Hacker News: L3viathan

New comment by L3viathan in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"

L3viathan — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:07:32 +0000

That sample was complete though as long as there wasn't too many tweets. I.e, as long as your query was specific enough, you _did_ get all tweets.

New comment by L3viathan in "Look, Another AI Browser"

L3viathan — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:31:45 +0000

Firefox still exists.

New comment by L3viathan in "Show HN: Uber for Flights"

L3viathan — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:22:44 +0000

Why does it have to have a chat interface? What's wrong with entering airports in different fields? I'm not convinced it's needed for a "routine trip" feature, you could just have some sort of bookmark feature..

New comment by L3viathan in "Debian 13 “Trixie”"

L3viathan — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 12:36:30 +0000

You uninstall all snaps, uninstall snapd, and block it from being installed via APT.

Then you add e.g. the mozilla PPA such that its firefox package gets installed instead.

New comment by L3viathan in "HTMX is hard, so let's get it right"

L3viathan — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:47:54 +0000

You can do that if you want to. It'll just be slower.

New comment by L3viathan in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

L3viathan — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:13:03 +0000

While true, that is true for everyone, there's no special law about police.

New comment by L3viathan in "Too Many Open Files"

L3viathan — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:08:53 +0000

Nitpick, but:

> At its core, a file descriptor (often abbreviated as fd) is simply a positive integer

A _non-negative_ integer.

New comment by L3viathan in "Longest road and rail tunnel is being built under the Baltic Sea"

L3viathan — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:05:34 +0000

> more people have an intuitive sense for how heavy a ton is compared to elephants

Yeah, I think most elephants don't have a good sense of _any_ man-made unit.

New comment by L3viathan in "Discworld Rules"

L3viathan — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:06:11 +0000

> It isn’t, like, a hidden fact or anything.

It really is, in-universe. Almost noone knows this save other maiar. The wizards are perceived as men by most people, them being maiar is far from common knowledge.

New comment by L3viathan in "How X-Plane Works"

L3viathan — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:59:37 +0000

As a Mac user, your best bet is probably X-Plane. There's only a few short tutorials, but given your history you should have no issues :)

New comment by L3viathan in "Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code"

L3viathan — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:48:27 +0000

Well in a sense you are right that it is lazy, in that it would be quite a lot of work to disentangle those parts.

So they could probably do it, but it would be costly, while just releasing the TF2 code is basically free.

New comment by L3viathan in "Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc"

L3viathan — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:34:21 +0000

Only technically.

By that name, yes, but much of Markdown was "discovered" rather than invented, having been used in email/newsgroups/... for a long time.

New comment by L3viathan in "Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust"

L3viathan — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:58:33 +0000

The point they're trying to make, I think, is: Black/Ruff format, or any other formatter necessarily need to operate on universal rules. In context, sometimes these rules don't make sense. I still would love some kind of stateful linter and formatter, where it suggests me changes that I can then accept or ignore (and won't be told about again).

Formatters _are_ a compromise. They make your coworkers' code nicer, and your code worse.

New comment by L3viathan in "3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation"

L3viathan — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 10:54:31 +0000

At the very least they could trigger a real qualified human review of it immediately.

New comment by L3viathan in "Just: Just a Command Runner"

L3viathan — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 21:54:27 +0000

You can put `./scripts` in your $PATH, if you want.

New comment by L3viathan in "I made an ls alternative for my personal use"

L3viathan — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:25:48 +0000

I think ripgrep specifically is counted in the comment you reply to as a tool that _does_ do one thing well, and that one should use it (or grep) in combination with an ls, instead of giving ls filtering abilities.

New comment by L3viathan in "Go-Safeweb"

L3viathan — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:18:20 +0000

> as there's no guarantee it will be maintained

As opposed to official projects like Allo, Wave, Reader, etc. that will?

New comment by L3viathan in "Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence"

L3viathan — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:43:43 +0000

> if you [] live in a country where it is just easy to cross borders as a part of life, [] providers still charging ridiculous fees

What places other than the EU does the "easy to cross borders as a part of life" apply to?

New comment by L3viathan in "Building a single-page app with Htmx"

L3viathan — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:20:52 +0000

While I agree with this project being a bad idea, both 1 and 2 are addressed by HTMX itself, via hx-preserve and Out-Of-Bounds swaps.

New comment by L3viathan in "Generate pip requirements.txt file based on imports of any project"

L3viathan — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:16:54 +0000

Huh? Messing with the system Python install absolutely can break your system.

Just use venvs, or install separate Python versions for development e.g. via pyenv. You likely don't want to use the relatively outdated Python version shipped with Debian anyways.