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Turning 50 this year.

Coding has never _stopped_ being a passion for me, but my increasingly limited time becomes an issue.

And Claude code (and cursor) saves me So. Much. Time.

I only have 10-20 active years ahead of me, so this is really, really important. Young ppl don’t get it.

Anyone else paused at this line “we do not support mass DOMESTIC surveillance”

As a European I’m kinda... concerned now.

I tried doing something like that in my app, and quickly discovered that some modern semantic/functional tags are STILL not supported in some browsers. Or work badly.

For example, in Safari showModal for a dialog tag causes recalculating layout for EVERY element on a page, it’s up to 59x slower than chromium…. :(

But I love the idea

Can't upvote this comment enough.

"You're not imagining it."

"But my days got harder. Not easier. Harder."

"Now?" as the paragraph opener

"Why? No reason." as the paragraph opener

Nice try OP, submitting your own post to HN.

Sometimes when college kids in a hotel room next to mine are being too loud, I go out, check their room number , go back to my room and give them a call (usually just dialing the room number works).

I pretend to be “Jason from reception” and that “other guests are complaining about the noise”. Works every time.

The title is misleading. It says “dominating” however no sources or percentages are provided. And later in the article it only says “increasingly applying”, with just two examples.

I do have a friend (very popular drummer-YouTuber who makes covers, has millions of subs) who did get an O visa because he actually is a, kinda, celebrity, so I guess this is indeed happening occasionally. But nothing is being “dominated” here.

I don’t work at Microsoft and I have (almost) no friends there, but—

My team has relied on the Microsoft stack for over a decade (dotnet, GitHub Actions, VS Code, MS extensions), and I can say that the overall quality and “polish” of their releases has declined.

I try to help where I can—filing issues for outdated docs, contributing to dotnet/core, joining discussions about .NET 10 still not being available in Ubuntu APT feeds, reporting and helping resolve issues with MSSQL drivers and SqlClient on GitHub, etc.

But every time I interact with someone at Microsoft, I can’t help but read between the lines: they seem slightly demotivated by the company's shift toward an AI-first focus.

It's sad.

True - if we're talking about actual security bugs, not the "CVE slop"

P.S. I'm an open source maintainer myself, and I used to think, "oh, OSS developers should just stop whining and fix stuff." Fast forward a few years, and now I'm buried under false-positive "reports" and overwhelmed by non-coding work (deleting issue spam, triage, etc.)

P.P.S. What's worse, when your library is a security component the pressure’s even higher - one misplaced loc could break thousands of apps (we literally have a million downloads at nuget [1] )

[1]: https://www.nuget.org/packages/AspNetSaml

I'm founder of a 100% .NET based company (15 years, 1mil LOC), all development happens on Macs, production servers run linux. No issues so far.

No, really, I'm facing more issues from Cursor based based on a year-old upstream version of VSCode than from this, heh...

For us, every .NET upgrade since .NET 5 has gone surprisingly smoothly and reduced CPU/RAM usage by 10–15%.

We were even able to downgrade our cloud servers to smaller instances, literally.

I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma.

Why is this flagged? This is pretty significant actually.

So stories like this are no longer possible? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734582

We run a (pretty) big multi-tenant SaaS app on dotnet and I was literally able to downgrade our production servers from 4-core-16GB vms to 2-core-8GB on AWS when going from .NET 6 to .NET 8 (we only use LTS releases b/c compliance, don't ask). Super excited to try .NET 10. Also, almost zero breaking changes when bumping versions, which is very refreshing compared to the front-end world.

That said, while C# (and the dotnet runtime) are awesome, MS is doing it a disservice lately (poor tooling, Cursor/VSCode controversy etc. etc.) C# could've been so much bigger...

So they make "building your own Cursor" easier. But at the same time they ban your fork from using Extension Marketplace.

For context: last month they banned Cursor and all other forks from using C++, C# Dev Kit, Python and other extensions. Guess this was preparation for this move.

I'm so sorry. It's https://cap.so/

cam.so (opensource, free for personal, local)

This is the author's 3rd or 4th attempt to launch a product in this niche, Interactivedemo.ai (ProductHunt launch), demo.fun (link in their profile), a chrome extension with the same name (never took off), etc. I got this all from their Twitter profile

I'm a bootstrapped software developer myself, so I can't decide if I should admire this or flag this as spam. But you're probably right, we're getting a "pricing" page very soon.

That, plus:

* Echarts is about the only dependency in our project that I can upgrade - and be sure it never breaks anything. It is so well-thought in that regard. Upgrading for 3.x to 5.x? Sure! "npm update" and everything just keeps working smoothly. That is so refreshing to see these days. Unbelievable.

* It's both SSR-friendly and SPA-friendly. Being mostly vanilla-js, works seamlessly with both react/vue/apline AND with old-school rails/asp.net/php/whatever. Our app is pretty classic SSR (https://www.jitbit.com/) and I can construct my chart's JSON object on a server using some linq-queries and provide that to echarts.

* ...OR I can give it a reactive object from vue-based SPA. Dun matter, it just works.

* whenever we have to add some workarounds (like, showing hovering labels on a pie chart with a bold percentages or something) - I never have to dig into their sources. Almost anything has already been figured out. Easily googlable and "LLM-able".

What do you mean by "standard base extension"?

I wouldn't say "affordable". Looking at their pricing page right now. A US-based 64GB RAM cloud server in OVH - $539

AWS is $220 (us-east, r6a.2xlarge instance, 1yr reserved)

I used to think iPhone revolutionized the World. Now think it ruined it.

Internet is a TV form the 80s/90s. Mindless, soulless engagement machine we all stare into.

This.

The guy's reddit profile consists of self-plugging his own products in comments (that are mostly deleted by now)

Inflammation is a reaction to infection or physical damage.

It (1) isolates the damaged tissue from the rest of the body (2) launches countermeasures against most probable threats

Exactly. https://i.imgur.com/kJlilJB.mp4

A post about UX with a non-working UX.

I personally don't think you should.

The EU authorities have stated multiple times that they won't chase small startups and mom&pop shops with this. They explicitly target big-tech with this law (can't remember where I got this from, currently looking for a proof-link in another tab... will update the comment if I find one)

Currently the fines do seem to correlate with the company size. E.g. Amazon Ireland has paid 750 million, Google - 90 million... While this one-man webmasters form Germany and Austria - $50 bucks and $100 bucks

This really is terrifying.

P.S. I'm based in Latvia, a country up North in the EU. Very quiet (weather wise).

This summer for the first time in history we've had a... hurricane. With tornadoes turning cars upside down and even snow (in the middle of August).

Every time I decide it's finally time to use HTML5 native inputs like `<input type="date">` instead of JS-datepickers, I stumble on so many problems.

No "placeholder" attribute support, no "show picker on focus" functionality, etc.

You end up including so many JS/CSS hacks and workarounds that you're back to having a huge datepicker.js file.

"Awesome lists" at Github are example of that

> You can no longer set up postfix to manage transactional emails for your business

Well, actually you can. But it's tough : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20553028

This. I write in several languages (mutli-lingual project: C#, Python, JS/Node, JS/Front etc) and C# provides the best experience by far.

Everything you said above plus BIG community. C# is the top #4 language on StackOverflow, it's even more popular than PHP and HTML.

By comparison, Go is not even among the top #50. I'm not saying Go is a bad language, just bare numbers. Every problem you're going to bump into with C# - has been arleady discussed and resolved already.

P.S. latest .NET-core beats C++ in some benchmarks I love that

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