Hacker News: zvqcMMV6Zcr

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:49:34 +0000

No, they detect issue symbol in branch name or commit title and add "Closes #123" at the end of merge request description.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:42:27 +0000

GitLab team on other hand is unyielding, they love adding their "Closes #" in MRs and don't care about people that ask to get rid of it.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:28:23 +0000

Nice. I had no idea that nearby paper mill includes 200MW of power generation.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:06:13 +0000

SF required application form, where you had to explain why you are worthy to have your git repo hosted by SF. By the time they processed it I already forgot I even applied. I think that was actual reason for them being destroyed by GitHub, that had simple, fully automated signup.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:32:03 +0000

I think that is misinformation caused by circular logic. DDR prices stopped risking, simply because supply reached equilibrium vs demand and willingness of customers to overpay. The Micron stock price also had minor correction. Suddenly internet is full of articles how it is all caused by TurboQuant release or OpenAI giving up on its huge wafer orders.

Looks very similar like attempts to explain random crypto price changes with any (un)related news.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:11:19 +0000

If it is the AITA subreddit (or one of many similar ones) it might not be that bad. It is after all dedicated to outrage farming, so there will be many human responses. It is just the original posts that are all baits, and it doesn't really matter if they are made by LLMs or as a creative writing exercise.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:28:15 +0000

Why would you compare Eclipse GlassFish instead to Payara or Wildfly/JBoss? Anyway, that bickering between JEE application server vendors is what caused Spring to win. It doesn't matter it has update churn that is almost as bad as in JS ecosystem, just the fact you don't have to think about AS helped adoption. Well that and significantly easier testing. And Spring Data with generating queries from method names. And you can't recruit people with JEE knowledge anyway, they all know only Spring.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "Anthropic Subprocessor Changes"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:29:29 +0000

https://www.gdprsummary.com/gdpr-definitions/sub-processor/ in context of GDPR/DORA it is about formalized agreements with 3rd parties that will handle data, your own and of your clients.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:24:03 +0000

That whole feature is kind of paragraph 22. No legit/popular site uses it so users don't expect national characters in domain names, so no one actually hosts sites using "xn-" domains.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "Show HN: Optio – Orchestrate AI coding agents in K8s to go from ticket to PR"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:30:50 +0000

> To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops

I am not sure how AI agent variation of that joke would look like. Every now and then some blog posts lands on HN asking "Where are all new apps created thanks to LLM productivity boost"?. I am more surprised there are no news about some serious fuck-ups that can be traced back to LLM usage in code.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:13:23 +0000

I love the whole "Thank you for adding free game to your account. Do you know you can download our launcher to actually play them?" message.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "March, 19-21: God is a comedian"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:26:42 +0000

> The insurer’s phone must be making fascinating noises.

Doesn't all insurance policies exclude acts of war, and after 9/11 also acts of terrorism?

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "Java is fast, code might not be"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:12:47 +0000

> Exceptions for Control Flow

This one is so prevalent that JVM has an optimization where it gives up on filling stack for exception, if it was thrown over and over in exact same place.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:09:01 +0000

I will bite. How do I set up recurring crypto payments/donations for my site? How big cut will be taken by intermediary?

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:30 +0000

That is crazier than any old dailywtf stories, and that site felt like everyone tried to one-up each other.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "Java 26 is here"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:54:11 +0000

> My hope is that the first JEPs out of Project Valhalla will be announced later this year

I have heard about Valhalla at least around release of Java 8. That said that site is a solid description of other current and upcoming JEPs.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "Honda is killing its EVs"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:50:02 +0000

> In a properly designed system, the only real fear here is a state-level attack.

No, I actually also have to wonder if manufacturer OTA update won't brick my car on their whim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OB2NqcSDXQ

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:50:34 +0000

Terms of service might matter more for terminating that user account. Whole ordeal is just plain copyright violation. The author had no licence to that internal code, and whitewashing it with LLM will achieve nothing. That case is much clearer than that recent GPL->BSD attempt story.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:43:16 +0000

> led to a lot more options for my friend with celiac.

Did it really? I have hear some complaints that before "gluten free" meant it doesn't contain those allergens at all and now it only means "there are no grains on ingredient list". And with amount of cross-contamination in food industry that is nowhere near enough for people with allergy.

New comment by zvqcMMV6Zcr in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

zvqcMMV6Zcr — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:12:39 +0000

My bet is on low-fiber diet and people spending half hour playing with phone instead of getting up from toilet.