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New comment by b3n in "Zugzwang"

b3n — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:57:41 +0000

Go is a turn based game without this feature (or bug?) because you aren't forced to move, you can instead pass. Both players passing in a row implies neither player thinks they can improve their position and the game ends.

New comment by b3n in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

b3n — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:54:43 +0000

This was already done, see: Grokipedia.

New comment by b3n in "Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014)"

b3n — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:59:49 +0000

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned Eshell has a module built in for exactly what you want, you just need to `(push 'eshell-rebind eshell-modules-list)`. Now C-p, C-r, etc. work as you are used to.

Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search

b3n — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:57:29 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040521

Points: 939

# Comments: 341

New comment by b3n in "WikiTok"

b3n — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:37:58 +0000

Nice! I made WikTok[1] in the past, but your version looks much better. :-)

[1] https://wiktok.org/

New comment by b3n in "Guix on the Framework 13 AMD"

b3n — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:32:53 +0000

Guix even comes with a Nix service[0] which is easy to enable if you would like to also use Nix packages.

[0] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Miscellaneous-Servi...

NoML Proposal for Fair Use of Content in AI and Search

b3n — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 20:28:51 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/10/noml-proposal-and-open-letter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38043484

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Google Calendar Is Down

b3n — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:47:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/7uJZ5F1Uy4n1n74iMacQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37598443

Points: 17

# Comments: 2

New comment by b3n in "X, the moonshot factory"

b3n — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:14:30 +0000

This is a Google company, it has nothing to do with Musk.

New comment by b3n in "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995)"

b3n — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 19:22:55 +0000

But there's plenty of transpilers: ClojureScript, Nim, etc.

New comment by b3n in "The guide to software development with Guix"

b3n — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 19:05:41 +0000

Guix comes with a service for using Nix packages[1], if that's what you want. It's very simple to setup, and would allow you to use Nix's Firefox package without any issue.

[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Miscellaneous-Servi...

Tell HN: Pushes to GitHub PRs are not working

b3n — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 16:55:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/1g1gkh0qpyvs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36229564

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by b3n in "Show HN: WikTok – A Recommendation UI for Wikipedia"

b3n — Tue, 23 May 2023 19:49:12 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to share all this great feedback! Appreciate it :)

I agree with all your points. I will only comment on a few, but will go through each of them and fix what I can.

> I assumed it didn't matter but turns out right goes back, but after you go back, left swipe gives you a new article instead of going back to the article you went back from

This is actually a bug, it's supposed to go forward but it seems `window.navigation.canGoForward` is not implemented in Safari. I'll add a workaround, and then think about better ways to navigate between articles.

> preload the next page

This is supposed to happen already (the API is queried in advance), but it might be slow due to updating the DOM. I'll see if there's a way I can pre-render the next page (might work well with your visual feedback suggestion).

> does the algorithm track how I scrolled the page, which words I dwelled on etc.?

No but I'd like to try something like this and see if it helps the suggestions.

> letting people see more of what you track, like what articles they've read and show them long lists of related articles for the current article, so that you can see that you're making progress instead of feeling that it's an endless pit of information

That's a great idea! Once I've fixed the numerous bugs I'll try and add some interesting/fun stats.

> Will you open source this?

Yes! The only reason it's not already open source is because I'd like to clean up the code a little first.

Show HN: WikTok – A Recommendation UI for Wikipedia

b3n — Mon, 22 May 2023 08:59:01 +0000

Hi HN,

WikTok is a UI for Wikipedia that lets you quickly swipe (or use your arrow keys) to navigate between random and recommended articles (based on the previous articles you interacted most with).

It's just a fun project I hacked together this weekend, so may be a little rough around the edges, but I'd love to get your thoughts.

Let me know if you have any suggestions (or find any interesting articles!)

Cheers,

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36028940

Points: 73

# Comments: 11

New comment by b3n in "Emacs for Android"

b3n — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:42:18 +0000

Availabe on F-Droid at https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.gnu.emacs/

Emacs for Android

b3n — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:42:18 +0000

Article URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/java/README?h=feature/android

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35651208

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by b3n in "European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force"

b3n — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 19:54:58 +0000

> I feel ashamed to live on this side of the Atlantic, sometimes.

Let's not forget that DeepMind is of EU origin, and they were one of the forces that kick started this whole AI renaissance.

New comment by b3n in "Be Careful Using Tmux and Environment Variables"

b3n — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 19:56:30 +0000

But at that point you may as well use TRAMP[1] and let Emacs do the multiplexing for you. Yes, (e)shell works over TRAMP too. ;)

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/

New comment by b3n in "Tilde.news – A Link Aggregator for the Tildeverse"

b3n — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 10:38:21 +0000

What is "blatant"? I don't think sister sites[1] are frowned upon. The code is released under a permissive license, after all.

[1] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki#sister-sites

New comment by b3n in "Making a keyboard layout"

b3n — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 13:36:27 +0000

These runs (also known as "handroll combos") are one thing that the Colemak layout optimizes for.

See: https://colemak.com/Hand_alternation