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New comment by salvesefu in "Ask HN: America turns 250 today. What does it mean to you?"

salvesefu — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:45:45 +0000

I always found the symbols of America interesting and their connections to the history of the European Democratic societies (and their ideals). Concepts that spread like wildfire across the global peasantry, unlanded & slave classes alike.

Who is this Columbia woman? Seriously, why is there a pyramid with an eye on the dollar bill? Compared to many other countries currencies, America has some of the most ambiguous imagery on its bills to the point most Americans don't know or understand their respective meanings.

Americans don't discuss Democracy's relationships to Anarchy (I always found this strange, especially with its obsession with guns); how one complements the other in very important and dynamic ways (this was an ongoing study in the working groups of early democratists).

Why did Americans give up wigs and the Brits did not? are the paris club and imf considered democratic institutions because they originate in democratic countries? Why is capitalism as an economic structure automatically considered democratic?

America as a concept of converging ideas has always befuddled me.

New comment by salvesefu in "Ask HN: Good fast IDE for reading and navigating code in multiple languages"

salvesefu — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:18:25 +0000

practically any ide built in the last 30 years can do what you need...from micro to zed.

what are you looking for exactly?

New comment by salvesefu in "Ask HN: What internal tools/SASS replacements are you building?"

salvesefu — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:15:20 +0000

What are the stats around internal tool building in the last 2-3 years? rates of adoption? are internal users satisfied?

New comment by salvesefu in "What's gonna happen to software engineers?"

salvesefu — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:52:19 +0000

The Swiss govt has done much to protect Swiss labor from external market pressures; whether the watch is a handmade movement or quartz is irrelevant.

New comment by salvesefu in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

salvesefu — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:05:08 +0000

For those needing context for the development of this package; this project is presently being developed as part of a RPKI validator.

https://medium.com/@jobsnijders/a-proposal-for-a-new-rpki-va...

New comment by salvesefu in "OpenBSD 7.9"

salvesefu — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:31:10 +0000

i wonder how gnome will be supported in the future on systems without systemd. heres a thread of someone beginning the process of replacing systemd with gnu shepherd: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/accompanying-non-systemd-distr...

New comment by salvesefu in "The vi family"

salvesefu — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:11:36 +0000

"Sam is designed as two synchronous programs: a command interpreter and a mouse-oriented bitmap windowing interface."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(text_editor)

New comment by salvesefu in "Dev environment. One window. AI woven through everything"

salvesefu — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:12:07 +0000

Its ironic just how many of these tools could simply be marketed as shiny ai emacs.

New comment by salvesefu in "A desktop made for one"

salvesefu — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:58:55 +0000

we are there now. depending on boot loader/os combination, one can get to the sub 1-5 sec range, if its cli-only.

New comment by salvesefu in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

salvesefu — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:21:17 +0000

team geary needs more love. geary works well for most day to day tasks with no showstopping bugs.

New comment by salvesefu in "Interview: Nobonoko, Master of the Minimal Sequencer"

salvesefu — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:35:57 +0000

tldr; vaporwave musician with cat art.

New comment by salvesefu in "Show HN: I built a P2P network where AI agents publish formally verified science"

salvesefu — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:10:14 +0000

i found this discussion interesting as it relates to LLMs and Lean 4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047027

New comment by salvesefu in "An x86-64 back end for raven-uxn"

salvesefu — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:05:41 +0000

Not surprising. the 100R folk are very upfront about their ideology around sustainability and eco justice.

mjk didn't have anything to add to the social economic conversation around llm usage, to the point of even being a bit tone deaf (especially if the 100R were part of his intended audience).

A bit more open constructive conversation to mjk's post on Mastodon would've been helpful for more people to understand the 100R philosophy more intimately; but...it seems the battle lines are drawn. Who wins/loses?

New comment by salvesefu in "Back to FreeBSD: Part 1"

salvesefu — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:56:23 +0000

Probably bc, Windows users live in walled knowledge domains that tend to reinforce levels of competence (or lack of competence).

Gamers tend to be somewhere in the middle though.

New comment by salvesefu in "Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS"

salvesefu — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:04:21 +0000

The GPT found this and thought it was relevant: "an introduction of library operating system for Linux" - https://lwn.net/Articles/637658/

New comment by salvesefu in "U.S. mandates more foreign travelers to pay $15,000 visa bond deposits"

salvesefu — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:33:30 +0000

Bad and expensive.

New comment by salvesefu in "Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)"

salvesefu — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:36:41 +0000

where in mexico? sounds really cool

New comment by salvesefu in "Show HN: RunMat – runtime with auto CPU/GPU routing for dense math"

salvesefu — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:51:58 +0000

From the Website: "If you write math in MATLAB and hit performance walls on CPU, RunMat is built for you."

New comment by salvesefu in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

salvesefu — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:39:47 +0000

Schoolaged 1995 coder self with a fpuless Mac would like a word about what we lost/gained (no available c compilers at the time).

The need for tui argument is vague outside of muscle memory. Lots of beautiful poetry though.

That age of computing the author is romanticizing was expensive and corporate fed stupid (RIP Mr Bollenbach my hs cs teacher who gave us weekly insider tech reports).

I feel like tui folk need their stack/os/integrated environment...oh wait. Nevermind.

"Is FreeDos the Moderate Libertarian TempleOS?"

New comment by salvesefu in "The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]"

salvesefu — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:34:59 +0000

That Ken Pier quote in the preface is still nasty work.