Hacker News: firexcy

He Federal Data Field Guide

firexcy — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:07:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.federaldatafieldguide.us/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170155

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Berkshire Has a Website from the '90s and Buffett Fans Say Don't Mess with It

firexcy — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:50:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/berkshire-hathaway-shareholder-meeting-warren-buffett-greg-abel-d9670c30

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991386

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

What exactly is an executive chair, Tim Cook's new position?

firexcy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:41:40 +0000

Article URL: https://hsu.cy/2026/04/tim-cook-as-the-executive-chair/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855623

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Skirt Length Oscillations

firexcy — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:30:56 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-03-bell-bottoms-today-miniskirts-tomorrow.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524150

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

HTTPS certificates in the age of quantum computing

firexcy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:11:17 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1060941/4878284e2c9f19ba/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343733

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Spotify Announces the "Music-Streaming Urn"

firexcy — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:06:50 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-02-24/liquid-death-eternal-playlist-urn/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47147551

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

Do androids dream of accepted pull requests?

firexcy — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:34:19 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1058643/f7ba3383d584a3ea/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060755

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Clawdbot's Capacity Is Less a Triumph of AI and More a Triumph of Desktop OS

firexcy — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:26:04 +0000

Article URL: https://hsu.cy/2026/01/clawding-around/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841978

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by firexcy in "The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025"

firexcy — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:13:57 +0000

Great project. It’s a surprise to learn that it’s possible to make it to #598 with three posts.

(I’m not sure why the data from my old domain, cyhsu.xyz, hasn’t been aggregated to the new hsu.cy, despite the methodology page saying it should. Must I return the canonical header in addition to a 301 code?)

It was also during the past year that I came to realize how powerful and versatile Hugo is. I had used Hugo for many years, touching only the most basic feature set. Last year, I decided to be done with Twitter and Instagram and make my own timelines of text and photo posts with similar layouts. Initially, I thought it might require separate instances of GoToSocial and Pixelfed. It turned out that Hugo could do it all with a few tweaks, and now they are live at hsu.cy/notes and hsu.cy/gallery, respectively. I highly recommend it to everyone who wants to start their own blog.

New comment by firexcy in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

firexcy — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:19:17 +0000

I appreciate his work for being more informative and organized than average AI-related content. Without his blogging, it would be a struggle to navigate the bombastic and narcissistic Twitter/Reddit posts for AI updates. The barrier to entry for AI reporting is so low that you just need to give a bit more care to be distinguished, and he is getting the deserved attention for doing exactly that in a systematical and disciplined manner. (I do believe many on HN are more than capable but not interested in doing the same.) Personally, I sometimes find his posts more congratulatory or trivial than I like, but I have learned to take what I want and ignore what I don’t.

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts

firexcy — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:56:07 +0000

Article URL: https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432862

Points: 289

# Comments: 178

New comment by firexcy in "Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?"

firexcy — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:39:41 +0000

Shameless plug: I wrote this as I tried to understand HN: https://hsu.cy/2025/09/how-to-read-hn/ (Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45331030 ) I know it only scratches the surface, but hopefully it can provide some basics.

US acquisition results in font license hikes for Japanese game studios

firexcy — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:34:58 +0000

Article URL: https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-game-developers-face-ridiculously-high-font-license-fees-following-us-acquisition-of-major-domestic-provider-live-service-games-to-take-the-biggest-blow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46132860

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Brussels Effect

firexcy — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:12:50 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46031951

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

firexcy — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:50:14 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/20755

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45907259

Points: 345

# Comments: 287

Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News

firexcy — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:37:12 +0000

Article URL: https://hsu.cy/2025/09/how-to-read-hn/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45331030

Points: 282

# Comments: 100

Is OOXML Artifically Complex?

firexcy — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:07:00 +0000

Article URL: https://hsu.cy/2025/09/is-ooxml-artificially-complex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45144758

Points: 162

# Comments: 156

New comment by firexcy in "Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes–Please"

firexcy — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 05:09:38 +0000

I think what’s telling isn’t whether em dashes are used but where they are used. You can still use em dashes as you see fit in serious academic and literary writing without others in the community raising an eyebrow. But a sudden proliferation of em dashes in a tabloid or an online forum will surely and rightfully raise doubts about assisted writing.

Finding a Successor to the FHS

firexcy — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:48:40 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032947/67e23ce1a3f9f129/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44938046

Points: 46

# Comments: 20

Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

firexcy — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 04:22:45 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/18/artificially-complex-xml-schema-as-lock-in-tool/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44612569

Points: 245

# Comments: 128