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Feed aggregators (inoreader, feedly) make this difficult, though. One request may end up serving any number of end users, so you can't personalize ads the same way. Good, you might…

Are you suggesting that AI-written code tends to be more secure than human-written code? Because there are many examples to the contrary, starting with MoltBook.

Tangent: Much like PHP, "modern" CF isn't actually that bad to work with these days. In particular the superset-of-html syntax has been superseded for pure logic by "CFScript" whic…

The linked article isn't describing a form of input sanitization, it's a complete separation between trusted and untrusted contexts. The trusted model has no access to untrusted in…

He's living the hacker dream. Made a billion bucks, then went right back to writing code. People upvote because they wish they were him.

The HN zeitgeist has something of a love/hate relationship with the web, I've noticed. HN in general seems to skew a little older than a lot of online communities, so a lot of HN u…

If you're crazy then I am too. 50% odds it was written by a human, 50% bot.

I imagine offloading a lot of the heavy lifting to Vite helps cut down on the code size.

I once managed to trigger what I think was a race condition in a microwave's beep routine. It was one of the type that does a single long beep rather than individual beeps, and lik…

I've never used a Lisp either, but I get the impression that "forcing you to write the AST" is sort of the secret sauce. That is, if your source code is basically an AST to begin w…

Technically native selects do have a very rudimentary form of filtering: start typing text with the select focused and it will auto-select the first matching option. E.g. if the se…

That works if you're dealing with a known set of keys (i.e. what most statically-typed languages would call a struct). It falls down if you need something where the keys are unknow…

I haven't used Deno, but I do use Bun purely as a replacement for npm. It does the hard-linking thing that seems to be increasingly common for package managers these days (i.e. it …

Requests is a great example of my point, actually. Creating a brand-new Python venv and running `uv add requests` tells me that a total of 5 packages were added. By contrast, creat…

I've worried about this for a while with Rust packages. The total size of a "big" Rust project's dependency graph is pretty similar to a lot of JS projects. E.g. Tauri, last I chec…

uv helps a lot with the first problem. Not so much with the second, though.

SPy looks really interesting! I've run across projects like MyPyc before, but as you say they kill a lot of the "joy" of Python by removing things like decorators and operator over…

Reader mode is based on a whole slew of heuristics including tag names, class names, things like link-to-text-content ratio, and other stuff I can't recall. IIRC it considers seman…

I've used Python a lot over the last ~10 years. It's probably my favorite language, although I'm not immune to its weak points. To answer your questions in order, a) I haven't done…

After playing around for a while, a few things come to mind: * Being able to specify a db at startup would be pretty cool. I'm teaching a class on SQL this summer and I'm already e…

Lots of people here mentioning reasons to both use and avoid the cloud. I'll just chip in one more on the pro-cloud side: reliability at low scale. To expand: At $dayjob we use AWS…

Isn't the problem with deflation that it de-incentivizes investment (why accept risk when you can just stuff your mattress with money and grow your wealth risk-free), which tanks t…

I think it might actually be patents rather than copyright restrictions that are in play here.