Hacker News: Anduia

New comment by Anduia in "How big is a Git commit?"

Anduia — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:54:09 +0000

Very interesting! Maybe the AST part is more useful for diffs and merges than for compression.

New comment by Anduia in "European Alternatives"

Anduia — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:38:09 +0000

Are you proposing forks of existing languages but in gitlab, and only european can approve PRs? Or a new language and OS? How does that work in practice when open source is public and users can have VPNs?

New comment by Anduia in "How big is a Git commit?"

Anduia — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:22:41 +0000

It is not public is it?

New comment by Anduia in "On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted"

Anduia — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:21:38 +0000

TLDR: Neovim did a breaking change to persistent undo

New comment by Anduia in ""As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice"

Anduia — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:07:05 +0000

Be careful there. LLMs may be good at identifying a condition based on a description of the symptoms, but they are much worse at recommending the correct course of action (getting it wrong half of the time).

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04074-y

New comment by Anduia in "Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds"

Anduia — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:41:02 +0000

US military showed a version in 2012 [1], and there is a DARPA report[2]

That said, it's a solid student project. I'm sure she'll do well at university.

[1]: https://www.ifsecglobal.com/uncategorized/soundwaves-a-new-p...

[2]: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20...

New comment by Anduia in "Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)"

Anduia — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:33:10 +0000

Flat earthers don't use Mercator projection, they use polar azimuthal equidistant (AEQD) projection centered in the north pole.

I think it would be something like Portugal-Kamchatka:

https://i.ibb.co/9mqz8fvb/image.png

New comment by Anduia in "Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)"

Anduia — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:27:09 +0000

It would be a straight line (in their official map) from the south of Portugal to Kamchatka (east Russia)

New comment by Anduia in "Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)"

Anduia — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:06:25 +0000

If you are talking about the trail from Cape Town to Vladivostok, that one is not a straight line.

New comment by Anduia in "We let models localize into 16 languages. How we made it read native."

Anduia — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:00:38 +0000

I'm so confused with the "Upgrade" example. Why does it lose the title case and why does it end up phrased as "upgrade to" instead of "Upgrade"?

New comment by Anduia in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

Anduia — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:22:23 +0000

Having tried gel rollerball and fountain pens, I always end up going back to clutch pencils with soft leads.

The author dismisses all pencils because he has to press down hard to use them, but I don't press down any more than I would with a fountain pen.

Being able to erase is also a bonus. Not to mention the ASMR sound!

New comment by Anduia in "AI makes programming differently difficult"

Anduia — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:23:32 +0000

It's existential crisis Tuesday

New comment by Anduia in "Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers"

Anduia — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:24:55 +0000

Scroll down, there is a huge ad but the article continues.

New comment by Anduia in "New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain"

Anduia — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:56:25 +0000

It wasn't millions, it was half a million. And what they're getting is permission to work in Spain, so it's unrelated to the article.

New comment by Anduia in "No Spanish reading crisis?"

Anduia — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:28:57 +0000

I don't think "less rich population" is an accurate description of Spain. It's a high-income developed country. Perhaps you assumed the article was about Spanish speakers worldwide rather than Spain specifically?

New comment by Anduia in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

Anduia — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:51:31 +0000

They're describing EU sanctions on individuals, just very dramatically

New comment by Anduia in "window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world"

Anduia — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:04:03 +0000

"Choose your browser cache folder to improve performance"

New comment by Anduia in "Dav2d"

Anduia — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:51:47 +0000

Well, if every asset request hits the origin (no CDN, no caching...) that would be a misconfiguration of the website. It should never happen for a blog.

New comment by Anduia in "Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say"

Anduia — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:09:49 +0000

for those with parents yes

New comment by Anduia in "How to run Qwen 3.5 locally"

Anduia — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:13:20 +0000

That's why I start any prompt to Qwen 3.5 with:

persona: brief rude senior