Hacker News: rustc

New comment by rustc in "Abuse of the nullish coalescing operator in JS/TS"

rustc — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:56:04 +0000

That's how you get this feature: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-bareword-strings.

tldr: undefined constants were treated as a string (+ a warning), so `$x = FOO` was `$x = "FOO"` + a warning if `FOO` was not a defined constant. Thankfully this feature was removed in PHP 8.

Benchmarking KDB-X vs. QuestDB, ClickHouse, TimescaleDB and InfluxDB

rustc — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:45:40 +0000

Article URL: https://kx.com/blog/benchmarking-kdb-x-vs-questdb-clickhouse-timescaledb-and-influxdb-with-tsbs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954022

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

The Web Animation Performance Tier List

rustc — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:36:57 +0000

Article URL: https://motion.dev/blog/web-animation-performance-tier-list

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826231

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The New Google Search Ad Layout Is Causing Accidental Clicks

rustc — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:22:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seroundtable.com/googles-ad-layout-accidentally-clicks-40360.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815471

Points: 29

# Comments: 3

New comment by rustc in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

rustc — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:37:54 +0000

> what's next?

Removing existing Docker images? Seems unlikely.

New comment by rustc in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

rustc — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:34:26 +0000

It's still risky if you pay unless you have a contract guaranteeing what the renewal price would be.

New comment by rustc in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"

rustc — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:34:34 +0000

> OR they acknowledge that it's almost impossible to build a website without some form of tracking

Why would it be almost impossible to "build a website" without tracking?

New comment by rustc in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"

rustc — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:33:50 +0000

Another weird idea: make this kind of tracking illegal. Why would anyone willingly agree to be tracked?

New comment by rustc in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"

rustc — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:29:15 +0000

Or just ban this kind of data collection. Is there any reason anyone would willingly click "Accept" when a website asks to share your data with 500+ partner sites?

New comment by rustc in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

rustc — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:02:22 +0000

Does any host provide more compensation than refund for downtime?

New comment by rustc in "Ripgrep 15.0"

rustc — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 18:43:33 +0000

What is the right way to make ripgrep behave closer to `git grep`? Plain `rg` ignores files inside hidden folders like `.github`, `rg --hidden` will search `.github` but also search inside `.git`. I currently have this alias that I don't remember where I found: `rg --hidden --glob '!*/.git/*'`. Is there a better way?

I would prefer a solution that works from outside git repos, so no piping `git ls-files` into rg.

New comment by rustc in "LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users"

rustc — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:57:45 +0000

But will the "big fine" be more than the money LinkedIn will make by doing this?

New comment by rustc in "Legal win"

rustc — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 11:57:43 +0000

It would disallow private forks of WordPress (require them to share the modifications) but I don't know whether WPEngine and other hosts have any private modifications or they all use stock WordPress.

New comment by rustc in "Legal win"

rustc — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 07:43:25 +0000

Have you thought about licensing future additions to WordPress under AGPL? I believe it can be done [1]. This will disallow private forks and require companies to publish any changes they make.

[1]: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/12276/how-to-...

New comment by rustc in "Crates.io phishing attempt"

rustc — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:14:33 +0000

> If your bank calls you, hang up and log in or call their support number yourself.

And don't trust the number you see on Google. Google is known to show scammers' phone numbers in featured snippets or in their new "AI Mode". Click on the link and make sure it's the correct site before trusting the number.

CVC Strikes $1.5B Deal for Namecheap

rustc — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:41:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/cvc-strikes-1-5-billion-deal-for-godaddy-rival-namecheap-a38fd014

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45221084

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

New comment by rustc in "Serverless Horrors"

rustc — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:03:35 +0000

The notifications are not real time. You can rack up a significant bill before they are triggered.

New comment by rustc in "Serverless Horrors"

rustc — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:01:38 +0000

And what if they don't say "no problem"? Like the Netlify case where they at first offered a reduced bill (which was still a lot) before the post got viral and the CEO stepped in.

New comment by rustc in "The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch"

rustc — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:52:48 +0000

> Included in Always Free Tier

> 1 TB of data

Someone can rent a 1Gbps server for cheap (under $50 on OVH) and pull 330TB in a month from your site. That's about $30k of egress on AWS if you don't do anything to stop it.

New comment by rustc in "The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch"

rustc — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:49:13 +0000

> If you put your information freely on the web, you should have minimal expectations on who uses it and how.

Does this only apply to "information" or should we treat all open source code as public domain?