Hacker News: 8s2ngy

New comment by 8s2ngy in "Rebasing in Magit"

8s2ngy — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:22:40 +0000

I share your wish. Emacs, as wonderful as it is, has accumulated a lot of cruft over the decades and would benefit immensely from a rewrite. A "Neo-Emacs" could be multithreaded from the ground up and drop support for archaic platforms. The rewrite could even be in Rust to attract younger developers.

New comment by 8s2ngy in "The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe"

8s2ngy — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:42:36 +0000

I've been seeing this pattern of text crop up in many places. On LinkedIn, much of my feed is filled with posts of short sentences that follow this exact pattern. What's more, even the replies are obviously AI-generated.

New comment by 8s2ngy in "Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at"

8s2ngy — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:20:02 +0000

One thing LLMs are surprisingly bad at is producing correct LaTeX diagram code. Very often I've tried to describe in detail an electric circuit, a graph (the data structure), or an automaton so I can quickly visualize something I'm studying, but they fail. They mix up labels, draw without any sense of direction or ordering, and make other errors. I find this surprising because LaTeX/TiKZ have been around for decades and there are plenty of examples they could have learned from.

New comment by 8s2ngy in "DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025"

8s2ngy — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:54:52 +0000

Kinda similar—Raku is on my radar. I won't have time to take a look at it this year. Maybe it can become my next year's resolution. :)

PostgreSQL 14 Internals [pdf]

8s2ngy — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:00:48 +0000

Article URL: https://edu.postgrespro.com/postgresql_internals-14_en.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45313019

Points: 3

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Mint

8s2ngy — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:28:54 +0000

Article URL: https://mint-lang.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45253277

Points: 6

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New comment by 8s2ngy in "Meow: Yet another modal editing on Emacs"

8s2ngy — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 06:14:56 +0000

I’m in the same boat. I’ve internalized Vim keybindings so much that there’s no friction between thinking and doing on the screen. If I want to place the cursor on the next line, move to the end and add a semicolon, then jump to the end of the file, I just do it. My pet theory is that because Vim keybindings are unintuitive, developing proficiency required building muscle memory, which offloads cognitive load from my brain to my fingers so text editing becomes mechanical rather than cognitive.

Oracle's blockbuster surge shows AI trade's growing influence on market

8s2ngy — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 03:50:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/oracles-blockbuster-surge-shows-ai-trades-growing-influence-market-2025-09-11/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45218502

Points: 2

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Learning for Mastery

8s2ngy — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:18:14 +0000

Article URL: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=eD053419

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45130430

Points: 3

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New comment by 8s2ngy in "Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)"

8s2ngy — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:22:53 +0000

That's impressive! Would you mind sharing how you used Anki for your studies?

For Complex Applications, Rust Is as Productive as Kotlin[2020]

8s2ngy — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:26:24 +0000

Article URL: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/rust-as-productive-as-kotlin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45049436

Points: 2

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New comment by 8s2ngy in "I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface"

8s2ngy — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:33:29 +0000

I’m sorry, but any non-trivial Zig code gives me PTSD flashbacks of C. I don’t understand who Zig is targeting: with pervasive mutability, manual allocation, and a lack of proper sum types, it feels like a step back from languages such as Rust. If it is indeed a different way to write code, one that embraces default memory unsafety, why would I choose it over C, which has decades of work behind it?

Am I missing some context? I’d love to hear it.

New comment by 8s2ngy in "The beauty of a text only webpage"

8s2ngy — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:23:03 +0000

There is something remarkably beautiful about minimal websites that use primarily text, perhaps with one or two images, and only styles that enhance readability. This is unbeatable UX. Whenever I encounter sites like these, I envision an alternative universe where the internet remained as it was in the beginning: no commercial strings attached, lightweight pages on affordable hosting, and easily accessible information so that search engines actually work. The internet was one of our greatest creations, but we’ve since ruined it with our greed...

New comment by 8s2ngy in "Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text"

8s2ngy — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 07:08:11 +0000

I've been using Kokoro TTS with the CLI app, audiblez, mentioned in the "Similar Projects" section of the README. The model is fast and delivers impressive quality for its small size. Some issues I have faced, however, are: a) It doesn't distinguish periods at the end of sentences from the dots in abbreviations such as "Mr." or "Mrs." The result is an awkward pause between "Mr." and the name. b) It doesn't handle ellipses well. c) Words are pronounced the same way regardless of context.

New comment by 8s2ngy in "Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia"

8s2ngy — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:37:51 +0000

What can I do to minimize the effects of air pollution if I have to live in a city with high pollution levels? It seems completely out of my control.

New comment by 8s2ngy in "Ask HN: What's Your Car?"

8s2ngy — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:04:47 +0000

I don’t own a car; I rely on public transportation.

New comment by 8s2ngy in "Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust"

8s2ngy — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 03:45:39 +0000

Congratulations on the release! I don’t have much to add, but I wanted to express how much I love hearing about people with no formal software background who identify problems in their daily lives, plan, build, and release software to address them. Best of luck!

New comment by 8s2ngy in "Knowledge Management in the Age of AI"

8s2ngy — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 08:52:28 +0000

> Emacs is a powerful tool, but it also demands a lot from its user. Eventually I got tired of dealing with the host of plugins and customizations that I needed to keep my system running the way I wanted. I'm at a point in my life where I would rather spend my spare time on hobbies, hanging out with family and friends, and otherwise not messing around with a patchwork of ELisp code snippets that I've cobbled together from various sources.

On the flip side, my experience with Emacs has been quite different. You don't need a ton of plugins to get the most out of it; I've been using the same configuration of under 200 lines for the past six years without encountering any breaking changes. I rely on Magit, Org-mode, Org-roam, and Org-agenda every single day.

That said, using Emacs does require some commitment to reading the documentation. While I agree that it has some outdated defaults, you only need to make those adjustments once.

Shiny Object Syndrome

8s2ngy — Sun, 25 May 2025 05:48:40 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiny_object_syndrome

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085838

Points: 4

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New comment by 8s2ngy in "Zod 4"

8s2ngy — Mon, 19 May 2025 15:58:15 +0000

Congratulations to the Zod team on the new release. At the risk of sounding overtly negative, I can't help but shudder when I think about the number of breaking changes outlined in the migration guide. For projects that rely heavily on Zod, it feels like a daunting task ahead—one that will demand a lot of developer attention and time to navigate. Having maintained a few frontend projects that are 4-5 years old at work, I really empathize with them.

In my experience, large React projects often depend on a multitude of libraries, and when each one rolls out substantial changes—sometimes with barely any documentation—it can quickly become overwhelming. This is honestly one of my least favorite aspects of working with JavaScript. It just feels like a constant uphill battle to keep everything in sync and functioning smoothly.