Hacker News: emaro

New comment by emaro in "Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search"

emaro — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:20:27 +0000

There are strategies (especially if you know the word list). Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA, highly recommended.

New comment by emaro in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

emaro — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:16:11 +0000

I don't get a paywall -- maybe it's thanks to uBlock Origin?

New comment by emaro in "Stealing Is a Skill"

emaro — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:11:55 +0000

I kind of agree in the sense that stealing a good idea and executing it well is a skill. Copying someones site "pixel by pixel" seems disrispectful though and I don't know what there's to be proud of.

New comment by emaro in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

emaro — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:48:33 +0000

Yes, though it has the most powerful and customizable adblocker available.

New comment by emaro in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

emaro — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:55:16 +0000

The default paragraph style has some margin.

- You can do Shift+Enter to get a `br` without breaking the paragraph. - You can change the format from "Paragraph" to "Body Text" to remove the margin. Note that Thunderbird changes new lines back to "Paragraph" automatically, so you need to frist write your email, then format it as "Body Text". - Or, you can disable the "Use Paragraph format instead of Body text by default" option in the settings, to always have "Body text".

New comment by emaro in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

emaro — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:36:12 +0000

I tried to stop this a while ago and searching the internet did not yield great results, so I ended up creating a Shortcut that runs when the Music app opens to close it again. This actually worked well until that time I wanted to use the Music app for real.

So annoying and not great UX from Apple imo. Thanks for this.

New comment by emaro in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

emaro — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:38:18 +0000

No borders doesn't mean no rules.

New comment by emaro in "Multi-stroke text effect in CSS"

emaro — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:49:23 +0000

Too late: https://codepen.io/jaysalvat/pen/kazzOj

New comment by emaro in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

emaro — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:45:24 +0000

Sure, but Bun is now owned by a company who's entire shtick is creating AI models. That shifts priorities.

New comment by emaro in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

emaro — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:31:02 +0000

Yeah. And if you want to expand an existing brand that's not yours, you ask first, and only continue after a green light from the owner.

New comment by emaro in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

emaro — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:59:32 +0000

Pretty cool. What I don't understand is why both my USB@1 and USB@2 show the same connected devices. I'd expect to only see the respective devices. USB@1 is my USB-hub monitor, the other one is connected to my phone. Both show keyboard, etc. plus my phone as connected devices.

New comment by emaro in "U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP"

emaro — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:57:21 +0000

I want to raise taxes to get rid of billionaires and the historically high inequality resulting in many (most?) of today's problems. More money for the government makes it a win-win. Not American, so I don't have a horse in this particular race.

New comment by emaro in "Tangled – We need a federation of forges"

emaro — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:52:25 +0000

I think this is less about source code itself, and more about the surrounding ecosystem of project management. Handling of issues, pull requests, who gets commit or admin access, all that stuff. If you mirror your git repo to other providers, fine. But if you have thousands of issues and PRs on Github, you still can't really move away and you still can't really work if Github is down.

Edit: I absolutely support federated forges, including Tangled as well as ActivityPub based approaches like the (slow) progress to federate Forgejo.

New comment by emaro in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

emaro — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:33:21 +0000

Exactly. Had to chuckle at:

> [...] is one of the most competent IT guys I know. The GoDaddy account had [...]

Don't think I've ever heard something good about GoDaddy.

New comment by emaro in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

emaro — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:36:10 +0000

There's not one thing that stands out, but he abandoned the entire core principles of OpenAI (took a 180), constantly lies to people and doesn't plan to stop.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may...

New comment by emaro in "Show HN: We fingerprinted 178 AI models' writing styles and similarity clusters"

emaro — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:07:21 +0000

No mention of any linguistic theory, some arbitrary (?*) metrics mixed together and even more arbitrary thresholds. Why does 75% "similarity" mean "writes the same"?

Low quality post imo.

*Generated I assume.

New comment by emaro in "Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth"

emaro — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:01:33 +0000

I don't mind people sharing their plugs about related things, but don't you think the connection here is a bit far-fetched?

Imo we're past the point where being vibe-coded is an interesting link. This is a thread about an interactive map of middle earth — not about vibe-coding, token usage or anything like it. Imagine if everyone posted their vibes projects now...

New comment by emaro in "GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo"

emaro — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:45:08 +0000

Ironic. Even more so since it seems like in general LLM output doesn't seem to be proteced by copyright in the first place. And since Claude code is entirely written by Claude code, it shouldn't be proteced as well.

New comment by emaro in "I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog"

emaro — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:26:39 +0000

I like the wonky, hand-drawn looking style. I think it fits well beause usually if I use a diagram it's not 100% precise and accurate, but more a high-level illustration. The wonky style conveys the approximate precision of the presented concept.

Also, and that's personal, I think it's cute.

New comment by emaro in "Have a fucking website"

emaro — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:24:19 +0000

> Get a VPS with an nginx image pre-installed

You probably already lost 90% of 'normies'.

Most people won't be able to or willing to do that on their own. They could learn it of course, but they don't bother.

https://xkcd.com/2501/