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New comment by yeputons in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

yeputons — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:48:55 +0000

I got mine when I was 12, IIRC. Not a credit, of course, it was a debit card, but not all countries bother to differentiate between the two, it was just a “bank card”. And I believe it had a credit card BIN because all local banks did that to get more in processing fees.

New comment by yeputons in "Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter"

yeputons — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:40:43 +0000

I would read «КНЦ» as «КОНЕЦ», literally “an end” or “the end” (Russian does not have anything resembling articles). Who needs vowels, anyway.

Also, «ВСЕ» feels like «ВСЁ» in this context, I’d translate that as “that’s all”.

Programming Used to Be Free

yeputons — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:24:39 +0000

Article URL: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/programming-used-to-be-free/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748314

Points: 82

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New comment by yeputons in "Corroded: Illegal Rust"

yeputons — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:07:18 +0000

It is, because it disables checks in the whole code base. With Corroded, you still have to manually corrode it in selected places.

New comment by yeputons in "Corroded: Illegal Rust"

yeputons — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:06:10 +0000

> Multiple threads read and write simultaneously with no synchronization. I call it 'vibes threading'.

So, C++.

I like the term "vibe threading" to describe the the default state of affairs in some (most?) languages. We can extend it to "vibe contracts" as well.

New comment by yeputons in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

yeputons — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:06:53 +0000

Huh, great to know, thank you. For some reason, I thought the game gets de-listed completely and no downloads are possible anymore.

New comment by yeputons in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

yeputons — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:41:10 +0000

Happens regularly. And if you don't have a visa for the new destination, well, too bad.

E.g. on December 20 a WizzAir flight 4768 was diverted to Thessaloniki (Greece) instead of its destination Skopje (North Macedonia): https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/WZZ4768/history/2025... . Those with Schengen visas (or appropriate passports) got a bus to Skopje. The rest allegedly waited for three hours and then got returned to Cyprus (EU, but not Schengen), but to a different airport (Paphos instead of Larnaca). So if someone had a car left on Larnaca's parking, too bad.

New comment by yeputons in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

yeputons — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:32:08 +0000

> They use scamming approaches more misleading than airline's and in cases straight up lie.

Would you mind sharing some examples? My only complaints with DB are cancellations and delays. Well, the ticketing might be a bit confusing the first time you realize "ticket" and "seat reservation" are two completely independent entities. Similarly, rules for which train you're allowed to take might be a bit confusing. But I wouldn't call it scamming.

New comment by yeputons in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

yeputons — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:24:16 +0000

Local trains in Moscow and Saint Petersburg ("elektrichka" with all local stops) may get delayed by a few minutes sometimes, true. But e.g. several trains being delayed by ten minutes because of an ice rain is newsworthy. At least that was the case on several directions I knew about.

New comment by yeputons in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

yeputons — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:50:29 +0000

Correct, but GOG provides games without _any_ DRM, both in the installer and in the game itself.

New comment by yeputons in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

yeputons — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:47:20 +0000

> I can’t recall a time I’ve encountered an issue that was the fault of Valve versus a developer or publisher.

Does it really matter if it's developer/publisher removing the game from Steam, not Valve? The end result is the same: one can't play.

New comment by yeputons in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

yeputons — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:42:45 +0000

One does not have a debit/credit card at all (e.g. they're young, or don't have enough documents, or are an immigrant from a sanctioned country).

Alternatively, the card is rejected because "fraud prevention", see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424584

Or the game is not available in my "account's region", which is chosen arbitrarily based on God knows what.

New comment by yeputons in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

yeputons — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:15:16 +0000

Might be an estimation of logs storage/bandwidth.

New comment by yeputons in "Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)"

yeputons — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:41:25 +0000

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866 - a person gave permission for IBM to "use JSLint for evil".

New comment by yeputons in "There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers"

yeputons — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:14:56 +0000

> We focus on system design, architectural decisions, and reasoning through trade-offs.

Are we still talking about hiring juniors? I hope I misunderstood and it's not about "design messaging app" type of questions. Otherwise we're firmly back in the Leetcode land.

New comment by yeputons in "There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers"

yeputons — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:11:43 +0000

> cloning the github repo we used for our interview

Unless it's a very well-known big tech, I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable running any externally provided code during the interview. For all I know, it's RCE with potential to steal cookies and/or crypto.

New comment by yeputons in "I don't want AI agents controlling my laptop"

yeputons — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:23:55 +0000

> Sure, there are some protections like “you can’t record the screen without the user granting explicit permission”,

Are there? Any app on Windows screenshot and access camera, microphone, whatever. Aren't permissions for Windows Store-style apps only?

New comment by yeputons in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

yeputons — Sat, 17 May 2025 00:51:39 +0000

Not a lawyer here.

My advice would be to relax, enjoy Armenia, and assume you are not entering the U.S. in the next couple of years, for any reason. Administrative processing (I assume you actually mean 221(g) refusal) can easily take 1-2 years. The most extreme case I've heard of took 4 years.

In 2016-2020 writing to a congressmen could actually help: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/11/09/a-us-visa-in-937-days... , but not anymore. Last year I've heard about some success stories with U.S. courts. Still, it took for one O-1 person about two years from the initial visa interview.

I've also never heard of anyone getting any timeline estimations.

A related small thread with Peter's response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44006801

New comment by yeputons in "When Compiler Engineers Act as Judges, What Can Possibly Go Wrong?"

yeputons — Mon, 12 May 2025 20:45:37 +0000

> Compilers are one of the projects where the devs actually can and should expect 100% of their users to be programmers, by definition. Why else would you be running a compiler?

Following some random instructions for "downloading good GenAI software from GitHub".

New comment by yeputons in "When Compiler Engineers Act as Judges, What Can Possibly Go Wrong?"

yeputons — Mon, 12 May 2025 13:17:18 +0000

> Open source thrives on collaboration. ... Central to this ecosystem are Codes of Conduct (CoCs), designed to ...

Open source thrived back in early 2000-s too. Although I don't remember anything even remotely resembling Code of Conduct back then, I wasn't paying attention. Was it a thing?

I found that Drupal adopted CoC in 2010, and Ubuntu had one already no later than 2005 (the "Ubuntu Management Philosophy" book from 2005 mentions it).