A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles blew me away by the quality of the writing, the endearing characters and the charming setting. I’m glad I picked it up and I strongly recommend it to you.

I haven’t been reading much in the last couple of years and I credit this book for getting me back in the game.

While we’re on the subject of what’s deeply off-putting - how did you generalise to a “community” based on one persons comment. When did Codys become representative of such a large group?

By the same token can I say your comment here is representative of all HN comments?

It resonates with people who aren’t personally affected by the Overton window shifting towards extremism. It’s now more normal to fling racist slurs at people online, and that behaviour is coming offline as well. When we used to “deplatform” racism this sort of talk wasn’t within the Overton window. Of course if you’re not personally affected you’ll say this is fine, marketplace of ideas etc. Let the marketplace sort out if racism should be normalised or not.

It doesn’t even lead to better discourse. We’re both here, commenting on this forum right? It’s because the level of discourse here is higher than elsewhere, certainly much better than “free speech” platforms like Musk’s. How can that be, when HN has extraordinarily strict rules on acceptable speech? Even calling someone an idiot can get you banned here, let alone a pajeet or Paki. If you truly believed in freedom of speech, you’d quit a forum moderated like this.

Even billion dollar software products have similar clauses, it doesn't have anything to do with vibe coding. To build and sell software no educational qualification is needed.

Quality of the software comes from testing. Humans and LLMs both make mistakes while coding.

As an autodidact, and someone who has seen plenty of well educated idiots in the software profession, I'm happy there are no such requirements... I think a guild might be more reasonable than a professional org more akin to how it works for other groups (lawyers, doctors, etc).

There are of course projects that operate at higher development specification standards, often in the military or banking. This should be extended to all vehicles and invasive medical devices.

Depends on the building type/size/scale and jurisdiction. Modern tract homes are really varied, hit or miss and often don't see any negative outcomes for the builders in question for shoddy craftsmanship.

Same with any OSS. Up to you to validate whether or not it is worth depending on, regardless of how built. Social proof is a primary avenue to that and has little to do with how built.

Have you considered that people may join HackerNews who were not already on it?

And in particular, people might lurk for a long time without an account until one day a thread makes them want to comment so much that they go ahead and create an account to comment.

Although, the username they picked in this case does seem a bit specific to the topic of the single comment they wrote. So it remains to be seen if this particular case was a throwaway account only used once, or if they will keep it.

Also usernames/handles can be surprisingly hard. It seems reasonable to me that people would pick something related to what they are thinking about at the time.

What's way more likely is that they've created a sock puppet account though.

Have you considered googling what a sock puppet is?

See, both of us can make comments in that same condescending style, pretending to be polite.

Worth mentioning that this is the documentation of 3.15 alpha 3. I feel like we’re better waiting for a release candidate or the final version before posting this page, in case there are any changes. Most people reading this are going to assume it’s final.

> You and Greg are sorely mistaken.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has been a Linux kernel developer for 25 years, responsible for large parts of the kernel.

You’ve been a hacker news commenter for 1 day.

Could you pipe down with these wild claims that you know better than him?

Also, please don’t complain about downvotes. It’s tedious to read.

No one is doing any kind of serious computing on 30 year old CPUs. But the point of the hobby isn’t turning on the computer and doing nothing with it. The hobby is putting together all the pieces you need to turn it on, turning it on and then doing nothing with it.

There’s an asymmetry in what the retro computing enthusiasts are asking for and the amount of effort they’re willing to put in. This niche hobby benefits from the free labour of open source maintaining support for their old architectures. If the maintainers propose dropping support because of the cost of maintenance the hobbyists rarely step up. Instead they make it seem like the maintainers are the bad guys doing a reprehensible thing.

You propose they get their hands dirty and cherry pick changes from newer kernels. But they don’t want to put in effort like that. And they might just feel happier that they’re using the “real” latest kernel.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has been in charge of CVEs in the Linux kernel for a decade.

Your account is 1 day old.

I’m in a real dilemma here about whose word to take on the seriousness of this CVE.