Hacker News: nxrabl

New comment by nxrabl in "Vim Classic 8.3 Released"

nxrabl — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:55:56 +0000

I wouldn’t have taken this project seriously without the byline on this post of Drew DeVault. Glad he’s doing ok.

New comment by nxrabl in "AI, Ashby Engineering, and the future"

nxrabl — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:28:25 +0000

> We have a blip in March / April every year; these cyclical patterns aren’t relevant to explain here.

The 'blip' post-AI is up ~30% for the months in question. There simply isn't enough data here to prove or disprove the thesis that "customer issues remain broadly stable" - you could equally argue something more along the lines of "AI engineering does not increase issues under ideal conditions but amplifies issues under external pressure."

New comment by nxrabl in "Gen Z soldiers' plastic surgeries strain Korea's military readiness"

nxrabl — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:10:36 +0000

The very first image is captioned:

> An image generated by artificial intelligence

If you share this link on another platform, that image is the one that gets embedded, without the caption.

This is shockingly bad. There should be laws against this.

New comment by nxrabl in "Show HN: PipeStep – Step-through debugger for GitHub Actions workflows"

nxrabl — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:46:36 +0000

Friend. You gotta write your own comments. It feels so gross to get a response that’s so obviously from an llm, I would rather you not have replied to me at all. I will not be using your app.

New comment by nxrabl in "Show HN: PipeStep – Step-through debugger for GitHub Actions workflows"

nxrabl — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:13:37 +0000

This is a compelling idea, but it doesn't seem to work. Running it on a yml I'm working on currently, it skipped all my setup actions and then failed because the dependencies it needed weren't set up (why did you think I wrote them?) There doesn't seem to be a way to force-run a skipped step.

New comment by nxrabl in "iMessage-kit is an iMessage SDK for macOS"

nxrabl — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:41:23 +0000

> Don't people know stuff anymore?

No, no one has ever known anything, and every day people are born knowing even less. This is a strangely aggressive way to share this interesting information, especially for MacOS programming, a platform requiring such byzantine arcane knowledge I'm amazed people write anything for it at all. At least for Win32 people wrote books you could buy and not blog posts.

Anyway, thank you for the introduction to the very cool SwiftScripting project [0], extracting programmable interfaces directly from app bundles. It's just like COM, right? nice to see MacOS catching up (/ragebait)

[0] https://majestysoftware.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/swift-scrip...

New comment by nxrabl in "This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser"

nxrabl — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:12:59 +0000

It's the same file, you just rename it to end in '.html'

New comment by nxrabl in "Birth of Prettier"

nxrabl — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:00:16 +0000

Standard always struck me as kind of scummy - it tries to present itself as something bigger than what it really is, which is a tiny CLI wrapper around one guy’s ESLint config. You have to scroll way down the FAQ section before ESLint even gets mentioned. The author is just squatting on the “standard” namespace and using it to blag his way into relevance. Think how much more good it would do if the sponsors of this project were actually supporting ESLint directly instead of this useless middleware.

New comment by nxrabl in "How to Figure Out What You're Not Good At"

nxrabl — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 01:51:37 +0000

This is normal, most people are like this. The idea that there’s something out there that you’re just amazing at without even trying very hard is a trap and believing it will destroy your life. You just have to pick something you want to be good at and do it until you are.

New comment by nxrabl in "It's not a hack to satisfy known requirements"

nxrabl — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:30:07 +0000

I think the specific trap the author is arguing against is where you try to make your classes model 1-1 some external domain model without tailoring them only to the functionally that your specific application needs. If you’re writing a FooClass, it’s easy to get caught up in giving it everything a Foo would have, even if you won’t actually use it.

New comment by nxrabl in "CocoaPods trunk read-only plan"

nxrabl — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:00:19 +0000

If you’re not familiar with the experience of browsing the internet and then suddenly having deeply-held parts of your identity deemed undeserving of respect, it’s the kind of thing that the mind naturally develops habits to avoid, in much the same way that you might start to walk differently through a city after getting mugged. It is indeed tiring for everyone, but the solution is not to blame people for doing what they feel like they need to do to protect themselves.

New comment by nxrabl in "Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson"

nxrabl — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 03:34:34 +0000

Note that GP didn’t say Meta, the trillion-dollar company, they said Facebook, the social platform that won its generation of social platforms. One of those platforms was bound to win, just by the interconnected nature of social networks, and I think reasonable people can disagree on whether that success sets you up inevitably to make a trillion dollars or not.

New comment by nxrabl in "Tell HN: Somebody please make a faster task management system"

nxrabl — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:09:29 +0000

There are things that are worth being patient about. Jira isn’t one of them.

“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”

New comment by nxrabl in "Google has dropped more than 50 DEI-related orgs from one of its funding lists"

nxrabl — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 23:21:33 +0000

As the saying goes, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. There are any number of ways a firm can do things that, in isolation, are bad for business, and still do very well overall if they’re protected by other factors (such as, case in point, the money printing machine that is Google ads). I think what the GP is saying is that sitting back and leaving things to the market to work out is essentially resigning the issue not to be resolved in our lifetimes.

New comment by nxrabl in "Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost"

nxrabl — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:32:29 +0000

> A recent security breach on our platform brought BotGhost to Discord’s attention.

The breach in question is documented here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lUiLBBab1RY

I don’t think there’s a text write-up, but tl;dw a combination of missing input sanitization and no-code UI trickery made it possible to leak other users’ bot tokens, and despite patching the exploit pretty quickly on exposure, BotGhost’s developer tried to cover it up and refused to reset potentially affected tokens.

New comment by nxrabl in "How OpenElections uses LLMs"

nxrabl — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:13:54 +0000

Very interesting! Is this the state of the art for accurate OCR of tabular PDFs, or is there other work in the space to compare against?

New comment by nxrabl in "Updates to Windows for the Digital Markets Act"

nxrabl — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:52:41 +0000

Unfortunately there are no web search providers besides Bing for them to show in the search screenshots.

New comment by nxrabl in "Show HN: Domika – A Native Mobile App for Home Assistant"

nxrabl — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:23:55 +0000

It may be different on the Android side, but the listed prices on the iOS app store are $2/mo or $20/yr for the individual plan and $4/mo or $40/yr for the family plan.

New comment by nxrabl in "Use the Gemini API with OpenAI Fallback in TypeScript"

nxrabl — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 01:49:53 +0000

Have you measured how much latency it adds to each query? Naively I'd expect adding in an extra network hop to be a pretty big hit.

New comment by nxrabl in "Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users"

nxrabl — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:50:28 +0000

I don’t know about winget, but you may be able to install the portable build of Terminal via scoop: https://scoop.sh/#/apps?q=Terminal&id=269082ead77af63e0e77c9...