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New comment by pekim in "Show HN: 18 Words"

pekim — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:16:12 +0000

> I'm pretty sure it didn't used to continue after getting one wrong.

You're right, it changed a few months ago. I find it more enjoyable now that you can continue to the end.

New comment by pekim in "Show HN: 18 Words"

pekim — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:34:12 +0000

https://wordnerd.co/23words/ is similar (but 23 words instead of 18).

Possibly the biggest difference is that 23 Words continues with the next word if you fail to get a word within 30 seconds. When you have attempted all 23 words it will present you with results like this.

    You found 21/23 words
    
    Top 7% of players today.

An Agent Holds the Fort: Three Days of Autonomous Compiler Work

pekim — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:43:05 +0000

Article URL: https://rue-lang.dev/blog/an-agent-holds-the-fort/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492752

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pekim in "I made a terminal pager"

pekim — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:52:26 +0000

It's one codepoint, U+FDFD, with the name "Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem".

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FDFD

New comment by pekim in "How can I keep from singing?"

pekim — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:46:16 +0000

I love singing, but I'm not very good at it. About 6 months ago I started attending a local Tuneless Choir[1]. It's just what I needed, and great fun.

[1] https://www.tunelesschoir.com/

New comment by pekim in "The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now"

pekim — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:53:28 +0000

I posted about this last week [1], but it didn't get any traction. Although I used a link to the release page rather than the blog announcement, so maybe that was why.

ho hum

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138688

New comment by pekim in "Release v2.0.0 · Charmbracelet/Bubbletea"

pekim — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:56:18 +0000

I noticed that Bubble Tea v2 [0] has been released. It looks like a great improvement all round over 1.x. The companion libraries lipgloss[1] and bubbles[2] have also had v2 releases.

[0] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/releases/tag/v2.0... [1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss/releases/tag/v2.0.... [2] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Release v2.0.0 · Charmbracelet/Bubbletea

pekim — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:56:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138688

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by pekim in "ChromaDB Explorer"

pekim — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:52:44 +0000

Looking at https://github.com/stepandel/chroma-explorer/blob/master/pac... it looks like it's using Electron.

New comment by pekim in "Strange.website"

pekim — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:01:04 +0000

As soon as I saw the scrolling "made by henry (from online)." at the bottom I thought "marquee" tag. Sure enough when I inspected the DOM it does use one.

New comment by pekim in "Twelve Days of Shell"

pekim — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:56:19 +0000

> Where I actually struggled with what's expected is Day 11.

Just the lines from the files are wanted, not the files names. It took me a little while to cotton on to that.

Semi-spoiler follows.

So you need to use the appropriate flag with grep to suppress the file names.

New comment by pekim in "Go's Sweet 16"

pekim — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 10:46:16 +0000

Inserting elements in to a slice can be done quite easily since the introduction of the slices package to the standard library.

https://pkg.go.dev/slices#Insert

New comment by pekim in "I Want You to Understand Chicago"

pekim — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:27:49 +0000

I'm in the UK too. So I read the article courtesy of archive.is.

https://archive.is/X33oQ

New comment by pekim in "Why hasn't there been a new major sports league?"

pekim — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:17:42 +0000

Darts might not be considered a sport, but the British Darts Organisation [1] and the Professional Darts Corporation [2] co-existed (somewhat acrimoniously) for nearly 30 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Darts_Organisation (BDO)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Darts_Corporation (PDC)

New comment by pekim in "Kohler launches smart toilet camera"

pekim — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:06:17 +0000

> and a fingerprint sensor to identify who’s using the toilet

So it sounds like you would only need one camera for multiple people using the same toilet.

New comment by pekim in "Show HN: Swapple, a little daily puzzle on linear reversible circuit synthesis"

pekim — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:02:02 +0000

So if I'm understanding it correctly, it applies an xor operation on the pairs of cells. For example, click column A then column B. For each of the pairs of cells in the two columns, it performs B = A xor B.

New comment by pekim in "Trumpcard (Official US Government Website)"

pekim — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 10:52:54 +0000

As the animation loops it uses the same set of images over again. But as they all have a Cache-Control header with a value of "public, max-age=0, must-revalidate" the browser makes another request for every one of the images, every loop of the animation. It results in transfer of something of the order of 0.6MB/sec, with no end.

New comment by pekim in "Yearly Organiser"

pekim — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:08:27 +0000

The page's html and css are reasonably small, 3.3kB and 1.5kB. There are three fonts, totalling about 51kB. So altogether about 56kB.

But then somewhat spoiling the page's nice light weight is a 576kB favicon.

Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for the unwary

pekim — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:00:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/30/licensing_change_oracle_virtualbox/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44732753

Points: 26

# Comments: 4

New comment by pekim in "Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods"

pekim — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:10:18 +0000

I suspect that it is related to the M&S and Co-op attacks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwykgrv374eo