Can somebody brief me on what's people's incentive of posting AI slop on HN? What are they gaining here?
Farming karma and then selling accounts to spammers and astroturfers. Used to be popular on Reddit, now it's everywhere.
Readit Newshomebrewer commented on FFmpeg 8.0 ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8... · Posted by u/gyan
homebrewer commented on Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update blog.thunderbird.net/2025... · Posted by u/mnmalst
I much prefer POP, as I only send and receive emails on my desktop computer and I want to decide when I fetch new emails. Is there any way to make IMAP work more like POP?
fdm, imapsync, lots of similar alternatives. Synchronize email to your machine and then use any MUA, or even several of them, to read it from a local directory (Thunderbird also works AFAIK).
They can also remove email from the remote and keep just the local copy. Pretty much 1:1 with POP. I've been using this setup (with fdm) for probably more than a decade.
homebrewer commented on Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021) gregoryszorc.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/thundergolfer
What are the good local emulators for gh actions? The #1 reason we don’t use them is because the development loop is appallingly slow.
nektos/act was considered good enough to be adopted as the CI solution for Gitea and Forgejo. The latter uses it for all their development, seems to work out fine for them.
I've never been a fan of GitHub Actions (too locked-in/proprietary for my taste), so no idea if it lives up to expectations.
homebrewer commented on Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021) gregoryszorc.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/thundergolfer
Drone was absolutely perfect back when it was Free Software. Literally "run these commands in this docker container on these events" and basically nothing more. We ran the last fully open source version much longer than we probably should have.
When they went commercial, GitHub Actions became the obvious choice, but it's just married to so much weirdness and unpredictability.
Whole thing with Drone opened my eyes at least, I'll never sign a CLA again
It lives on as Woodpecker, the fork of the last truly free version. As simple as it gets, no CLAs required to contribute.
“Intel recommends an anti-static mat and a grounding wrist strap when installing a processor to avoid the danger of static electricity, also known as Electrostatic Discharge or ESD.1”
You know back when I built my computers, not once did I ever use any kind of static electricity discharge “system”. No wrist strap, no mat, no anything. And I don’t know anybody who did.
Has anybody ever actually destroyed a chip with static electricity?
(Of course it could be the climate I lived in as well)
Sure, I've seen enough motherboards with fried USB controllers caused by an ESD while plugging in USB memory sticks.
This is in a climate with fairly cold winters (-40°C and below isn't unheard of), so layers of wool clothing and very low humidity. It's been less of a problem recently because modern motherboards come with ESD protection, but 10-15 years ago shared computers with most USB ports no longer working were the norm.
I always touch ground before working on electronics, and often get zapped. It's a fairly common practice here AFAIK.
I’m curious what the benefit of stuff like this is vs tsc --watch and running the JS?
I’ve always just run tsc to a .gitignored’d directory and execute my JS from there.
Edit: Thanks for the responses. There’s some great examples in there!
I've been using this for helper scripts, where each script is its own entry point, to assist with various maintenance tasks in frontend projects. Much easier to clone the project and run `./scripts/frobnicate` than faff around with tsc. Previously they would have been written in pure JS or just bash.
Yes, with the difference that Google would have to be compromised in order to poison the go distributable containing fmt tool. With js, it’s enough to poison any single one of the 1400 dependencies of the linter
Use biome, it doesn't have any external dependencies. eslint should have been put to rest a long time ago.
How exactly does mailing list contributions work? I've only ever seen a few urls of messages but they are extremely obtuse. You would need to click parent parent parent to get context on the message you originally read.
I must be missing something and since mailing lists are dying, would love to understand this relic of the past.
You're supposed to use a proper email client which solves this problem. Sourcehut uses the email contribution workflow and has the documentation to support it; have a look at it: