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New comment by do_not_redeem in "Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go"

do_not_redeem — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:32:10 +0000

> Pure-Go tree-sitter runtime — no CGo, no C toolchain, WASM-ready.

No you didn't. The readme is obvious LLM slop. Em-dash, rule of three, "not x, y". Why should anyone spend effort reading something you couldn't be bothered to write? Why did you post it to HN from a burner account?

New repository settings for configuring pull request access

do_not_redeem — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:36:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-13-new-repository-settings-for-configuring-pull-request-access/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018633

Points: 3

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New comment by do_not_redeem in "Let's compile Quake like it's 1997"

do_not_redeem — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:29:12 +0000

Zig supports this. If you compile with -fsingle-threaded, operations on mutexes turn into nops, atomics become simple loads/stores, etc.

New comment by do_not_redeem in "Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP"

do_not_redeem — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:46:39 +0000

Okay, let's say the cache is cold and you're on an old clunky spinning rust 5400 RPM hard drive. Do the math. How long will it take, worst case, for the platter to spin to where calc.exe is stored?

New comment by do_not_redeem in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

do_not_redeem — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:52:57 +0000

I won't spoil the article, but if you read to the end you'll find out what this "FMZ" project is called.

New comment by do_not_redeem in "My Father's Instant Mashed Potatoes"

do_not_redeem — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:01:54 +0000

It was an offhand 20 words out of a 5000 word article and a very pertinent example. I guess the question is, why were you not bothered by the negative opinion about instant coffee or particleboard or malls or Tinder or McNuggets, but hearing anything negative about LLMs is worth singling out to complain about?

New comment by do_not_redeem in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

do_not_redeem — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:21:35 +0000

The site is open source and the commits are still there. No need to be so dramatic.

https://github.com/ziglang/www.ziglang.org/commit/c8d046b288...

New comment by do_not_redeem in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

do_not_redeem — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:37:36 +0000

To be fair, Windows 8 only came out in 2012, so they haven't had that much time to finish the settings migration. But they're making good progress. If they keep up this pace of moving 2 settings per month, they should be able to finish by 2053.

New comment by do_not_redeem in "Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground"

do_not_redeem — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 05:28:20 +0000

I wonder what tools the Zig team has to deal with trolls like this.

Is the zig name or logo trademarked? What about the mascot he's using as his github picture?

They're violating the terms of the MIT license as mentioned in the article, so maybe Zigtools has legal standing.

As for lying about no AI, being an asshole isn't illegal, so no angle there.

Any other ideas I missed?

New comment by do_not_redeem in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

do_not_redeem — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:51:13 +0000

Congratulations on the move!

> Thank you to the Forgejo contributors who helped us with our issues switching to the platform, as well as the Codeberg folks who worked with us on the migration

I'd love to see a writeup about these problems/solutions at some point.

New comment by do_not_redeem in "The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy"

do_not_redeem — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 01:12:41 +0000

I think gorhill is far more trustworthy than a whole new browser based on crypto.

New comment by do_not_redeem in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

do_not_redeem — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:53:03 +0000

Reading between the lines, it seems like Google is playing a bit of chess here. Reminds me of the Beeper Mini stunt, except this time by a trillion-dollar company they can't just sweep under the rug.

> we welcome the opportunity to work with Apple to enable “Contacts Only” mode in the future.

> I applaud the effort to open more secure information sharing between platforms and encourage Google and Apple to work together more on this.

Your move, Apple.

New comment by do_not_redeem in "Microsoft: We see all the backlash and we know we have a lot to fix in Windows"

do_not_redeem — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 02:59:22 +0000

> when you actually take a look what they are complaining about it is not actually an ad

https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sta...

Opera Browser [Promoted]

https://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/file-explo...

Buy OneDrive for $6.99 a month

Do you think these aren't ads?

New comment by do_not_redeem in "TCP, the workhorse of the internet"

do_not_redeem — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:09:52 +0000

> I can send multiple queries over a single TCP connection and receive multiple responses over the same single TCP single connection, out of order. No blocking.

You're missing the point. You have one TCP connection, and the sever sends you response1 and then response2. Now if response1 gets lost or delayed due to network conditions, you must wait for response1 to be retransmitted before you can read response2. That is blocking, no way around it. It has nothing to do with advertising(?), and the other protocols mentioned don't have this drawback.

New comment by do_not_redeem in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

do_not_redeem — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:30:43 +0000

yt-dlp + 4K works fine for me. The only special thing I remember doing is adding the impersonate feature (which it prompts you to do if it needs it). In other words, instead of `uv tool install yt-dlp`, run `uv tool install yt-dlp[default,curl-cffi]`

The version in the Arch repos does not include the impersonate feature.

New comment by do_not_redeem in "I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months) [video]"

do_not_redeem — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 22:56:51 +0000

Nature is cruel. Every living thing wants energy for itself, but there's only so much to go around. The leaves cry out in ultrasonic frequencies as they're harvested, and then we add insult to injury by drowning them in salad dressing before we chomp away blissfully. You want to live, just like they did. So you eat. If only the universe had infinite resources to go around, but instead the march of entropy leaves us fighting over an ever shrinking pie.

New comment by do_not_redeem in "Firefox Forcing LLM Features"

do_not_redeem — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 22:28:18 +0000

Sure maybe 20 years ago. But back then Linux's userbase was also on Windows, because desktop Linux hadn't really become usable yet. I think nowadays Firefox's marketshare is a lot higher on e.g. Ubuntu (where it's the default) than it is on Windows (where Edge is the default).

New comment by do_not_redeem in "Firefox Forcing LLM Features"

do_not_redeem — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:38:06 +0000

Appealing to that crowd is how they grew their market share the first time around. The techies came first, trust was established, and then they recommended it to everyone else.

Do you really think AI features are going to move the needle here? Is your grandma going to think "Wow, Firefox can summarize my emails!" and switch web browsers?

New comment by do_not_redeem in "Driver livestreams on TikTok as she apparently hits and kills man in Chicago"

do_not_redeem — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 18:23:50 +0000

> complete non-usage of cell phones while driving

Well, this would also ban things like GPS, or hooking up Spotify to your steering wheel media buttons.

I think targeting texting + social media is the right approach.

New comment by do_not_redeem in "Zig is so cool, C is cooler"

do_not_redeem — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:34:45 +0000

Not a single mention of defer? There's no way I'll ever go back to writing goto towers.

Yes, I'm aware that some specific C toolchains have nonstandard extensions that accomplish the same thing, but if you lock yourself into one of those, the "Portability and Presence" section (and really, the first 20% of the article) goes out the window.