Hacker News: Gualdrapo

New comment by Gualdrapo in "Making Software: How to make a font"

Gualdrapo — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:03:48 +0000

It seems it's just me, but the body font is too small.

New comment by Gualdrapo in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

Gualdrapo — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:37:46 +0000

I don't feel like spending my money on some horrible corpo pulling out stuff like this, even if I've been using linux since 2006. Who can tell if they will do this to other OS in the future?

New comment by Gualdrapo in "Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy"

Gualdrapo — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:24:25 +0000

That still doesn't make them comparable

New comment by Gualdrapo in "C++20 Improved the For-Loop Syntax"

Gualdrapo — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:43:25 +0000

> you still have to manually increment the counter in the loop body

It doesn't look like that to me, the ++i thing seems to be just to start printing the array from 1 (I don't know how things are in Python nowadays but I know in Lua arrays start at 1, so there's no need for something like this in there), the value of i is still increasing without telling it explicitly to do so

New comment by Gualdrapo in "C++20 Improved the For-Loop Syntax"

Gualdrapo — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:39:55 +0000

The way this website shows the programming languages is odd. They're blue and slanted and if you hover your mouse cursor over them they have a color transition, so you'd think they are links - and yet you click on them and nothing happens

New comment by Gualdrapo in "Why Vanilla JavaScript"

Gualdrapo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:03:32 +0000

I wish there was some sort of "use strict-typed" or something that let you use in-browser interpreted typescript

New comment by Gualdrapo in "Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)"

Gualdrapo — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:38:55 +0000

"Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is “difficult” and declined to comment further."

https://www.forbes.com/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616t...

Imagine being so hard you're labelled as "difficult" by no other but Linus Torvalds

New comment by Gualdrapo in "Odyssey Linux"

Gualdrapo — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:54:22 +0000

"Odyssey holds a balance that's unique in the GNU/Linux landscape. It carries the essence of Void's purist Unix philosophy — its stable rolling-release model — and refines it into a ready-to-use experience, a verifiable chain of trust, and a coherent aesthetic. The first polished no-systemd distribution: optimized, customized, simple yet powerful, privacy- and security-oriented."

Odyssey Linux

Gualdrapo — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:54:22 +0000

Article URL: https://odysseylinux.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876970

Points: 17

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New comment by Gualdrapo in "How do you use Vim in the era of AI?"

Gualdrapo — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:57:29 +0000

Moved on to vis a few years ago and never looked back to vim/neovim. Granted, it doesn't have all the sparkles of the former, but it's way leaner and snappier - and you can tell there's no ai in it.

https://github.com/martanne/vis

New comment by Gualdrapo in "Stop Using reCAPTCHA – It's Not a Real Captcha"

Gualdrapo — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:57:44 +0000

Got second hand anxiety the other day seeing someone logging into their fb account (I guess with a chrome private window?) and they had to solve like 3 round of reCAPTCHAs to finally be able to... get into a fb login page over again, do another 3 or so reCAPTCHAs and finally get into their fb. I don't think they were doing them wrong

New comment by Gualdrapo in "Chatto is now open source"

Gualdrapo — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:21:45 +0000

At least here in colloquial "rolo" spanish people use to call "chato" (which would sound the same as "chatto") someone with a pug, snub nose

New comment by Gualdrapo in "Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T"

Gualdrapo — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:41:18 +0000

As far as I know neither Tiktok or YT have contributed to a genocide[0] or sold their user's data for political propaganda purposes[1], so at least there's that

[0] https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-ho...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica_d...

New comment by Gualdrapo in "1k Words: A Writing Contest"

Gualdrapo — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:27:41 +0000

Took the bait and sent them my email to apply because, in the page linked, they would "send you the instructions" to it.

But no, no exact definition of what they mean for "1000 words" - wether if it's minimum 1000 words or what, or how are they counting those 1000 words - throwing everything to a Word doc? a parsing script? Will they count things like an "I" or an "a" as a whole word?

I'm thinking about giving this a try, though, but not being pretty clear about that rule seems quite odd.

New comment by Gualdrapo in "Car touchscreens are cheap, not good"

Gualdrapo — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:09:52 +0000

I think that nowadays people value "technological features", and how better to show "technological advancement" like a giant ass touchscreen and not some "old" XX century knobs.

New comment by Gualdrapo in "Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline"

Gualdrapo — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:37:11 +0000

We can't also assume that your offspring will have the same values as you.

New comment by Gualdrapo in "Returning to Zig after losing trust in Rust's governance"

Gualdrapo — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:29:29 +0000

Did it come out a Rust fork with no AI contributions, like in the same fashion it came up a Zig fork that accepted AI contributions (the one Bun was using before rusting)?

New comment by Gualdrapo in "If you're a button, you have one job"

Gualdrapo — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:28:52 +0000

The power button of my pc also has the job to tell wether the PC is turned on. So do bulb switch buttons that have a pilot light, and so on

New comment by Gualdrapo in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

Gualdrapo — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:03:16 +0000

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New comment by Gualdrapo in "Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?"

Gualdrapo — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:31:38 +0000

Yup, the association with LLMs is a bit odd, since there's emojis everywhere in mainstream digital comunication way before the big hit of the ai stuff.

Without seeing how it looked before I think this just gives a little bit more of clue about what each category is about. They are still being used sparsely.

The only thing where it irks me to find emojis is in cli apps. They use to not be the same character width as the monofont I use so they either look chopped or they displace their nearing text.