obstacle to those folks.

New comment by peterhadlaw in "Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager"

peterhadlaw — Sat, 24 May 2025 12:01:03 +0000

How is this different from GNU stow?

New comment by peterhadlaw in "Claude Code SDK"

peterhadlaw — Tue, 20 May 2025 12:10:04 +0000

https://aider.chat/docs/config/options.html#--auto-accept-ar...

New comment by peterhadlaw in "Designing Cities for Families"

peterhadlaw — Wed, 14 May 2025 11:34:37 +0000

Maybe control the crime. If you can't fundamentally live in peace, there's no point in continuing the conversation.

New comment by peterhadlaw in ""Europe Is Jailing People for Online Speech," by Prof. Yascha Mounk"

peterhadlaw — Tue, 13 May 2025 18:41:08 +0000

No I agree with you. We _definitely should_ arrest people for silently praying within 50 meters of an abortion clinic. That's progress! :)

New comment by peterhadlaw in ""Europe Is Jailing People for Online Speech," by Prof. Yascha Mounk"

peterhadlaw — Tue, 13 May 2025 17:00:11 +0000

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New comment by peterhadlaw in "As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database"

peterhadlaw — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:57:18 +0000

The thing with Americans is that they've had it so good for so long they don't even know what bad looks like. People who come from oppressive governments and have lived through it actually do. Notice I never mentioned efficiency in my original post, you assumed that's what I meant. I meant the oppressive nature of just the shear unending growth of the US government and the weight that bears upon it's people, its businesses, and most importantly it's morale.

New comment by peterhadlaw in "As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database"

peterhadlaw — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:28:56 +0000

100% agreed. The best part is nobody ever could provide an explanation for when the beast of bureaucracy would stop being fed. It is just a given that it must grow and grow and grow. Whether you voted for it or not. And don't you dare question it because questioning it is Fascism (from people who have never seen the actual results of real Fascism).