collinmanderson

No, they would just ignore Firefox and not test against it, and might start to use chrome/safari-only features.

This makes sense. Originally Fable was going to be available via subscription June 9th through June 22nd (~14 days).

It ended up being available 2.5 days before pulled, then was made available July 1 through July 7. (~7.5 days), so only ~10 days total.

Now they're giving us 5 more days, so ~15 days total, more similar to what they originally announced.

Part of the problem is The US Government (and UK Government) use the "2% rule" on their websites and only officially support 98%.

I mentioned 3 years ago that Firefox at 2.2% is dangerously close the being unsupported on government websites, and at this point it's now at 1.9%.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36776603

https://analytics.usa.gov/ says "There were 1.66 billion sessions in the last 30 days." - so 2% is 33 million sessions if I did my math right.

https://xkcd.com/1150/

no cooldown (or a much smaller countdown) for security fixes.

A supply chain attack would likely able to publish a "security" release just as easily as a normal release, so I don't think that would help much.

Release notes here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/6.1/

Looks like there's some features to try to reduce the “N+1 queries problem”.

I just caught myself about to copy and paste it into Claude to see what it thinks because I'm worried that it doesn't make sense or it reads funny or there's something missing. That's the self-doubt that it's feeding on and what I need to fight back.

This is where I'm at. I feel like I need AI to review everything.

As the victim of the one from last year

Background here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169657

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45187528

Or are folks seriously proposing that the patch/mitigations should have been circulated to distro maintainers privately before going to mainline?

I always assumed that distro maintainers got early access to patches before going mainline but maybe that’s not true?

Github Copilot also lets you use other models when one has an outage.

Disruption with Gemini 2.5 Pro model

Disruption with Grok Code Fast 1 in Copilot

Incident with Copilot Grok Code Fast 1

Claude Opus 4 is experiencing degraded performance

It doesn't seem fair to blame Github for this? There's nothing they can do about it?

https://xkcd.com/1150/

Shout out to https://ticalc.org/ - the design is pretty much unchanged.

Yes. So cringy.

Why not Just™ store all PR/Issues content as markdown on a separate branch along side the code itself? Why do we need a new protocol?

Because we cannot name something leading with a trademark owned by someone else.

And this WSL project is going to run into the same problem.

Proudly written without AI.

Looks like it's been updated now to be more clear. Amazing though.

I just want to point out this guide uses many of the same tasks I use when migrating websites between servers while minimizing downtown.

- reduce dns ttl (if not doing an ip swap)

- rsync website files

- rsync /etc/letsencrypt/ ssl certificates

- copy over database (if writes don't happen often and database is small enough, this can be done without replica, just go read_only during migration)

- test new server by putting new ip in local /etc/hosts

- turn off cron on old server

- convert old server nginx to reverse proxy to new server

- change dns (or ip swap between old and new server)

- turn on cron on new server

France is trying to switch to desktop linux. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716043 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719486

I think AI also makes it easier to deal with issues that come up.

This is a super interesting story and I'm surprised it hasn't made the headline on Hacker News.

Edit: looks like this one is the most popular, from Jan 3rd. It even was put into the 2nd chance pool, but still didn't get catch on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472040

Yes, for me I think it was around Nov/Dec 2025, along with harness improvements, and hearing about lots of successes with agenic programming. Having the agent managing its own context and doing the full software engineering loop with writing code, running it, and seeing if it works. That was already there before February 9th.

I think they emailed everyone about this, but I might be wrong. Maybe they only emailed people who actually use copilot.

uv has "exclude-newer" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513932

If you lock your dependencies, it should fail if the hash doesn't match.

uv also has --exclude-newer-package which I think can be used for overriding just a certain package.

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/reference/cli/#uv-run--exclude-new... https://docs.astral.sh/uv/reference/settings/#exclude-newer-...

There are more apps, fewer libraries.

You don't need as many libraries when functionality can be vibe-coded.

You don't need help from the open source community when you have an AI agent.

The apps are probably mostly websites and native apps, not necessarily published to PyPI.

"Show HN" has banned vibe-coded apps because there's been so many.

"Red/green TDD" is apparently the nomenclature

From your link:

what "red/green" means: the red phase watches the tests fail, then the green phase confirms that they now pass.

Every good model understands "red/green TDD" as a shorthand for the much longer "use test driven development, write the tests first, confirm that the tests fail before you implement the change that gets them to pass".

I agree using the preferred city name works just fine for USPS, though maybe not for UPS/Fedex.

What I want to know is: Why isn't this preferred city+state mapping dataset for zip codes publicly available from USPS? It would be like 40kb of data for the entire thing. Why is this not public domain from the US Government?

Edit: or is this what I'm looking for (the "Physical City", "Physical State" columns? https://postalpro.usps.com/ZIP_Locale_Detail

It's missing 00501 at least (which zippopotam has), and military zip codes (which zippopotam doesn't have). Military zip codes are included in this file: https://postalpro.usps.com/areadist_ZIP5

Also fun fact 88888 is for "Operation Santa" uspsoperationsanta.com, which zippopotam is missing, but appears in the areadist_ZIP5 file.

I suspect they have generic SVG drawing that they focus on.

Yes, this is super annoying.

I keep getting SMTP errors like: 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 Authentication unsuccessful [BL1PR13CA0304.namprd13.prod.outlook.com 2026-01-22T20:59:23.476Z 08DE59C2EA6C3D25]

and: '550 (x.x) [x.x.x.x]:xxxx is currently not permitted to relay through this server. Perhaps you have not logged into the pop/imap server in the last 30 minutes or do not have SMTP Authentication turned on in your email client.'

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=46725075

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724812

https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/1qk45c0/microsoft_serv...

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1qk3tg7/microsoft...

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1qk518l/email_ser...