Hacker News: jiehong

New comment by jiehong in "DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro"

jiehong — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:49:17 +0000

Sounds nice!

But, the web ui chat version of flash has very poor language following abilities in my experience:

You may ask it something in English, and get a thinking chain in Chinese with an answer in Chinese, or an English thinking chain and an English answer. Using the retry button on the same question has a 50/50 chance of any of those results.

Sometimes, asking something in English, but where information are mostly in another language may make the answer in the language where data has been found. The other day, I asked something about a local German thing, in English, and I got an answer in German instead. It’s as if all the language data stirred it away from the language of the user’s question.

New comment by jiehong in "How to build a printer"

jiehong — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:06:55 +0000

Pretty cool work! And it’s nice to see printer discovery works through the standard mDNS!

Regarding the size of the page being sent to the printer, I remember reading that printers used to be postscript interpreters and the result of that program would be the page.

Perhaps that would trade ram for compute, but might be more complex in the end.

New comment by jiehong in "Learn Programming with OCaml"

jiehong — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:07:43 +0000

The standard library could be better, though.

New comment by jiehong in "Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?"

jiehong — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:25:17 +0000

That’s the way.

And because software vendors never provide a Linux version of their stuff, you kinda have to do it anyways, because you end up with a hardware piece you can’t use without.

New comment by jiehong in "Gemini-3.5-Transcribe"

jiehong — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:09:49 +0000

Voxtral nomenclature is a bit confusing. I never remember which is newer for exemple (the number of parameters isn’t always helping).

New comment by jiehong in "Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers"

jiehong — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:59:16 +0000

Markdown ads?

New comment by jiehong in "Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed"

jiehong — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:00:19 +0000

> (…) while further increments have been smaller in percentage, speeds have always increased very significantly.

Off topic, but that sounds sort of contradictory, or misleading at the very least.

New comment by jiehong in "I Analyzed 163K Lines of Kuzu's Codebase. Here's Why Apple Wanted It"

jiehong — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:45:57 +0000

Not even edited AI output, but ok.

New comment by jiehong in "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"

jiehong — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:39:17 +0000

It seems that paid users are equally impacted as free users.

It sounds a little bit unfair to me.

New comment by jiehong in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

jiehong — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:43:35 +0000

This article writing is really clean and enjoyable to read. And I learnt something.

Thank you very much.

New comment by jiehong in "Kakoune Code Editor"

jiehong — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:23:40 +0000

The visual by default editing mode of Kakoune really made me like the vim way, where vim couldn’t. Im very glad for that.

I see the development of Kakoune is much more active than I thought it was. That’s heartwarming!

Anybody knows how has the community split between Kakoune and Helix in the end?

New comment by jiehong in "Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders"

jiehong — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:18:31 +0000

In the UK, each book published on the market must have a copy sent once to the British Library for preservation (and maybe other legal deposit libraries).

That’s a good built-in way to ensure public preservation of knowledge IMO

New comment by jiehong in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

jiehong — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:14:28 +0000

Solar panels and batteries aren’t something you use up daily and have to buy constantly.

So, if by creating a dependency you mean they hope you buy again in 20 years, sure, but it’s not petrol style dependency, and those batteries and panels can be recycled locally instead of sent back to China.

New comment by jiehong in "What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy"

jiehong — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:52:17 +0000

How do you actually cleanly solve that .env issue?

Anything cross platform and coding agent agnostic?

I suppose that .env file should be removed, but then things aren’t easy: no native multiplatform secret manager, or the std lib of the language doesn’t offer an API over the native secret store, etc.

Or a "secret injection proxy" for some cases could work I guess.

New comment by jiehong in "Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS"

jiehong — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:43:13 +0000

I thought it would compare to iA Writer, but misread

New comment by jiehong in "Choral: Choreographic Programming for Java"

jiehong — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:44:54 +0000

I really thought it was to plan musicals, and I thought it was cool!

New comment by jiehong in "IRC technology news from the first half of 2026"

jiehong — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:09:09 +0000

IRC with archives is always nicer than closed gardens for OSS projects, or for nice topics.

New comment by jiehong in "As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program"

jiehong — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:24:19 +0000

I might be in the minority, but for me the best way is installing with a cli (like homebrew or winget on windows).

A UI way to install is only a fallback.

Informing HTTP Extension Design with Data

jiehong — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:57:07 +0000

Article URL: https://mnot.net/blog/2026/linting_the_web

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208094

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jiehong in "Ioskeley Mono"

jiehong — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:09:40 +0000

Thanks Neil for taking the time to clarify this. Sorry I brought I point in the first place then!

Thanks a ton for Berkeley Mono, and good luck on that Houston Mono project! Kinda looking forward to it, ngl.