Hacker News: rafram

New comment by rafram in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

rafram — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:41:58 +0000

Congratulations!

New comment by rafram in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

rafram — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:23:04 +0000

The poster above was quoting the median for all apartments in New York City, the (second-?)most expensive market in the country. Nationally it’s about $1,600 for a 1br: https://www.apartments.com/rent-market-trends/us/

New comment by rafram in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

rafram — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:43:38 +0000

Who said a one-bedroom is $2,000?

New comment by rafram in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

rafram — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:40:13 +0000

I have a hunch that many - most? - of these European digital sovereignty projects will end up being grifts. Whenever money is being thrown at any crappy, low-effort startup that knows how to speak the right language, you get grifters coming out of the woodwork.

New comment by rafram in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

rafram — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:32:39 +0000

What part of

   Enumerating objects: 15, done.
   Counting objects: 100% (15/15), done.
   Delta compression using up to 10 threads
   Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
   Writing objects: 100% (8/8), 1.43 KiB | 1.43 MiB/s, done.
   Total 8 (delta 7), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
   remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (7/7), completed with 7 local objects.

don't you understand?!

New comment by rafram in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

rafram — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:28:31 +0000

Yes, because you really don't have to pay that much. Those expensive apartments go to people who aren't very price sensitive (either because they actually have the money, or because they want to live it up in their 20s/30s and are spending beyond their means) or who are willing to live with enough roommates to make it affordable. If all you can find is a $3.5k unit, you'll need to get a roommate. But you can find better if you put in the work and look beyond StreetEasy.

The median household income in New York City is only $81,000 per year! People make it work!

New comment by rafram in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

rafram — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:38:28 +0000

$35,000 in 1998 is $72,500 in 2026, which is still a totally fine income. I know people living pretty well on that in New York City.

New comment by rafram in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

rafram — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:29:14 +0000

> bob+dist+~/mailinglist@example.net would read the file mailinglist in Bob's home directory and deliver the email to addresses listed in it

The days before security sure were quaint!

New comment by rafram in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

rafram — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:05:03 +0000

Doesn't owning the domain kind of defeat the point?

New comment by rafram in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

rafram — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:04:15 +0000

[citation badly needed]

New comment by rafram in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

rafram — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:54:04 +0000

I would hazard a guess that a plurality, by a large margin, of ffmpeg invocations are something on the level of

   ffmpeg -i input.mov output.mp4

for which you don't really need any of those things :)

New comment by rafram in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

rafram — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:06:52 +0000

Anything above ~1000px is considered difficult to read, yes. For example, the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines require that the site at least provides a mechanism to set the width to 80 characters, or about 1000px at a standard font size: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#visual-presentation

You can push it if you want to maximize horizontal space utilization - the site you're on right now, for example, caps reflowing text to about 1200px - but reading is easier when you have to scan over less horizontal distance, and there's literally no reason not to set some max-width.

New comment by rafram in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

rafram — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:53:30 +0000

You mean the title of this post? It's much worse, in my opinion - plenty of strong ad blockers run on MV3. Even the developer of uBlock Origin (Lite) seems to have conceded that the MV3 approach is less resource intensive and didn't require sacrificing any of the features that 99.9% of users use.

New comment by rafram in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

rafram — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:40:00 +0000

It's really not a great design. It's just nerdy in a HN way. A great website would list projects in approximate order of importance/notability, would use the tiniest bit of CSS to make the text readable on wide screens, and would have images for projects with a visual component. The only reason his site is appealing is because you already know who he is.

New comment by rafram in "Stdx, Rust's extended standard library"

rafram — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:03:15 +0000

My personal preference would be to avoid a project whose maintainers push vibe-coded commits with one-line messages like "crypto: accelerate aes256" [1], especially when said commits introduce large blocks of unreadable inline assembly!

[1]: https://github.com/rust-stdx/stdx/commit/550c11b75804392e366...

New comment by rafram in "Google Flight Simulator"

rafram — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:50:10 +0000

It's been around since 2007.

New comment by rafram in "Iroh 1.0"

rafram — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:46:07 +0000

I think it would be clearer if you put the "Pricing" navbar link under "Services."

New comment by rafram in "Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight"

rafram — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:52:57 +0000

This could mean literally anything.

New comment by rafram in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

rafram — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:57:50 +0000

Alas, LLMs require more attention, not less.

New comment by rafram in "Keygen.music"

rafram — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:33:13 +0000

This is a vibe-coded clone of https://keygenmusic.tk/, it seems.