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arandomhuman··on A decade of Docker containers
The duplication is a necessity to achieve the isolation. Having shared devels and hordes of unit files for a multi tenant system is hell - versioning issues can and will break this paradigm, no serious shop is doing this.

For running your own machine, sure. But this would become non maintainable for a sufficiently multi tenant system. Nix is the only thing that really can begin to solve this outside of container orchestration.

arandomhuman··on Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu
Wikipedia clearly has never been shown to have faults regarding accuracy.
arandomhuman··on The tech monoculture is finally breaking
>Looking at my own purchases from 2025, the pattern becomes obvious...

Is it me or does this list really goes against almost everything preceeding in the article?

arandomhuman··on Your app subscription is now my weekend project
>Claude code can deliver the first 90%, but we all know it is the last 90% that differentiates.

So most software is 180% of 100%? :p

arandomhuman··on I can't recommend Grafana anymore
This article comes off sort of low effort and mentions a lot grievances without actual pinpointing precise issues. I think leveraging OTEL as a general processor with a generic output is a good idea, but discounting Grafana for implementing multi tenancy solutions and alloy which is pretty fucking good is kind of pointless.
arandomhuman··on The AI coding trap
Probably something about how using LLMs for coding is such an amazing opportunity or something judging by how he implies the author would be surpassed due to information asymmetry.
arandomhuman··on PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
so it's a "bare metal" virtual machine? Or are they actually using the bare metal offerings for the cloud provider?
arandomhuman··on Next.js 15 Markdown Boilerplate
I was expecting a sort of MD to HTML conversion since it's hard to think of a simpler way of doing this. I don't see how react or nextjs constitutes this being easy or simple unless you're targeting folks with domain knowledge with those ecosystems.
arandomhuman··on Show HN: A Language Server Implementation for SystemD Unit Files
thanks, not familiar with this in all entirety, will keep this in mind and always welcome for contributions expanding functionality :)
arandomhuman··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
Yeah, people have gone to jail for a few copies of content. Taking that large of a corpus and getting off without penalty would be a farce of the justice system.
arandomhuman··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
No but he coincidentally passed away after he was accused of it.
arandomhuman··on Show HN: A Language Server Implementation for SystemD Unit Files
it's that bad these days? Yikes :( I will not be redeeming.
arandomhuman··on Show HN: A Language Server Implementation for SystemD Unit Files
I think a user of _not_ neovim they'd have to implement their own js client. I honestly can't say much but with INI style formatting it's been mostly based on contstants rather than abstract syntax tree parsing which is unique and a bit of a problem in its own right. I haven't implemented a language server before so this was a learning experience, but I was very pleasantly surprised how adding it to my neovim configuration was. I am hoping at some point it's added to "mason" so it's even easier.

I would create a vscode client, but I am not really very familiar with that ecosystem. Welcoming anyone to implement this in any other editors. This is just the language server implementation with no assumption regarding clients.

arandomhuman··on Show HN: Modernized file manager and program manager from Windows 3.x
yikes
arandomhuman··on Show HN: A Language Server Implementation for SystemD Unit Files
That’s very interesting, but systemd is pretty pervasive I really don’t think it’s going anywhere anytime soon for better or for worse. Language servers aren't just adopted in vscode, other editors use them in fact. I am not a VS Code user myself, but I appreciate their implementation of the language server protocol, they did a fantastic job with that.
arandomhuman··on Show HN: A Language Server Implementation for SystemD Unit Files
Thanks for the positive feedback! The documentation needs a bit of revision, but I agree there's a lot of configuration file formats that should be supported with language servers that might not necessarily have rich AST parsing as part of their contents.
arandomhuman··on Show HN: I built a website to summarize Tech Twitter each day
Not to be that guy, tech twitter is already so reductionist in terms of actually quality content. Getting the most popular posts from there is going to be really "fluffy" in terms technical details. For instance how is Elon Musk declaring he's forming a new political party technology related news?
arandomhuman··on Stop Killing Games
Open source the server infrastructure or describe the protocol in sufficient detail to easily be reverse engineered.
arandomhuman··on Stop Killing Games
I think this initiative sounds great, it's curious to me in a legal sense why this would strictly pertain to gaming software and not one-time bought software licensing models as a whole. This issue is pretty prevalent in software in general. Software vendors should have some accountability for EoLing these things in a graceful manner.
arandomhuman··on OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
I think this is less caused by ChatGPT/LLMs and more of a phenomenon in social media circles where people flock to "the thing" and have poor social skills and mental health generally speaking.
arandomhuman··on AI code is legacy code?
I can’t tell if this is satire or not please help me
arandomhuman··on We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job at Kraken
One time pads, enigma machines, Caesar ciphers :p
arandomhuman··on O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data
But then they couldn't make a click bait title for the article.
arandomhuman··on Oracle engineers caused five days software outage at U.S. hospitals
Yeah database backups are just too hard for a multi billion dollar corporation to handle.
arandomhuman··on The Burnout Machine
It’s actually upsetting how lazy this is and it still made front page.
arandomhuman··on Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work?
>Use LLM to write a post every other day (!). Within a month, you have 15 posts, which people will find useful as they search.

I don't think anyone will find this useful.

arandomhuman··on Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?
This is really great feedback and not even trying to sell you on a marketing book or something.
arandomhuman··on AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services
Amazon, after making its pretty barebones fork, lobbed it off to the Linux Foundation. It ultimately feels lazy and self-serving in a way only a select few companies can pull off.
arandomhuman··on Has LLM killed traditional NLP?
>The fact that you can replace programmers with prompts

this is how you end up with 1000s of lines of slop that you have no idea how it functions.

arandomhuman··on The best darn grid shader yet (2023)
This is really awesome. to ask a dumb question, what’s a good way to get acclimated with running and building shaders? Just going straight to OpenGL tooling and extrapolating from there?
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