Hacker News: higon

New comment by higon in "NetHack 5.0.0"

higon — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:27:16 +0000

Glad to hear it received a major update. Nethack on Slackware Linux was my childhood and has a special place in me. It taught me how to really use computers. Time to compile the source code again, folks.

New comment by higon in "Neovim Pack"

higon — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 01:53:17 +0000

Still primitive. But I'd love to drop lazy for this once they implement a differed load.

I love lazy.nvim. It's great no doubt. But recently I felt like the author is taking an aggressive user retention behavior by re-imprementing every useful open-source community plugins out there (like snack.nvim, mini.nvim). That's a kill-zone/copycat strategy. I don't get it.

New comment by higon in "Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser"

higon — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:04:45 +0000

Long time w3m user here. Tried it and I can love it. Very nice.

Is that your design choice not having "Open URL"(Address bar) feature?

New comment by higon in "XML, Java, and the Future of the Web (1997)"

higon — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 05:42:10 +0000

Idea of XML being superior to anything was the plague nearly everyone at the time caught. Evangelists would be the chosen one or so they thought. But they turned out to be a bunch of con men chasing easy fame. Having once been vaccinated with dynamic programming languages and coding-by-convention, who will ever go back there?

Oh... typescript... you...!!!

New comment by higon in "[dead]"

higon — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 04:05:23 +0000

This site has no link to the official "Motiv" bland website, and looks like being built by "Wix.com Website Builder". While the idea is attractive, I would call this a fake bs.

Japanese supercomputer venture, PEZY's chief arrested for alleged fraud

higon — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 02:48:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/05/national/crime-legal/chief-firm-behind-worlds-fourth-fastest-supercomputer-arrested-tokyo-alleged-fraud/#.WidZ5WR4H-Y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15858100

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New comment by higon in "HipChat security notice"

higon — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:17:34 +0000

Just got hit by this. Everybody in my team was using HipChat as a primary online communication tool. So, was nice to see nobody in the room for a while.

  Fine, but I wonder why they didn't reset the API tokens while resetting password immediately. Are they managed by the different servers/services?

New comment by higon in "Staticman: user-generated content for static sites"

higon — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 07:00:06 +0000

Wanted to try out a bit. But approving a permission request for "read/write all the Github PRIVATE repository" and "read/WRITE all the my info." is alarmingly risky...

And this site itself is not even open-sourced? hmmm.