Hacker News: quibono

New comment by quibono in "The git history command"

quibono — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:34:22 +0000

100% agree, the fixup macro is amazing. It even fails gracefully when unable to commit for whatever reason.

The split one would be handy though.

New comment by quibono in "Zero Knowledge Tolstoyan Art"

quibono — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:08:22 +0000

Yes, good point!

I guess what I meant was: the only way for art to meet one of the ZKP criteria is for us to assume it's art.

New comment by quibono in "Zero Knowledge Tolstoyan Art"

quibono — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:15:01 +0000

Nice! I like this, not a connection I would have thought of!

> Therefore, if the artist did not truly experience the feelings, the piece of work they produce would not be sincere, and hence not art. This also covers malicious attempts to produce a piece of art without having experienced the feelings. As the art is a successful representation of the agreed upon feelings, and the art is a Tolstoyan piece of art, the artist must have truly experienced them.

Isn't that circular? If I "fake" a Jackson Pollock style painting without having any feeling whatsoever AND it manages to evoke feelings in the viewer, who's to say which feelings are the agreed upon ones?

New comment by quibono in "The git history command"

quibono — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:12:30 +0000

> scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-broken state if you so much as sneeze

I'm glad to hear it, I thought that was just me. It gets especially hairy when moving commits around...

Plus I have 3-way diffs enabled and I usually get confused by which section is which at least once a day.

Also: does anyone know if `magit` has history support?

New comment by quibono in "Late Bronze Age Collapse"

quibono — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:14:17 +0000

> Doesn’t mean nothing happend, just that it can be difficult to figure out what is myth and what are actual events.

Sure. Although I'd say that if you want to study history that's _all_ you can do - use different sources, corroborate, cross-check, link and, generally, try to make the different events and interpretation "fit" together. If you have no documentation for it or supporting evidence then you've got nothing to work with.

Otherwise one could just use a semi-apologetic argument: the Exodus story DID happen as outlined in OT but God hid all signs of it so it couldn't be confirmed.

New comment by quibono in "Show HN: Airline pilot's interactive guide to aviation radio"

quibono — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:38:31 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by quibono in "Show HN: Airline pilot's interactive guide to aviation radio"

quibono — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:28:44 +0000

I have a question related to aviation though not the submission itself please.

How often would you say you get to do a non-ILS landing? I often wonder how common these are outside of North America (where I hear visual approaches are apparently way more common than in Europe).

And related to that, how often do you see VOR approaches in the wild?

New comment by quibono in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"

quibono — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:27:34 +0000

On one hand I love how much easier the email + OTP / passkey flow is on the dev side, I find it _very_ frustrating as a user of services. User+password combos are straightforward at least.

New comment by quibono in "30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format"

quibono — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:24:14 +0000

I was confused for a minute, I thought this was "top 30 papers by Ilya" and was then wondering why "Quantifying the Rise and Fall of Complexity in Closed Systems: The Coffee Automaton" is on the list.

> In additition, even though I have read the vast majority of the papers featured on the website, I have not read through each of the website's versions end to end.

Website's versions, as in - the actual text or the "explanations"? Either way this is a big red flag.

New comment by quibono in "A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]"

quibono — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:35:21 +0000

Gosh I need to learn more about knots. I've been thinking about this recently: if I wanted to maximise utility and could only learn 5 knots, what would they be.

Or alternatively, what are the "better" alternatives to the classics everyone knows.

New comment by quibono in "Blizzard coped with World of Warcraft's blood plague and other disasters (2019)"

quibono — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:44:43 +0000

Reminds me of the drunk cats thing from Dwarf Fortress [0]

[0] https://www.pcgamer.com/how-cats-get-drunk-in-dwarf-fortress...

New comment by quibono in "Word Count for Blog Posts: How Long Should Yours Be?"

quibono — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:01:31 +0000

Nothing's worse than a_forced 4000 words where you can see the author scrambling to make it just _a little bit_ longer.

I believe there's a natural "right" length to most posts, and with experience you learn to gauge if you're over that length or not.

New comment by quibono in "Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience"

quibono — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:17:56 +0000

That makes total sense, I never meant this in a negative way! I really like your project and am following along now, good luck!

New comment by quibono in "Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience"

quibono — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:40:29 +0000

This is lovely, thanks!

New comment by quibono in "Should every baby's DNA be sequenced?"

quibono — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:13:00 +0000

I had a funny experience related to this. I was a driver in a car with middle-age mums and one of the things that came up in their conversation was a cold case being solved thanks to DNA evidence. Then the conversation quickly moved onto exactly this, i.e. how everyone should be screened at birth so we can all identify the perpetrator right away; and then this moved to how the CSAM scanning is a good thing and should be enabled worldwide and so on.

It made me feel a bit funny: I was the weirdo for being AGAINST this, and it seemed like any arguments I put forward were dead on arrival.

New comment by quibono in "Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience"

quibono — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:04:19 +0000

The abstract certainly smells like 100% LLM-generated text.

New comment by quibono in "Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience"

quibono — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:02:13 +0000

Interesting - thanks! OP's drone IS using RL and that's what jumped out at me - it felt a bit overkill for the usecase.

New comment by quibono in "Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience"

quibono — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:04:12 +0000

If I were to get a dirt cheap Chinese drone, would that be more likely to use RL or MCP? What’s the “standard”?

New comment by quibono in "KaOS: The first Linux distro to ship dinit, Noctalia v5 without systemd and KDE"

quibono — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:24:55 +0000

Nice! I might try this out on a laptop. I like toying with different ditros. I am a daily user of Omarchy on my PC. I previously bounced off Hyprland (and Wayland by extension) a few times, and the Omarchy OOTB experience made it easier to switch.

That said, I wonder if it's now okay to say that systemd won the Linux wars.

New comment by quibono in "The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)"

quibono — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:03:06 +0000

I believe the fact that Polish uses the Latin alphabet (with a small Slavic twist to express the extra sounds) meant it was much easier for Poland to align itself westward. I think the average Pole is much closer culturally to the Western neighbours than to a Ukrainian or Russian (maybe apart from cuisine).