Hacker News: rererereferred

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?

New comment by rererereferred in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

rererereferred — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:21:06 +0000

I wonder if they got the instructions on how to photograph them in text, without example pictures, and followed them verbatim.

New comment by rererereferred in "PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations"

rererereferred — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:11:54 +0000

If the closure doesn't use $this (an instance of the current class) then it doesn't need to store a reference to it, which also skips the bookkeeping from the garbage collector.

New comment by rererereferred in "Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt"

rererereferred — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:32:48 +0000

So the Emacs OS has a terminal? This means I can finally run vim in it.

New comment by rererereferred in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

rererereferred — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:25:06 +0000

I've gotten phishing domains taken down by going to their registrar and filling a support ticket.

New comment by rererereferred in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

rererereferred — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:00:52 +0000

Companies shouldn't be allowed to grow so big that they can manipulate laws as they want.

New comment by rererereferred in "Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold"

rererereferred — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:04:50 +0000

>40M$ button

You just reminded me of this old internet horror story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h-cAbOyRXc

New comment by rererereferred in "Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes"

rererereferred — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:48:11 +0000

The actual JS code is in the same ballpark as nodejs. They get fast by specializing to each platform's fastest APIs instead of using generic ones, reimplementing JS libraries in Zig (for example npm or jest) and using faster libraries (for example they use the oniguruma regex engine). Also you don't need an extra transpiling step when using TypeScript.

New comment by rererereferred in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

rererereferred — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:07:23 +0000

I was a Windows modding enthusiast until I tried Linux and the modding there was superior (and then compiz appeared).

These days whenever I use Windows I install bash and use a terminal so I don't really care about the window management, other than maximizing windows.

New comment by rererereferred in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

rererereferred — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:42:55 +0000

There is so many xkcd things, I didn't know which it would be.

New comment by rererereferred in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

rererereferred — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:24:38 +0000

Because of the vowel following consonants, my mind splits that word into these syllables: Ea-cho-ther, so not as natural as those other words. Then again, it's English, the only rule is there's no rules.

New comment by rererereferred in "AI uBlock Blacklist"

rererereferred — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:52:03 +0000

I mean, the reason we use grammarly is because we recognize we have a skill issue.