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New comment by antics9 in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

antics9 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:37:59 +0000

> kill-region-dwim fixes a decades-old papercut. Set it to 'emacs-word and hitting C-w with no active region kills a word backwards instead of signalling an error.

Thank you! No more:

(defun cutregion-or-killword (beginning end) "Kills region if marked else backward kills word." (interactive "r") (if (use-region-p) (kill-region beginning end) (backward-kill-word 1)))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-w") 'cutregion-or-killword)

New comment by antics9 in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

antics9 — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:54:22 +0000

There’s wander: https://susam.net/wander/

New comment by antics9 in "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"

antics9 — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:29:43 +0000

This weekend I installed Haiku on my old Thinkpad X40. It’s fast and surprisingly stable. Emacs, VLC works like a charm. Computer to slow for web browsing. The BeProductive office suite is a masterpiece of application at a 9MB download; although not open source.

Then I installed Haiku on my XPS13 under KVM/Qemu. Everything runs blazingly fast. I’m thinking of maybe using that install for organizing my photos. The metadata functionality built into the BeFS is great for that.

I must say that I am really impressed.

New comment by antics9 in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

antics9 — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:04:46 +0000

Well, having both girls and boys, I can concur.

New comment by antics9 in "Permacomputing Principles"

antics9 — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:49:29 +0000

On what page did you find that?

New comment by antics9 in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

antics9 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:00:05 +0000

You haven’t had children growing up during the last two decades have you?

New comment by antics9 in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

antics9 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:56:50 +0000

From the comments here it seems like people are stress prompting their builds instead of planning and reviewing.

If one model seems to be a bit off during a session I just switch to another (Opencode) and plan and review from there.

New comment by antics9 in "Migrating to the EU"

antics9 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:10:13 +0000

https://tuta.com/ and Protonmail

New comment by antics9 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

antics9 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:08:18 +0000

Why not be real and multi faceted in both thinking and writing? Trying to be perfect in writing just makes you plastic.

By the looks of it, I don't even think I'm replying to a human.

New comment by antics9 in "The Book of PF, 4th edition"

antics9 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:33:17 +0000

There are e-readers and DRM-free electronic libraries.

New comment by antics9 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

antics9 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:12:58 +0000

https://m.legnered.se - My BJJ journey, notes and some writings.

New comment by antics9 in "Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone"

antics9 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:19:02 +0000

I loved my MP01. However, GSM is not available anymore where I live.

I used the CAT S22 for a while but it just isn't the same.

If they release a 5G MP03 I might buy one. I don't see the point of a Punkt smartphone.

New comment by antics9 in "Computing Across America (1983-1985)"

antics9 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:20:55 +0000

Yes: https://microship.com/bicycle-mobile-packeteering/

New comment by antics9 in "Show HN: A Lisp Interpreter for Shell Scripting"

antics9 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:22:44 +0000

This looks good! I've seen other tries of shell scripting with lisp dialects but Redstart syntax looks more intuitive (from a shell scripting standpoint) and easy to read.

New comment by antics9 in "E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper"

antics9 — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:21:04 +0000

Here in Sweden I get all mail, except occasional missed payment notices, electronically by way of https://kivra.se/en/private

Costs nothing extra.

New comment by antics9 in "Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy"

antics9 — Sun, 04 May 2025 17:24:51 +0000

I really like his talk about basic income and communities role in fostering ideas:

”Although great new ideas are articulated by individuals they are nearly always generated by communities.”

https://archive.org/details/brian-eno-on-basic-income

New comment by antics9 in "Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of culture"

antics9 — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:00:33 +0000

And no mention in the article of the ways of culture that managed the systems.

New comment by antics9 in "Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program"

antics9 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:47:44 +0000

It’s a Buddhist monastery.

New comment by antics9 in "Show HN: Complete decompilation of Lego Island"

antics9 — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:23:21 +0000

The game looks like Roblox and is just as creepy too: https://youtu.be/xyqXZDyR-RA

New comment by antics9 in "Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure"

antics9 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 08:52:23 +0000

I have a neighbour who's in his 60s. Blood pressure was of the charts while in his 40s. The guy was cycling to work everyday (and thought that was enough exercise) and was living a stressful family and work life.

Doctor never prescribed any drugs but told him that he had to start exercising. Signed up for judo class. He couldn't believe the amount of exercise he got from the warm up alone. Been doing judo 3 days a week for 20 years now. Haven't had any heart or blood pressure issues since.