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New comment by hiccuphippo in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

hiccuphippo — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:49:08 +0000

Shouldn't it be drawing the whole Silmarillion now?

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Show HN: 60-second cognitive test to tell humans from bots (no camera)"

hiccuphippo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:13:12 +0000

There was a bug, the test to check if it's showing the same letter as before always showed me a dash as the second letter.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Sonic Pi v5"

hiccuphippo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:03:23 +0000

How does it compare to https://strudel.cc/ ?

New comment by hiccuphippo in "São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest"

hiccuphippo — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:11:57 +0000

It feels like an Orphan-crushing machine[0] kind of story. It's amazing he achieved that but he shouldn't have needed to. Why wasn't there a road already?

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/orphan-crushing-machine

Wikipedia: AI or Not Quiz

hiccuphippo — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:37:04 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AI_or_not_quiz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184395

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)"

hiccuphippo — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:56:48 +0000

And then Hello became Allo in French and Alo in Spanish, which is only used as a greeting over the phone and never as a general greeting.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Netflix sued for $105M after unreleased Nicolas Cage movie is stolen"

hiccuphippo — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:54:32 +0000

> distributors are unlikely to buy a film that could appear on piracy sites

So they don't buy any film ever?

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Claude Cookbook"

hiccuphippo — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:14:22 +0000

I've see people write "broooo pleaseeee!" into the box. Something about the universe providing better fools.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds"

hiccuphippo — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:51:25 +0000

>AI will become the repository owner

So Open Source transitions to Public Domain.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig"

hiccuphippo — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:28:04 +0000

I stopped using fancy prompts at some point. My current prompt is a single $ sign. If I need to know the current dir I just run cwd, I don't need it on every prompt. If I need the git branch just use git status (though aliased to gs [no, I don't use ghostscript]).

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

hiccuphippo — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:17:31 +0000

MariaDB feels more like the original devs sold the brand and kept business as usual with a new name, not a community fork.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "How an AI Anime Is Created"

hiccuphippo — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:56:01 +0000

The eagle is flying in one direction and then the opposite by morphing the back into the front.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

hiccuphippo — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:39:31 +0000

I once heard about a company that specialized in making furniture about 10% smaller than normal for use in show rooms to make the spaces look larger. Not surprised they do it with AI if they can.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Kimi K3 just fixed 15 critical security bugs that Codex and Fable refused"

hiccuphippo — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:28:10 +0000

Similar discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979269

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"

hiccuphippo — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:07:37 +0000

What would you remove from TOML to make it perfect?

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

hiccuphippo — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:13:29 +0000

Icculus has some great videos of porting games from SDL2 to 3, here's the one porting Doom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixdeGhsoxy8

New comment by hiccuphippo in "ChatGPT Work"

hiccuphippo — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:19:29 +0000

Can it replace my manager?

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Zig: Package Management Moved from Compiler to Build System"

hiccuphippo — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:54:38 +0000

Why a JIT when they have AOT? Shipping the source code means they can ship the same thing to every target instead of dealing with multiple binaries, at the small cost of compilation the first time you use it.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "The HTML element"

hiccuphippo — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:51:05 +0000

> Cisco observed that users who initially denied permissions were only about 10% likely to successfully grant permissions using legacy prompts, but that rate jumped to more than 65% with the new element.

Meaning they tricked more people into granting permissions they would have otherwise not granted.

New comment by hiccuphippo in "Vite+ Beta"

hiccuphippo — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:08:36 +0000

That's what I liked from Bun's proposition. A single binary that just works. Hopefully the others take notice.