Hacker News: nige123

New comment by nige123 in "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi"

nige123 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:49:12 +0000

The user data (anonymised) and analytics also needs to be shared.

New comment by nige123 in "Which programming languages are most token-efficient?"

nige123 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:31:44 +0000

Raku

Raku Advent Calendar 2025

nige123 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:16:15 +0000

Article URL: https://raku-advent.blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46112590

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Day 1 – Dancer, Dasher and Dosh (LLM-powered shell commands)

nige123 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:01:07 +0000

Article URL: https://raku-advent.blog/2025/12/01/day-1-dancer-dasher-and-dosh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104367

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nige123 in "Cognitive load is what matters"

nige123 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 05:13:47 +0000

Too much cognitive load is a flow stopper.

Finding flow while coding is a juggling act to keep things in the Goldilocks zone: not too hard, not too easy.

This is tricky on an individual level and even trickier for a team / project.

Coding is communicating how to solve a problem to yourself, your team, stakeholders and lastly the computer.

The Empathic Programmer?

New comment by nige123 in "Perl Is Dead. Long Live Perl and Raku (2020)"

nige123 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:38:32 +0000

Perl's maxim - there's more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI) can make Perl easy to write but harder to read.

Thankfully LLMs can de-obfuscate even the gnarliest Perl with command line utilities like wat (https://raku-advent.blog/2024/12/02/day-2-wat-llm-coding-too...)

Perl Is Dead. Long Live Perl and Raku (2020)

nige123 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:38:32 +0000

Article URL: https://raku-advent.blog/2020/12/02/day-1-perl-is-dead-long-live-perl-and-raku/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44760694

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by nige123 in "Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008)"

nige123 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:14:35 +0000

There was always content in users’ click paths / search trails.

Google has mined that for profit from the beginning. Cutts and Co turned a blind eye here.

It was ALL OK though - because Google’s mission was DONT BE EVIL!

In 2008 Google was besieged by SEO consultants spamming their index.

Mining the collective intelligence of the hooman’s search trails was their algorithmic escape clause.

Their escape clause in 2025?

Mine for MORE!

New comment by nige123 in "Wat LLM coding tool do you want for Christmas?"

nige123 — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 08:28:50 +0000

Suggestions for putting LLM's to work on the command-line.

Wat LLM coding tool do you want for Christmas?

nige123 — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 08:28:50 +0000

Article URL: https://raku-advent.blog/2024/12/02/day-2-wat-llm-coding-tool-do-you-want-for-christmas/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415542

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Day 2 – WAT LLM coding tool do you want for Christmas?

nige123 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:08:05 +0000

Article URL: https://raku-advent.blog/2024/12/02/wat-llm-coding-tool-do-you-want-for-christmas/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42294450

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nige123 in "ChatGPT Search"

nige123 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:19:01 +0000

OOF

Smell that!? A large part of Google's search business is on fire right now!

There are three types of search: informational, transactional and navigational.

LLM's are competing hard and fast for informational search. Once upon a time we offered 2.5 keywords to the Google Gods only to be ultimately passed to stackoverflow.

That game is up. Google is losing it faster than you can say, "anti-competitive practices in the search engine industry."

Transactional and navigational search remain.

Variable sigils don't cut it. Twigils for the WIN

nige123 — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 19:46:14 +0000

Article URL: https://raku-advent.blog/2022/12/02/day-2-less-variable-wattage-more-flow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36383724

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nige123 in "Sigils are underappreciated (2022)"

nige123 — Tue, 30 May 2023 13:01:41 +0000

Sigils are just part of the picture. For Raku "twigils" (secondary sigils) are important too:

https://raku-advent.blog/2022/12/02/day-2-less-variable-watt...

Less Variable Wattage = More Flow

nige123 — Tue, 30 May 2023 12:50:45 +0000

Article URL: https://raku-advent.blog/2022/12/02/day-2-less-variable-wattage-more-flow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36124225

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nige123 in "Jmp"

nige123 — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 19:05:17 +0000

I use this everyday. A terminal program to jump to the next thing in your workflow.

Jmp

nige123 — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 19:05:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nige123/jmp.nigelhamilton.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35756019

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by nige123 in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

nige123 — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 19:02:30 +0000

do you still use emacs?

New comment by nige123 in "Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?"

nige123 — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 19:14:17 +0000

GNAP is coming soon: https://oauth.net/gnap/

New comment by nige123 in "Copyright Registration Guidance: Works containing material generated by AI"

nige123 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:48:40 +0000

This is already a hot legal mess.

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) should come up with Berne convention 3.0 that provides:

- increased protection for human authorship

- longer copyright terms for hoomans

- shorter copyright terms for bots (5 years)

- moral rights preventing 'globbing' by generative AIs

- royalty system for original authors

- derived computer-generated works pay

I'd like to see a blockchain ledger-esque system where human authors can claim authorship and they receive nano-royalties every time works are derived from it. The generative AI's can 'glob' it but they will need to pay their dues.

Importantly GAI's can't register their stuff in the hooman copyright chain.