Yes, and they've been at it for a while.
its honestly hard to watch.
Readit News1GZ0 commented on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? infosec.press/brunomiguel... · Posted by u/pabs3
Darkreader plus 150-200% zoom and you have something pretty usable on hidpi displays. You could always try making your own frontend for HN, it's pretty trivial :)
Writing for AI honestly doesn't seem much different to writing for pagerank algorithms which SEO specialists have been doing for years. The only change is that almost all the SEO content on the web is now being written by AI, for AI to later summarise.
Somewhere in Denmark, DHH is smiling
1GZ0 commented on UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content gov.uk/government/news/on... · Posted by u/_p2zi
So they're going after mukbang YouTubers now?
1GZ0 commented on A critique of package managers gingerbill.org/article/20... · Posted by u/gingerBill
Sorry but I lack any respect for authors that use clickbaits. Call them put and move on seem the best approach.
Its not clickbait though.
You should try reading the article before passing judgement.
Its not like the article is called "5 facts that will make you hate package managers. Number 5 will shock you"
1GZ0 commented on A critique of package managers gingerbill.org/article/20... · Posted by u/gingerBill
In the article, the author does say "I am not advocating to write things from scratch", while also describing third party dependencies as liabilities (e.g. security vulnerabilities), that people are too trusting of third party dependencies, that people overestimate the quality of third party dependencies.
I think you're splitting hairs if you're saying that these points from the article argue against package managers but don't argue against using third party dependencies.
I similarly think you're splitting hairs if to consider "package managers are useful?" and "third party dependencies are useful?" as distinct points.
Liability: "Something for which one is liable; an obligation, responsibility, or debt."
Third party dependencies absolutely are liabilities. You are liable to vet them, inspect their licenses and keep them updated while ensuring that they continue working with your existing code.
This is not something package managers help you do. Package managers like NPM make it trivial to skip these steps entirely.
What is being argued for, is a more thoughtful approach to handling third party dependencies. Or at the very least, the need for people to realise that there are costs associated with bringing third party dependencies into your codebase.
Its not splitting hairs at all. Its more of an presumption on the part of a large number of readers, that the 2 points argued conflate to "Package manager suck, because third party dependencies suck and you should write everything from scratch instead".
1GZ0 commented on A critique of package managers gingerbill.org/article/20... · Posted by u/gingerBill
The title is provocative and attention grabbing. -- It's completely fair game to react to the provocation rather than the substance of the article itself. (Or, rather, it's silly to use attention grabbing rhetoric, then complain that people paid attention to the rhetoric).
I'd prefer instead a more balanced title like "Remember to Consider the Costs When Using Package Managers", or whatever.
> It's completely fair game to react to the provocation rather than the substance of the article itself.
Yeah, but its down right stupid to do so.
The title isn't even misleading or part of a Motte-and-bailey argument.
People just hear "Package Managers are Evil" and assume that the author means you shouldn't use third party dependencies. Which is NOT what's being argued.
But I guess you'd know that, if you read passed the title.
1GZ0 commented on A critique of package managers gingerbill.org/article/20... · Posted by u/gingerBill
"When using Go for example, you don’t need any third-party libraries to make a web server, Go has it all there and you are done."
Fine, now what if you need to connect to a database, or parse a PDF, or talk to a grpc backend. What a hilariously short-sighted example.
To me, this whole article just screams inexperience.
The Author isn't arguing for not using third party dependencies.
He's arguing for developers to be more conscious of the dependencies they use, by manually vetting and handling them. That screams "I've been down the package manager route and paid the price". Not inexperience.
1GZ0 commented on DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that's getting bigger. Let's kill it off theregister.com/2025/09/0... · Posted by u/rntn
"let's kill it off" proceeds to offer no solutions.