Hacker News: emaro

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/

New comment by emaro in "Digg is gone again"

emaro — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:49:37 +0000

Lemmy isn't simply Lemmy since it's federated. A screenshot like this is somewhat meaningless without specifying on which instance this happened. There are instances with very lax or even no moderation at all.

New comment by emaro in "Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books"

emaro — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:29:09 +0000

Same, I'm stuck at 18 inhabitants.

New comment by emaro in "Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city"

emaro — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:06:30 +0000

Thank you, it worked with the help of your tips!

New comment by emaro in "Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city"

emaro — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:26:57 +0000

I tried it in a python3 venv, but the download data step is stuck at 0% unfortunately.

New comment by emaro in "Indifference is a power (2015)"

emaro — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:17:45 +0000

I use the term not for traits and behaviours I think are masculine, but are sold as being masculine, which are toxic. An example would be that it's masculine to not cry or show emotions (whereas woman are labeled as "emotional"). Suppressing emotions is nothing gender specific of course, but when certain groups promote that as "masculine", calling that "toxic masculinity" makes sense IMO.

New comment by emaro in "Comitis Capital announces the acquisition of Threema"

emaro — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:47:01 +0000

I guess they're going to keep using Threema. The clients are open source and implement E2E encryption. Apparently the headquarter will stay in Switzerland. And today after learning about the acquisition, I learned that Threema was already sold to Afinum five years ago, another private equity firm. If an acquisition is a problem, it already was one at least since 2020.

New comment by emaro in "How Markdown took over the world"

emaro — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 11:43:31 +0000

Off-topic a little bit, but some feedback for your editor:

I saw Kraa when you posted it here on HN, and decided to give it another go, even though I remembered that I dismissed it quickly the first time.

I only got shy beyond the first line -- Kraa breaks words anywhere to wrap to the next line, really a no go for me, at least in Markdown (it's different if I enable word-wrap in my code editor).

Played around a little more and the editing experience is not great (for my needs):

- Kraa hides '#', so I can't remove the header style from headers. The context menu does not offer to change to paragraph style. - Kraa uses non-standart '[]' for tasks, instead of the more common '- [ ]' and '- [x]'.

Slick UI, sure. However if I cannot edit Markdown, I don't consider it a Markdown editor. Like Notion is also not a Markdown editor, even if I can type '# ' to get a heading.