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New comment by riffraff in "DIY Soft Drinks"

riffraff — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:37:50 +0000

ah yes, I remember that one from some episode of Tasting History, but I could not remember the name!

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrub_(drink)

New comment by riffraff in "Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)"

riffraff — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:26:42 +0000

I have been to a bunch of galleries and seeing a painting in person doesn't usually make a difference for me compared to seeing it in a book.

Guernica is one of the few that did. Perhaps because it's massive compared to other well known paintings.

So, I just want to say, I second your recommendation for seeing it in person.

New comment by riffraff in "Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit"

riffraff — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:38:11 +0000

I think you have to qualify what you think trump is doing knowingly or not.

Lie in every press conference? Sure.

Posting an image of himself as Jesus? The guy has dementia.

New comment by riffraff in "Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit"

riffraff — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:35:30 +0000

Yeah I don't buy that xAI story, musk would have gotten a popular ai lab even without Twitter if he wanted.

Except.. his ai lab is not popular. It has zero value and people only use it because it's on Twitter and they don't pay for it.

The fact that he had to merge it with a successful unrelated company tells you all you need to know.

New comment by riffraff in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

riffraff — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:17:13 +0000

There's a certain set of changes which are just easier to review as stacked independent commits.

Like, you can do a change that introduced a new API and one that updates all usages.

It's just easier to review those independently.

Or, you may have workflows where you have different versions of schemas and you always keep the old ones. Then you can do two commits (copy X to X+1; update X+1) where the change is obvious, rather than seeing a single diff which is just a huge new file.

I'm sure there's more cases. It's not super common but it is convenient.

New comment by riffraff in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

riffraff — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:08:24 +0000

I remember darcs fondly but even with tiny repos (maybe 5-6 people working on it) we hit the "exponential merge" issues.

It worked just fine 99% of the time and then 1% it became completely unusable.

New comment by riffraff in "A perfectable programming language"

riffraff — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:32:25 +0000

Indeed! I got to about 20 with A-B-C but it somehow became harder after those. The multitude of C-something is obvious but I didn't realize there's so many A* languages (apl, ada, agda, alice, algol, applescript, apex, ampl, assembly..)

New comment by riffraff in "DIY Soft Drinks"

riffraff — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:01:53 +0000

I don't like vinegar much either, but vinegar in drinks does have a certain tradition e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posca

New comment by riffraff in "Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels"

riffraff — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:01:21 +0000

I see more and more non-tech people using LLMs.

I think none of them are paying for it beyond techies, but this is definitely not because they hate AI.

New comment by riffraff in "Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system"

riffraff — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:13:41 +0000

I remember working with darcs 20 years ago (pijul should be on that lineage) and cherry picking in that was way better than doing it with git since it meant "get this change and all the required ones" rather than "pick this commit".

It still required intelligence (changes across files may not be tracked as dependent but actually are) but it was a different experience from what git provides.

New comment by riffraff in "Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty"

riffraff — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:33:54 +0000

It's my favorite work of literature, I have gifted it to a bunch of people over the years and most have appreciated it too.

You are bound to find at least one city that will stay with you.

New comment by riffraff in "EFF is leaving X"

riffraff — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:49:02 +0000

Xcancel.com still works ok to read occasional tweets.

New comment by riffraff in "EFF is leaving X"

riffraff — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:47:53 +0000

Bluesky and mastodon are the direction the EFF would like the internet to take, so their presence there is not tied to effectiveness in the same way.

New comment by riffraff in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

riffraff — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:08:43 +0000

that seems wonderfully varied and entertaining :)

New comment by riffraff in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

riffraff — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:09:05 +0000

That's impressive work! But how come the books are in mixed languages? Are they your books? Do you fix books for random people?

New comment by riffraff in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

riffraff — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:24:18 +0000

> Without attacks from Hezballah and other Iranian backed groups Isreal would not have attacked targets in Lebanon

Israel also bombed southern Syria, to "protect the druze community". Syria has not attacked Israel, there are some random terrorist groups who did, but they attacked Israels' occupying forces in Syria.

New comment by riffraff in "Show HN: A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world"

riffraff — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:02:42 +0000

odd, I'd rather have Tolkienistic maps of the Earth :)

Tags.pub is a global hashtag server for the Fediverse

riffraff — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:48:02 +0000

Article URL: https://tags.pub/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671156

Points: 3

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New comment by riffraff in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

riffraff — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:20:04 +0000

I thought that's supposed to be an Oryx (Qatar) while the camels are Saudi/UAE, but who knows.

New comment by riffraff in "Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea"

riffraff — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:42:12 +0000

Perhaps the test was that if you finish the test you haven't passed it.