Hacker News: selectnull

New comment by selectnull in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

selectnull — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:47:48 +0000

Well, you're one of today's lucky 10000.

New comment by selectnull in "The HTML element"

selectnull — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:50:30 +0000

> When and why did people stop using Firefox?

Approximately at the time when majority of the Mozilla resources started going into non-browser projects. And pretty much for the same reason.

New comment by selectnull in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

selectnull — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:06:32 +0000

> Install gitdot-cli to push and clone private repos

Hmmm... no. Why should I? Just let me use git.

New comment by selectnull in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

selectnull — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:38:32 +0000

Apple Music can not be uninstalled. That's pretty much "press ganged" in my book.

New comment by selectnull in "The Pressure"

selectnull — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:08:21 +0000

There are a lot of posts from prominent open source maintainers about this topic and from a far away, I always wonder if the solution is actually simpler than they want to admit: treat the project like a real business.

`curl` (and similarly important projects) have a tremendous leverage with the big tech and I don't see any of them on curl's sponsors page. Why not?

The sales pitch (and yes, treating the project like a business implies sales) would be simple: we are curl, you depend on us, pay us 1M/anually and with that money we'll hire the experts that we need to continue the development and support of the project. Raise a few millions (recurring) and secure the project's financial stability. Pay yourself a respectable salary, hire people. If "the big tech" refuses, publicly call them out on it. Connect with other prominent projects and act together. The internet depends on you, you should be awarded.

I have a tremendous respect for curl as a project and Daniel as a person (based on his writtings, never met him) and I know it's easy to comment out the stuff on the internet from a safe distance, but I still wonder if things could be actually different.

New comment by selectnull in "Googlebook"

selectnull — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:15:39 +0000

No, they will promise 7 years of update but kill it in 2.

New comment by selectnull in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

selectnull — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:03:56 +0000

Why not rewrite claude-code in Rust?

So, Anthropic acquires Bun team because claude-code uses Bun. They port Bun from Zig to Rust presumably because Rust "is better" (imagine big air quotes here). Again presumably, they want to make claude-code "better". Why make it so complicated? With all the power of LLMs they have, surely they can make claude-code the best possible by writting it in Rust directly.

New comment by selectnull in "Before GitHub"

selectnull — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:14:44 +0000

> what fossils are stored in within a museum is referred to as a "repository"

I own a cute domain for that: repositoryum.com. I had the plans for it, but it's one of those that never came to a realization.

New comment by selectnull in "Google announced that Chrome is becoming an agentic workplace platform"

selectnull — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:32:36 +0000

I remember when Chrome got released in very early beta, it was a breath of fresh air. Clearly, these are different times but I kinda hope that Ladybird (https://ladybird.org/) will become a worthy newcomer to the browser scene soon.

New comment by selectnull in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

selectnull — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:13:01 +0000

> Apple’s software is the best [...] compared to Google's or Microsoft's

Honestly, that's such a low bar to hit.

New comment by selectnull in "Dario – local proxy to keep Claude Pro/Max working with any client"

selectnull — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:05:51 +0000

I love the name :D

New comment by selectnull in "Keychron's keyboards are now open source"

selectnull — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:52:18 +0000

"This project is source-available. Commercial use is strictly prohibited."

Nevertheless, very cool. Love those keyboards, planning to replace my K1 with a new one soon.

New comment by selectnull in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

selectnull — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:38:52 +0000

I see a lot of comments that are "somebody should fork this" or "community will fork it" or similar.

I didn't see a single comment of "I will fork it" type.

New comment by selectnull in "Hammerspoon"

selectnull — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:31:01 +0000

Love hammerspoon. I use it to map double CMD to swap between the terminal and the browser.

Tell HN: Email from Anthropic "Share your feedback on your experience"

selectnull — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:02:10 +0000

I just received an email from Anthropic that begins with " We're reaching out to people who recently canceled their Claude Code subscription in order to better understand your experience and what led to your decision."

I was very glad to be able to give the feedback which can be summarized as "no opencode, no subscription".

I fully support the Anthropic decision to run their business the way they choose to and at the same time I reserve the right to use the software that I'm comfortable with.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609654

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by selectnull in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

selectnull — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:46:51 +0000

I'm willing to cancel my Claude subscription because of this.

New comment by selectnull in "Tell HN: HN was down"

selectnull — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:44:02 +0000

I already knew that. :)

New comment by selectnull in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

selectnull — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:46:53 +0000

It's not that simple.

In the email you have linked to, he does not support tivoization. He simply says that he finds the term offensive (which is really funny coming from him).

Torvalds has also publicly stated that he doesn't think that tivoization benefits users, but it's not his battle to fight. More info on that topic can be found in the linked YT (linked at the precise time he is answering the question about tivoization, but the whole video is about GPL v2 vs GPL v3).

YT video: https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU?si=RK5ZHizoidgVA1xO&t=288

New comment by selectnull in "Git 3.0 Retires Master: What Developers Need to Know"

selectnull — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:58:58 +0000

Instead of that, put this in .gitconfig:

[init]

    defaultBranch = master

New comment by selectnull in "Ask HN: Why is there black line on top? I guess not because of Cloudflare outage"

selectnull — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:15:55 +0000

There can be more than one post about it.