Hacker News: werdnapk

New comment by werdnapk in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

werdnapk — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:42:30 +0000

insert "AI is just if statements" meme

New comment by werdnapk in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

werdnapk — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:18:37 +0000

I've been using gitosis to manage private repos for almost 2 decades now. It's extremely easy to host your own repositories.

I just looked up gitosis on github though and it was last updated 12 years ago.... still works for me though.

Overall, hosting your own repos is very easy.

New comment by werdnapk in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

werdnapk — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:26:45 +0000

I'm a native English speaker who's very exposed to French, but doesn't speak it, I find the use of accents in French very welcome to getting the pronunciation right when exposed to a new word. English is just a mess in comparison and I wish it had made use of accents as well to avoid a lot of the ambiguities in pronunciation. Perhaps some of the old English letters that are no longer in use helped a bit, but I'm not familiar enough with those to know if it used to be better.

New comment by werdnapk in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

werdnapk — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:45:15 +0000

I have stacks of them still saved in boxes from the 80's.

New comment by werdnapk in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

werdnapk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:38:39 +0000

When I was in CS, we were taught theory. If you wanted to be caught up with the current tech, you'd teach yourself.

New comment by werdnapk in "Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude"

werdnapk — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:51:16 +0000

CSS on the tags:

word-break: break-all;

New comment by werdnapk in "Compact disc story (1998)"

werdnapk — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:07:33 +0000

For a thorough breakdown of everything CDs, here's Technology Connections playlist on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFWBEyCKt4tK...

New comment by werdnapk in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

werdnapk — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:56:29 +0000

A designer knows things from experience and would be aware of small details that if not designed correctly, become very apparent when built in reality.

New comment by werdnapk in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

werdnapk — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:47:12 +0000

I've been waiting years for my word to be my first guess and still nothing... it's been my opener for years. I know my word hasn't been used as I've checked the list of used words.

So for me, reusing words is not what I want to hear.

New comment by werdnapk in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

werdnapk — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:43:26 +0000

Gold and silver were up the most they'd ever been the previous 1-2 days... followed by them going back down. So don't mention the fall without the literal massive rise that happened hours before.

New comment by werdnapk in "40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]"

werdnapk — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:44:39 +0000

No need to read text, AI can talk in a voice of your choosing.

New comment by werdnapk in "40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]"

werdnapk — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:25:19 +0000

You can "talk" to AI, so I assume this is what they'd be referring to. No need to write prompts or read responses.

New comment by werdnapk in "40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]"

werdnapk — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:10:38 +0000

From the summary of video:

"40% of fourth graders can't read. Kids are asking their teachers why they need to learn to read when AI can do it for them. Social media has destroyed their attention spans and now teachers aren't teaching, instead they're managing withdrawal symptoms."

Why are fourth graders on social media and using AI already? My fourth grade kid has no social media presence and definitely isn't familiar with AI tools. This sounds like a parent problem.

New comment by werdnapk in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

werdnapk — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:17:04 +0000

Firefox and ublock origin... no ads. I avoid youtube on my mobile device as it's a lot more difficult to control the ads there.

New comment by werdnapk in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

werdnapk — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:05:18 +0000

I see many many F-150 lightnings in Canada (Quebec at least) used by construction people. Are there any country or more detailed stats on where F-150s were sold?

New comment by werdnapk in "Date is out, Temporal is in"

werdnapk — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:35:34 +0000

I haven't used autocomplete in over 20 years. Why does this even need an autocomplete? The "API" is dead simple.

New comment by werdnapk in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

werdnapk — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:04:52 +0000

I have a fully functional iPad mini for my kids that only supports iOS 12. I can barely install or use any software though because it's not supported on such an old OS.

New comment by werdnapk in "Ruby 4.0.0"

werdnapk — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:57:52 +0000

I think the major version change is more of a celebratory thing with Ruby being 30 years as of 2025.

New comment by werdnapk in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

werdnapk — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:09:08 +0000

I've been a normal user of Firefox for over 20 years.

New comment by werdnapk in "Please just try HTMX"

werdnapk — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:14:04 +0000

I've had good success with Turbo (previously Turbolinks). The newer versions (ie. Turbo) really fixed up the shortcomings of the older versions (ie. Turbolinks) and I enjoy using it.

Any big reason to use HTMX instead? Is Turbo not really discussed much because of it's association to RoR?