Hacker News: SwiftyBug

New comment by SwiftyBug in "Temu is advertising filet mignon on X"

SwiftyBug — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:19:47 +0000

Wow, you should really go to a butcher shop nearby and buy some filet mignon. Try making some steak au poivre, a classic of French cuisine. It's not too hard and it's delicious.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

SwiftyBug — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:09:05 +0000

I wonder how well Mandarin works for LLM-based programming. On one hand, it's very token efficient as Mandarin script is very dense in meaning. On the other, I suppose this can increase ambiguity.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "I quit drinking for a year"

SwiftyBug — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:58:08 +0000

What do you mean by masking? And can you elaborate on the neurodiversity part? This is the first time I hear about alcohol as something that's reached for specifically by neurodivergent people.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "I quit drinking for a year"

SwiftyBug — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:40:18 +0000

To me it's the opposite: I can go weeks without drinking. The moment there's a social event, I feel the urge to drink. It's like I can't enjoy it without alcohol. I've been trying to figure out why this happens, but I haven't had the strength to try and not drink in one a social gathering.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "Pokemon Evolution vs Darwinian Evolution"

SwiftyBug — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:19:17 +0000

Is Nidorino/Nidorina headcanon too? Each can also be one gender and have different entries in the Pokédex. Are they considered each other's male/female version?

New comment by SwiftyBug in "I shipped a transaction bug, so I built a linter"

SwiftyBug — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:15:43 +0000

Interestingly, modal editing comes very natural to us. It enters muscle memory quite well.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "Show HN: Create a full language server in Go with 3.17 spec support"

SwiftyBug — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:57:19 +0000

Very nice. Now I want to build a language server. If only I had anything to build it for.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

SwiftyBug — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:26:59 +0000

I never understood why Apple discontinued 3D Touch. I agree that it was a very nice typing experience.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself"

SwiftyBug — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:37:09 +0000

Singing is one of the few things that I suspect may not be just learned. Sure, you can improve a little, but not go from complete trash to someone you would actually tolerate hearing sing. I think our anatomies constrain us much more than for other things. How come some people can naturally sing and others produce a horrible screech? What I've been trying to find is a style that best suits my voice that will make it seem like I'm not horrible. Don't know what that is yet. Finding that is not so easy when you don't have a large vocal range nor a particularly interesting voice.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "International Collection of Tongue Twisters (2018)"

SwiftyBug — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:25:13 +0000

Same for Portuguese. Some of them were quite easy to read out loud, but every word started with a `b`. That's not a tongue twister.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "Gourmand Syndrome"

SwiftyBug — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:31:38 +0000

That was a little confusing to me as well. English is not my native language, so maybe I just didn't understand the nuance.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

SwiftyBug — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:11:55 +0000

I had the same exact experience with an Indian contractor. I requested that he used git instead of Shopify CLI for his changes to a store's theme. He acknowledged my request but kept using the CLI. I once again asked him to use git and even offered a detailed, step-by-step guide on how to pull, branch and then push changes. He absolutely ignored everything and simply kept using the CLI. That was actually amazing to witness. The only hypothesis I have is that it's some kind of cultural thing where asking for help is worse than doing the opposite of what's expected from you. I don't know, but your story supports my hypothesis.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "Show HN: Typing Tennis"

SwiftyBug — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:04:22 +0000

Love the concept, but I couldn't figure out how to play. I can't hit the ball back even though I'm typing the right word. I keep getting a hint that says that I should type the return word and press enter, which I do, but nothing happens.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

SwiftyBug — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:28:20 +0000

photopea.com is entirely written in JavaScript and as far as I know, it doesn't use any fancy JS framework.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same"

SwiftyBug — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:14:25 +0000

I was very susprised to not be the first to enter a quotation by Nelson Rodrigues. Nice.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39"

SwiftyBug — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:43:54 +0000

I have the same feeling riding the TGV in France. When another train passes in the opposite direction, the pressure in the interior of the cabin even changes. Not sure if it lowers or raises, but I can definitely feel it in my ears.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling"

SwiftyBug — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:20:30 +0000

Is the prime minister typing out official documents himself?

New comment by SwiftyBug in "Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft"

SwiftyBug — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:43:07 +0000

I thought planes had insane redundancy exactly so stuff like that don´t happen. How can a bit flip cause the system that controls altitude to malfunction like that?

New comment by SwiftyBug in "Stackoverflow Outage"

SwiftyBug — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:19:19 +0000

Unfortunately the answer to that is the Discord server of whatever technology I'm working with. Communities are now separated each in their silo on Discord, far away from the public internet, where nothing can be indexed.

New comment by SwiftyBug in "OCaml maintainers reject massive AI-generated pull request"

SwiftyBug — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 19:54:31 +0000

What is Zig's wall of shame?