Hacker News: siruwastaken

New comment by siruwastaken in "Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf]"

siruwastaken — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:40:12 +0000

So from what I am seeing in this with a brief look over it, the only cases in which data loss seemed to occur were when two clients were editing the same file temporally close to each other? I.e. you end up creating something similar to a git merge conflict, which cannot be solved automatically well, and thus can generate loss of data.

New comment by siruwastaken in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

siruwastaken — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:00:08 +0000

Legally finding plaintiffs, who can sue us for our illegal machinations is not allowed on our platform. What a world we live in. If this isn't the simplest demonstration of monopolization of social media that Facebook has, then I don't know what is.

New comment by siruwastaken in "Increase in Google Searches for "GitHub Throttling" Since August 2025"

siruwastaken — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:14:39 +0000

How is this of interest? Has there been any reporting/user mentions of such an issue?

New comment by siruwastaken in "Apple Is Reportedly Facing a 'Massive Dilemma' with the MacBook Neo"

siruwastaken — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:22 +0000

For anyone not interested in reading the whole article, apparently Apple is running out of binned, slightly damaged but still usable chips from earlier production, chips to use in the MacBook Neo series. So the actual problem is simply:

> In any case, Apple could opt to keep the starting price of current and future MacBook Neo models at $599 and simply accept lower profit margins on the laptop, especially given that it attracts customers to the macOS and broader Apple ecosystem.

A company having slightly lower margins does not seem like an actual issue. It doesn't even sound like they would end up loosing money on this device just lower their own margin.

New comment by siruwastaken in "SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File"

siruwastaken — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:12:45 +0000

Am I the only one finding this article highly suspect? It seems like the errors made are so basic, i.e. using the wrong SQL dialect for the db system in use, and there orders were apparently only at 17?

New comment by siruwastaken in "Blackholing My Email"

siruwastaken — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:07:54 +0000

I'm probably showing my age here, but did these email worms largely die out due to spam filtering, or did the email programs just get better protections against viruses that made it more difficult to exploit? The only email "viruses" I have come accross today are actual humans accidentally replying "reply all" to a legitimate email.

New comment by siruwastaken in "Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices?"

siruwastaken — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:48:25 +0000

This seems like the idea of modularizing code, and using specific function sighatures for data exchange as an API is being re-invented by people using AI. Aren't we already mostly doing things this way, albeit via submodules in a monolith, due to the cognitive ctrain it puts on humans to understand the whole thing at any given time?

New comment by siruwastaken in "Group Pushing Age Verification for AI Turns Out to Be Backed by OpenAI"

siruwastaken — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:00:41 +0000

Here I was wondering what OpenAI even gets from this particular piece of legislation, but alas it is just the CEO trying to get more money for his individual self.

New comment by siruwastaken in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

siruwastaken — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:44:00 +0000

What would that variety of reasons be? Genuinely asking.

New comment by siruwastaken in "Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries"

siruwastaken — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:19:04 +0000

Why are you replying to your own coment?

New comment by siruwastaken in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

siruwastaken — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:39:38 +0000

Location: Munich, Germany (willing to work remote in other timezones)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, at the moment (maybe yes in 2+ years)

Technologies: WebDev (mostly backend), Go, Python (Django), Rust (Rocket.rs), Sqlite, PostgreSQL

Resume/CV: www.linkedin.com/in/nboynick

Email: email [at] siru.ink

Web: www.siru.ink

New comment by siruwastaken in "Reinventing the Pull Request"

siruwastaken — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:45:45 +0000

I apreciate the fact that they mention that sometimes a commit change needs a fix before it ever even was pull-request ready. I think it would be great to have the ability to easily reorder/modify commits while in active development, and then lock them into permanent history afterwards. Apparently (according to the article) Jujutsu can do that, but I've never had personal exoerience with that VCS.

New comment by siruwastaken in "Significant raise of reports"

siruwastaken — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:38:40 +0000

It's interesting to hear from people directly in the thick of it that these bug reports are apparently gaining value and are no longer just slop. Maybe there is hope for a world where AI helps create bug free software and doesn't just overload maintainers.

New comment by siruwastaken in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

siruwastaken — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:46:13 +0000

I fully agree with your comment. Wouldn't it be possible to just put off sending welcome emails until the user actually engaged with the product in some way? And if an account wigh no engagement persists for more than say three months just delete the account again under the premise of 'eroneousely created'?

New comment by siruwastaken in "Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?"

siruwastaken — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:28:51 +0000

I'm surprised that html entity supstitution performs so well. I would have assumed that scrappers could at least speak proper html.

New comment by siruwastaken in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

siruwastaken — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:16:48 +0000

I really hope the report from a few days ago about the heatshield not sustaining earth reentry does not turn out to be true.

New comment by siruwastaken in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

siruwastaken — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:49:08 +0000

Most people don't have the chance to do that, but hopefully we can see some other languages get first class access on the web. At least there is the whole WASM project.

New comment by siruwastaken in "An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode"

siruwastaken — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:51:13 +0000

Are there any developments towards font file standards that support the theoretical full space of unicode? I've always heard that fonts are limited in size to a subset of the true space.

New comment by siruwastaken in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

siruwastaken — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:42:07 +0000

Is there any other article that actually details what is going on? I feel whiplash from reading this right after the Ruby Central fiasco.

New comment by siruwastaken in "OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval"

siruwastaken — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:37:01 +0000

Question being did OnlyOffice terminate the business relationship in a legal way. Just because you dislike a companies trajectory doesn't necessarily immediately allow you to terminate business relations.