Hacker News: vindin

New comment by vindin in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

vindin — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:08:34 +0000

Not a lawyer but if you can sue for emotional distress for similar situations I would imagine there is an angle here

New comment by vindin in "No AI Co-Authors. A Manifesto"

vindin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:28:09 +0000

Broken on mobile, and clearly written by an AI co-author.

This sounds like Claude from a mile away

“It strikes the tool. It keeps the person. Matching runs on both the display name and the email, normalized — so a renamed bot or a numeric noreply address doesn’t slip through. A human is never in the blast radius.”

New comment by vindin in "120k Lines of Rust: Inside the Nosdesk Backend"

vindin — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:02:35 +0000

“Sub-100ms response times, because I chose the hard path with Rust and it paid off.“

Rust is not the reason you have sub-100ms response times. If it were the true bottleneck your app would be far faster than this

New comment by vindin in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

vindin — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:26:34 +0000

This woman knows nothing about the real world

New comment by vindin in "Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt"

vindin — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:20:15 +0000

robots.txt is merely a gentleman’s courtesy at this point. Nobody is obligated to follow it.

New comment by vindin in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

vindin — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:15:42 +0000

The data viz of the benchmarks is really rough. I think you’d get a lot of leverage out of rebuilding it and using colors and/or shapes to extract additional dimensions. Nobody wants to scan through raw file paths as labels to try and figure out what the hell the results are

New comment by vindin in "Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML"

vindin — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:15:34 +0000

This problem was solved almost 15 years ago

New comment by vindin in "Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal"

vindin — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:42:37 +0000

Learn to read canonical diffs. It is the standard and will get you further than any new tool

New comment by vindin in "Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system"

vindin — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:08:14 +0000

Neat idea but you could build this with a fraction of the complexity by ditching sqlite and duckdb for your native file system and rg/grep/gawk with equivalent performance

New comment by vindin in "Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library"

vindin — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:35:56 +0000

Why are people using rust to build web apps

New comment by vindin in "Muse: Cursor for Composing MIDI"

vindin — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:47:57 +0000

Looks really cool, will definitely be trying it out. Do you have any screenshares or demo midi you can share? And is there any way to use a text based notation rather than a piano roll?

New comment by vindin in "Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”"

vindin — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:02:38 +0000

Why? Just because it’s in rust doesn’t make it a better product

New comment by vindin in "Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings"

vindin — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:46:47 +0000

Heartbreaking. They were a pioneer and laid the foundation for countless artists over the last 20 years. Especially in the early 2010s, their products like Massive played a key role in shaping what modern electronic music would eventually sound like. Ever since they got acquired and merged with izotope, they’ve been spiraling. Another textbook example of how private equity destroys innovative companies.

New comment by vindin in "CLI command history tracker – never forget a command again"

vindin — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:05:27 +0000

Someone never read their shell’s manpages

New comment by vindin in "Feed me up, Scotty – custom RSS feed generation using CSS selectors"

vindin — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:28:16 +0000

Love the powerful simplicity, nice work

New comment by vindin in "Show HN: Pbar.io – Distributed progress bars that work in terminals and browsers"

vindin — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:31:53 +0000

Really clever, nice work. Love the minimal but polished approach you’ve taken

New comment by vindin in "Why we still build with Ruby"

vindin — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:56:25 +0000

I've noticed the exact same thing. Every tablestakes component has a gold standard library (sidekiq, puma, devise, rake, vcr, and so many others) and all seem to have been updated within the last week. The community might be small and have a dull outward appearance, but anyone who works with Ruby knows that the ecosystem has been blooming with life for 2 decades.

New comment by vindin in "Linux Foundation's updated inclusive language guide"

vindin — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:16:18 +0000

I really think we need to take a good look at Tux, and consider a redesign. For something as symbolic as him, I really think that we need to adjust his shading, such that he is at least 50% black. His current appearance is a literal example of white supremacy, and this should never be tolerated.

New comment by vindin in "Linux Foundation's updated inclusive language guide"

vindin — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:05:08 +0000

This also makes me think of blackbodies, which are literal black bodied objects in physical space that absorb radiation in larger quantities than non black bodies

New comment by vindin in "Linux Foundation's updated inclusive language guide"

vindin — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 01:50:41 +0000

Such a waste of valuable man hours