Hacker News: jiffygist

New comment by jiffygist in "Optophone"

jiffygist — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:01:46 +0000

Any simulators so I can listen to how that sounds?

New comment by jiffygist in "0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix"

jiffygist — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:57:19 +0000

I started playing not so long ago. Here's some good lists of tips that helped me. Although I had some headstart with SC2 experience :)

https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/22257-a21-multiplayer-...

https://gitlab.com/mentula0ad/0ad-tips-and-tricks

New comment by jiffygist in "0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix"

jiffygist — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:51:06 +0000

Germans are too op in my opinion. Appimage is much appreciated as the game is pain to compile. And it crashes less than previous version that's also good

New comment by jiffygist in "Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)"

jiffygist — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:49:46 +0000

I don't understand why would you ever want to have an empty directory. Besides if I see a directory named "build" I expect to be able to just nuke it any time without consequences.

New comment by jiffygist in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

jiffygist — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:53:01 +0000

Discord's voice rooms with screen sharing is a very cool feature i depend on daily. I haven't seen opensource messenger that implemented this yet.

New comment by jiffygist in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

jiffygist — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:09:25 +0000

Stupid question as I never flied: does the limit include drinking water?

New comment by jiffygist in "Chocolate Quake source port preserving original experience even bugs and quirks"

jiffygist — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 10:41:20 +0000

Cool, but segfaults for me when I try to start a new game

New comment by jiffygist in "Why can't HTML alone do includes?"

jiffygist — Sun, 04 May 2025 12:40:25 +0000

On topic: what's the absolute minimal static site generator that can achieve this feature? I know things like Pelican can do it but it's pretty heavy. C preprocessor probably can be used for this...

New comment by jiffygist in "LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo"

jiffygist — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:24:55 +0000

I can recommend https://polski.info for Polish. Not FOSS, but at least non-commercial.

New comment by jiffygist in "DOOM CAPTCHA"

jiffygist — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 09:04:43 +0000

3 cybers, 240 cells, go!

New comment by jiffygist in "DOOM CAPTCHA"

jiffygist — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 05:58:58 +0000

I hate the borked sounds so much

2024 Doom Cacowards

jiffygist — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:01:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.doomworld.com/cacowards/2024/index/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42378065

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jiffygist in "Introducing Our New Name"

jiffygist — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:15:09 +0000

Can recommend Glitch. A fun singleplayer parkour game with a story.

New comment by jiffygist in "Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?"

jiffygist — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 07:57:12 +0000

Thanks for vterm, that's just what I need.

For dired I do have my bindings (one for xdg-open on a single file, another for custom command on a bunch of files).

New comment by jiffygist in "Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?"

jiffygist — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 02:03:24 +0000

- throw away c language mode and and rewrite it from scratch

- make dired more usable like a normal file manager. opening a file with the associated program that would persist after emacs closes should be its primary feature. ideally i want something like a mix of ranger/lf with dired

- make it have fully-featured terminal, not dumb terminal. make it easy to open lots of terminal windows. add a way to change terminal directory with fido or dired

- make working with ssh not so horribly laggy

New comment by jiffygist in "retronews: TUI browser for HN and Lobsters emulating classical Usenet readers"

jiffygist — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:09:23 +0000

Nice. I like the intuitive controls.

New comment by jiffygist in "Y'all are sleeping on HTTP/3"

jiffygist — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 22:12:33 +0000

I just learned about HTTP/3 a few days ago. In Belarus I am having problems opening any site that uses cloudflare (e.g. qbittorrent.org, openstreetmap.org) beginning just about the time russia started messing with youtube. The solution for now is to set network.http.http3.enable to false in Firefox.

New comment by jiffygist in "Pharo 12"

jiffygist — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 21:21:58 +0000

I wanted to try it out, but I couldn't change the directories in pharo launcher to anything other than ~/Pharo.

Also it doesn't run on wayland without explicitly setting SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11

Also can't find a way to increase menu font sizes.

Upd: ok, I managed to change the directories (they need to be created beforehand). Somehow empty ~/Pharo/scripts is still created every time the launcher runs. Please fix.

New comment by jiffygist in "Show HN: Rank a random subject every day"

jiffygist — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:34:32 +0000

I'm interested what are the logistics of adding new topics for such "random thing every day" sites. I would guess that you maybe have a queue with topics for the next few days that you add to whenever you have fresh ideas. What would happen if you forgot to add new topics?

A Review of "The Day the Phones Stopped" by Leonard Lee

jiffygist — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:56:29 +0000

Article URL: http://verisimilitudes.net/2024-01-15

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39048376

Points: 1

# Comments: 0