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New comment by sandinmyjoints in "Rebasing in Magit"

sandinmyjoints — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:05:53 +0000

Rebasing in magit is so choice. I especially love magit-rebase-subset.

Government Agencies Raise Alarms About Use of Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot

sandinmyjoints — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:12:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/elon-musk-xai-grok-security-safety-government-73ab4f6e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181435

Points: 11

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New comment by sandinmyjoints in "Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware"

sandinmyjoints — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:13:05 +0000

That's terrible.

New comment by sandinmyjoints in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

sandinmyjoints — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:50:46 +0000

Reminds me of https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/

New comment by sandinmyjoints in "Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed"

sandinmyjoints — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:43:02 +0000

Why?

New comment by sandinmyjoints in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

sandinmyjoints — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:12:51 +0000

Lots of comments about Gas Town (which I get, it's hard not to talk about it!), but I thought this was a pretty good article -- nice job of summing up various questions and suggesting ways to think about them. I like this bit in particular:

> A more conservative, easier to consider, debate is: how close should the code be in agentic software development tools? How easy should it be to access? How often do we expect developers to edit it by hand?

> Framing this debate as an either/or – either you look at code or don’t, either you edit code by hand or you exclusively direct agents, either you’re the anti-AI-purist or the agentic-maxxer – is unhelpful.

> The right distance isn’t about what kind of person you are or what you believe about AI capabilities in the current moment. How far away you step from the syntax shifts based on what you’re building, who you’re building with, and what happens when things go wrong.

New comment by sandinmyjoints in "Stevey's Birthday Blog"

sandinmyjoints — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:56:49 +0000

He wrote all about it in https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-...

New comment by sandinmyjoints in "Why we don’t use AI"

sandinmyjoints — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:31:57 +0000

I wonder if the title of this post will someday be a certification?

New comment by sandinmyjoints in "Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011"

sandinmyjoints — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:10:02 +0000

Is there any chance it could become richer? What governs the content of credit card and bank statements? Is there anyone pushing for them to be more useful?

New comment by sandinmyjoints in "Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load"

sandinmyjoints — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:08:00 +0000

Excellent noticing.

New comment by sandinmyjoints in "Why AGI Will Not Happen"

sandinmyjoints — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:21:34 +0000

Why did this get flagged?

Year84

sandinmyjoints — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:02:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/year84-Brennan-Conaway/dp/B0CGX5RJWD

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153731

Points: 2

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New comment by sandinmyjoints in "How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity"

sandinmyjoints — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:16:57 +0000

Yeah, "You cannot be reasonable in isolation" from the article really struck me.

New comment by sandinmyjoints in "Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs"

sandinmyjoints — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:42:22 +0000

That's neat! For org, if it had an option to generate the HTML file name from slugifying the org file name instead of the salted hash, it could be fantastic for rapid lightweight blogging.

New comment by sandinmyjoints in "An opinionated critique of Duolingo"

sandinmyjoints — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:45:20 +0000

Curious if you have ever heard of/tried https://www.spanishdict.com/learn?

Addressing Editor Content

sandinmyjoints — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:19:09 +0000

Article URL: https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/addressing-editor-content.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427448

Points: 1

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New comment by sandinmyjoints in "My ancestors fought in WWII. Hiroshima is plagued by shallow reading"

sandinmyjoints — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:44:04 +0000

Yeah, the parent comment is interestingly and carefully phrased -- it is not claiming that the decision makers at the time could have known that Japan (according to this one report, anyway) would have surrendered without the bombings or invasion, but rather that since it is the case they would have (again, according to this report), that people should not claim the decision to bomb saved lives.

Anywhere on Earth

sandinmyjoints — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:05:10 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44780934

Points: 4

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New comment by sandinmyjoints in "Measuring the Impact of AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity"

sandinmyjoints — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:31:11 +0000

That’s an interesting adage. Any ideas of its source?

New comment by sandinmyjoints in "A compact bitset implementation used in Ocarina of Time save files"

sandinmyjoints — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:20:06 +0000

Interesting! Thanks for the glimpse into the workings of the game dev world.