Hacker News: wycy

New comment by wycy in "Swift 6.3"

wycy — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:34:00 +0000

I was excited about it when it first came out, but haven't heard anything about it since.

New comment by wycy in "Digg is gone again"

wycy — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:36:16 +0000

This kind of makes the Digg team look like a joke. Rebuilding was always going to be hard, but I think this kills any chance of building it up a third time since no one can take it seriously.

New comment by wycy in "Ask HN: Notification Overload"

wycy — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:00:03 +0000

With time, I've been revoking the ability of more and more apps to deliver notifications. The vast majority of the notifications these days are just pointless ads anyway.

New comment by wycy in "I Like GitLab"

wycy — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:02:30 +0000

We use self-hosted GitLab at work. It’s really a pleasure to use, everything works the way it feels like it should. The main downside is the system resource requirements are absurd considering at any given time there’s only 1-2 people using the GitLab interface.

New comment by wycy in "Some Epstein file redactions are being undone"

wycy — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 20:39:32 +0000

The prose style and the fact that it was super repetitive. Every bullet re-described the copy-pasting. Definitely LLM slop.

New comment by wycy in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

wycy — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:20:46 +0000

> Side note: anyone else have moments where you can’t press delete once predictive text has shown up?

Chiming in just to say: yes

New comment by wycy in "We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source"

wycy — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:23:06 +0000

> the engineers aren't complaining, in fact it is the opposite, they are actually more productive.

More productive isn't the opposite of complaining.

New comment by wycy in "Notes on switching to Helix from Vim"

wycy — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:24:11 +0000

How is no syntax highlighting better, specifically?

New comment by wycy in "Notes on switching to Helix from Vim"

wycy — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:23:44 +0000

I agree and don’t use any of that stuff—-except syntax highlighting. Why wouldn’t you? Color is a whole extra dimension it adds to the code that lets the eye notice errors more quickly and jump around faster.

New comment by wycy in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

wycy — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:34:03 +0000

Unpopular opinion apparently: I love it. I’ve been using it since beta 1 and it’s grown on me enormously. iOS 18 on my work iPhone felt incredibly dated and I was relieved when we could finally upgrade enterprise devices.

New comment by wycy in "Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff"

wycy — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 23:08:51 +0000

Why do you need to do embryo pre-screening for something that’s not genetic? Or do you think it still is genetic despite also thinking you know the specific trigger in your case?

Edit: are you thinking it’s genetic, but exacerbated by weed?

New comment by wycy in "Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure"

wycy — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:58:08 +0000

I wonder how many millions of productivity hours have been lost due to millions of people having to click through these stupid, useless prompts countless times per day.

New comment by wycy in "Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure"

wycy — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:56:18 +0000

Correct-horse-battery-staple!! is 30 characters and quick to type

New comment by wycy in "On Bloat"

wycy — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:33:46 +0000

It may be that they've discovered that people feel more comfortable with bank logins taking a while. Maybe if it's too snappy people feel like it's insecure. Sort of like how tax software intentionally adds loading screens to make people feel like it's doing a lot of work behind the scenes even though it's essentially a glorified spreadsheet with instant calculations.

I have no data on this, purely just a theory as to why they may not feel an incentive to make login feel faster.

New comment by wycy in "What Is Vim?"

wycy — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 04:46:27 +0000

Learning vim was one of the best things I did for myself at work. Completely changed everything about the way I work and made me so much faster.

New comment by wycy in "Ask HN: How would you launch a privacy-first, Instagram-like social network?"

wycy — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:01:04 +0000

I wouldn't bother. Nobody really cares about privacy-first. The HN audience is one that you might expect to care strongly about privacy, and yet even here many still prefer to use the Android/Google ecosystem because it's more customizable and Not Apple, over the highly private Apple ecosystem. Privacy just isn't that many people's first concern.

New comment by wycy in "An icon taskbar for the Gnome Shell"

wycy — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:48:39 +0000

A proper taskbar. Needing to install a third party extension to achieve the type of taskbar that has been expected from desktop OSes for the past 20 years is lunacy. I was fortunate to be able to get my IT dept to allow third party extensions when we moved to RHEL 8, but I'm sure most in the corporate world aren't so fortunate.

New comment by wycy in "Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons?"

wycy — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 22:37:22 +0000

It’s really strange reading the words of such an intelligent person beginning to understand something back then that is so fundamental today that even laypeople understand it more scientifically. Really weird, but really cool to get a peek back into a scientific mind in the 1700s.

New comment by wycy in "An icon taskbar for the Gnome Shell"

wycy — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:03:36 +0000

Some of us are forced to use it because Red Hat removed support for KDE.

Being forced to switch from KDE to Gnome was a very painful transition. Having the Dash to Panel and Dash to Dock extensions was the only thing that made it palatable.

Vanilla Gnome may be fine as a streamlined tablet OS for casual web browsing but it is not suitable to doing real desktop work.

New comment by wycy in "Spreadsheets are all you need"

wycy — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:26:52 +0000

This seems quite hidden. Googling "google appsheets" results in "did you mean 'google sheets'?" and showing only results for google sheets unless you specifically then request AppSheets.

It sounds cool, but I'd hate to rely on it since Google will probably shut it down.