Hacker News: pushcx

New comment by pushcx in "Claude Code is leaking real email address as a User-Agent string in curl command"

pushcx — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:05:06 +0000

I run a site about programming that's constantly hit by people writing their first scrapers, etc. I checked the last ~10 million lines of http logs and see no instances of this. Anthropic doesn't really respect robots.txt so it's all over the logs, but not with an email address or in the form given in this github issue. This is just an odd thing you got an LLM to spit out.

New comment by pushcx in "Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite"

pushcx — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:24:08 +0000

The web app typically sees 10 rps and most of those don't write.

New comment by pushcx in "Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite"

pushcx — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:52:45 +0000

Thanks for highlighting this failure mode. We don't have a supervisor thread in a position to slow readers and writes like you described in your other thread, so I knocked up a job to force a checkpoint if needed. https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/commit/cdf9397f8067fc21... Other things would fall over long before we reached 14k RPS so hopefully this suffices for us.

New comment by pushcx in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

pushcx — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:18:54 +0000

No. In short, in US law, CSAM is a visual depiction of a real-world act of child sexual abuse. Visual depictions like you're describing are covered under a different law, and I'm not aware of it having a short name. There's a good expert thread on this with links to the relevant federal laws here: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3lbt7zkvlq...

New comment by pushcx in "A metallurgist's doubts about self-replicating probes"

pushcx — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:50:13 +0000

I timed it a few times.

New comment by pushcx in "A metallurgist's doubts about self-replicating probes"

pushcx — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:21:24 +0000

This isn't elaborated on in the piece, but it does mention that it's written in the context of the Fermi paradox. Adding 50,000 years of technological development and a 1,000 year rebooting phase at each star system doesn't meaningfully change how long it would take life to spread when considered against the 13,500,000,000 years since stars developed.

New comment by pushcx in "My burner email blocklist blocked me"

pushcx — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:34:25 +0000

Or it's a distinction without a difference to the site owner. Ever prod service I've run has seen significantly more abuse from human users using alias services, especially protonmail. I'm not surprised that some owners have chosen to block it entirely, given their resources, but I'd prefer to see it used as a signal in a more sophisticated system if possible.

New comment by pushcx in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

pushcx — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:10:53 +0000

I had wanted the same thing for a long time and jj + difftastic has satisfied me.

New comment by pushcx in "[dead]"

pushcx — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:29:23 +0000

It's not intentional on this author's part, but this is a great example of how Google rewards people posting slop. The oldest posts on the blog read normally, the new stuff this post says it added to satisfy Google all reads like this post.

New comment by pushcx in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control [pdf]"

pushcx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:37:57 +0000

The stock market has liquidity, fungibility, low transaction costs, etc etc. https://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/29/why-your-house-is-a-terri...

New comment by pushcx in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

pushcx — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:38:49 +0000

Thanks, I appreciate you sorting out the timeline on such a heated issue.

New comment by pushcx in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

pushcx — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:40:52 +0000

    What followed was extraordinary: 329 comments and counting, ranging from thoughtful concern to outright harassment.
    The thread did not stop at words. One user posted My Little Pony drawings of themselves strangling the "project janitor that pushed vibecoded commits":
    It spread to Hacker News and Lobsters, generating hundreds more comments.

This is false, it did not appear on Lobsters. Here is the function in the codebase that prohibits this kind of brigading: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/main/app/models/st...

Please correct your article.

New comment by pushcx in "Social Animus"

pushcx — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:44:53 +0000

> when I saw someone complain about what he thought the title should be, I just used his idea instead of my own. This upset the moderator so much when he saw that I was optimizing my writing style based on feedback from his site

I was unaware the blog copied my title change until seeing this on HN and I have no emotional reaction to it. I've replaced over a hundred clickbait titles and it's not an emotionally evocative chore. Anyone can read my contemporaneous explanation at https://lobste.rs/c/hjlmw1 to see my reasoning and judge for themself how upset I sound.

New comment by pushcx in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

pushcx — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:32:28 +0000

This title and premise are incorrect. It's not a bait-and-switch unless the bait was unavailable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait-and-switch Vivado really was available free. There's a lot of potential criticisms one could write of the decision to change that (and basically all of them were made in this and the previous thread), but bait-and-switch is not one of them.

New comment by pushcx in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

pushcx — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:07:32 +0000

> "GitHub only gets better if people who give a shit stick around to make it better"

What's the mechanism of action here? What changes if I stay? What changes if I give more or less of a shit? Is there javascript telemetry feeding my shit into a dashboard with a calibrated shitometer for executives to consult when they set quarterly objectives? My account is six weeks younger than mitchellh's and I've been watching GitHub fall apart for the last year, what will happen because I stick around to watch for another year? Besides that I will get covered in shit.

You're an employee. What changes if you stick around? Back in October 2025, the GitHub CTO Federov prioritized moving to Azure above feature work (https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...). Yesterday he recommitted to it (https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...), writing "We started executing our plan to increase GitHub’s capacity by 10X in October 2025 with a goal of substantially improving reliability and failover." GitHub has had six bad months of increasing bugs and sharply decreased uptime, and the CTO just recommitted to staying the course. You've explicitly been directed to move to Azure, not to give a shit or to make things better.

So I'll defer to your direct expertise. From the outside, Heroku stalled and died because Salesforce prioritized everything else in its business above Heroku. Are GitHub's priorities so different? Does you giving a shit make Azure and Copilot the best top priorities for GitHub? Will Azure and Copilot be why I stop seeing SPA jank? Will Azure and Copilot be why I can see my list of open PRs? Will Azure and Copilot be why I see something more than the 500 unicorn? Will Azure and Copilot stop the spam PRs that want to undermine the quality of my code? Will Azure and Copilot lead to anything other than the same corporate dismissal and dysfunction that led to Heroku? Will you giving a shit matter?

New comment by pushcx in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

pushcx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:53:39 +0000

This is a little late for your nice jacket, but a lot of zipper damage comes from dirt getting into the teeth and then the zip grinds everything up. Outdoors shops sell a zipper lubricant to keep the dirt from sticking.

New comment by pushcx in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

pushcx — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:27:23 +0000

There's a lobbying group called 5rights that has designed and promoted the UK OSA, AU OSA, California KOSA, Federal KOSA, and more. This isn't some conspiracy. They take proudly take credit for these bills on their website, and in news coverage you'll see their same couple media personalities over and over: https://5rightsfoundation.com/our-work/

As usual for online censorship, Techdirt has had excellent coverage for years: https://www.techdirt.com/tag/baroness-beeban-kidron/

New comment by pushcx in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

pushcx — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:36:49 +0000

Rails's public release was July 2004: https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-rails-0-5-0-the-end-of-vaporware/...

Django's was July 2005: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2005/jul/15/chipy/

New comment by pushcx in "Designing the Perfect ID: Marrying UUIDv7, Stripe Prefixes, and ULID"

pushcx — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:41:55 +0000

TypeID is similar, though it uses the UUIDv7 directly: https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid Maybe the formalization would be interesting to you.

It doesn't have a checksum, though, that seems like an improvement that's worth a few bytes.

New comment by pushcx in "How the Lobsters front page works"

pushcx — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:55:11 +0000

I don't know why you think I want a "technical win" from you, but I'm not seeking your approval. I corrected your mistake about the URL and the policy, like I corrected the author's mistake about what I removed. If you and other sites prefer different policies, it's no skin off my nose.