Hacker News: tormeh

New comment by tormeh in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

tormeh — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:39:53 +0000

Pijul?

Git has issues, but it works pretty well once you learn it and it's basically universal. Will be hard to dislodge.

New comment by tormeh in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

tormeh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:43:49 +0000

I've seen it be the concatenated individual git commit messages way too often. Just a full screen scroll of "my hands are writing letters" and "afkifrj". Still better than if we had those commits individually of course, but dear god.

The gold standard is rebased linear unsquashed history with literary commits, but I'll take merged and squashed PR commits with sensible commit messages without complaint.

New comment by tormeh in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

tormeh — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:51:57 +0000

For real. Once I've opened Spotify, Slack, Teams, and a browser about 10GB of RAM is in use. I barely have any RAM left over for actual work.

New comment by tormeh in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

tormeh — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:46:39 +0000

Email and chat apps will work, but everything else will slow to a crawl at best and time out at worst.

New comment by tormeh in "Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File"

tormeh — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:56:29 +0000

It's unexpected. When trying to understand a system it's beneficial if it adheres to expectations, as it means we're not forced to consider the entire possibility space of what a program can be. Utilizing the entire possibility space is usually the domain of malware, which tries to be surprising.

New comment by tormeh in "Honda is killing its EVs"

tormeh — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:41:15 +0000

Tbf a plug-in is just an EV that somehow runs on petrol 4 times a year. In practice the vast majority of driving is done on battery power.

New comment by tormeh in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

tormeh — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:27:28 +0000

Isn't the solution to a rare task being painful to make the task frequent? What if we required daily/weekly fiscal reporting? Would that even be feasible? I guess it would force complete automation, which might make it much more difficult to change things and reduce company agility. Would be fun to hear the opinion of someone actually involved with the process.

New comment by tormeh in "Harold and George Destroy the World"

tormeh — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:55:30 +0000

Betting on "it's me that has changed" has rarely been false throughout history. Humans have mostly been the same throughout the ages.

New comment by tormeh in "Harold and George Destroy the World"

tormeh — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:53:22 +0000

Some adults try a bit harder to live up to the ideals of being an adult than others. They are toddlers inside like anyone else, but there's a layer of restraint on top that evidently not everyone has.

New comment by tormeh in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

tormeh — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:00:32 +0000

Nothing can really save you from architecture astronauts, except possibly Go, but I hear there are people templating Go with preprocessors, so who knows. This is a human problem. On the other hand I hear you. The moment Rust gets proper async traits an entire world of hexagonal pain will open up for the victims of the astronauts. So it will get even worse, basically. I think if we could solve the problem of bored smart people sabotaging projects it'd be amazing.

New comment by tormeh in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

tormeh — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:56:36 +0000

We're reaching levels of "move fast and break things" previously only thought possible under laboratory conditions.

Seriously? They couldn't be bothered setting upload speed to 0?

New comment by tormeh in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

tormeh — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:08:29 +0000

If only Nixon had had the current supreme court, which actually agrees with him.

New comment by tormeh in "Farewell, Rust for web"

tormeh — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:06:47 +0000

How much of that is just because Rust UI libraries are not ready, though? It's never going to become Python, but it could become decent.

New comment by tormeh in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

tormeh — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:45:00 +0000

This will happen regardless. LLMs are already ingesting their own output. At the point where AI output becomes the majority of internet content, interesting things will happen. Presumably the AI companies will put lots of effort into finding good training data, and ironically that will probably be easier for code than anything else, since there are compilers and linters to lean on.

New comment by tormeh in "Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe"

tormeh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:09:17 +0000

For the neobanks I think it's very easy to explain: Their customers need Visa or Mastercard. No Visa/Mastercard? No retail customers. It's as simple as that. Any other payment scheme is a bonus thing that can be put on the backlog.

New comment by tormeh in "Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe"

tormeh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:02:05 +0000

Netherlands and Luxemburg joining soon, along with what I believe is Austria's biggest bank. But yes, hardly a pan-European project.

New comment by tormeh in "Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe"

tormeh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:00:33 +0000

I think this is more about fees than sovereignty.

New comment by tormeh in "Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe"

tormeh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:59:08 +0000

I really hope we can get Wero cards at some point. I don't like my ability to pay for things to depend on my phone's battery.

New comment by tormeh in "The Sideprocalypse"

tormeh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:24:27 +0000

Well, the affordable luxury segment has done quite well over the last couple of decades.

New comment by tormeh in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

tormeh — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 02:01:59 +0000

Do robots wear turtlenecks?