Hacker News: darthrupert

New comment by darthrupert in "DHH: Calling someone a "Nazi" is a permission slip for violence"

darthrupert — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:16:07 +0000

One kind of pushing your hands against your ears is ignoring problems that other people are talking about when you're not comfortable with hearing about them.

New comment by darthrupert in "DHH: Calling someone a "Nazi" is a permission slip for violence"

darthrupert — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:51:11 +0000

I'm not talking about the people who you think are "adults" (I assume you mean people whose opinions mostly matches yours), I mean everyone. They wouldn't talk about this if nobody was listening.

And people wouldn't listen to them if they talked about things that are not problems.

New comment by darthrupert in "DHH: Calling someone a "Nazi" is a permission slip for violence"

darthrupert — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:13:08 +0000

I agree with the main concern DHH correctly points out here, that some spaces (mostly inhabited by leftists) are currently calling a lot of people nazis who clearly are not nazis. And they're quite obviously gaslighting the idea that hurting these people is ok.

What people like DHH et al seem to be completely blind about is that the right has been doing this for decades, if not centuries. That is not justification for the left to do the same thing, but at least the other side should acknowledge that and try to move on instead of just perpetuating the cycle.

New comment by darthrupert in "DHH: Calling someone a "Nazi" is a permission slip for violence"

darthrupert — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:08:13 +0000

When people stop reacting to them.

New comment by darthrupert in "Klarna CEO Makes Employees Review His AI-Generated Vibe Coding Projects"

darthrupert — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:49:08 +0000

An AI board would certainly fire a CEO of a $20 billion company who wastes their time doing little tweaking like that. I mean even if there'd be a perfect AI that does something beyond slop consistently, this would still be a waste of time for a CEO.

At least if this is true at all, which should be perhaps doubted a little bit.

New comment by darthrupert in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

darthrupert — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:34:57 +0000

Arab nations have made invasions to Europe on a regular basis throughout history. That practically stopped when Israel was created.

Israel has been an amazing success for Western security.

New comment by darthrupert in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

darthrupert — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:19:47 +0000

Ukraine War started 3 years ago in 2022, not two years ago. Or 11 years ago in 2014, if we count from the illegal annexation of Crimea.

The Gaza war will be a footnote to the actual war happening in Europe. When the terrorist attack of October 7 happened, my first sentiment was that Putin will be ecstatic that half of the world's attention will be shifted away from his crimes. A conspiracy minded person might think this was not an accident.

New comment by darthrupert in "Hands-On Review of the Bluefox NX1"

darthrupert — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:37:20 +0000

A 4" Android 15 phone that is seems to be relatively premium.

A nice contrast to the giants Apple just released.

Hands-On Review of the Bluefox NX1

darthrupert — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:37:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techeblog.com/bluefox-nx1-mini-iphone-hands-on-review-specs-price/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195759

Points: 1

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New comment by darthrupert in "Putin anx Xi talk about immortality"

darthrupert — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:48:33 +0000

The idea that either of these two would live for another 80 years is without a doubt the worst thing I have read in the last 5 years, or perhaps ever.

New comment by darthrupert in "U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7%"

darthrupert — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:50:48 +0000

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New comment by darthrupert in "Why Nim?"

darthrupert — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 07:47:40 +0000

> You are going to indent your code anyway, so you might as well give the indentation some meaning.

Autoformatters came and fixed that problem. Nobody (except python, haskell and nim coders probably) wastes time indenting code anymore, you save and your code is indented. Nowadays, code that relies on whitespace and has no ending delimiters (like nim and python) gets awkward because the formatters have less information to go on. If your rust or typescript code formats to bad indent or none at all, you have an error.

New comment by darthrupert in "Ask HN: Has anyone built anything useful using AI?"

darthrupert — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:53:20 +0000

I have used coding agents with great success. So in some way I'm building useful things using AI, and the people who created those agents absolutely created something extremely useful.

New comment by darthrupert in "Israel says it killed five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza"

darthrupert — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:48:29 +0000

Searching through hacker news to verify this isn't so easily done so yes, I will have to concede to call mine merely a claim as well.

New comment by darthrupert in "Israel says it killed five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza"

darthrupert — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:58:49 +0000

Looks more like the opposite of what you claim is happening. Are you doing a "big lie", i.e. repeat an obvious untruth so that people will start believing it?

New comment by darthrupert in "Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network"

darthrupert — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 05:33:12 +0000

For what it's worth, the first Tesla model that ever got software upgrades is still getting them. That's the Model S from 2012.

New comment by darthrupert in "Hyprland – An independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor"

darthrupert — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 17:01:26 +0000

I suggest Cosmic Desktop (currently at alpha7) for anyone looking for a hyprland -kind of experience but with a bit more desktop feeling.

It's already quite stable even though it's an alpha version, possibly thanks to being implemented in Rust. I've been using it daily on my personal laptop since its release in April. No big problems, some missing features and tweakability though.

New comment by darthrupert in "Zig's Lovely Syntax"

darthrupert — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 16:56:10 +0000

Absolutely. Kinda of the best of many worlds, because it has what looks like an indentation-based syntax but actually blocks are delimited by start and end keywords. This makes it possible (unlike, say, python) to programmatically derive correct code formatting more reliably.

And no pointless semicolons.

New comment by darthrupert in "Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH"

darthrupert — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:20:10 +0000

Ok, so I checked it out slightly more and noticed that the omarchy installation script enables the chaotix.cx repo, which contains packages automatically built from AUR. I.e. packages contributed by practically anyone. So you'll be trusting not just one unknown set of people (AUR) but a completely second one too (chaotic.cx).

Omarchy enables all this silently with pacman -U --noconfirm.

This is probably fine for a hobbyist, and this is what people in the Linux world generally do, but also constitutes a pretty bad supply side attack vector. Then again, not significantly worse than what things like npm/node do.

On a positive note, using the concept of migrations in a tool like this is neat.

New comment by darthrupert in "Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH"

darthrupert — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:41:48 +0000

Well it's not worse than picking up a random usb stick on the street and running the exe from it