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New comment by suprfnk in "Emacs Turns 50"

suprfnk — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:36:44 +0000

M-x animate-birthday-present Emacs! RET

New comment by suprfnk in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

suprfnk — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:31:15 +0000

> when some dialog pops up I want to touch the cancel button

I have never had this. I don't think this is the expectation among people using laptops either? Pressing escape is much faster, doesn't obscure the screen, and doesn't require me to aim.

New comment by suprfnk in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

suprfnk — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:56:07 +0000

Yep, it’s pretty much the reason I don’t use Youtube on my iPhone almost at all.

It’s probably a good thing, actually.

New comment by suprfnk in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

suprfnk — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:04:58 +0000

Need is a big word. Convenience is also a factor.

We have 8 light buttons in our living room/dining room/kitchen space. It is very convenient to us that we have 1 button for turning all of them on/off at the door to upstairs (at night turn off all lights and go to bed upstairs, in the morning come downstairs and turn on all lights) - but also have 1 on/off button near our back door for when we leave/come home.

Next to that: on/off toggles a schedule where the lights are bright and cold-ish by day, and low and warm by night without us having to manually adjust each light every hour or something.

Again, need is a big word. But it's very convenient and pleasant.

New comment by suprfnk in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

suprfnk — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:19:33 +0000

It's really not that bad.

New comment by suprfnk in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

suprfnk — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:10:06 +0000

Unless the company is going under, why not? Let's say Google releases Gemini Pro 4 tomorrow, and it's better than Fable and Sol; lots of people would switch over to it.

AI models are almost completely interchangeable, so the best/cheapest/fastest whatever will always have a market.

New comment by suprfnk in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

suprfnk — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:03:45 +0000

Way slow? What are you comparing with?

New comment by suprfnk in "Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode"

suprfnk — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:19:49 +0000

Definitely try ghostel, it's really solid.

New comment by suprfnk in "My Friend Aaron"

suprfnk — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:21:26 +0000

Very well written! I haven't read such a long piece on the internet for quite a while but this hooked me immediately, and kept me hooked.

Breath of fresh air between all the AI """writing""".

New comment by suprfnk in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

suprfnk — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:04:37 +0000

> Even though it's 5 different phases, it's just "3 layers" of programming.

I'd sharpen this to: it's 3 layers of software engineering (2, 3, 4), and 1 layer of programming (3).

Unity 7 Announcement

suprfnk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:41:43 +0000

Article URL: https://unity.com/releases/unity-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011451

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by suprfnk in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

suprfnk — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:24:00 +0000

Seems like a good avenue for money laundering if you can't tell where it comes from.

New comment by suprfnk in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

suprfnk — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:24:47 +0000

It's really not that hard. There's a lot to learn, but it's doable.

Start here: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/intro...

Or if you're impatient like me you click "Your first 2D game" or "Your first 3D game" in the left bar (whichever you prefer) and go through that -- and skipping back to the intro/step by step when you don't understand something.

By the end of that you'll have made your first game.

From there you just do something extra to it. Mix it up. Start a new project with a different (small) idea. Build small projects until small becomes medium becomes large.

Just like learning anything else, really.

New comment by suprfnk in "The AirPods Effect"

suprfnk — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:29:25 +0000

> you aren't really expected to talk or listen in this scenario

Absolutely bizarre. The cashier is not some sort of robot.

New comment by suprfnk in "Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces"

suprfnk — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:57:04 +0000

Interesting; do you think it’s a net positive for them?

New comment by suprfnk in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

suprfnk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:39:35 +0000

Feels like they’re just surfing the name recognition wave at this point.

New comment by suprfnk in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

suprfnk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:18:36 +0000

A lot, but these I still use a lot

A grocery app tailor made for me and my wife, offline first, seamless instant sync, barcode scanning, GPS/location hints

A macOS native high performance infinite canvas scribbling app for use with my Wacom for thinking through ideas

Lots of stuff for one pretty much finished video game, and currently lots of stuff for my new video game

New comment by suprfnk in "Claude Opus 4.8"

suprfnk — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:51:27 +0000

Why should we say stop?

New comment by suprfnk in "Claude Opus 4.8"

suprfnk — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:37:50 +0000

Agreed, these are my vibes too. It feels much better to do planning and strategy and architecture etc. with Opus 4.7 than GPT-5.5. GPT just feels like a robot that gets instructions and does exactly that. Opus feels like an almost human that sometimes has actually good ideas and pushes back on bad ideas.

So for now its planning/architecture/strategy -> Opus. Pure coding -> GPT.

Helps with agentic coding that GPT is much roomier with the tokens you get.

New comment by suprfnk in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

suprfnk — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:16:53 +0000

Oh, so that was actually a Token Per Second report! Wild!