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New comment by grose in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

grose — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 03:11:41 +0000

Yes, exactly, that is my point.

New comment by grose in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

grose — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:25:31 +0000

It's also ignoring the fact that much plagiarized code is already under permissive licenses. If Star Wars or Daft Punk were CC-BY-SA nobody would need to pirate them, and there may even be a vibrant remix culture... which is kind of the whole point of open source, is it not?

New comment by grose in "Rams is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams (2018)"

grose — Fri, 02 May 2025 20:45:45 +0000

I was introduced to this documentary through the YouTube clip "Dieter Rams pointing at things he doesn't like" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypyAg3Zbs_8

New comment by grose in "Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app"

grose — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 04:07:59 +0000

How about some dog sashimi? https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_I7a0kQHzgSexi8/dog-sashi... Maybe a human brain? https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_A6EsANYZ4uce2n/human-bra...

New comment by grose in "We are destroying software"

grose — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 04:23:05 +0000

Reads like it came straight out of the UNIX-HATERS Handbook, nice. (For those unfamiliar: https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf)

New comment by grose in "Context should go away for Go 2 (2017)"

grose — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 11:09:12 +0000

The blog post from 2014 introducing context uses a private key type, so there's really no excuse: https://go.dev/blog/context#package-userip

New comment by grose in "[dead]"

grose — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:30:11 +0000

RTO usually seems like an indirect way to do some layoffs to me. Surely management must be aware of the attrition it causes.

New comment by grose in "Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies"

grose — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 03:07:11 +0000

Recently I someone living in Japan on Reddit who experienced a "they won't let me quit" scenario which may provide some perspective on what it's like: https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/1gk4enr/current_... https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/1goyw04/end_of_a...

Personally (living in Japan) I've never experienced something like this, but it does happen.

New comment by grose in "Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties"

grose — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:16:29 +0000

I love the catwalk that's actually for cats, the little cat doors and cat restrooms. Nice to see some cat-friendly architecture. Very cool.

New comment by grose in "Scientists working to decode birdsong"

grose — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:02:58 +0000

Boids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids

New comment by grose in "React on the server is not PHP"

grose — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 02:58:40 +0000

I can only imagine how frustrating it is for the average user when they click on an "unhydrated" button that does nothing. JS frameworks embracing SSR is definitely a step in the right direction compared to the fully client-side apps of the previous hype cycle, and yet in many cases can still present worse UX than PHP sites of yore.

Matt Talks About WordPress Situation [video]

grose — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:14:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6F0PgMcKWM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664574

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by grose in "Unicode 16 now includes retro video game sprites [pdf]"

grose — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 00:40:26 +0000

2680-2685 in the Miscellaneous Symbols block: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf

New comment by grose in "Unicode 16 now includes retro video game sprites [pdf]"

grose — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 00:27:36 +0000

Indeed, the full one is in the Block Elements block (and the empty one is a space, I guess) https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2580.pdf

New comment by grose in "Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs"

grose — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:14:39 +0000

Goes on sale every year during Black Friday. 100% worth it even without the discount. Love Berkley Mono too.

Iosevka (https://typeof.net/Iosevka/) is a good free alternative that I like to use for online IDEs/REPLs and such. (Berkley Mono's contract forbids this kind of usage, which I understand, but I wish I could use it more!)

New comment by grose in "Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?"

grose — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:43:59 +0000

Speaking of CSS, :has() [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:has] brings it closer to the glory of Prolog. I cannot wait to abuse it in avant-garde Logic-Driven-Development.

New comment by grose in "Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?"

grose — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:39:55 +0000

It's great to hear new people are interested in the language! I was enlightened a couple years ago and fell in love.

Currently I'm focusing on creating easy-to-use embeddings of Trealla Prolog using Wasm. You can find my TypeScript library here: https://github.com/guregu/trealla-js and Go library here: https://github.com/trealla-prolog/go. The goal is to make the libraries as painless as possible. Trealla is a portable and lightweight Prolog written in C that supports CLP(Z) and is broadly compatible with Scryer. It's quite fast! I'm currently using it for some expert system stuff at $work and as an internet forum embedded scripting language for $fun.

Speaking of Scryer, they recently got their WebAssembly build working and I hope to contribute a JS library for them in the future as their API stabilizes. Scryer and Trealla are both aiming for ISO compatibility, so it's my hope that we can foster an ecosystem for modern ISO Prolog and provide more embeddings in the future. It's super convenient to get logic programmer superpowers in your favorite language. Also check out Scryer's new website: https://www.scryer.pl/

For something on the silly side, check out https://php.energy. Prolog Home Page, it's web scale :-). It's proof that you can integrate Prolog with bleeding edge stuff like Spin (server-side wasm ecosystem).

New comment by grose in "The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time"

grose — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:17:54 +0000

My 4th and 5th grade teachers tricked us into learning algebra by calling it "enigmas" and treating it like a fun puzzle instead of a math problem. It definitely worked on me, I was quite shocked when middle school math was just those puzzles under a different name. Made those classes quite easy though.

New comment by grose in "HTML Tags Memory Test"

grose — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:40:56 +0000

, , are definitely weird ones. Maybe would be more useful with some better default styling. I think has some accessibility wins but I've never seen someone use it. is a good pick, is also up there with questionable semantic tags. and are basically tailor-made for rendering diffs. is really useful for Japanese, doing that styling manually would be a huge pain, but niche for sure. I'm happily surprised survived. I still miss

New comment by grose in "HTML Tags Memory Test"

grose — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:23:25 +0000

I wonder what the most "obscure" tag is. My vote goes to .