Hacker News: northisup

New comment by northisup in "The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments"

northisup — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:17:58 +0000

me waiting for the "the rise of posts analyzing the rise of the em-dash on hacker news" posts

New comment by northisup in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

northisup — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:23:58 +0000

It'd be nice if desktop safari was a column.

New comment by northisup in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

northisup — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:10:41 +0000

damnit, I just happen to like the look of the thing. now everyone thinks I'm AI for pausing in my thoughts as I write—as if I were human...

New comment by northisup in "Why aren't smart people happier?"

northisup — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:49:59 +0000

I mean, have you looked outside lately?

New comment by northisup in "Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?"

northisup — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:43:18 +0000

because two colors of functions suuuuuuuuuuks to deal with

New comment by northisup in "Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists"

northisup — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 07:11:18 +0000

Is this the first AI hallucinated desire path?

New comment by northisup in "Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first"

northisup — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:42:19 +0000

I highly recommend Macross Plus for further research this topic: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2330912/

New comment by northisup in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"

northisup — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:09:11 +0000

just to confirm I read this right, "the marathon crater" does not in fact exist, but this works because it seems like it should?

New comment by northisup in "Mac Numbers now supports LAMBDA functions and MAP"

northisup — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:07:08 +0000

"Mac Numbers"

New comment by northisup in "Self-contained Python scripts with uv"

northisup — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:44:11 +0000

help get this supported in vscode by liking the issue here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/24916

New comment by northisup in "Better Shell History Search"

northisup — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 01:06:42 +0000

I love fzf but no need to invent the wheel here if you are using zsh. check out one of these zle plugins. (Demo https://asciinema.org/a/155704)

I prefer these two, you get good performance, search that is semi-shell syntax aware, ranking that takes age somewhat into account, and syntax hilighting.

https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-wo... with https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin...

or the same thing but older, for those who like older things because they have an air of stability about them: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

New comment by northisup in "Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser"

northisup — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 04:33:40 +0000

I always read it as ⇧⌘?… because its help

New comment by northisup in "Television: Fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI"

northisup — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:23:13 +0000

what is the tl;dr on this vs fzf?

New comment by northisup in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)"

northisup — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 23:20:25 +0000

  Location: SF or Remote
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: Back end web in Python + Kotlin
  Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/adamhitchcockresume
  Email: adam+jobs@northisup.com

Hi I'm Adam and I've been doing python work for startups for a long while now. I'm looking for the next place I can make a big impact. I'm most interested in anything that is looking how to leverage AI for social good.

New comment by northisup in "Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year"

northisup — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:15:36 +0000

What is the over/under on RCS messages still being green?

New comment by northisup in "Thomas Massie failed to stop "kill switch" mandate that could disable vehicles"

northisup — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 20:01:08 +0000

i'd like to be free from being hit by cars. its not freedom if its killing other people

New comment by northisup in "Thomas Massie failed to stop "kill switch" mandate that could disable vehicles"

northisup — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:51:50 +0000

Possibly unpopular idea here, but I want cars to enforce a speed cap inside cities. They have all the relevant speed limit and GPS data. And hopefully this would stop those cars from going 45mph on my 20mph street.

ebikes already have this, why not cars?

New comment by northisup in "Darwin: A framework for evolving decentralized web apps"

northisup — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 22:19:52 +0000

going out on a limb here, but i _think_ there is already a really popular project named darwin, maybe for, like, SEO or something, a different name?

New comment by northisup in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023)"

northisup — Tue, 02 May 2023 02:54:07 +0000

hi I’m Adam!

I like to solve hard problems, speak at conferences, and bike with my kids in my free time. I would like to put my skills in Python, architecture, and team mentorship to good use while learning more about applied AI.

Unfortunately after shipping some awesome stuff at Discord my son developed Leukemia and required a stem cell transplant, after working during his medical treatment for a year and a half I was suffering from severe burnout and had to take some significant me time. I am now eager to get back to what I love, solving interesting problems.

Location: San Francisco

Remote: hybrid or remote

Willing to relocate: to specific cities

Technologies: python expert, rust novice

Résumé/CV: Sr/staff level engineer with a lot of safety experience at discord/brex/Reddit/disqus https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6ywytck2ryxjbnt/AAAGmxU_NMNCcKNhd...

Email: adam+jobs@northisup.com

New comment by northisup in "SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue"

northisup — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:35:43 +0000

Reticulating Splines?