Hacker News: sureglymop

New comment by sureglymop in "Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit"

sureglymop — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:17:37 +0000

Recently an xAI recruiter reached out to me for a position at xAI. They mentioned that they had been impressed by my GitHub profile and wanted to fast track me to an interview.

Fun fact: I have not a single repository on my GitHub.

I think the position was about creating training data and realistic coding scenarios or something.

New comment by sureglymop in "The difficulty of making sure your website is broken"

sureglymop — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:49:12 +0000

I don't think those certs are revoked yet.

New comment by sureglymop in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

sureglymop — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:46:37 +0000

I've read this word 50 times in this thread so far and still don't know what it is an acronym for...

New comment by sureglymop in "Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?"

sureglymop — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:41:13 +0000

What I often see is js that fetches the email from the server separately and inserts it.

New comment by sureglymop in "Is BGP safe yet?"

sureglymop — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:49:01 +0000

You could mitigate this by monitoring certificate transparency logs for unwanted certificates issued for your domain.

Currently there are no good monitors though aka the system is a bit broken.

New comment by sureglymop in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

sureglymop — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:32:00 +0000

I agree it's a game changer! For bash to do the same I put this in my .inputrc:

    ## arrow up
    "\e[A":history-search-backward
    ## arrow down
    "\e[B":history-search-forward

New comment by sureglymop in "Goodbye to Sora"

sureglymop — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:31:47 +0000

It kind of seems obvious that people would rather share their content on the pre-established platforms.

I believe OpenAI didn't actually want to create an alternative platform. Instead, they wanted (and needed) to be in control. This is really due to the experimental nature of the technology and platform. They wanted to do market research yet retain the power to pull it at any time.

Arguably they were successful in that given that they now have the ability to stop it.

New comment by sureglymop in "Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML"

sureglymop — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:10:43 +0000

This made me immediately think of the Elm architecture.

To an extent this is how react works internally. There is a function which takes state and produces UI. In order not to have to re-render the whole UI if only a small part of the state changes, there is a diffing algorithm and "virtual dom" that is diffed against. Maybe it doesn't work exactly like that anymore but that's the gist of it.

New comment by sureglymop in "The Impact of AI on Game Dev Jobs. Open to Work Crisis"

sureglymop — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:26:49 +0000

What made it so popular was a combination of it being cross platform as well as turning into a "game/experience platform" instead of just a game.

But it is legitimately incredible what some people created in it. I remember playing a very good/accurate counter strike source clone in roblox. Felt exactly like playing a source engine game. I doubt that it was made by a kid.

New comment by sureglymop in "Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI"

sureglymop — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:13:51 +0000

Agreed and it's an important distinction to bring up. There are some pretty cool projects that use react like that, e.g., vicinae [0]. And one can implement a different renderer for react, here is a tui renderer [1].

0: https://www.vicinae.com/ 1: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

New comment by sureglymop in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

sureglymop — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:41:52 +0000

Sure, they have no obligation but the way you describe Newpipe to paint it as "obstructive" feels off to me.

When you offer a free service, by definition of it being free, you can't hold consumers of that service accountable for not furthering your revenue. They are impeding revenue only if it's not actually free (or only under false pretenses) which dismantles your first sentence here.

New comment by sureglymop in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

sureglymop — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:09:45 +0000

So they are sharding by time/day?

I have a similar project right now where I am scraping a dataset that is only ever offering the current state. I am trying to preserve the history of this dataset and was thinking of using the same strategy. If anyone has experience or pointers in how to best add time as a dimension to an existing generic dataset, I'd love to read about it.

New comment by sureglymop in "Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste"

sureglymop — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:40:57 +0000

At this point do you believe porting the codebase to Zig was the right decision? Do you have any regrets?

Also, I'm excited about trying out your language even moreso than Zig. :)

New comment by sureglymop in "Standardizing source maps"

sureglymop — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:38:33 +0000

This is a great endeavour. Recently I have been thinking about how to add syntax and metaprogramming extensions to programming languages without forking the compiler/interpreter. Source maps are needed there in order to have good editor support through e.g. an LSP server proxy. In researching it I was a bit let down I couldn't find too much research and specifications for the topic.

New comment by sureglymop in "Rebasing in Magit"

sureglymop — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:10:01 +0000

It looks really cool but the thing is, having learned git just as a cli tool, I don't think any UI would convert me from that workflow.

The exception is maybe diffing, where I just use meld as the difftool.

New comment by sureglymop in "Electrobun and WGPU: Tiny, cross-platform games and ML with Bun"

sureglymop — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:49:10 +0000

I tried but had some issues with it. Docs that referred to non existing/non working features and features not covered by the docs. Felt a bit vibe coded unfortunately.

New comment by sureglymop in "Seventeen Years of Coding and Starting Over"

sureglymop — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:32:00 +0000

At the end of last year I started to feel a little burned out and seemingly had lost my curiosity, motivation and passion for computers.

I started again with something I don't do at my day job, assembly and low level programming. It's been a blessing to learn and realize that things can actually be much simpler at that level. I'm especially interested in anything that actually needs one to drop down to assembly level and can't be done in some low level languages. E.g. implementing coroutines, jit compilation, self modifying binaries etc. I don't think I'll ever be able to use this knowledge professionally but more importantly, it's fun! Any more ideas for fun stuff are welcome. :)

New comment by sureglymop in "How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice"

sureglymop — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:12:04 +0000

Thank you for the links/resources! I've come across these in my research and they book look interesting. I've contemplated contributing to Timelinize but ultimately decided I want to create my own thing, also for educational purposes.

New comment by sureglymop in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

sureglymop — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:05:07 +0000

I've used GrapheneOS for years at this point and all my banking apps work fine. It's just definitely worth a try.

I've had a government app not working once and one of the devs actually showed up on the GrapheneOS forums and now it does.

New comment by sureglymop in "Claude Experiencing Elevated Errors Across All Platforms"

sureglymop — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:40:34 +0000

Well if you look at the status page [0], it only seems to have become a daily occurrence in the past two weeks. Even before that uptime wasn't so good though.

[0]: https://status.claude.com/