Hacker News: WolfeReader

New comment by WolfeReader in "A new way to reflect on how you use Claude"

WolfeReader — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:06:21 +0000

It is inevitable that a post criticizing grammar or spelling will, itself, contain a grammar or spilling error.

New comment by WolfeReader in "A new way to reflect on how you use Claude"

WolfeReader — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:05:00 +0000

Search engines without ads exist.

Try noai.duckduckgo.com. Decent search results, actual sources, no risk of hallucination, no extreme energy cost.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Changes to Our Contribution Policies"

WolfeReader — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:21:06 +0000

Good on them! AI-produced "content" is a DDOS attack on human cognition. It takes more time to review than to produce, and the original coders rarely review the output before creating the merge request. And the planet is paying.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents"

WolfeReader — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:58:23 +0000

I legit did not know this. Thanks!

New comment by WolfeReader in "Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents"

WolfeReader — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:34:15 +0000

1. Ease of use. Other VCS have more consistent command line interfaces; Git's interface has to be studied. In practice, people end up using GUIs with missing functionality and then end up searching for help, and a lot of real experts come to rely on powerful wrappers like Magit, LazyGit, or JJ.

(Compare to Mercurial, Fossil or Git; those systems have consistent and usable interfaces. There's much less demand for wrappers or LLM tooling since they're easy to use already.)

2. Preservation of history. Two common commands - git rebate and git push -f - cause commit history to be lost, sometimes permanently. ("Just be careful" and "Just don't use those commands" are useful pieces of advice for an individual, and virtually impossible to enforce over groups.)

3. Conflict resolution. Git forces the user to resolve conflicts ASAP so we often lose information about A. What the conflict exactly was, and B. How the individual resolved it. Most VCS have this issue; JJ allows you to commit the conflict and solve it in a separate commit, which is nice.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents"

WolfeReader — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:17:08 +0000

"I wish commits could be folded into larger commits so that you can still capture the individual changes but also not see them by default when looking at the history of a file."

Fossil merges do this. More people need to use Fossil; it's got a ton of great ideas.

"If I split a file in two I still want to be able to see blame correctly for the author of the function, not one file as freshly created and the other with a bunch of deletes."

Now this is a good idea that I've never seen in a VCS.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site"

WolfeReader — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:10:10 +0000

Unfortunately, these days, "Show HN" is a code phrase for vibe-coded and untested projects. I was optimistic for this one because I love puzzles.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site"

WolfeReader — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:58:18 +0000

The "Hard" big diamond nonogram was not hard at all. Are you vibe-coding these?

New comment by WolfeReader in "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle"

WolfeReader — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:40:39 +0000

We are in "the future" relative to both works. The current intelligence threatening our planet is an unconscious token predictor, much more like the hostile non-entity in Blindsight (which even speaks to humans via token prediction) than the mechanical persons in Terminator 2.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Your ePub Is fine"

WolfeReader — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:24:36 +0000

Every Kobo reader is capable of running KoReader ( http://koreader.rocks/ ). That's the first, and probably last, step I'd take to render a book that the default reader takes issue with.

New comment by WolfeReader in "The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun"

WolfeReader — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:20:11 +0000

Evidence?

New comment by WolfeReader in "The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun"

WolfeReader — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:38:05 +0000

This is a great example of commenting on the headline without reading the article.

New comment by WolfeReader in "The new bibliomaniacs"

WolfeReader — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:46:43 +0000

Those are some incredibly minor advantages. The advantages of ebooks - easy backups, infinitesimal physical storage requirements, searchability, accessibility for people with visual needs - each one of those outweighs every advantage you listed.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be 'Addictive'"

WolfeReader — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:26:32 +0000

The source site (404 Media) requires a login to read their article. Kotaku's coverage is plainly readable.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

WolfeReader — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:22:31 +0000

Where "better" means you and your maintainers spend all your time scrutinizing volumes of code from token prediction machines?

New comment by WolfeReader in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

WolfeReader — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:17:06 +0000

Opening lines: "Today we’re changing how code enters the Ladybird project.

We will no longer accept public pull requests. From now on, code changes to the Ladybird codebase will only be introduced by project maintainers."

Seems like a good bottom-line-up-front to me.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Ad Blocker Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker Works"

WolfeReader — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:37:40 +0000

Using uBlock Origin and nuMatrix on Librewolf got me 98% - some cosmetic ads got through.

New comment by WolfeReader in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

WolfeReader — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:25:02 +0000

The USA is consistently in the top 10 of nations with the highest incarceration rates. Prosecuting fewer "crimes" is a move in a better direction.

New comment by WolfeReader in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

WolfeReader — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:17:53 +0000

That makes no sense whatsoever. Voting for Trump (or anyone with an R by their name) is wrong; sitting out a vote is wrong. Why save all the blame for the side that actually put up resistance, however ineptly?

New comment by WolfeReader in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

WolfeReader — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:48:35 +0000

Don't tell OP this - he doesn't want to install multiple things. You'll scare him away from Java.