Hacker News: thcipriani

New comment by thcipriani in "How to write English prose (2023)"

thcipriani — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:42:30 +0000

What a great endorsement for Strunk and White! I love a precise insight, and I'll cede that unfamiliar word may be necessary.

But a polemic that shit-talks the best authors of the 20th century is mid and unpersuasive.

New comment by thcipriani in "In the age of algorithms and AI, is traditional media democracy's defence?"

thcipriani — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:56:57 +0000

Betteridge's law of headlines[0] in the wild.

[0]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...>

Twenty Years of Stacking Commits

thcipriani — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:34:09 +0000

Article URL: https://julien.danjou.info/blog/twenty-years-of-stacking-commits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504709

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by thcipriani in "Reviving Teletext for Ham Radio"

thcipriani — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:07:26 +0000

One of the ironies of a vibe coded VHF teletext is that the LLM-pocalypse prompted dropping low-level network support (AX.25) from the Linux kernel, which is the basis of a lot of ham networking experiments.

There are userspace workarounds for much of what was dropped, there were no real upstream maintainer of this stuff, and it was justifiable to drop AX.25 support. I don't really understand any of it, nor am I in the unenviable position of keeping it around/working. But a real mixed bag of ham news, AFAICT.

Chuwi Minibook X

thcipriani — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:59:50 +0000

Article URL: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2026/05/28/chuwi-minibook-x/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350598

Points: 412

# Comments: 305

GitHub Actions Is a Trap

thcipriani — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:23 +0000

Article URL: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2026/04/24/on-the-software-supply-chain-doom-spiral/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243068

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Jujutsu for AI Coding Agents

thcipriani — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:47:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.panozzaj.com/blog/2025/11/22/avoid-losing-work-with-jujutsu-jj-for-ai-coding-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149375

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thcipriani in "A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan"

thcipriani — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:09:43 +0000

I'm down with killing restrictive zoning laws. But removing regulation has not historically been a great curb for the uber-wealthy.

APRS Messaging 36 Miles with Two HTs

thcipriani — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:37:36 +0000

Article URL: https://midnightcheese.com/2026/05/aprs-message-36-miles-two-ht-radios/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077590

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thcipriani in "If I could make my own GitHub"

thcipriani — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:20:39 +0000

And Gerrit has multiple review label that can be customized[0].

So you could require `Verified+2` (CI), `Code-Review+2`, and `Design+2`, for example.

[0]: <https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/config-...>

GitHub Actions and Consequences

thcipriani — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:30:38 +0000

Article URL: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2026/04/24/on-the-software-supply-chain-doom-spiral/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913206

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The software supply-chain doom spiral

thcipriani — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:34:44 +0000

Article URL: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2026/04/24/on-the-software-supply-chain-doom-spiral/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896655

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by thcipriani in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

thcipriani — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:08:22 +0000

Did you get it to suspend when you close the lid?

New comment by thcipriani in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

thcipriani — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:21:28 +0000

Very cool that GitHub actually put stacks in the UI vs. GitLab's `glab stack`[0] (which looks just like the `gh stack` part of GitHub's thing).

One part that seems like it's going to feel a little weird is how merging is set up[1].

That is, if I merge the bottom of the stack, it'll rebase the others in the stack, which will probably trigger a CI test run. So, if I have three patches in the stack, and I want to merge the bottom two, I'd merge one, wait for tests to run on the other, merge the second vs. merge just those two in one step (though, without having used it, can't be sure about how this'd work in practice—maybe there's some way to work around this with restacking?)

[0]: <https://docs.gitlab.com/cli/stack/>

[1]: <https://github.github.com/gh-stack/guides/stacked-prs/#mergi...>

New comment by thcipriani in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

thcipriani — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:39:20 +0000

Ctrl-a interferes with readline shortcuts. I've been using Ctrl-: nothing, as far as I know, binds to that.

    unbind C-b
    set-option -g prefix C-Space
    bind-key C-Space send-prefix

New comment by thcipriani in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

thcipriani — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:11:38 +0000

> Today, with Git, we're all teaching swarms of agents to use a tool built for sending patches over mailing lists. That's far from what is needed today.

Today, with English, we're all teaching swarms of agents to use a language built from scraps of Norman French and Anglo-Saxon Old English. That's far from what is needed today.

Should AI Be Listed as a Co-Author in Your Git Commits?

thcipriani — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:43:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dariuszparys.com/should-ai-be-listed-as-a-co-author-in-your-git-commits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536780

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thcipriani in "Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video]"

thcipriani — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:38:09 +0000

I read the qntm book in Dec. TIL: there's a whole, rad backstory here.

This scene is really arresting, which is how they get you. I kind of coasted through the book on this big idea.

The rest of the book felt like this scene playing out over and over on a bigger scale, with higher stakes, with roles switched around. It's hard to move a plot with this theme.

The book did a commendable job.But I was ready for it to be over when it was over.

New comment by thcipriani in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

thcipriani — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:58:31 +0000

This has a misleading title.

This chart shows that the rate of year-over-year, month-by-month change is worse than 2020.

But the number of tech jobs has grown by 12% since April of 2020 (2.34M vs. 2.63M). Heck, there are more tech jobs today than at the beginning of 2022 (2.61M), even.

Job market sucks, trend is bad, but post title is a misnomer for what this chart shows.

(Numbers based on a quick grab BLS.gov data of CES6054151101 (Custom Computer Programming Services) + CES5051800001 (Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing & Web Hosting) + CES6054151201 (Computer Systems Design Services)---couldn't find other ones quickly and gave up :))

New comment by thcipriani in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

thcipriani — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:37:22 +0000

Meanwhile, the ADP report[0]: +63k in Feb.

[0]: <https://adpemploymentreport.com/>