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New comment by frangonf in "Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard"

frangonf — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:03:32 +0000

Not the case in my Zen (macos) looks fine.

New comment by frangonf in "The Goose Programming Language"

frangonf — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:46:18 +0000

https://xxcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/211370426927463656...

New comment by frangonf in "Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust"

frangonf — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:57:38 +0000

I use oxc tooling and it's great to see the rust rewrite singularity in action and get to ride the fastest horses, but I would like that they made a branch for 7.2 as experiment to see how it compares. Maybe this ends in a win for Microsoft, they could cut operating expenses by keeping just Anders Hejlsberg in a hammock reciting invariants to claudpilot.

New comment by frangonf in "Talk like Paul Dirac – fewer words is better"

frangonf — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:33:36 +0000

To me adding 'tldr' at beginning or end of the prompt whenever I need is enough. Sometimes I want more explanatory responses.

New comment by frangonf in "Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling"

frangonf — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:24:29 +0000

tmux is great, specially when you need persistence in a remote server where you don't want or can't install any other software, and when you are stuck with some 2010 terminal emulator.

But if you have control over your setup, I would use a capable terminal and ditch in-band multiplexers that sit in the middle of the process and your terminal eating up escape sequences and native features while adding latency. Then use a separate tool for session persistence (I like zmx but there are more for this).

New comment by frangonf in "The future of programming (1982)"

frangonf — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:34:52 +0000

> Many programmers spend relatively little time ac- tually doing programming, i.e., writing, debugging, test- ing, or documenting code. Much of their time is occupied with mundane chores, meetings, or various kinds of breaks and interruptions. Additional time is taken in becoming familiar with new applications or new devel- opment environments.

> One of the key problems in analysis and specification of systems is that the eventual users do not have a good idea of what they want the system to do.

> Automatic Programming The term "automatic programming" has been used for many years to refer to the process by which an executable program may be produced from nonproce- dural specifications of the task to be performed. Some limited forms of automatic programming are already available and more will become available in the medium term. Over the longer term, it will be possible for pro- grammers to create running programs by providing a specification of program functions and outputs, without having to proceed with a detailed program design or with the production of code.

Am I living in 1982?

New comment by frangonf in "Ask HN: macOS 27.x upgrade without Siri eating disk space?"

frangonf — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:43:48 +0000

This worked for me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957116

New comment by frangonf in "AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10"

frangonf — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:37:15 +0000

https://github.com/mixelpixx/Konnect/blob/9488e5f09717cb508c...

Seems to be scraped data? and then you review it manually like it recommends in: https://github.com/mixelpixx/Konnect/blob/9488e5f09717cb508c...

New comment by frangonf in "Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why"

frangonf — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:29:39 +0000

> And other outlets for sexual desire were more acceptable, for example fictosexuality: the expression of romantic or sexual feelings towards fictional characters.

> A 2017 survey of Japanese students aged 16–22 found that 14–17 per cent of them admitted to having romantic feelings towards a character in a video game or anime.

TIL about the name of this phenomenon. I see this always in the context of "terminal online anime fan" but it made me think and look into other occurrences of similar parasocial behavior like the early Sherlock Holmes fandom.

With this current social and tech trends I think we are going to see more Pygmalionic SexBots startups in next cohorts.

New comment by frangonf in "Photopea DMCA Takedown on GitHub"

frangonf — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:16:24 +0000

You might find this informative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982498

New comment by frangonf in "BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC"

frangonf — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:53:09 +0000

Goodbye sundial welcome cesium clock. Astrology app devs: remember to carry the drift in Temporal for the Ascendant, specially around 2267 you might get your love and money life predictions messed up.

New comment by frangonf in "[dead]"

frangonf — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:45:40 +0000

I don't use Linkedin so I read this as a substitute to get an informative view of what is currently being beamed at AI tech industry leaders.

New comment by frangonf in "The cost of getting a job today"

frangonf — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:12:45 +0000

With the added benefit that you can monitor it and review the cost and usage patterns of the candidates vs the result, maybe even get some cool evals.

New comment by frangonf in "Webster’s Dictionary: The pleasure of finding things out (2014)"

frangonf — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:13:10 +0000

Found this: https://github.com/websterParser/WebsterParser

With websters-1913.dictionary.zip ready to unzip and save into the dictionaries folder and use with the Dictionary app.

New comment by frangonf in "Fancy Curl Sites"

frangonf — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:26:37 +0000

hey that's pretty curl

New comment by frangonf in "Smart people don't think others are stupid"

frangonf — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:13:08 +0000

I read and love all from Derek. I like that he always makes you think through, even when starting from simple and stupid ideas.

Personally I tend to dismiss myself as stupid, because many times I detect I'm being misguided by lazyness and not wanting to think things through, which obviously makes me feel so smart that I could spend all day trapped in this stupid paradox.

New comment by frangonf in "Ask HN: Why do people say "I built it" when we should say "Claude built it"?"

frangonf — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:24:21 +0000

I have some personal projects started with AI from day 0, which I use and come back from time to time to update with new ideas, features, product direction, explicitly choosing deps/tooling, etc. I will never say that I wrote it, but make or build doesn't seem that far fetched. Maybe I just generated it? Incantated? Reverse-entropied it?

New comment by frangonf in "Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?"

frangonf — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:21:46 +0000

I'm no senior but I think that if software (and rest of disciplines possible soon to be hit as hard) can still be "wrong", if you can still mess it up even with machine assistance, people doing software still have a place. This doesn't mean that we need to achieve absolute perfection to be deprecated, maybe we just become accepting of machine generated good enough artifacts. I'm betting on humanity infinite nonconformism instincts so I can have a job some more years!

New comment by frangonf in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

frangonf — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:06:14 +0000

Does detective bench cancel out felony bench?

New comment by frangonf in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

frangonf — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:56:13 +0000

Good point, I wasn't clear enough about my thoughts here. I tried to say that in a multiple commits/s world the review might not be direct line/hunk review of the code but a more "indirect", abstracted or higher level human oversight, which is how I understand an intent review is.

I'm not saying that Anthropic here close their eyes and tell Claude to ship and that in the future there will be no code review at all, but that if we have 30K merges/day, human review seems to need to be done at some higher level, likely AI assisted like it seems to be done with their Antique code review tool mentioned in the post.