Hacker News: watermelon0

New comment by watermelon0 in "An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows"

watermelon0 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:45:09 +0000

Firefox on iOS doesn't support extensions at all.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Coding is not solved"

watermelon0 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:11:46 +0000

You can use it without understanding, but this won't help you actually understand how it behaves.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Platform-independent SIMD in Go"

watermelon0 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:57:25 +0000

Rob Pike seems to dislike syntax highlighting:

> Syntax highlighting is juvenile. When I was a child, I was taught arithmetic using colored rods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods). I grew up and today I use monochromatic numerals.

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...

He is definitely not alone in thinking this, for example (but for different reasons): https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/

New comment by watermelon0 in "I said no and Apple said yes"

watermelon0 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:55:58 +0000

> The cheating is out of control.

There are hardware cheats that are not detectable by KLAC, so it doesn't solve the problem, just improves the situation.

The only way to avoid cheaters is to play with people you trust.

New comment by watermelon0 in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

watermelon0 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:01:52 +0000

They abandoned (or at least postponed) the idea of charging for self-hosted runners usage.

Actions management plane is the most problematic part of the platform (in regards to scale), so they are basically losing money with self-hosted runners.

Scaling of VMs shouldn't be a problem, since that is practically stateless, whereas there are lots of operations performed for every job/workflow.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

watermelon0 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:29:45 +0000

Are you implying that a 6 year old hardware is as good as a paperweight? Outside of the Apple fairyland this is just bonkers.

I'm not blaming the Homebrew project/developers here, but the fact that many people are okay with deprecating perfectly fine hardware.

The World Is Going Grayscale

watermelon0 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:13:29 +0000

Article URL: https://oneinalillian1.substack.com/p/the-world-is-going-grayscale

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642467

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by watermelon0 in "Astra replicates Adobe Lightroom"

watermelon0 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:25:50 +0000

It links directly to captcha page.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Bug Blindness"

watermelon0 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:31:47 +0000

There is no CSS configuration for text/font on the website, so it's using browser defaults.

Seems like reader mode is needed due to bad defaults.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Disruption with Some GitHub Services"

watermelon0 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:06:10 +0000

It very well may be that the paying customers are actually the problem. Those can actually afford to throw enough money at AI providers to significantly increase the number of commits & other actions.

KDE Linux Experiences

watermelon0 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:51:16 +0000

Article URL: https://akselmo.dev/posts/kde-linux-experiences/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396658

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by watermelon0 in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

watermelon0 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:37:20 +0000

Forgejo CI is based on act, which allows running GitHub Actions locally.

However, Codeberg offers hosted Woodpecker CI.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx"

watermelon0 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:47:48 +0000

Works for me in Firefox. It's h264/mp4.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a separate Linux workstation"

watermelon0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:15:18 +0000

https://archive.is/HBaXZ

(Cloudflare says I'm blocked from accessing the webpage, even though I'm using a residential IP)

Reviewing AI Code Is Not a Viable Argument

watermelon0 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:24:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/reviewing-ai-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49059064

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by watermelon0 in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

watermelon0 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:08:22 +0000

Plex app is better, but still inadequate compared to Infuse.

New comment by watermelon0 in "Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand"

watermelon0 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:32:26 +0000

I’m quite sure that server set cookies are the norm for authentication, at least where they are set from the server side.

New comment by watermelon0 in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

watermelon0 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:18:01 +0000

Wouldn't it be cheaper to only produce 500 items, instead of producing 1k, and throwing half of it away?

New comment by watermelon0 in "TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years"

watermelon0 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:41:22 +0000

Practically all consumer Zigbee devices only support 2.4GHz. You would need to go for ZWave for the sub-GHz range.

Also, it's not like 860-930 MHz (depending on the country) is without interference.

New comment by watermelon0 in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

watermelon0 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:12:22 +0000

I've been thinking about building my own NAS as well. Mind sharing how much did you pay for those hard drives, and what motherboard did you choose?