Hacker News: isatty

New comment by isatty in "Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

isatty — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:40:48 +0000

Maybe it’s the HN effect but /files takes a while to load.

Personally while I appreciate something not being AI slop, writing something in Rust has no meaning to me.

New comment by isatty in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

isatty — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:21:06 +0000

No. It’s perfect as is. I can find everything I want. Everything is accessible to everyone and screen readers. Does not require JavaScript.

New comment by isatty in "Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026"

isatty — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:02:40 +0000

I’m pretty sure I did it for much cheaper back in the day.

New comment by isatty in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

isatty — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:24:28 +0000

Alphabet has decades of financials and is the most profitable company in the world.

New comment by isatty in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

isatty — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:39:14 +0000

How so?

New comment by isatty in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

isatty — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:31:36 +0000

Some people deserve to be insulted. It’s fine.

New comment by isatty in "Pandoc Templates"

isatty — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:54:55 +0000

Yeah idk about all the typst HN shilling. Latex works great and is as free as it can get.

New comment by isatty in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

isatty — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:54:28 +0000

This is the same on anything with DRM. You can watch content without DRM and you’ll be limited to 720p but you can take screenshots.

I don’t like it either but it has nothing to do with Apple.

New comment by isatty in "Haskell Foundation 2026 Update"

isatty — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:54:45 +0000

You can use the GHC musl container: benz0li/ghc-musl:9.8.4 to create static binaries. I've specialized that into -arm64 and -amd64 containers for forgejo actions.

Anytime I push to my Haskell repos my actions automatically create static binaries for installation on my nodes.

New comment by isatty in "Haskell Foundation 2026 Update"

isatty — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:49:55 +0000

As an intermediate Haskell programmer, I’ve found that using AI to debug or learn Haskell is a better use of time than generating a lot of code with it.

Even without AI most of my Haskell time is spent thinking.

Also, I hand writing Haskell is one of my small after work pleasures.

New comment by isatty in "The Aperiodic Table"

isatty — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:53:36 +0000

I don't like AI - but I also can't (wont) write web pages. This seems to be the best of both worlds.

New comment by isatty in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

isatty — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:59:01 +0000

Human artform is still alive and well as evidenced by this post.

Yes, an LLM can write it, it’ll probably work. Yet, it’ll remain meaningless slop while this is not.

New comment by isatty in "A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury"

isatty — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:17:35 +0000

Typical SF garbage billboards with either “AI” or something they think is clever but isn’t.

Mercury is pretty tame by comparison I’ll admit.

New comment by isatty in "A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury"

isatty — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:09:06 +0000

I don't believe I'm the target market (I'm plenty happy with my small CU), and seeing their billboards makes me want to never use them BUT: seeing this post and their culture and that they use Haskell is kinda changing my mind.

New comment by isatty in "New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges"

isatty — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:49:04 +0000

I don’t get the hype. I own, use and also completely love my xpan so I like the format, wideluxx isn’t even close to that.

You get none of the Hasselblad glass and distortion (which I guess is what people go for with this?) for more than 100% the price of an xpan?

Yes I do admit that the xpan isn’t made anymore but imo it’s still king even if you have to buy another one.

New comment by isatty in "Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell"

isatty — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:23:35 +0000

Haskell is very elegant and pretty. It's hard to describe what pretty is when it comes to programming languages, but imo golang is ugly, rust is good, and Haskell the best.

New comment by isatty in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

isatty — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:32:41 +0000

Writing a cli with JavaScript? No thank you.

New comment by isatty in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

isatty — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:14:41 +0000

I think a couple of failures are necessary for this kind of work.

New comment by isatty in "Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)"

isatty — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:55:54 +0000

Not sure about what point you are making but that legit more readable than ipv6

New comment by isatty in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

isatty — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:21:29 +0000

This is either satire or this guy genuinely doesn’t know nature.