Hacker News: sheept

New comment by sheept in "Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions"

sheept — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:19:12 +0000

Yeah, I don't think the menu should've been a separate page. It can be made JavaScript-less as a dialog opened by the popover HTML attributes,[0] and the escape key would be able to close it.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

New comment by sheept in "Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions"

sheept — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:15:44 +0000

No, they're not related. The submission's article is about CSS view transitions. HATEOAS seems to involve interacting with an API, but linking between pages on a blog does not require this.

New comment by sheept in "Waymo in Portland"

sheept — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:27:11 +0000

Self driving cars aren't the next stage of public transport; they're a bandaid solution to American urban design. They're still cars, so they still contribute to traffic and increased pavement wear, and I cannot imagine they'd be cheaper at scale than buses for storage/maintenance/cleaning.

New comment by sheept in "CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome"

sheept — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:16:22 +0000

> the X chromosome has a mechanism to shut itself down (which makes sense; otherwise cells in women would have twice as many gene products from the X chromosome as cells from men).

You can see this visually because not the same X chromosome is deactivated in all cells: it's what gives calico cats their color (almost all of them are female).

New comment by sheept in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

sheept — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:55:15 +0000

How is all the tracking we have today not already sufficient for mass surveillance? What does age verification add if the goal is just more surveillance?

New comment by sheept in "H.R.8250 – To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user"

sheept — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:53:17 +0000

The US is a representative democracy, not a direct democracy. You don't get to vote on specific federal policies, you vote on the people who vote for those policies.

New comment by sheept in "Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome"

sheept — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:51:12 +0000

If you can create your own, what's stopping you from copy pasting someone else's?

New comment by sheept in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

sheept — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:31:09 +0000

The social media companies got so large because they optimized for engagement over all else. If they were any less addictive, they'd have way fewer users, and we wouldn't be talking about them now. This can probably only be addressed with regulation

New comment by sheept in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

sheept — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:40:07 +0000

Your game probably has poor SEO to begin with, so the Google Search policy changes would not apply

New comment by sheept in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

sheept — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:47:12 +0000

This shouldn't be a problem if you stick to commits and merges. --first-parent will skip past commits, including merge commits, in merged branches.

New comment by sheept in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

sheept — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:24:25 +0000

Using provided UI controls is consistent with how today's apps behave on mobile:

- For single-line text fields, pressing enter is an alias for submitting the form. - For multi-line text fields, pressing enter inserts a new line. There is no shortcut for submitting the form.

In mobile chat apps, the enter key inserts a new line, so you have to press the non-keyboard submit button to send a message. In mobile browser address bars, since they are single-line text fields, the enter key becomes a submit button on the virtual keyboard.

New comment by sheept in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

sheept — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:10:33 +0000

As mentioned in the article,

> For the same reason, plugging in an external keyboard is also a no-go since freshly updated iPhones are placed in what's known as a Before First Unlock state, which prevents wired accessories from working until the passcode is entered.

New comment by sheept in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

sheept — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:03:57 +0000

> My one hope for AI, robotics, self driving cars, is that they can enable people in cities to migrate back to rural places.

Wouldn't it be better, at least for the Earth, for everyone to live in cities? This way, more of the world can remain fairly untouched by humans, and it could still remain easy accessible from the city for recreational purposes.

The solarpunk ideal of living a rural life requires more road infrastructure, which cuts off wildlife routes and natural drainage, and even with EVs, still pollutes the air from tire wear.

New comment by sheept in "Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud"

sheept — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:08:53 +0000

The Summarizer API is already shipped, and any website can use it to quietly trigger a 2 GB download by simply calling

    Summarizer.create()

(requires user activation)

New comment by sheept in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

sheept — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:11:19 +0000

These are just syntax differences, which not only are easy to learn but I believe aren't the primary goal of the language, which is to bring the benefits of Rust's type system to Go.

As for int and float64, this comes from Go's number type names. There's int, int64, and float64, but no float. It's similar to how Rust has isize but no fsize.

New comment by sheept in "Some Unusual Trees"

sheept — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:57:55 +0000

On mobile, this website seems to prevent you from pinch zooming in, which makes it slightly inconvenient to quickly zoom into the photos of the trees.

New comment by sheept in "Memo: A language that remembers only the last 12 lines of code"

sheept — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:44:47 +0000

I think it is occasionally used with "the," i.e. "the conscious" (referring to the conscious part of your body, for example). Adjectives sometimes become nouns this way, like "the poor"

New comment by sheept in "Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise"

sheept — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:28:40 +0000

This article[0] investigated the payload. It's a RAT, so it's capable of executing whatever shell commands it receives, instead of just stealing credentials.

[0]: https://safedep.io/axios-npm-supply-chain-compromise/

New comment by sheept in "The Claude Code Leak"

sheept — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:30:30 +0000

I wonder if GitHub would rule it a copyright violation if the source code was rewritten by an agent, i.e. copy my answers but change a few words. Legally, if the original source code is copyrighted then an agent rewriting it likely doesn't lose that copyright, but I wonder if GitHub would go through the effort of determining whether it was a derived work.

New comment by sheept in "Apple Removes iPhone Vibe Coding App from App Store"

sheept — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:46:41 +0000

It could probably store the code in the Cache API and serve it from a service worker so that it works offline and doesn't require evaling JavaScript