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New comment by magnio in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"

magnio — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:22:07 +0000

They do have their own: https://hal.science/

It is actually quite common to come across HAL in subfields of mathematics in my experience.

New comment by magnio in "Push events into a running session with channels"

magnio — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:19:45 +0000

Talk about a bubble. No one outside of programmers know what the heck is Claude. In Asia, ChatGPT and Gemini dominates LLM usage, followed by Perplexity.

New comment by magnio in "Temporal: A nine-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

magnio — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:46:48 +0000

What you are describing is linear (or affine) types in academic parlance, where a value must be used exactly (or at most) once, e.g., being passed to a function or having a method invoked, after which the old value is destroyed and not accessible. Most common examples are prolly move semantics in C++ and Rust.

New comment by magnio in "Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?"

magnio — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:45:04 +0000

I am not the most ardent supporter of LLM, but the whole article reads like a critique of macOS idiosyncrasies and its aversion to CLI and text format. Why does macOS tell you to use the GUI so much?

Sure, GUI is more accessible to the average users, but all the tasks in the article aren't going to be done by the average user. And for the more technical users, having to navigate System Settings to find anything is like Dr. Sattler plunging her arms into a pile of dinosaur dung.

New comment by magnio in "MacBook Neo"

magnio — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:32:32 +0000

> Because they last 3 possibly 4 times longer.

An iPhone Pro is 3 times more expensive than an average Android phone too. If you buy Android flagships after 2022, they also last 4-6 years.

New comment by magnio in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

magnio — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:07:57 +0000

To me, the tablet form factor is dead with the arrival of the trifold.

90% of the people who use tablets I know (including myself) only has four use case: watching video, reading PDF and comics, taking notes, and playing mobile games.

All of which are very mobile-oriented tasks that are done on tablets solely for their screen sizes. With trifold bridging the gap between screen sizes and, more importantly, screen ratios, I would love to merge them into one device. This is in contrast with laptops, whose differences in OS and use cases are, to me, much bigger and necessary.

Of course, right now they are very much afar from consumers' pockets due to price and reliability. But normal foldables were once in the exact same state, and the fact that Apple is releasing one soon is a sure tale sign of the future of foldables.

New comment by magnio in "Bugs Apple loves"

magnio — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:45:05 +0000

Had the pleasure of making an Apple account to join our company's developer team. I filled out the form on the website 7 times: Edge on Windows, Edge on macOS, Safari on macOS, using 2 different phone numbers. No matter what, Apple just refused to send the verification code to me. It only worked after I remember Apple is a dick to the web platform, then I managed to create one from the popup in the App Store.

New comment by magnio in "Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro"

magnio — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 06:08:04 +0000

Pity that HN's ability to detect sarcasm is as robust as that of a sentiment analysis model using keyword-matching.

New comment by magnio in "We rolled our own documentation site"

magnio — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:00:33 +0000

Can vouch for Starlight and Astro in general. Don't be fooled by the fact that they are npm packages: Astro is geared for content-heavy websites and produces zero-JS bundles by default (i.e., if you just use markdowns without any script tags or JS frontend libraries, then there will be no JS in the final output at all).

New comment by magnio in "The Performance Revolution in JavaScript Tooling"

magnio — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 11:33:03 +0000

You can replace eslint and prettier with Biome or Oxlint + Oxfmt. Vite and Node.js are still the modern safe choices, though if you actually want to play with new things you can replace Node.js with bun.

New comment by magnio in "Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts"

magnio — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:46:25 +0000

Shouldn't public documents by the government use a free and libre font? In fact, the mentioned Public Sans developed by the US federal government seems to be a great option, as it actually distinguishes the lowercase l and the uppercase I, something that, ironically, all suggested sans-serif alternatives fail to do.

New comment by magnio in "Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert"

magnio — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 11:47:48 +0000

China made its first computer in 1958 and its first 1 megaflop computer in 1973, so yes, their nascence of computer programming preceded the Cultural Revolution, about 10 years after the West.

New comment by magnio in "Please just try HTMX"

magnio — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:16:03 +0000

For those wanting different colored pills, there are

https://justfuckingusereact.com

https://justfuckingusetailwind.com

https://www.justfuckinguserails.com

New comment by magnio in "Why UUIDs won't protect your secrets"

magnio — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 01:14:53 +0000

UUIDv4 is much more scattered (i.e., uniformly distributed), which heavily degrades indexing performance in databases.

New comment by magnio in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

magnio — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:20:33 +0000

npm and pnpm are badly affected as well. Many packages are returning 502 when fetched. Such a bad time...

New comment by magnio in "Show HN: Newcomer Ranking – Alternative to GitHub Trending for New Repos"

magnio — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 10:18:11 +0000

> You're absolutely right

Perfect satire. Thank you.

New comment by magnio in "The App Store was always authoritarian"

magnio — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:17:29 +0000

Same. I switched from Windows to macOS three years ago, and I tried my best to only use cross-platform softwares (or none at all, in many cases where websites suffice). Thanks to Electron many apps work on both Windows and macOS nowadays.

There Is No Algorithm for Truth – Tom Scott [video]

magnio — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 08:24:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45547559

Points: 2

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New comment by magnio in "Regarding the Compact"

magnio — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:33:50 +0000

While the current climate is not comparable, I find the actions and general attitude of the current US government similar to that during the McCarthy era.

Which led me to this very interesting article from 1965: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1965/6/17/the-university-...

In it, the author described the attacks on specific personnels and public villainification of Harvard. More tellingly though, the author wrote the article for students in the 60s, who, growing up a mere decade after, most likely considered the events "an aberration which could not have lasted", and that, "the whole [McCarthy] period has an air of unreality".

Those who did not know history are bound to repeat it. Unfortunately, no amount of textbooks and historical resources seems to be sufficient to impart lessons to subsequent generations, and we are bound to repeat it after a few cycles.

New comment by magnio in "Samsung released a 7M model that achieved 45% on ARC-AGI-1"

magnio — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:53:21 +0000

ARC-AGI is one of the few tests on which human can complete easily while LLMs still struggle. This model scores 45% on ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2, the latter is comparable to Claude Opus 4 and GPT-5 High, behind only Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Grok 4 Thinking, for a model about 0.001% the size of commercial models.