Hacker News: user3939382

New comment by user3939382 in "A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway"

user3939382 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:17:20 +0000

I can see crafting line by line when I’m retired or for a personal project. It’s eventually going to be like the people now who still operate restored manual linotype machines. “Look here I have the last functioning one in the midwest. See how the plates work…”

New comment by user3939382 in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

user3939382 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:05:35 +0000

Laws are meaningless de jure. Especially where megacorps are concerned, the de facto law (ie the only one that matters) is the text, multiplied by the enforcement mechanism, multiplied by the political will to enforce, multiplied by the 10-15 year process of the megacorps draining their legal warchests into challenges and appeals. Then, after all that, maybe… you get a change to corporate behavior.

The laws in this country are primarily written by and for large corporations. They’re not going to meaningfully practically restrain them just because something got passed.

New comment by user3939382 in "Command Line Interface Guidelines"

user3939382 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:02:32 +0000

This is my design as well, didn’t realize Nix arrived at it. Help renders the man page.

New comment by user3939382 in "Command Line Interface Guidelines"

user3939382 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:01:26 +0000

Check out Apple Garamond. What’s old is new.

New comment by user3939382 in "Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later"

user3939382 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:06:23 +0000

> 16.7.x (excluding 16.7 RC) and 17.0.1+ will NEVER be supported (unless a third CoreTrust bug is discovered, which is unlikely).

I am 100% over the walled garden, lock out, right to disrepair bullshit. If we had a government instead of a quasi-fascist kleptocracy billion+ dollar corps wouldn’t have the power to do this.

New comment by user3939382 in "Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring"

user3939382 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:28:30 +0000

If anyone has a good reason to need to know they can email me.

New comment by user3939382 in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

user3939382 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:30:01 +0000

load bearing, key insight, push back, “it’s not x, it’s y”

New comment by user3939382 in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

user3939382 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:16:40 +0000

Great so I can use a CSS rule to hide anything with the flag.

New comment by user3939382 in "Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring"

user3939382 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:24:34 +0000

Know him in real life. Don’t meet your heroes.

New comment by user3939382 in "Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid"

user3939382 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:11:46 +0000

Clock hour schools have been held to this standard forever. It’s called gainful employment. It was always bullshit that credit hour schools didn’t have this standard, as if it was 1930 and colleges were here to help us think thoughts rather than as part of the jobs pipeline.

New comment by user3939382 in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

user3939382 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:27:26 +0000

Check out Clojure spec. The light dark bifurcation doesn’t hold up.

New comment by user3939382 in "Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor"

user3939382 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:15:30 +0000

I’ve found that it can do it, but the aesthetics of the diagrams it generates are awful. I end up going back to manual Omnigraffle.

There is an art to designing the human to human communication aspect of diagrams that transcends which lines connect where.

New comment by user3939382 in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

user3939382 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:08:45 +0000

Subscription is ~$200/month. When I tried running on tokens it was ~$500/day for the same usage pattern.

My guess is my usage is atypically high, but even if the average equivalent is $100-250/day you can get a sense of how much Anthropic is subsidizing subscriptions as a loss leader to lock market share. IMHO this is a doomed strategy since open models will get into a long tail of parity and they’ll ultimately essentially be in the business of commodity compute.

New comment by user3939382 in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

user3939382 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:31:53 +0000

You’re making an equally nebulous point, as if all govt regulation is good and overreach doesn’t exist by definition or something.

New comment by user3939382 in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"

user3939382 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:39:02 +0000

Have you tried rector?

New comment by user3939382 in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

user3939382 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:32:59 +0000

I talked to someone laying fiber in Manhattan circa 2020 he said it was $25k / ft. That the permitting process took so long by the time it got approved the people on the city council had changed. That the conduits are so packed you can’t fit another fiber line in it and almost all of them are undocumented. All kinds of union circumvention BS from Verizon aka Empire City Subway who’s supposed to be maintaining this stuff per contract. It’s a shit show.

New comment by user3939382 in "Podman v6.0.0"

user3939382 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:54:35 +0000

One answer is ECR/ECS/Fargate ie AWS. You’re not gonna split the ops stories between local and remote.

New comment by user3939382 in "Claude Sonnet 5"

user3939382 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:30:12 +0000

Mine is to ask it to write a parallel parking simulator and animation. The math there is surprisingly complex including differential equations. Fable 5 can almost one shot it with all tunable params.

New comment by user3939382 in "WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)"

user3939382 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:11:05 +0000

> leave it behind when GUIs were invented

GUIs were invented by the Xerox PARC team early 1970s, the IIc (I have one sitting on my desk :) was 1984. Totally beside your point so I apologize. I only mention it because PARC deserves a huge amount of credit.

New comment by user3939382 in "Data centers trigger voter backlash"

user3939382 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:11:46 +0000

Plenty of people care about their power bill. Water in some regions is a hot political issue. Data centers don’t create jobs of course, we don’t need anyone to answer that.