<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: subjectsigma</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=subjectsigma</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:29:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=subjectsigma" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What a stupid thing to say. Are you suggesting America should let others attack their homeland for some reason?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:35:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627945</link><dc:creator>subjectsigma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m on Bazzite and I’m strongly considering switching back to Windows 11. Proton performance is just not as good as native. Games like Valve’s own Deadlock just run terribly on Proton and completely fine on Windows, using the same hardware. It’s a miracle that Proton works at all, but why compromise when I already have a Win11 license key?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:02:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617055</link><dc:creator>subjectsigma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The industry is being redefined as we speak and everyone doing the push-back are pushing against themselves really.<p>No, they’re pushing back against a world full of even more mass surveillance, corporate oligarchy, mass unemployment, wanton spam, and global warming. It is absolutely in your personal best interest to hate AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:00:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321593</link><dc:creator>subjectsigma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Somewhat off topic, but I can’t believe someone got paid to write that article, what a load of crap. It’s like saying that fallacies don’t exist because sometimes people incorrectly claim the other side is arguing fallaciously.<p>If you go by the literal definition in the article, it’s very clear what OP meant when he said the AI policy is virtue-signaling, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the culture war.</p>
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<p>This has got to be one of the stupidest conspiracy theories out there. I swear nobody on HN has ever browsed 4chan for more than 30 seconds. 80-90% of it is porn and the rest is extremely lonely and socially maladjusted people talking to each other about literal nonsense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:42:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171032</link><dc:creator>subjectsigma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Line wrapping is one of those things I’ve just decided to give up on and let myself be at the mercy of the machine. I just resize the window to be a comfortable width for reading text while I’m typing it and turn on soft wrapping. If you really need hard wrapping your editor or viewer should handle that formatting for you</p>
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<p>Ok sure, you go try it! Just remember that even if you succeed, the consequences may be everyone you know and love dying in nuclear fire.</p>
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<p>I was thinking about this the other day - I watched a video about the acme editor and it was showing off text editing in a shell buffer, much like M-x shell. I realized I haven’t yet found a terminal emulator that will let you select text with a mouse while you’re editing in the shell. It’s such a simple thing that would be so useful, especially on a Mac where CUA bindings don’t conflict with terminal escape codes. iTerm lets you Option+click to position the cursor but you can’t select a word with the mouse and press ‘delete’. Why? It seems like such a simple thing to do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:23:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010370</link><dc:creator>subjectsigma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010370</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Going all the way back to Windows 7 I preferred dragging to arrow keys, I legitimately don’t understand how that’s “terrible design” and not just a personal preference.<p>I would suspect a sizable portion of Windows users didn’t even realize that snapping with the arrow keys was possible, since keyboard shortcuts are (generally) harder to discover than mouse actions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:54:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811842</link><dc:creator>subjectsigma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811842</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "Brandon Sanderson just sold his Cosmere universe to Apple TV"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If others enjoyed it that’s great, but I personally couldn’t finish it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:48:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811749</link><dc:creator>subjectsigma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811749</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "Brandon Sanderson just sold his Cosmere universe to Apple TV"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> even though his characters are quite robotic and video-gamey<p>This is what made early Sanderson so great for me though. I’m constantly inundated by media through which the author demands a soapbox. This can be anything from politics to just the author’s personal preferences.<p>Mistborn 1-3 was a fairly simple and satisfying plot with likeable (if somewhat predictable) characters and fun world building. Perfect set of books to just pick up and enjoy. Not Shakespeare, but it didn’t have to be.<p>By the time I got through all the Stormlight books I felt like I had been locked in a room and forced to listen to Sanderson drone on and on in a self-serving tone about his personal power fantasies. The story was more complex, but it also had 100+ pages of fluff nobody except Sanderson cared about. I truly believe that once he got really famous his editors stopped saying “no” to anything, no matter how small.<p>His short stories are the same way. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is good because it’s short and sweet. It sticks to a classic formula and focuses on imaginative settings, which is what Sanderson is good at. Tress was boring because it tried to be smart and kind of flopped.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:59:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806348</link><dc:creator>subjectsigma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Every single time I reboot, if I have to unplug my external monitor, and keyboard, login, then plug them back in. Otherwise it refuses to talk to them.<p>HOLY SHIT, my work Mac does this all the time and my personal Mac does not, I cannot for the life of me figure out why, nobody I have talked to understands it, it drives me absolutely insane.<p>Everything else in your post is either a personal preference and/or not a problem for my workflow</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:22:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804445</link><dc:creator>subjectsigma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When did you use a Mac last, 2010?<p>You can run nix on macOS now. You can also drag windows into corners or edges to tile them, it is almost exactly like Windows 7 or 10. You can even have tiling window managers on macOS that emulate i3.<p>Your complaints with the dock seem like a personal choice... I like the dock behavior but if you don't, probably not a lot that will fix that, it will always suck.<p>Sad to report that external monitor support is still terrible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:16:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804393</link><dc:creator>subjectsigma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804393</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>HN is not perfect, but “right-leaning”? What the actual fuck are you smoking</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:03:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761748</link><dc:creator>subjectsigma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "Can you slim macOS down?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't disagree, but what does that possibly have to do with macOS being a Unix or not?</p>
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<p>There's two options:<p>1. This is a lighthearted joke that someone made after having a bad experience with others being noisy in public. (Most likely scenario.)<p>2. The author is going to actually use this tool in public, in which case they are either a power-tripping asshole who gets off on "outsmarting" people, or a limp-wristed coward without basic social skills.</p>
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<p>Very neat, just installed it. I would say having someone download the profile and install it on macOS is honestly just as easy as running bash. It's also safer and provides more understanding.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:46:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660704</link><dc:creator>subjectsigma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "My Gripes with Prolog"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The syntax of Prolog is important! Since Prolog programs are just Prolog data structures, it is easy to write Prolog meta-interpreters which generate or consume Prolog code.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmBkU-l1zyc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmBkU-l1zyc</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:22:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642973</link><dc:creator>subjectsigma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by subjectsigma in "My Gripes with Prolog"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Re: the comma-at-end-of-line thing: I would sometimes write Prolog like so to avoid that issue:<p><pre><code>    goal :-
        true
        , subgoal(A, B)
        , subgoal(B, C)
        .        
</code></pre>
This is definitely not standard and I don't know if the WAM optimizes out the gratuitous choice point, but it certainly makes the code easier to work with.</p>
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<p>“Hack the hackers back” is a pretty old idea with (IIUC) very shaky legal grounds and not a lot of success. It would be much better if Anthropic had a special reporting function for API abuse.</p>
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