Hacker News: oneeyedpigeon

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:14:01 +0000

> reviews by users

So does this!

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:13:08 +0000

Why doesn't Steam's rating system work to filter out the crap? Does this problem only exist for new games, are the ratings being gamed, or is something else going on?

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:13:01 +0000

He doesn't like Hacker News.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:12:20 +0000

Warning: it persists somehow, so you can't click on a link from HN, realise the problem, then copy+paste to correct it. Looks like you need to open an incognito window, use a different browser, or maybe otherwise clear your session.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Recreational Programming"

oneeyedpigeon — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:59:58 +0000

On all browsers? I can't see what you're referring to on Chrome, macOS.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:14:00 +0000

What confused me most about this is that the entire site is, apparently, a single page (there's no sitemap that I can use to verify this; there IS an RSS file which appears to confirm it) containing all posts. Links at the top (headed "Table of Contents") are all in-page links.

At first, I assumed this was a single blog post, especially with a "Table of Contents" at the top. I guess it's following some old-school blogging conventions, but AFAICR, even those sites retained individual pages for separate posts.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:11:19 +0000

By typing it or copy+pasting it, which is much more time consuming and much less convenient.

(I actually tried the select, share [sic], open in browser route, but for some reason I only saw opera as an option, not chrome, the browser I actually use for everything. Links still rule.)

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:07:10 +0000

What kind of tests would this break? Aside from the advice on the page itself (which, iirc, is new anyway), i'm wondering why any testing would actually involve the contents of design of the page. Just a weird 'sanity' check?

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "I said no and Apple said yes"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:12:38 +0000

So if I upgrade to the next version of the OS, I absolutely won't get that 20GB+ file downloaded against my wishes, absolute guarantee?

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "I said no and Apple said yes"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:57:56 +0000

We all have a line, it's just in a different place. Mine is strongly at the "forcibly stealing huge amounts of disk space for features you don't want" point. As a happy Mac and Android user, I don't recognise the 'make it as hard as possible to escape from their "ecosystem"' description; maybe you can give an example?

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "I said no and Apple said yes"

oneeyedpigeon — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:54:31 +0000

I don't think anyone's asking for a separate version, just an option to turn the AI features off. Even totally aside from the moral points, some of us simply don't have the disk space.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "The Beauty of Roundabouts"

oneeyedpigeon — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:59:04 +0000

> any speed I'm able to

Well, provided you can still stop in time should the lights begin to change.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "The Beauty of Roundabouts"

oneeyedpigeon — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:57:18 +0000

(UK experience) If you're trying to cross the road leading onto one, it's much harder to tell if a vehicle is going to hit you at speed. I often observe people turning quickly, without indicating, and had I chosen to cross at that time, there would have been some kind of accident. Junctions tend to not have this problem since cars turning out of them are usually going much slower.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "The Beauty of Roundabouts"

oneeyedpigeon — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:52:53 +0000

It may be user error, but that doesn't mean roundabouts aren't a footgun. It only takes one driver who doesn't do everything correctly to cause problems. It's not much fun driving around in the correct lane, only for someone to pull alongside you to the left (equivalent of "right" in the US, of course!). I failed a driving test because someone cut across me on a roundabout.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

oneeyedpigeon — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:56:59 +0000

Do you have an example of how supporting a keyboard shortcut for every action could be bad for a general audience?

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)"

oneeyedpigeon — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:10:57 +0000

> If you see buses in London disappear from a display

Thanks for that explanation! Was an alternative considered—e.g. marking the bus as "lost" instead of removing it altogether? Discounted because of space constraints?

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md"

oneeyedpigeon — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:52:01 +0000

This used to be a nice place to have sensible discussions. Sadly, it seems, some people want to turn it into Reddit. Please enjoy your day, too; it seems like you could do with your mood improving.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md"

oneeyedpigeon — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:04:11 +0000

OK, this argument is getting semantic and, therefore, uninteresting. I think you know what I meant, even if I used some words in a different way than you would have liked.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md"

oneeyedpigeon — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:11:16 +0000

Markdown is still a structure. It may be a very loose one, but it still enables a reader (of any flavour) to, for example, determine which parts of the text are code and which aren't.

New comment by oneeyedpigeon in "Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md"

oneeyedpigeon — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:26:32 +0000

I feel like we've missed a trick here. The purpose of AGENTS.md—to make metadata about a project available in a structured format—seems far more valuable than to limit it to just those projects that use AI or those projects that do, but don't require any other kind of automated processing.

Why not iterate on README.md with something like PARSEME.md?