Hacker News: Klonoar

New comment by Klonoar in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

Klonoar — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:44:21 +0000

You display zero understanding of the human experience you’re responding to.

New comment by Klonoar in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"

Klonoar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:29:00 +0000

A recipe option is nowhere near the same thing as what happened in the parent tree.

New comment by Klonoar in "Apple and a hacker's future"

Klonoar — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:38:33 +0000

I will never understand comments like this.

You are on the wrong site if you think that HN was ever a bastion of the hyper OSS mindset.

This is a site powered by and run by one of the arms of a startup incubator/investor. It has always been clear on that.

Just because it has “hacker” in the name doesn’t mean what you think it means.

New comment by Klonoar in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

Klonoar — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:21:19 +0000

That's not "basic etiquette".

I've had plenty of people throughout my life express wanting to come over to my place and hang. There's definitely a social grace of how you'd phrase it, but it's not like it's some alien concept.

New comment by Klonoar in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

Klonoar — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:16:43 +0000

> - "Why always ethnic food like pasta? What's wrong with white people food, like Cheeseburgers?"

You respond with "that's what I'm making, you're welcome to bring anything yourself to add to it".

Covers dietary issues along with a decent dose of "STFU and show up". People are complicated but you also give too much of a shit.

New comment by Klonoar in "Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC"

Klonoar — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:07:13 +0000

> "Scrollback that follows you rather than your client"

This form of LLM speak annoys the absolute shit out of me. It's a bot trying to emulate the worst reassuring sales copy you could imagine.

New comment by Klonoar in "Why Omarchy Exists"

Klonoar — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:14:34 +0000

If your issue with Omarchy is politics, then it's probably not just DHH.

But I'm going to guess that means you haven't actually looked into it deeply.

New comment by Klonoar in "The JavaScript Midlife Crisis"

Klonoar — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:16:18 +0000

> Or just write faster JS using it's lower-level language features.

You are simply ignoring the history of these tools and why people have begun to reach for the languages in question.

New comment by Klonoar in "The JavaScript Midlife Crisis"

Klonoar — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:21:06 +0000

> Rewrite a bundler in Rust and you haven't only made it faster. You've also shrunk the pool of JavaScript developers who can maintain it. The new tool still looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, but it's a different beast altogether. Its internals retreat behind a black box that fewer people hold the keys to. The source may still be open, but the door to contributions is closing.

Alternatively, there's a pool of JS developers who shouldn't be maintaining critical infrastructure to begin with.

It's not a black box, those codebases are usually open and the only thing holding you or anyone back is learning anything outside of a small pond of JavaScript.

Write non-browser-things in fast languages. It is not a complicated concept - even less so in an era where stuff is getting written for you.

New comment by Klonoar in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

Klonoar — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:35:08 +0000

Elon unfortunately may have a leg to stand on, because it doesn't functionally matter whether "anyone can make an account and see it". I don't believe any legal ruling to date has been fine with that distinction.

New comment by Klonoar in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

Klonoar — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:42:35 +0000

Scraping is legal, but IIRC scraping authenticated contents is not.

Isn't Nitter abusing account sign-in for this?

New comment by Klonoar in "Apple Announces Foldable 'iPhone Duo'"

Klonoar — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:33:11 +0000

I am happy that I will have managed to completely skip the requirement to use FaceID.

New comment by Klonoar in "Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts"

Klonoar — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:03:36 +0000

I am almost positive that there was one version of IE where having any space or newline before the DocType would trigger quirks mode.

New comment by Klonoar in "Firefox 155.0"

Klonoar — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:45:50 +0000

Always possible there’s some buggy CSS compiler in the wild that ships a crazy rule and nobody tested in Firefox.

New comment by Klonoar in "Fastpotify"

Klonoar — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:10:01 +0000

You should draw a distinction between “implementing the GUI” and “implementing OS behavior”. Flickering aside egui works mostly fine for the former; the latter falls apart on most non-browser-and-non-toolkit-wrapper approaches because people never stop to handle those things.

E.g your double click on title bar thing sounds less like egui to me and more like somewhere in the stack is missing an AppKit flag.

New comment by Klonoar in "Playa Phone"

Klonoar — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:03:34 +0000

It’s an art piece, numbskull.

New comment by Klonoar in "Yen weakens past ¥160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains"

Klonoar — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:13:31 +0000

It’s been in this range for a year or so and flight prices and hotel prices still suck for most people.

New comment by Klonoar in "Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic"

Klonoar — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:50:58 +0000

Because it’s GTK4 and it’s expected that you know what that is if you’re using this.

New comment by Klonoar in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

Klonoar — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:58:20 +0000

That sounds like it’s more on those apps, because they aren’t doing much special unless I’m missing something.

New comment by Klonoar in "We are not going anywhere"

Klonoar — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:44:50 +0000

Libraries contribute to the humans being able to review things well, so no, they may still have their use cases.

An AI might be able to create everything “from scratch”, sure - but I ain’t sitting there reviewing every bespoke thing it shits out. I want that offloaded to make it maintainable.