Hacker News: northisup

New comment by northisup in "A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z"

northisup — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:52:16 +0000

So you are saying it _was_ an option and the editor just has bad taste

New comment by northisup in "A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z"

northisup — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:02:09 +0000

I feel like the guardian shouldn't be messing up the oxford comma like that.

New comment by northisup in "Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance"

northisup — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:24:03 +0000

Raymond Hettinger has a great talk about how much python's dict has improved over the years. So this is super interesting and will probably just make the builtin dict better eventually.

The lesson of the talk is that if you are idiomatic then you will benefit as the language improves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg

New comment by northisup in "As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program"

northisup — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:02:46 +0000

I always assume an app that uses an installer is hiding something from me.

New comment by northisup in "Anatomy of Persistent Memory's 3 Layers: Comparing ContextNest, Mem0 and Zep"

northisup — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:40:16 +0000

this is just sales slop for their own product.

New comment by northisup in "Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs"

northisup — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:39:02 +0000

did they, like, not lose a million jobs tho?

New comment by northisup in "Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (2016)"

northisup — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:00:26 +0000

Duplication is fine, triplication and above is the issue.

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?