<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pentaphobe</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pentaphobe</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:43:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pentaphobe" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pentaphobe in "Why all new flags look the same"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great TED talk by Roman Mars<p>Even features the same Milwaukee flag if memory serves<p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=pnv5iKB2hl4" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=pnv5iKB2hl4</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:49:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452710</link><dc:creator>pentaphobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pentaphobe in "U.S. intelligence shows Iran retains substantial missile capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wait, so you're saying there are "WMDs" in the Middle East?<p>Fun and totally not sarcastic fact fact: the opposite of "Deja vu" is "jamais vu"</p>
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<p>This seems to work<p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANDL854627_%E5%8C%97%E6%96%8E%E6%A8%A1%E6%A7%98%E7%94%BB%E8%AD%9C.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANDL85...</a></p>
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<p>Fair question! I've no idea, but good on you for pondering<p>If it were me I'd rip the band-aid off, but might just be me being grey-beard. Name
Collisions are inevitable these days I guess, and equally one
could argue that no project should be able to camp out on a dictionary term :)<p>Either way, best of luck with your project (which looks super interesting) - I neglected to say that bit :facepalm:</p>
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<p>Sorry to be that chap, but UX is not a synonym for UI<p>I'm not a UX person, but have seen an increasing trend of the two terms being used interchangeably - it's actually a really interesting and nuanced field (more rooted in psychology, information architecture, and human centred design).<p>It's sorta like how a lotta folk assume SRE is just a neologism for "devops" and in the process miss out on the really interesting differences</p>
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<p>Off topic, but whilst we've clearly got to accept name collisions in such a large word - it'd be ideal if there was _a modicum_ of care around not using names on other actively maintained projects<p><a href="https://helix-editor.com/" rel="nofollow">https://helix-editor.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:18:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779335</link><dc:creator>pentaphobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pentaphobe in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Evidently reading isn't the same as comprehension</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:32:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531776</link><dc:creator>pentaphobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pentaphobe in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>`[citation needed]`</p>
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<p>And they wrote "... you'd need to pick a side and lose the pun.."</p>
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<p>Short answer: no.<p>Long answer [^1]:<p>> Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states:<p>>   "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."<p>[^1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...</a></p>
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<p>"Sculpting" as used here just feels like a pretentious euphemism for "vibing" as opposed to what actual sculpting is like (hint: it would be akin to... dramatic pause... <i>writing code</i>)<p>Brb, just rolled my eyes so hard that I'm now staring at my own visual cortex</p>
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<p>All the GitHub links on your extension page are borked (including issues)<p>From the look of the associated domain it looks like you're going full product, best of luck<p>I'm a huge proponent of graph & visual analysis of complex systems - would have loved to try this out, but will always skip closed source editor extensions (especially in the age of widespread npm supply chain attacks & vibe coding)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:43:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608620</link><dc:creator>pentaphobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pentaphobe in "Sisyphus Now Lives in Oh My Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No.  Just, no to all of this</p>
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<p>Not sure the comparison works when it does all the work for you<p>I've had very little success mumbling "you are an expert chemist..." to test tubes and raw materials.</p>
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<p>This is a really cool idea, nice work!<p>Is it any more effective than (say) messing with its recognition so that any attempt to deepfake just ends up as garbled nonsense?<p>Can't help wondering if the censor models get tweaked more frequently and aggressively (also presumedly easier to low-pass on a detector than a generator, since lossiness doesn't impact final image)</p>
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<p>> we shouldn't ban tools<p>When I see the old BuT FrEe SpEeCH argument repurposed to impinge civil rights I start warming to the idea of banning tools.<p>Alternately "Chemical weapons don't kill people, people with chemical weapons kill people"</p>
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<p>Or making knives that turn into overcooked noodles if you try to use them on anything except vegetables and acceptable meats</p>
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<p>Obligatory Benn Jordan link (YouTube - ~11mins)<p>This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix for Stalkers<p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo</a></p>
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<p>For anyone else who was entirely unfamiliar, here's a low-effort search<p>"Incoherent Conspiracy Suggests Ghislaine Maxwell Is a Powerful Redditor"<p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/incoherent-conspiracy-suggests-ghislaine-maxwell-is-a-powerful-redditor/" rel="nofollow">https://www.vice.com/en/article/incoherent-conspiracy-sugges...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:48:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46480786</link><dc:creator>pentaphobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46480786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46480786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pentaphobe in "Ask HN: How did you learn to code?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was offline and had no tech people or resources around, but got access to an unused 286 which booted into a mysterious "C:\" prompt<p>Slowly worked out how navigate the system, then tried running the various built in things I found<p>One of these was QBASIC. 
Started reading through and messing with the example games which were part of the built-in QBASIC in MS-DOS<p>Reverse engineering how they worked gave a lot of the core concepts (variables, loops, procedures)<p>After writing a few (very) naff text adventures I stumbled across the intriguingly named "DEBUG" tool<p>Used debug to step through some of the other built in MSDOS utilities and try to work out what the mysterious symbols were doing (how I learnt assembler and machine code)<p>Later when I finally found  BBSs I started debugging/disassembling some of the BBS mini-demos which were ubiquitous those days, which introduced me to manipulating graphical memory etc..
The smaller size of these, and fact that they were generally coded in assembler was much more useful than reading through compiled code<p>I do <i>not</i> recommend writing assembler in DEBUG, but wouldn't trade in the learning I got from exploring a total black box with no references or learning resources (beyond time and curiosity)<p>Felt like doing alchemy</p>
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