Hacker News: Hasnep

New comment by Hasnep in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

Hasnep — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:00:34 +0000

The point isn't that we should all speak like Chaucer, it's that singular they isn't a new thing within our lifetimes.

New comment by Hasnep in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

Hasnep — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:29:31 +0000

1. $0. 2. Probably close to 100%.

New comment by Hasnep in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

Hasnep — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:26:00 +0000

I'm pretty sure they show it something like once a year, and it takes two seconds to close it, if you can't spare two seconds of your life every year for something you get for free then you were never going to donate anything.

New comment by Hasnep in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

Hasnep — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:23:52 +0000

You won't donate because they will try not to discriminate when hiring? It's illegal to discriminate on things like race, sex and gender when hiring, so pretty much every company avoids it.

New comment by Hasnep in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

Hasnep — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:38:06 +0000

Spy (https://github.com/spylang/spy) is an early version of this kind of thing. I believe it compiles to C though, kinda like Nim. Actually speaking of Nim, that's probably the most mature language in this space, although it's less pythonic than Spy

New comment by Hasnep in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

Hasnep — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:07:04 +0000

I hate Trump as much as the next guy but this feels like nitpicking. You're obviously right, but if you choose not to vote then you're implicitly approving of whatever outcome you get.

New comment by Hasnep in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

Hasnep — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:59:40 +0000

I'm trying out SelfCI [1] for one of my projects and it's similar to what you were describing. My whole CI pipeline is just a shell script that runs the actual build and test commands, I can write a script in another language like python if I need more complexity and I can run it all locally at any time to debug.

[1] https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/radicle.dpc.pw/rad%3Az2tDzYbAX...

New comment by Hasnep in "Why I love NixOS"

Hasnep — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:27:10 +0000

I see your point about there being different ways to install a package, but I think I can clarify a bit by explaining how I use NixOS.

If I'm running a package on a server that means I want to install it declaratively, so I find the name of the package in Nixpkgs and put it in my `configuration.nix` file. I'm using flakes, but the configuration is exactly the same, I just put the package in the output section of the flake. Any instructions you see to install a package just boils down to finding the name of the package. To me this is as simple as finding the name of a Debian package and running `apt` to install it.

If you want additional features there are other optional ways to install packages, but these are features other distros don't offer, so if you just ignore them then there's no extra complexity compared to Debian for example.

New comment by Hasnep in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

Hasnep — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:05:47 +0000

Except a bunch of those diagrams are showing the wrong thing, but yeah, other than that it's good.

New comment by Hasnep in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

Hasnep — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:02:55 +0000

Sure, and American table manners are the cause of rising fascism, there's a whole Wikipedia article on all their rules. [1] They're more worried about elbows on the table than the increase in authoritarianism.

See, I can make up dumb shit too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_manners_in_North_America

New comment by Hasnep in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

Hasnep — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:16:17 +0000

There are no date, time or datetime types in JSON, so you'll have to serialise it to a string or an int anyway, and then when deserialising you'll need to identify explicitly which values should be parsed as dates.

New comment by Hasnep in "Malus: Clean room engineering of any open-source dependency"

Hasnep — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:36:04 +0000

I've thought about doing this as a joke ever since LLMs started being used for generating code, I even made something [1] adjacent to it for April fools last year. It's weird to see someone taking the idea seriously.

[1] https://retributionai.com/

New comment by Hasnep in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"

Hasnep — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:18:36 +0000

If you can't access your account to upgrade it then I assume not

New comment by Hasnep in "Julia: Performance Tips"

Hasnep — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:01:10 +0000

There is also a section of Modern Julia Workflows [1] about optimisation that gives helpful, practical advice.

[1] https://modernjuliaworkflows.org/optimizing/

New comment by Hasnep in "Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents"

Hasnep — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:57:19 +0000

If you put up a sign on your house saying "businesses, feel free to come use my driveway for whatever you want" and McDonald's sets up a restaurant there then you won't have much sympathy from me.

New comment by Hasnep in "Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents"

Hasnep — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:51:12 +0000

Welcome to the free software movement!

New comment by Hasnep in "MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes"

Hasnep — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:10:38 +0000

Taiwan is "not mainland China" in the same way that Greenland is "not mainland USA"

New comment by Hasnep in "MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes"

Hasnep — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:09:03 +0000

There are two countries that contain the substring "Republic of the Congo" and everyone seems to be okay with that

New comment by Hasnep in "Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99"

Hasnep — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:59:58 +0000

I think you're looking at this the wrong way around. A human might know the notes of a D Dorian scale, but a computer doesn't. If you've ever selected the key of D major in any music creation software and it's shown you a stave with two sharps then the computer was using a library like this.

New comment by Hasnep in "MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes"

Hasnep — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:08:24 +0000

I don't know why you're bringing Taiwan into this, and I don't think TSMC has an app...