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New comment by thijsvandien in "Things I've Done with AI"

thijsvandien — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:57:31 +0000

Now that's a question I'd feel more confident having answered by an LLM. Personally, I'm tired of arguing with "nothing to hide", which (no offense) is just terribly naive these days.

New comment by thijsvandien in "Things I've Done with AI"

thijsvandien — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:27:40 +0000

I don't know, but I would never upload such sensitive information to a service like that (local models FTW!) or trust the numbers.

New comment by thijsvandien in "URLs are state containers"

thijsvandien — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 14:15:24 +0000

While I like this approach as well, these URLs ending up in the browser history isn’t ideal. Autocomplete when just trying to go to the site causes some undesired state every now and then. Maybe query params offer an advantage over paths here.

New comment by thijsvandien in "Affinity Studio now free"

thijsvandien — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:41:28 +0000

Mixed feelings about this. The apps were great and it's always uncomfortable when the future becomes uncertain due to a big acquisition. So far, it seems it could've gone worse. Their business model makes sense. I like that everything got integrated now, because Photo, Designer and Publisher being separate with so much overlap didn't feel natural. Hate the new logo, though... Some elegance was definitely lost.

New comment by thijsvandien in "Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28"

thijsvandien — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:33:22 +0000

There's this Silicon app that scans your disk for them: https://github.com/DigiDNA/Silicon.

New comment by thijsvandien in "PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports"

thijsvandien — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:36:02 +0000

Very unfortunate how from json lazy import dumps would result in backward compatibility issues. It reads much better and makes it easier to search for lazy imports, especially if in the future something else becomes optionally lazy as well.

New comment by thijsvandien in "Gleam v1.12"

thijsvandien — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:40:00 +0000

Error(error) -> Error(error) has strong if err != nil { return err; } vibes, and I don't consider that a good thing.

New comment by thijsvandien in "uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari"

thijsvandien — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:55:36 +0000

Generally it works well, but what's particularly annoying is that it hides cookie walls, resulting in non-functional websites until I disable content blockers, close the dialog and re-enable them. Not sure if uBlock does any better, though.

New comment by thijsvandien in "OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation"

thijsvandien — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:47:07 +0000

It's literally never used now, because it was taken offline earlier this year.

PEP 779 – Criteria for supported status for free-threaded Python

thijsvandien — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 20:54:01 +0000

Article URL: https://peps.python.org/pep-0779/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44313196

Points: 2

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New comment by thijsvandien in "Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog"

thijsvandien — Mon, 26 May 2025 07:08:16 +0000

Then using .prl in stead wouldn’t have helped much…

New comment by thijsvandien in "Suno v4.5"

thijsvandien — Sat, 03 May 2025 14:48:10 +0000

Amazing idea. I can hardly stand audio books, and some musical updressing might completely change that. Having a beat to it just makes it so much more fun/engaging/digestible/memorable. Kids are already taught their ABCs using songs for that reason. Why stop there, if all sorts of material could easily be put in that form? Honestly it could revolutionize teaching.

New comment by thijsvandien in "Whenever – typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python"

thijsvandien — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:19:58 +0000

I don’t think so, but they do offer a pure-Python version as well.

https://whenever.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-can-i...

New comment by thijsvandien in "An actual real time voice translator"

thijsvandien — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:18:55 +0000

If it doesn't work completely on-device, that's a no-no.

New comment by thijsvandien in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

thijsvandien — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:29:50 +0000

Why not? Russia has elections too.

New comment by thijsvandien in "Cot: The Rust web framework for lazy developers"

thijsvandien — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:22:02 +0000

More like Rails (well, Laravel) than Django, and not by far as mature yet, but there’s Goravel.

New comment by thijsvandien in "The European VAT Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports"

thijsvandien — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:49:53 +0000

Assuming they always gets to keep it, which I doubt is the case – see my other comment.

New comment by thijsvandien in "The European VAT Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports"

thijsvandien — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:33:53 +0000

Nothing collected directly doesn't necessarily mean nothing collected at all. The turnover subject to said regime still needs to be reported, in higher detail if significant. Although I have no idea what exactly happens with such information, it's not hard to imagine it being used to settle the bill between countries.

New comment by thijsvandien in "Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves"

thijsvandien — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 01:52:10 +0000

Ah, yes! That's pretty much the same then, just rotating the board.

New comment by thijsvandien in "Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves"

thijsvandien — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 01:36:04 +0000

I once had the idea to take this to the extreme and make a version where you only control your opponent's pieces, so in terms of this game: blunder after blunder. Hardly having any chess experience, I'm not sure how interesting it would be. There's a good chance it essentially turns the one to start into the winner. Every few moves like here might work a lot better.