Hacker News: mietek

New comment by mietek in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

mietek — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:14:10 +0000

I found the ability to merge unrelated repositories very useful when collecting various bits of work I did separately and combining it into a single library.

New comment by mietek in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"

mietek — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:07:48 +0000

My number one request: let me block specific sites from my search results.

New comment by mietek in "Haskell Foundation 2026 Update"

mietek — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:12:31 +0000

I built an example project showing how to build shared libraries in Haskell, in 2019.

https://github.com/mietek/haskell-so-example

New comment by mietek in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

mietek — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:18:30 +0000

If they're using a LLM to make those decisions, then they're fundamentally unable to provide the reasons for those decisions, because of how LLMs work.

New comment by mietek in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

mietek — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:50:51 +0000

> ...an AI model will receive the applications, read them, auto-reply to irrelevant ones...

You're probably breaking EU law by building this nightmare.

https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/86/

New comment by mietek in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

mietek — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:36:31 +0000

No.

New comment by mietek in "The MacBook Neo"

mietek — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:24:05 +0000

FYI, the very recently released Marathon with the BattleEye rootkit works fine on a maximally trimmed down Windows 10 LTSC, which is what I'm running on my PC (personal console).

New comment by mietek in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

mietek — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:00:50 +0000

Some people should definitely be getting Repetitive Strain Injury from all the hyping up of LLMs.

New comment by mietek in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

mietek — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:05:53 +0000

Unfortunately.

New comment by mietek in "My journey to the microwave alternate timeline"

mietek — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:35:02 +0000

Sign me up!

New comment by mietek in "$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents"

mietek — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:13:59 +0000

Why don't you try paying your bills with passion and report back.

New comment by mietek in "How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing"

mietek — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:59:48 +0000

Join us in ##dependent on Libera IRC. We continue to talk about this stuff all the time, with a focus on Martin-Löf intuitionistic type theory.

New comment by mietek in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

mietek — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:03:51 +0000

The preposterously long rock-paper-scissors scene had me laughing tears.

New comment by mietek in "The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt"

mietek — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:05:10 +0000

I would also like to obtain this information that clearly doesn't exist. Please reply to my comment to prove me wrong.

New comment by mietek in "PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible"

mietek — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:20:09 +0000

So, is Outer Wilds a RPG or a platformer?

New comment by mietek in "John Giannandrea to retire from Apple"

mietek — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:55:28 +0000

My original HomePod has recently regressed in its ability to play songs. It can no longer play one song after another without glitching and repeating a little bit of the previous song. It boggles my mind.

New comment by mietek in "System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4"

mietek — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:53:03 +0000

Thank you for writing down this memory. It would fit perfectly on https://folklore.org but unfortunately it seems that the site is no longer accepting new memories.

New comment by mietek in "System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4"

mietek — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:41:37 +0000

Threads and locks are fundamentally the wrong abstraction for most scenarios. This is explained in complementary ways in two of the finest technical books ever written, Joe Armstrong's "Programming Erlang" and Simon Marlow's "Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell". I highly recommend both.

Thank you for many fond memories of playing Glider and Pararena.

New comment by mietek in "System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4"

mietek — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:22:55 +0000

Whoever is downvoting you for speaking the truth should go stand in a corner. Or try maining BeOS for a while, to experience first-hand what happens when application programmers are forced to use threads and locks.

New comment by mietek in "System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4"

mietek — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 10:16:00 +0000

1. Go to the App Shortcuts subsection of the Shortcuts section of the Keyboard preferences panel in System Preferences.

2. Add an arbitrary keyboard shortcut (perhaps ⌥⌘N) for the "New Finder Window" Finder menu command.

3. Add your desired keyboard shortcut (⌘N) for the "New Folder" Finder menu command.

4. Restart Finder.