Hacker News: acdw

New comment by acdw in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

acdw — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:52:40 +0000

HAHAHAH Hell yeah that's praxis baby die mad about it

New comment by acdw in "Meow: Yet another modal editing on Emacs"

acdw — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 03:47:06 +0000

> What works best for me is no modal editing at all.

I used vim for 8 years and after switching to Emacs, realized that I'm the same. I was spending way more time (in vim) thinking about (to borrow another commenter's metaphor) how I was going to play the notes than what notes I was going to write.

New comment by acdw in "AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites"

acdw — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:13:09 +0000

could you share the code for that? thinking I could set up a fail2ban rule for these ips

New comment by acdw in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

acdw — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:34:31 +0000

seriously, study after study shows that just giving people money is the most effective form of altruism. just give it away. go to your city's homeless shelter and give money away. write a check for your local school board. keep everything anonymous. give it all away.

New comment by acdw in "Ask HN: Why isn't having two or three careers the norm?"

acdw — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 01:24:58 +0000

I remember reading long ago that the average person changes careers 6 times. So that means that half of everyone changes more than 6 times.

New comment by acdw in "Smallest Typeface"

acdw — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 04:06:50 +0000

> Please do not post this article to Hacker News.

oop!

New comment by acdw in "Americans Are Pulling Cash from Their Retirement Savings to Pay Bills"

acdw — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:15:40 +0000

honestly I'm so sick of this attitude. it's the same as the recycling push...when like a dozen companies are creating the vast majority of pollution, there's not a lot us little people can do. HSAs are a symptom of an extremely broken system. we should fix the system, not max out on our HSAs (if we even can...see the other replies to this post)

New comment by acdw in "Tell HN: We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt”"

acdw — Wed, 10 May 2023 19:01:04 +0000

$ cat ai.txt no $

New comment by acdw in "Tell HN: We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt”"

acdw — Wed, 10 May 2023 19:00:50 +0000

$ cat ai.txt no

New comment by acdw in "Why Lisp?"

acdw — Sun, 07 May 2023 17:43:26 +0000

so Lisp is actually not a pure language, like, at all. Emacs is often written about as a big hairy ball of state and Lisp itself can be as imperative or statefule as you want. So while I don't know much about what you're designing, Lisp wouldn't be necessarily a bad choice.

New comment by acdw in "Speak English to me: The secret world of programmers"

acdw — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 13:27:46 +0000

I agree, and I've seen more "blogs" on GitHub lately. it's very annoying.

New comment by acdw in "Speak English to me: The secret world of programmers"

acdw — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 13:26:06 +0000

I really wish people would stop writing blogs in naked GitHub repos.

New comment by acdw in "Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks"

acdw — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 23:21:26 +0000

I humbly submit either bash, sh, or zsh --- they all put dotfiles in $HOME that you can't move (zsh technically /can/, but they're still dotfiles and you have to set them in ~/.zshenv). Very annoying IMO.

Course, might not work so well with the way boxxy is run ... unless you chsh to boxxy bash or something.

New comment by acdw in "Ask HN: Would You Work for Elon?"

acdw — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:26:09 +0000

God no LMAO

New comment by acdw in "Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?"

acdw — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 18:43:53 +0000

Pretty much all of my Emacs packages are scratching my own itch. Most of them are at codeberg:

https://codeberg.org/acdw

New comment by acdw in "LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board"

acdw — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:57:20 +0000

Just hopping in to say : it's laughable to claim that open source projects have "hard-coded" anything. It's literally impossible to hard code things when anyone can download the source, edit it, compile it and run it on any machine they own

New comment by acdw in "So you want to be a writer?"

acdw — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 20:40:38 +0000

thank you!

New comment by acdw in "So you want to be a writer?"

acdw — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 20:39:49 +0000

okay ya got me! i've read one posthumous book by bukowski and heard that one modest mouse song ... i should obviously read more because the random pick you gave is, indeed, pretty good.

thanks for changing my mind :)

New comment by acdw in "Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?"

acdw — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:02:26 +0000

I'm writing an ed clone in scheme. I hope to have autoindentation since that's about the only thing I miss with ed.

New comment by acdw in "Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy"

acdw — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:20:15 +0000

I'm really bothered by the way you casually conflate an actual war in the middle east---the longest war in American history, by the way---with a metaphorical war on domestic violent extremism and neonazism. these are two very different things.