Hacker News: 9999gold

New comment by 9999gold in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

9999gold — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:12:42 +0000

Interesting but tiring, I gave up the first time, but was curious because of the comments here and tried again, without much attention and taking some breaks. On my device I had to scroll to reach the “next” button.

New comment by 9999gold in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

9999gold — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:24:17 +0000

They allow extensions on the Android version. But yeah, on iOS I had to switch to Orion. It seems FF for iOS doesn’t get much attention.

New comment by 9999gold in "GitHub and the crime against software"

9999gold — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:23:22 +0000

I find Azure DevOps UI/UX very janky. Like, the work items sometimes are loaded in the frontend only and sometimes there is a refresh, then the URL in the browser is not the same of the work tree I am seeing; sometimes there is a lot of flicker/redirects to sign in. The wysiwyg editor sometimes preserve the color themes of the person who opened, it seems. The markdown editor is view or edit only. I probably faced more issues but I won’t remember now. But to say there are no issues, and it’s excellent, I cannot relate, had to chime in. Yeah, it works, but feels like an unpolished product, especially considering the resources it has. The uptime is better than GitHub’s, though.

New comment by 9999gold in "My I3-Emacs Integration"

9999gold — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:32:17 +0000

I can relate, finding myself pressing the wrong keybindings when moving between i3 and emacs windows. The idea in the post is interesting but I am not sure how I’m going to solve this. I have been thinking about trying EXWM or switch to another WM. Tried KDE but it didn’t have support for multiple workspaces in the secondary screen. And after using i3wm I found it difficult to get back to other WMs.

New comment by 9999gold in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

9999gold — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:49:01 +0000

Wondering what they will do when rust rejects a pr from them.

New comment by 9999gold in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

9999gold — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:24:53 +0000

Not sure why you got downvoted. I wish this was a tag or something.

New comment by 9999gold in "ai;dr"

9999gold — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:27:45 +0000

> I can't imaging writing code by myself again, specially documentation, tests and most scaffolding

Shouldn’t we bother to write these things?

New comment by 9999gold in "Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete"

9999gold — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:42:20 +0000

It seems it would be possible to use this with minuet.el. I’m not familiar with it, though.

New comment by 9999gold in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"

9999gold — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:03:17 +0000

Seems Google is trying to make the price the only benefit on Android.

I wonder, excluding the freedom/device control and the price, what makes someone choose Android over iOS?