Hacker News: rererereferred

New comment by rererereferred in "TypeScript compile-time dice rolls"

rererereferred — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:16:59 +0000

New comment by rererereferred in "Nitter project received cease and desist"

rererereferred — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:48:09 +0000

I do not use Twitter but some people who do interesting things somehow still do and only post about them there. It's all so tiring.

New comment by rererereferred in "Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge"

rererereferred — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:06:30 +0000

They keep public records updated quarterly (neat!). Until June they had 774 users and 2090 repos: https://codefloe.com/codefloe/analytics/src/branch/main/repo...

New comment by rererereferred in "typ.ing"

rererereferred — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:54:57 +0000

It was on typewriters because the fonts were monospace so the period would have some extra space to its left, the double space after it made it easier to see at a glance where a new sentence occurs.

New comment by rererereferred in "Stop Making TUIs"

rererereferred — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:35:49 +0000

That just means you have a potential userbase for an alternative for non-TUI people. If the market is that big, why not take it for yourself?

New comment by rererereferred in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

rererereferred — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:00:39 +0000

Because once my grandma said "You are doing it wrong, let your brother do it!"

And since then I never had to do it again.

New comment by rererereferred in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

rererereferred — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:12:21 +0000

There was one teacher/dean who was adamant at getting the career out of the "engineering" area at my country's universities and that "Software Engineering" should not exist as a career.

One funny interaction I remember, MariaDB's Monty came to give a talk and he asked "If one wants to help with MariaDB should they be a software engineer or a computer scientist?" Monty's answer was "you just need to know C."

New comment by rererereferred in "Escape Analysis in Go: Stack vs. Heap Allocations Explained"

rererereferred — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:39:24 +0000

As I understand, their Python IDE is open source.

New comment by rererereferred in "Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem"

rererereferred — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:13:45 +0000

Seems like so: https://github.com/theMackabu/ant

Odd choice for a vibecoded project.

New comment by rererereferred in "The Doctor Who Treats Patients with a Gaming Mouse"

rererereferred — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:24:54 +0000

I wonder if it's possible to hook up a second, cheap, keyboard and map its keys to different things for extra shortcuts. For example remap F1-12 to F13-24 which I've seen MMO mice do (rip Logitech G600, best mouse I ever used).

New comment by rererereferred in "Fable Converted Pylint to Rust"

rererereferred — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:39:25 +0000

The issue in this particular project is how well maintained it will be in the long term, since it's chasing after another project with the goal of being 100% compatible. How many of these AI ports are just people chasing one shinny thing then moving on to the next?

New comment by rererereferred in "The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover"

rererereferred — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:28:23 +0000

Once a recruiter asked me if I knew react, after answering yes they asked me if I knew javascript.

New comment by rererereferred in "What Is a Dickover?"

rererereferred — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:40:25 +0000

We use a third party cookie consent service. It shows different things depending on your location (and allows disabling different types of cookies depending on your local laws). Lawyers mandate it. It's easier than having to figure out the laws everywhere on our own. To me it shows a banner that stays out of the way. But I couldn't tell you for sure it doesn't cover the whole page to other people.

New comment by rererereferred in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

rererereferred — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:42 +0000

Some predictions are like "How many shoes will be thrown at the next Bush speech?" Just the presence of the question affects the outcome.

New comment by rererereferred in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

rererereferred — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:12:38 +0000

DDG works well enough for me. I wonder if people who pay for Kagi perceive it as being better to justify the money spent.

New comment by rererereferred in "Is a Claw driven Hacker News user a problem?"

rererereferred — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:54:44 +0000

We are getting close to this: https://xkcd.com/810/

New comment by rererereferred in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

rererereferred — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:31:13 +0000

The branch in question: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/compare/main...claude/phase-a...

New comment by rererereferred in "If I could make my own GitHub"

rererereferred — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:26:07 +0000

> If I clone a repo, I want a pretty limited history for that repo when I clone. If I start to go back in time, spin up a worker to go fetch that stuff from the VCS when I need it.

You want blobless clones:

    git clone --filter=blob:none

Gets history and only fetches blobs on demand. Github has a great article on it https://github.blog/open-source/git/get-up-to-speed-with-par...

New comment by rererereferred in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

rererereferred — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:20:16 +0000

I think the answer is "yes"

New comment by rererereferred in "I don't chain everything in JavaScript anymore"

rererereferred — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:00:58 +0000

There was a pipeline operator proposal for javascript using `|>`. Whatever happened to that?