Hacker News: windward

New comment by windward in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

windward — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:51:12 +0000

Counter-anecdote: I've played a game where the developer included a bug that gave other players arbitrary code execution on my PC and left it online while fixing the bug. I've never launched it since and had owned it less than 48 hours. Steam rejected my refund.

New comment by windward in "GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes"

windward — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:35:45 +0000

Times would have been much more 'interesting' - for better or worse - had the LLM movement occurred during the zero interest-rate era.

New comment by windward in "High Performance Git"

windward — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:38:31 +0000

No. When I left a job using Mercurial, I made a vow never to start a job that used it again. And that employer was seeking to move on from it.

New comment by windward in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

windward — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:37:08 +0000

It originally hails from the trivium: the grammar, logic and rhetoric taught to beginner students.

New comment by windward in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

windward — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:22:15 +0000

Why do you want us to think you don't know what a negative externality is? Do you usually find that you benefit from people thinking you're unworldly?

New comment by windward in "The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi"

windward — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:17:19 +0000

Because most Vietnamese people in the US are southern Vietnamese. People who fled during what we'd call the Vietnam War*, and their descendants.

*Not the most recent war in Vietnam

New comment by windward in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

windward — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:04:07 +0000

1967, the Dino 206 GT

New comment by windward in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

windward — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:57:16 +0000

>If you want your WIP changes to leave your laptop, you've got to push them somewhere, just like you would in git.

Permanently, to a single branch in un-buildable form. So useful.

New comment by windward in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

windward — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:56:28 +0000

>For most project, "useful history" or "real history" is better than a "clean" history.

This is your opinion, so I'm compelled to point out it's not the consensus opinion.

New comment by windward in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

windward — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:26:54 +0000

I know. It's an opinion about how to develop that a lot of people hold - a declining proportion, mind you, like Mecurial's declining market share - and it's one that they're able to represent in Git's model, with Git's features. They're even able to do it without exposing me to it. But the same isn't true in reverse. Strictly superior?

Believe me, I tried to have an open mind about it. Then one day I was getting ready to go on a work trip with a half-finished feature on my work laptop, and realised there was simply no in-model way for backing that wip up to the repo. If I lost my laptop, I lost the progress. mercurial-scm fails at SCM.

New comment by windward in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

windward — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:22:54 +0000

Mercurial can't rebase without an extension, or force push. Are you using a definition of strictly superior that means it has fewer features?

New comment by windward in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

windward — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:22:01 +0000

Isn't it kind of like how you don't care much about the oxygen content of the air around you, but you'd miss it if it was gone? I've done development with Mercurial, simple processes were irritatingly slow, particularly if you stray from the better-supported opinionated path.

New comment by windward in "Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon"

windward — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:38:43 +0000

It's disappointingly difficult to get a positive case for what happened from deniers, that attempts to explain these things. Very eager to tell you what didn't happen, though.

New comment by windward in "I Quit. The Clankers Won"

windward — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:06:11 +0000

Many of those skills have temporary value before they're incorporated into the models/harnesses

New comment by windward in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

windward — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:34:48 +0000

>Most tech companies in the last 2-3 decades lost money for years

Yes

>before making a profit.

New comment by windward in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

windward — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:00:16 +0000

>Why MS cares your private repositories? give a reason? Maybe using your code to train their programming robot, lol

>Whether they will abuse the trust of having complete and total access to every private repo and all of the code inside or not remains to be seen

>MS is pushing their ads within their own OS more and more, will GitHub get the same treatment[...]?

Funny.

New comment by windward in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

windward — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:47:03 +0000

Do you feel that television, video games and the internet had a negligible impact on our culture?

New comment by windward in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

windward — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:51:13 +0000

Not to mention Windows 10 being sold as the last version

New comment by windward in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

windward — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:22:07 +0000

So what happens for those enterprise customers now? Is there a meaningful fallout when these services fail to meet their SLAs?

New comment by windward in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

windward — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:01:00 +0000

PC said logo T-shirt and cargo shorts because they are so un-individual that they have become cliche.