Hacker News: ruuda

New comment by ruuda in "Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?"

ruuda — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:16:43 +0000

Codeberg

New comment by ruuda in "Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering"

ruuda — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:25:30 +0000

It works fine if you don't enable javascript.

New comment by ruuda in "Googlebook"

ruuda — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:26:55 +0000

https://goomics.net/239

Building the deployment tool I wish I had

ruuda — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:49:04 +0000

Article URL: https://ruuda.nl/2026/deptool

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035607

Points: 44

# Comments: 5

New comment by ruuda in "Slowly, Then Suddenly: How Products Fail (2022)"

ruuda — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:48:40 +0000

I find this article a useful framing for understanding what is happening to GitHub right now. The original is from 2022, but this 2023 repost includes a relevant preface.

Slowly, Then Suddenly: How Products Fail (2022)

ruuda — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:48:40 +0000

Article URL: https://every.to/p/breaching-the-trust-thermocline

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944608

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by ruuda in "High Performance Git"

ruuda — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:32:43 +0000

The text reads like an LLM was involved in this.

New comment by ruuda in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

ruuda — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:44:22 +0000

https://github.com/doy/rbw is a Rust alternative to the Bitwarden CLI. Although the Rust ecosystem is moving in NPM's direction (very large and very deep dependency trees), you still need to trust far fewer authors in your dependency tree than what is common for Javascript.

New comment by ruuda in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

ruuda — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:44:41 +0000

Finally https://www.metaculus.com/questions/9558/50-of-users-access-... can resolve!

New comment by ruuda in "Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis"

ruuda — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:06:27 +0000

Property-based testing is nice, but making it coverage-driven is a game changer. It will explore code paths that naive random inputs will not trigger in a thousand years. In Rust this works very well with libFuzzer and the Arbitrary crate to derive the generators.

New comment by ruuda in "Keep Android Open"

ruuda — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:14:39 +0000

I contacted the EU DMA team about my concerns and got a real reply within 24 hours. Not just an automated message, it looked like a real human read my message and wrote a reply. I'd urge other EU citizens to do the same.

New comment by ruuda in "How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing"

ruuda — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:29:41 +0000

It's not complex, in the sense that the rules are simple, but simple rules can still lead to complicated emergent behavior that is difficult for humans to understand, even if each of the 153 steps that the typechecker took to arrive at the result were easy to understand individually.

New comment by ruuda in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

ruuda — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:03:13 +0000

I tried Zed for some time. Then it had a regression which broke it completely on my laptop. (Zed can't start any more, logging a PlatformNotSupported error even though earlier versions worked fine.) I carefully bisected it, and it turned out to be due to an intentional change in Blade. The issue was acknowledged, and confirmed by several other users. Then it got converted into a "discussion" because there was nothing actionable to do according to the devs. Then the discussion got closed because they are "directing all support questions to Discord going forward". Then Discord announced mandatory age verification.

New comment by ruuda in "Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?"

ruuda — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:27:25 +0000

Mastodon

New comment by ruuda in "4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)"

ruuda — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:17:36 +0000

We wrote https://github.com/chorusone/fastsync for fast ad-hoc transfers over multiple TCP streams.

Backseat Software

ruuda — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:15:36 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749205

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ruuda in "FracturedJson"

ruuda — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:33:31 +0000

Give https://rcl-lang.org/#intuitive-json-queries a try! It can fill a similar role, but the syntax is very similar to Python/TypeScript/Rust, so you don’t need an LLM to write the query for you.

New comment by ruuda in "FracturedJson"

ruuda — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:15:46 +0000

RCL (https://github.com/ruuda/rcl) pretty-prints its output by default. Pipe to `rcl e` to pretty-print RCL (which has slightly lighter key-value syntax, good if you only want to inspect it), while `rcl je` produces json output.

It doesn’t align tables like FracturedJson, but it does format values on a single line where possible. The pretty printer is based on the classic A Prettier Printer by Philip Wadler; the algorithm is quite elegant. Any value will be formatted wide if it fits the target width, otherwise tall.

New comment by ruuda in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

ruuda — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:03:59 +0000

Everything I know about IPv6 comes from this one blog post: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810. It’s from 2017, when IPv6 adoption was 17% according to https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html; today it’s close to 50%.

New comment by ruuda in "What's New in Python 3.15"

ruuda — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:34:50 +0000

It's a Linux thing too. It bit me in particular when running a script in a container that defaulted to ascii rather than utf-8 locale.