Hacker News: thcipriani

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

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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/>

IR USB device for Casio WQV-1 – the first camera watch

thcipriani — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:51:02 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/partlyhuman.com/post/3mefdsvt5ys2n

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025746

Points: 2

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New comment by thcipriani in "Evolving Git for the Next Decade"

thcipriani — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:26:13 +0000

Very excited for git 3.0, and also ready to be immediately frustrated by it :D

`jj` has done git users an amazing service simply by being a more intuitive VCS front-end is possible.

New comment by thcipriani in "The passive in English (2011)"

thcipriani — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:56:50 +0000

I've also been pondering the two uses of the word "roles" in this sentence. This sentence is the world's best sentence.

New comment by thcipriani in "The passive in English (2011)"

thcipriani — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:14:37 +0000

> English has a contrast between kinds of clause in which one kind has the standard correspondence between grammatical subject and semantic roles (when a verb denotes an action, the subject standardly corresponds to the agent), and the other switches those roles around.

I've tried to read this sentence so many times. That parenthetical is a doozy.

New comment by thcipriani in "ThinkNext Design"

thcipriani — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 03:52:04 +0000

Bring back the thinklight! How else will you look at your notes and type without turning on the lamp?

Nub scrolling? A three button mouse on a trackpad? I can't be the only one who wants this.

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

New comment by thcipriani in "Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025"

thcipriani — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:29:13 +0000

Same with Ezra Kline's "Abundance" vs. John Green's "An Abundance of Katherines." But I kinda like swapping in John Green—"Everything is Tuberculosis" was a good read for me this year.

Git commit hashes that spark joy

thcipriani — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 21:04:18 +0000

Article URL: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2024/09/29/subliminal-git-commits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715199

Points: 2

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Git working on Jujutsu-like history editing

thcipriani — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:21:37 +0000

Article URL: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250819-b4-pks-history-builtin-v1-0-9b77c32688fe@pks.im/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353547

Points: 4

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New comment by thcipriani in "Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)"

thcipriani — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:47:56 +0000

XMonad is an an amazing window manager (WM) made by a bunch of nerds who care a whole lot about a niche problem. Software by caring nerds is my favorite software as a user.

I really hope it makes the jump to Wayland. I've used XMonad for more than a decade and it's still my favorite WM.

XMonad really let me forget about managing windows---I never have to resize a window or remember where I put a window. XMonad handles the arranging and resizing and floating for me. There's a nice layout for small screens that will zoom your active window[0]. You can cobble your desktop together into whatever makes you happiest: Active corners. ScratchPads. So much in XMonad Contrib[1].

Since I'm not the right person to help with porting to Wayland, I'm giving money via the GitHub sponsorship page[2].

I check in on discourse from time to time: progress looks slow. The person/people they need are hard to come by.

[0]: <https://xmonad.github.io/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-L...>

[1]: <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib>

[2]: <https://github.com/sponsors/xmonad>

The future of large files in Git is Git

thcipriani — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:07:06 +0000

Article URL: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2025/08/15/git-lfs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44916783

Points: 557

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New comment by thcipriani in "Playing with more user-friendly methods for multi-factor authentication"

thcipriani — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:53:26 +0000

Poker hands would pretty cool for encoding things that you have to recognize quickly; e.g., key fingerprints. If there are 2.5M unique hands then encoding 256 bits of information requires 12(ish) poker hands.

New comment by thcipriani in "We Quit Spotify"

thcipriani — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 05:06:46 +0000

I am a subscriber to Hearing Things, so I knew the context going in. But I thought the second sentence made it clear they were music journalists and not artists.

Hearing Things publishes playlists as music reviews—text, that is. And the playlists are available on all music streaming platforms.

But this blog announced that their playlists will no longer be on Spotify due to Spotify's continuing enshitification—I found no reductive moralism, only an interesting bad review.

We Quit Spotify

thcipriani — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:00:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hearingthings.co/why-we-quit-spotify/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543772

Points: 4

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New comment by thcipriani in "Pixar's Newest Movie, 'Elio', Is a Box-Office Dud"

thcipriani — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 01:30:46 +0000

Saw it this weekend, it's a solid Pixar movie. But I only learned about it because I was looking to go see a movie and Elio was the most original movie playing at the local theater; I'd heard nothing about it.

I have heard more about the two live-action remakes (Lilo and Stitch/How to Train Your Dragon) and the sequel (28 years later) that are currently showing.

New comment by thcipriani in "The Gentle Singularity"

thcipriani — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:45:15 +0000

Gotta put the optimism in context vs. previous Sam Altman writing.

Here he says:

> Intelligence too cheap to meter is well within grasp.

Six months ago[0] he said:

> We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it.

This time:

> we have recently built systems that are smarter than people in many ways

My summary: ChatGPT is already pretty great and we can make it cheaper and that will help humanity because...etc

Which moves the goal posts quite a bit vs: we'll have AGI pretty soon.

Could be he didn't reiterate we'd have AGI soon because he thought that was obvious/off-topic. Or it could be that he's feeling less bullish, too.

[0]: <https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections>

Per-project Git commit templates

thcipriani — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:08:24 +0000

Article URL: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2025/05/21/git-commits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44164272

Points: 3

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