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The linked post got 13 points in 2 hours, and has just been flagged. It was already missing from any front pages before being visibly flagged. https://web.archive.org/web/202507091…

With 8 points in an hour, my post drawing attention to this is missing from the front pages. HN is censoring news about X / Twitter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511132 ht…

Why is this still flagged? Edit: Even though my comment is gaining an increasing amount of votes, it has suddenly moved to the bottom of the comments, as though it were dead. Edit2…

Based on the examples given in the blog post, this appears to be a massive step backwards for PHP. The language has been making an effort to clean itself up for years . The author …

Just because you can charge for open source software, doesn't make it moral to do so. Concentrating our efforts on making Debian even easier to use seems much more in line with the…

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux …

It is indeed a lot of work. All of my apps are only available on F-Droid now, after years of playing ball with Google Play. I wrote about my experience here: https://rocket9labs.co…

I've seen the same position posted for a YC-backed company for over a year. I commented on it months ago, it's funny to see this topic come up again. We seriously need some legisla…

Seems strange that Rust's "?" gets a mention syntax-wise, but nothing is said about sum types coming to Go. Go's verbose error handling and lack of sum types are my only gripes wit…

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux …

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux …

A read-only demo[0] of Sriracha's output is available. Screenshots of the management panel are also available in the demo. Sriracha allows anyone to host an imageboard or forum usi…

Several FOSS apps of mine were removed from Google Play because of this. I wrote about one solution for other affected developers here: https://rocket9labs.com/post/on-the-importan…

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux …

Does this article really need a visual aid of cars waiting in a line, let alone a sloppy AI generated visual aid?

I wrote about the situation with Apache Open Office here: https://rocket9labs.com/post/its-time-to-let-go-apache-softw...

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux …

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux …

Related: It's Time To Let Go, Apache Software Foundation https://rocket9labs.com/post/its-time-to-let-go-apache-softw...

I've seen a YC startup post for the same back-end job for a year now. I admit that I did not apply, but it doesn't look that unappealing.

Agreed. I wrote about this issue and others in "On the Importance of F-Droid" https://rocket9labs.com/post/on-the-importance-of-f-droid/

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes (6 years of WFH experience) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go (Golang), Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux …