Hacker News: semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=semanticcHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:17:25 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"]]>How/why did it consume more tokens?

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:19:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692310semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692310https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692310<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"]]>I think the script would be named as `#` so that it can be called via `\# mycmd` instead of `\\# mycmd`.

]]>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:43:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617649semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617649https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617649<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"]]>Unless you disable cursor blinking because you find it annoying (like I do).

]]>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:30:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469158semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469158https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469158<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust"]]>Node 24+ does respect HTTP_PROXY when NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1 is set.

]]>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:27:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355136semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355136https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355136<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Git's Magic Files"]]>> GitHub’s contributor graphs use mailmap.

This is not true, .mailmap is [unfortunately] not supported by GitHub: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/22518

]]>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:31:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114355semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114355https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114355<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Non-Zero-Sum Games"]]>Do you have an example of this in mind where the known "tit for tat" strategy falls short?

]]>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:26:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438800semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438800https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438800<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "You already have a Git server"]]>Linux is not developed in GitHub.

]]>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 21:23:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715330semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715330https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715330<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Million Times Million"]]>You don't seem to get the point. That is only universal in current day English. In e.g. Finnish: miljoona = 1e6, miljardi = 1e9, biljoona = 1e12, triljoona = 1e18.

]]>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:00:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531152semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531152https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531152<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs"]]>What's your suggested alternative?

]]>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:54:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489893semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489893https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489893<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Ask HN: Best underrated way to get a job in tech during a hiring slowdown?"]]>It's essentially

]]>Sun, 04 May 2025 19:59:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43889114semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43889114https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43889114<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Repo with backdated junk, filled with my system, right after I filed patent"]]>Even if the meaningful content would have been older than yours, faking Git timestamps is trivial.

]]>Sat, 03 May 2025 07:42:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43877482semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43877482https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43877482<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Cache loop and memory loss in GPT – a user-side fix (tested with GPT itself)"]]>I know this is somewhat true, but it's just a pity. Proper grammar is something I try to cherish, and I've specifically added – and — to my custom keyboard layout for convenient access.

]]>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:12:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755394semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755394https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755394<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization"]]>.al is just the TLD for Albania, similarly as .ai is for Anguilla. No idea why anyone would choose the former.

]]>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 21:52:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42036370semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42036370https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42036370<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)"]]>Ehh, I don't know about that. CSV header row is more of a metadata for humans to me.

]]>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:22:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41972910semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41972910https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41972910<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity"]]>The new chat memory feature got enabled by default.

]]>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:26:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41646604semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41646604https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41646604<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "All web "content" is freeware"]]>Internet != Web. E.g., an ebook downloaded from Apple Books is not web content, even if it comes from the Internet.

]]>Sat, 29 Jun 2024 09:47:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40829028semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40829028https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40829028<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup"]]>I would start with Python instead of C++, if you just want to learn a useful tool as a hobby. The official tutorial is a good starting point: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html

]]>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:22:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088723semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088723https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088723<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "The end of Airplane.dev"]]>Why was the employees' common stock worth $0? Liquidation preference for the outside investors? Related: How can a regular employee joining a startup know beforehand that there isn't a high chance of their equity (which is probably a significant part of their total comp) being worthless even if a big acquisition is made?

]]>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 20:48:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39621232semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39621232https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39621232<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Forging signed commits on GitHub"]]>Regex is the parser for regular languages.

]]>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:37:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39103124semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39103124https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39103124<![CDATA[New comment by semanticc in "Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion"]]>Yes, truly curious. It's not like base 10 is used anywhere in our society.

]]>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:38:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38274920semanticchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38274920https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38274920