Hacker News: zendist

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

zendist — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:12:08 +0000

Talking about doing it is virtue signaling.

Don't just say, do! If you have a popular repository, share news of your migration to drive others to do the same.

VOTE WITH YOUR FEET, PEOPLE!

New comment by zendist in "Show HN: Robust LLM Extractor for Websites in TypeScript"

zendist — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:14:52 +0000

Regardless. You should still respect robots.txt..

New comment by zendist in "Show HN: Robust LLM Extractor for Websites in TypeScript"

zendist — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:14:43 +0000

Regardless. You should still respect robots.txt..

New comment by zendist in "Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'"

zendist — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:43:13 +0000

Source?

New comment by zendist in "I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978"

zendist — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:50:07 +0000

At age ~11, I sent a MSPaint design of a phone with two SIM cards that you could switch between physically on a phone.

I sent it to Nokia over email :-D. They didn't respond.

Dual SIM phones apparently became a thing that same year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_SIM#:~:text=The%20first%2... Not originally by Nokia, though.

New comment by zendist in "Show HN: BreakerMachines – Modern Circuit Breaker for Rails with Async Support"

zendist — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:04:42 +0000

Weird.

New comment by zendist in "Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text"

zendist — Sat, 24 May 2025 08:00:54 +0000

The main benefit for me to just know and primarily use mermaid is that it integrates with markdown in Azure DevOps and GitHub seamlessly. No need for a text to image build step or similar.

New comment by zendist in "Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs"

zendist — Fri, 09 May 2025 19:48:50 +0000

There are many overlaps with SolidJS. How is this project different, ignoring the obvious; that you don't support JSX.

New comment by zendist in "SQL pipe syntax available in public preview in BigQuery"

zendist — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:19:17 +0000

This reminds me a bit of MSFTs Kusto language. Such an immensely useful way to slice and dice large amounts of structured data.

New comment by zendist in "Dumb TVs deserve a comeback"

zendist — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:17:10 +0000

This is false. GDPR is not ignored, I can tell you that much.

New comment by zendist in "Show HN: Rill – Composable concurrency toolkit for Go"

zendist — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:25:00 +0000

If you were to build a library like `rill` in the Go-way, what would your Batch API usage look like?

New comment by zendist in "IOCCC Flight Simulator (2010)"

zendist — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:02:08 +0000

How in the world did they come up with the obfuscated code for this? Surely they must be using a tool?

New comment by zendist in "Ask HN: Why is there not more concern about the physical security of Cloudflare?"

zendist — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:54:54 +0000

That's definitely a thing. Additionally, humans are surprisingly friendly in all the wrong ways when it comes to physical security (tailgating, "forgotten ID/credentials", etc.).

New comment by zendist in "A rare disorder makes people see monsters"

zendist — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 18:25:47 +0000

Sorry to anyone having this, that sounds awful.

Would we easily know if the inverse phenomenon is happening in the rest of us? We're seeing people "better looking" than "they are"?

New comment by zendist in "OpenAI starts rolling out new voice mode"

zendist — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 07:20:58 +0000

Same as https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/30/24209650/openai-chatgpt-a... ? I don't have Twitter, so I'm not 100p sure.

New comment by zendist in "Parse, Don't Validate (2019)"

zendist — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:29:59 +0000

It seems that CloudStrike only parsed and didn't validate, to great effect :-) /s

Not saying that this advice isn't solid, just thought it's funny given the news of this week.

New comment by zendist in "Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely"

zendist — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:14:08 +0000

The rule of three[1] also comes to mind and is a hard learned lesson.

My brain has a tendency to desire refactoring when I see two similar functions, I want to refactor--it's almost always a bad idea. More often than not, I later find out that the premature refactoring would've forced me to split the functions again.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_prog...

New comment by zendist in "Autonomous subs use AI to wayfind without GPS"

zendist — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 08:55:10 +0000

If you were alive in the 80's, it's not the first time ;-) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_al...

New comment by zendist in "Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust"

zendist — Sat, 27 May 2023 15:09:33 +0000

This one? https://www.lua.org/doc/cacm2018.pdf

New comment by zendist in "Major standard library changes in Go 1.20"

zendist — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 12:49:14 +0000

.NET is a strong contender, I would say. The standard library is immensely useful, and many things you may wonder if you need are available as Nuget packages, coming from the same devs who build the std lib.