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New comment by tentacleuno in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

tentacleuno — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:40:22 +0000

> As an aside, I've noticed a huge drop off in license literacy amongst developers

What do you mean by this? I always assumed this was the case anyway; MIT is, if I'm not mistaken, one of the mostly used licenses. I typically had a "fuck it" attitude when it came to the license, and I assume quite a lot of other people shared that sentiment. The code is the fun bit.

TypeScript-Derived Languages

tentacleuno — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:21:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orta/awesome-typescript-derived-languages

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47086570

Points: 3

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New comment by tentacleuno in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

tentacleuno — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:32:06 +0000

It was never going to be perfect. I suspect the goal with things like these is to add additional friction to the process, to make it much harder for the general population to bypass them.

New comment by tentacleuno in "Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy"

tentacleuno — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:30:45 +0000

Ehh, who cares what the snobs think? Drink what you like! I've been experimenting with coffee for like 2 years, and have found myself really enjoying dark roasted stuff (as well as lighter stuff!)

The truth is, you can get a really fruity single-origin bean but as soon as it goes into a latte, typically you've lost 99% of the origin characteristics. It gets a bit wasteful and expensive. Cafes typically go for house roasts that lean darker, and I can see why: they just work better in milk!

New comment by tentacleuno in "Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy"

tentacleuno — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:28:23 +0000

There are definitely speciality shops that sell dark roasts like you might want. One in the UK, Rave, sells the most amazing Italian-style blend with robusta mixed in. It's not fruity at all, just pure dark roasty flavour (yes, I've got an espresso bar lol.)

That darker style gets frowned upon a lot ("bleuch! it's bitter!"), as a lot of people in the space have kinda embraced the more fruit-forward lighter roast stuff (if you roast darker, you tend to obscure them.) I like that too (some stuff is kickass), I just categorize it separately from darker stuff.

I believe some people have started calling it goop, presumably as an anthesis to soup, which is very coarsely ground espresso typically using lighter roasts.

Not sure where you're based (US?), but there will be stuff out there. Try r/coffee or your local forum maybe? Once you find a really good one, you'll probably just stick with it :-)

New comment by tentacleuno in "Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public"

tentacleuno — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:58:15 +0000

You can actually see what users have told Claude to add to the site, too[0]. The person continuously trying to add hash computation features for the course of 20 minutes provides a very unique entertainment :)

[0]: https://monitor.sharedclaude.com/

New comment by tentacleuno in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

tentacleuno — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:12:49 +0000

Some friction is probably wise. I remember them introducing the requirement to individually allow each app you're installing things from. The question is, how much more friction will they add? I suspect they will add prompts per install, too.

New comment by tentacleuno in "Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

tentacleuno — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:06:13 +0000

You don't really need more packages. There's definitely a culture of creating ridiculously small packages, though.

If you spend enough time in the ecosystem, you'll begin to realise that a select few are very well known for doing this; one in particular made a package for every ANSI terminal colour.

left-pad (and quite a few incidents afterwards) were definitely wakeup calls, and I like to think we've listened in some ways.

New comment by tentacleuno in "jQuery 4"

tentacleuno — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:57:46 +0000

In 2021, they published a post[0] about how they used web components, alongside a library called Calalyst. It seemed like quite a nice system. I've still seen include-fragment elements in the HTML, so I assume they still use it.

[0]: https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/ho...

New comment by tentacleuno in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

tentacleuno — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:06:31 +0000

Ahh! They're really cool; kinda miss them from Google Photos. I'm hoping Immich will implement something similar at some point.

New comment by tentacleuno in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

tentacleuno — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:32:54 +0000

Music? Like a music library? Wouldn't Subsonic be miles better for that?

New comment by tentacleuno in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

tentacleuno — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:12:47 +0000

> I don't know why iOS apps in general are so much larger than Android apps [...]

Rough guess: It probably wouldn't be this dramatic of an increase, but could it be something to do with iOS disallowing Just-in-Time compilation, and forcing Ahead-of-Time? I've always wondered.

New comment by tentacleuno in "JavaScript's For-Of Loops Are Fast"

tentacleuno — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:50:51 +0000

They don't seem to like generators either, which is even stranger. Why block the usage of features which might be useful in some cases?

New comment by tentacleuno in "You can make up HTML tags"

tentacleuno — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:26:34 +0000

I'm sure that's how the popular html5shim used to work, too. I remember looking at the source out of curiosity.

New comment by tentacleuno in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

tentacleuno — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:13:19 +0000

It always seems a shame when naturally clever people are assumed to have autism, or when their cleverness is attributed to it. Why can't someone just be intelligent without labels?

New comment by tentacleuno in "Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs"

tentacleuno — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:38:26 +0000

To be pedantic, assuming the fuel is used in a combustion engine, there will always be a percentage of the fuel wasted as heat energy. This depends on the thermodynamic efficiency of the engine and various other conditions, of course.

New comment by tentacleuno in "The React Foundation"

tentacleuno — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:15:56 +0000

> The idea that everything on the web should be written in react

Says who? There are plenty of choices: vanilla, Lit, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Riot, etc. Some of the alternatives are very good.

New comment by tentacleuno in "The React Foundation"

tentacleuno — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:12:28 +0000

I'm not sure if this still holds true, but I recall a time when you had to use them to create error boundaries. Of course, plenty of third-party hooks were made to bridge the gap.

New comment by tentacleuno in "The NIH ordered me to stop my 'dangerous' gain-of-function research"

tentacleuno — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:22:28 +0000

Has that ever been proved? All sources I can find are riddled in ambiguity. It's "one of two scenarios". I suppose we'll never really know for certain.

New comment by tentacleuno in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"

tentacleuno — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:29:53 +0000

Obligatory mention: ImagePipe[0]. It lets you compress pictures and edit them. You can share images to ImagePipe and it automatically shows a dialog to share compressed versions with another app (hence the "Pipe" -- it's a pipeline!)

[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.kaffeemitkoffein.imagepip...