<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Replies to jerf</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jerf</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:57:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/replies?id=jerf" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ConceptJunkie in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> And more and more over time, Microsoft has thought more about what they want in the menu than what the user wants.<p>This pretty much describes _everything_ in Windows in the last 15 years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:46:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588867</link><dc:creator>ConceptJunkie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by musebox35 in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also have been using emacs for almost anything for the past 20 years. I had to switch to VSCode for coding over a remote ssh connection to cloud VMs. The client/server split of vscode felt superior over the ssh connection and the emacs alternatives was not up to the same level of performance two years ago. Do you know any progress on that front? I would love to go back to emacs as my daily driver but I am sensitive to lags when I type / execute commands. Have you worked with ai assistants over a remote connection?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:14:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588473</link><dc:creator>musebox35</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ww520 in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Is anyone still using emacs?"<p>Of course. Emacs has been my stable editor over many years, handling many languages that came along, surviving many other IDEs that came and gone (the latest being the Cursor sold out).<p>There're always new enhancements in Emacs, from multiple-cursor editing years ago, to LSP and tree sitter in recent years. Currently I just got into the vertico/marginalia/consult/embark combo packages. Embark with its context based actions seriously is an amazing underrated package.</p>
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<p>Why not use agent-shell? It makes the whole experience great.<p>Also claude-code-ide.el. try these</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:22:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585821</link><dc:creator>joshuastuden</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baokaola in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Now I am more excited about the major releases; for instance term issues are an issue for me with the aforementioned Claude integration. Not enough to stop me, but annoying.<p>Being a co-maintainer, I'm a bit biased, but I think you should try Ghostel (<a href="https://github.com/dakra/ghostel" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dakra/ghostel</a>) if you aren't already. And if you are, you should report bugs so we can fix them :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:41:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585147</link><dc:creator>baokaola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoppp in "Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Daily Driving"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The two complaints I hear is:<p>1.Memorizing how to use it has a big learning curve.<p>2.Wrist pain from pressing button combinations all the time.<p>Otherwise plenty of people still use it and it's great. Just hard to pick up for new users.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:23:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584901</link><dc:creator>hoppp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584901</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whattheheckheck in "From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What about the price to verify your newly borne vibe coded project. At least the person who published it has a chance to have used their project to valid/solve their own problem and then was nice enough to publish it back to be freely used vs costing $10 to prompt it into existence</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:45:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579542</link><dc:creator>whattheheckheck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579542</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Joker_vD in "RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> the spec says that's illegal.<p>For a very long time, the spec did <i>not</i> say it's illegal. In fact, RFC 2616 (that has been defining the HTTP/1.1 for 15 years) says that<p><pre><code>                                   A message-body MUST NOT be included in
    a request if the specification of the request method (section 5.1.1)
    does not allow sending an entity-body in requests. A server SHOULD
    read and forward a message-body on any request; if the request method
    does not include defined semantics for an entity-body, then the
    message-body SHOULD be ignored when handling the request.
</code></pre>
but if you go into the section that describes the semantics of a GET request, well — that section says nothing at all whether a GET request is allowed or not to have a message-body. So it's not prohibited, and the servers should simply ignore it when processing it (and proxies should forward it up).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:16:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575356</link><dc:creator>Joker_vD</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by notarobot123 in "From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So why submit a PR at all if you're not even going to try to understand the aims of the project?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:43:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571244</link><dc:creator>notarobot123</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571244</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rpdillon in "From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The premise of this argument is that using AI takes no skill, and experience using AI doesn't matter, and that domain expertise in software development won't help you build better software with AI.<p>I don't think <i>any</i> of those things are true.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:35:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571145</link><dc:creator>rpdillon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elevation in "Making ast.walk 220x Faster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> 40-50x number is more lower bound [...] easily score another order of magnitude slower<p>This is about what I observe.  I had a utility based on `scapy`; there were no obviously bad ideas in the python source, but porting the work loop into a cpython extension module yielded a 500x speedup.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:23:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561497</link><dc:creator>elevation</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xeyownt in "Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would seeing sexual imagery make you less rational? That doesn't make sense.<p>The study you mention say the people were already in an arousal state (that they had to induce themselves). It's very different from seeing images that you may simply ignore, evaluate differently, etc.<p>Also, there is the bias that if people are looking for such images (because they really want them), they are probably more willing to drop recommended practices, and hence make irrational moves. So irrationality doesn't come from seeing the images at the first place, but from their willingness to find / see such images.</p>
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<p>>This is also why sexual imagery should generally be kept out of public spaces, not because of "puritanism" but because it just generally isn't a good idea to go around letting bad actors inhibiting people's executive function willy-nilly<p>Okay but presumeably humans adapt to the level of "sexuality" around them to some degree (like they do nearly every other stimulus), because otherwise you could show less prude cultures having lower ability to do "rational thought".<p>Nudity is normal all over the world and yet people seem to function just fine. What constitutes content that justifies sexual arousal is <i>socially constructed</i>!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:12:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559511</link><dc:creator>mrguyorama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by colechristensen in "Making ast.walk 220x Faster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A while back I had claude implement <i>something</i>, I don't quite remember what it was, but it chose Python.  It was going to take hours.  I told it to rewrite it in Rust and it was > 300000x faster.  This is without any optimization or prompting particularly about performance, a short one shot lift.<p>echo "Python sucks, use something else when you can" >> ~/CLAUDE.md<p>Python was cool in 2005 in academia IT, all the rage in startup 2012.  These days...</p>
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<p>>pass every single one through an AI with the question<p>Unfortunately this will just involve said teams running their patches over AI first before they're put in the main branch. For businesses it will probably be fine, but would get very expensive for open source projects.</p>
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<p>One context I could imagine is a young person with shaky grasp of English trying to come up with an interesting school/university project via conversations with an LLM set up as an OpenClaw agent.<p>It's got the right combinations of inexperience, cluelessness, panic, expectations that Westerners are rich, and hopes of others being willing to fix their mistake.</p>
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<p>> to no positive effect.<p>This is a REALLY bold assumption you’re making here, and frankly until we’ve tried it I don’t think you can argue that it has no positive effect to put tons of books in every small town everywhere.</p>
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<p>That's "passive daytime radiative cooling" for the curious. Supporting sweat, durability, non-toxic, existing textile tech, etc, gets hard. Or perhaps, like radiator-free ships in The Expanse, Dune just didn't want to show Fremen looking like butterflies.</p>
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<p>If you’ve not encountered the clueless LLM cowboys who would do then and then blame the victim for it not working, you’ve not met many people yet. This round of hype provides new and shiny footguns which are Never the shooter’s fault.</p>
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<p>The limiting principle should be that for a given ILL region/system, there is at least one copy of each book/edition which entered that system which can be loaned out.<p>As I noted, it's a pain for me to have to drive down to DC to get access to a book which _used_ to be in the local library system, but isn't anymore, or to purchase my own copy (which wasn't previously necessary).</p>
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