Hacker News: radicalriddler

New comment by radicalriddler in "GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default"

radicalriddler — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:39:03 +0000

The feed is still there, but imo it’s not the default thing many people wanna see when visiting the dashboard. I understand that people want the feed, but this weird social network thing isn’t really the true purpose of Github in 2026, and I would bet Github has the data on that and decided that what people really want to see when they first open .com is the status of their own work.

New comment by radicalriddler in "GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default"

radicalriddler — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:11:23 +0000

I think credit should be given where credit is due when Github’s just made a good change.

Complaining might work, but continuous complaining is tiresome.

New comment by radicalriddler in "GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default"

radicalriddler — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:17:56 +0000

A lot of people seem to be complaining, but the last iteration had Copilot at the top and then a "Feed" of what other people were doing.

This seems to push your issues and pull requests as the main items of the page, and that's significantly better.

New comment by radicalriddler in "An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows"

radicalriddler — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:49:42 +0000

I’ve been a long-time subscriber to kagi, but also a long-time critic that they bite off more than they can chew. Relatively happy to see this, and I’m sure there’ll be an open-source community willing to carry on the Linux work.

New comment by radicalriddler in "OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says"

radicalriddler — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:03:52 +0000

In response to the legal claims other commenters are making, Richard Marles, our defence minister and deputy prime minister has stated they’ll be looking into legal action, but they are unsure about how “intent” will span out in a case like this.

New comment by radicalriddler in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

radicalriddler — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:03:09 +0000

As a lifetime access purchaser of Tailwind UI and a user of their recent oatmeal template, the news that they’re winding down tailwindui hurts a little.

Glad they got their exit, Adam deserves it, but I don’t know why they can’t see the value in preset UI templates. AI sucks at building UI, it sucks a little less when it’s got codebase references to build upon and reference.

New comment by radicalriddler in "Asahi Linux Supports M3"

radicalriddler — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:15:13 +0000

From the early comments, no wonder the lead maintainer resigned.

Great job Asahi! Reverse engineering someone elses proprietary hardware and drivers is amazing work!

New comment by radicalriddler in "Getting Started with AT Protocol"

radicalriddler — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:40:57 +0000

Spaces really is gonna bring all the features that HN is critical about AT platforms like Tangled.

Private repos are now on the horizon. Huzzah!

New comment by radicalriddler in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

radicalriddler — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:25:46 +0000

Huh, according to some of those charts, it's both dumber, and more expensive to run against their benchmarking tasks than Fable??? Seems crazy to me.

New comment by radicalriddler in "Orbs"

radicalriddler — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:00:42 +0000

Feels like the tech industry balks at any whimsical introduction of feature names. Reminds me of Tangled’s spindles and knots and HN’s reaction.

They’re just names to be used within the context of their parent ecosystem. If it were a general purpose tool, I’d tend to agree.

New comment by radicalriddler in "Zohran and the Short Link"

radicalriddler — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:30:43 +0000

The great thing about Bsky is that feeds can be user-run (and the for you feed is a great success story). So if Bluesky Inc. wants to derank links on their discover feed, there are a lot of user driven feed options to counteract that

New comment by radicalriddler in "Go 1.27"

radicalriddler — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:07:13 +0000

Minor versions are basically major versions for Go. They’ll “never” create a Go v2 because they prioritise maintaining backwards compatibility as a language feature, thus following semver rules, no majors.

New comment by radicalriddler in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

radicalriddler — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:11:42 +0000

Ahhh gotcha, thanks for the info

New comment by radicalriddler in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

radicalriddler — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:10:27 +0000

what happens when it’s a custom handle like @example.com?

New comment by radicalriddler in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

radicalriddler — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:55:47 +0000

LinkedIn’s job screen in the app is a good example of this different presentation.

I’ve noticed a certain AI recruitment company gets “highlighted” (darkened white background of the screen, but their logo is pure white and REALLY stands out), but when I screenshot it, it reverts to normal, like there’s no blatant special advertising.

New comment by radicalriddler in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

radicalriddler — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:14:16 +0000

Yeah, only open for public repositories until Atproto finishes their permissioned data spec.

New comment by radicalriddler in "Delta"

radicalriddler — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:22:00 +0000

I expected a release today because they didn't want to date the podcast episode recording date lmao

New comment by radicalriddler in "Delta"

radicalriddler — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:21:22 +0000

i've had a similar idea for a while. Creating almost a multiplayer grill-me interface so teams can collaborate on spec definitions. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

New comment by radicalriddler in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

radicalriddler — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:20:04 +0000

The issue I always had with Typescript, was that LLM's like to find the easiest way to get a job done on a micro level (they seem to like to find the hardest design patterns to implement on the macro level tho, but language agnostic). What this means for Typescript, is unless you place guardrails everywhere, they'll cast their way out of a compiler problem with as any, or as unknown and then casting later. You either end up with readability issues, or runtime issues leaking out.

Might be a skill issue, but I got frustrated with it on new projects constantly.

New comment by radicalriddler in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

radicalriddler — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:29:31 +0000

Agreed. Felt like a AEO / or GEO (generative engine optimization or whatever the field term is these days) puff piece. Seems too verbose for most people to bother reading.