Hacker News: orangepanda

New comment by orangepanda in "Fixing a bug with byte order marks"

orangepanda — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:29:29 +0000

> A byte order mark is a special use of the zero width no-break space character U+FEFF at the beginning of a text file

Isnt BOM allowed to appear anywhere in the file, because of file concatenation?

New comment by orangepanda in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

orangepanda — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:05:11 +0000

The one from Black Mirror?

New comment by orangepanda in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

orangepanda — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:06:26 +0000

The dots do help a little, but not much. I wouldnt use my phone for long while in a vehicle, though at the very least I no longer dread having to briefly read a text message if I have to.

I found your note on bad drivers interesting. For me, it's the quick acceleration, braking and turning that's the worst. A bit anecdotal, but I also experience car sickness less with women drivers. Maybe because they're usually easier on the acceleration and brakes?

New comment by orangepanda in "Unicode 18.0.0 Beta"

orangepanda — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:50:07 +0000

What everyone actually cares about — new emojis!

* Cracking face

* Left/Right thumb sign

* Monarch butterfly

* Pickle

* Lighthouse

* Meteor

* Eraser

* Net with handle

New comment by orangepanda in "Apple CMF (Color-Matching Functions) 2026"

orangepanda — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:16:09 +0000

The double space after a period, with the added effort to avoid browser whitespace condensing, is an interesting style choice. Is it meant to mimic old academic publications?

While present in some of their previous articles sparingly, this is the first one to use it consistently.

New comment by orangepanda in "Columnar Storage Is Normalization"

orangepanda — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:12:59 +0000

Is this meant to be a poor explanation of sixth normal form?

New comment by orangepanda in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

orangepanda — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:43:40 +0000

Is that what they call visiting private islands these days?

New comment by orangepanda in "Faster asin() was hiding in plain sight"

orangepanda — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:57:24 +0000

> Nobody likes throwing away work they've done

I like throwing away work I've done. Frees up my mental capacity for other work to throw away.

New comment by orangepanda in "iPhone 17e"

orangepanda — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:33:02 +0000

And this is the Mercedes-Benz commuter car I want to see more of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Citaro

New comment by orangepanda in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

orangepanda — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:06:21 +0000

> What should this function be named? I didn't care. Where should this config live? I didn't care. My brain was full. Not from writing code - from judging code.

Does it matter anymore? Most good engineering principles are to ensure code is easy to read and maintain by humans. When we no longer are the target audience for that, many such decisions are no longer relevant.

New comment by orangepanda in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

orangepanda — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:34:17 +0000

> they need to fire their marketing staff

Sounds like they did just that. Ereyesterday.

New comment by orangepanda in "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right"

orangepanda — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:29:27 +0000

Now hear me out.

No.

New comment by orangepanda in "iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing F1 movie"

orangepanda — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:17:42 +0000

U2, Brutus?

-- Steve Jobs, probably

New comment by orangepanda in "OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract"

orangepanda — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:32:59 +0000

It's Excel's format guessing doing all the killing

New comment by orangepanda in "Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over"

orangepanda — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:58:09 +0000

Did FB chose to replace friends' posts with garbage, or was it that less and less people were posting, and FB had to replace the feed with _something_?

New comment by orangepanda in "PHP Core Security Audit Results"

orangepanda — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:56:22 +0000

It's about as divisive as saviours in any other population.

New comment by orangepanda in "Apple Exclaves"

orangepanda — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:49:20 +0000

Pancreatic cancer is known for being incurable, even in the best of circumstances, early diagnose or not. Having witnessed a family member go through the same thing, I understand Jobs's reaction of trying literally anything else.

New comment by orangepanda in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"

orangepanda — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:37:02 +0000

The illusion of mozilla having any privacy principles collapsed for me on May 2019 when they required users to enable telemetry to allow using adblock and tracking blocking extensions.

New comment by orangepanda in "The demise of software engineers due to AI is greatly exaggerated"

orangepanda — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:52:01 +0000

I take replacing myself as the ultimate challenge. Does anyone know of a workflow/tool that can from a prompt find which relevant files in a directory to include, and then update existing files and create new ones?

All the the tools I've tried require me to select which files to include in the context, and/or then require manually copying each snippet to where it should be... this makes me feel like a neanderthal in some bronze age cave.

New comment by orangepanda in "Mission Accomplished? Heat pump adoption has a long way to go"

orangepanda — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 19:06:12 +0000

For those 1-2 days a year when a heatpump cant keep up with the cold, its fine to have a plug-in heater.