Hacker News: poppafuze

New comment by poppafuze in "I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert"

poppafuze — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:39:24 +0000

powers the quantum heartbeat detector

New comment by poppafuze in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

poppafuze — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:44:52 +0000

might as well write things in a language where the problems jump right out...Ada.

New comment by poppafuze in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

poppafuze — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:05:22 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939318

New comment by poppafuze in "On-Device AI Models Might Be the Next Reason to Upgrade Your iPhone"

poppafuze — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:29:37 +0000

Like the one that got a dad investigated by the police when he sent a pic to his doc? That one? Lawyers say he is still permabanned.

New comment by poppafuze in "Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access"

poppafuze — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:18:27 +0000

When i choose GPL for my code, it's exactly because I do not want it to be encumbered with payment terms.

New comment by poppafuze in "curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd"

poppafuze — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:17:22 +0000

Looking forward to seeing a device with a short image that has the string "404" on it.

New comment by poppafuze in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

poppafuze — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:05:38 +0000

When it evolved a couple years ago to automatically set up the bridge for libvirt correctly, it had arrived. When that thing can set up pushbutton podman apps with decent net and persistence defaults it will be gold.

New comment by poppafuze in "Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5"

poppafuze — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:05:22 +0000

The first rule of bringup is thermal support.

New comment by poppafuze in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

poppafuze — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:45:15 +0000

"Because though we’re not doing too bad, we’re no Ada/SPARK yet" ... props to the king. A worthy aspiration. Classy.

New comment by poppafuze in "Claude Code escapes its own denylist and sandbox"

poppafuze — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:45:04 +0000

hilarious they purposefully left out SELinux. try that in ramalama.

New comment by poppafuze in "I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it"

poppafuze — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:05:06 +0000

Gives a sense of how infuriating the G9ii update was to G9 users. The guts are ergonomically better off in a rangefinder body than what Panny shipped.

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

poppafuze — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:27:16 +0000

They'll introduce a "privacy-class" TV soon enough.

New comment by poppafuze in "P-computers can solve spin-glass problems faster than quantum systems"

poppafuze — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:00:40 +0000

They misspelled "analog".

New comment by poppafuze in "“You should never build a CMS”"

poppafuze — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:06:10 +0000

https://www.sanity.io/legal/privacy "To deidentify you before posting your feedback about the Sanity Services on our Site" ...ruh-roh (reasonable expectation).

https://www.sanity.io/legal/tos "Each Party (as “Receiving Party”) hereto acknowledges that the Confidential Information of the disclosing party (“Disclosing Party”) constitutes valuable confidential and proprietary information. ...ruh-roh x2 (foreknowledge of impact to damaged party)

Each Party will (i) hold the Confidential Information of the other Party in confidence, (ii) not disclose to any other person or use such Confidential Information or any part thereof" ...ruh-roh x 3 (promise of secrecy)

Is Cursor.com located in California? Why, yes they are. Is Sanity located in California? Yes, they are. ...ruh-roh x 4 (bonus venue for privacy laws).

At this point, the filing could be done by "lawyer as code".

New comment by poppafuze in "“You should never build a CMS”"

poppafuze — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:43:51 +0000

I would want to know if Sanity had permission from their former customer to tell the public they were a customer, along with the personal name of the customer. If not, they could be perceived to be somewhere on the dartboard of venn diagram slices that include "vendor trash-talking a former customer" to "violating customer trust by revealing the relationship" to "purposefully revealing customer PII in (insert jurisdiction here) by posting a personal X account". Potential and current customers (hint) would want to know. There are industries where corporate clients can be very secretive about who they buy things from, it's a competitive advantage, getting called out like that is extremely sensitizing, and so getting doxxed and dragged by a vendor like that is instant death, even when the customer publicly dragged the vendor first. Especially to markets of marketing people with the exact release date secrecy need that was described in the article (ironic).

The only source of this relatoinship reveal was Sanity, they did it in the tweet thread as well, and it was the first line of their blog post. They didn't say "well it emerged on X that we were the vendor for this", it appears to done without permission. If that's the case, it is beyond unclassy. They could have simply reciprocated the disconnection, not mentioned there was a relationship, and said in their own posts "some recent blogging and tweeting have started an interesting discussion about replacing CMS, and here's our take...".

Clients will be interested enough about these things to read every post when the reveal happens from the vendor side. I read every post on that thread, saw lots of people asking who it was. Leerob never revealed who it was or even hinted. But I never saw a tweet from either party that said "We talked about it among ourselves and decided it would be interesting for both of us and our communities to reveal that Sanity was the vendor of the CMS, and they have a take about how this has impacted them, which you can read at (url)".

None of that matters now. Only the doxx matters now. Lawyers salivate over these moments.

BTW this isn't the tenth time that moving to a mental model of "something as code" has completely and upsettingly (for some) disrupted a market, even before AI.

New comment by poppafuze in "“You should never build a CMS”"

poppafuze — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:50:35 +0000

Same in Brave. This is a recurring problem with various sites that I have not been able to get to the bottom of. Best described as a "bouncy vertical kerning problem" but I'm making that term up.

New comment by poppafuze in "Ask HN: What is a passkey and why is everybody asking for one lately?"

poppafuze — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:42:54 +0000

The only perfect cryptosystem is based on shared secrets.

New comment by poppafuze in "Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video"

poppafuze — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:56:55 +0000

The persecutors of notability are no longer notable.

New comment by poppafuze in "TernFS – an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem"

poppafuze — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:11:17 +0000

Great default license.

New comment by poppafuze in "Hardware Stockholm Syndrome"

poppafuze — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:14:23 +0000

Complete fantasy rubbish from typical software thinking. Skipped over all the reasons we no longer wire a Z80 directly to static RAM, and what that precipitates.