Hacker News: xenophonf

New comment by xenophonf in "Spaghettifying DRAM"

xenophonf — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:52:10 +0000

You just need to level-up to ANSI art!

http://www.syaross.org/thedraw/

New comment by xenophonf in "Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way"

xenophonf — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:27:26 +0000

That link is paywalled.

This might be a better one.

https://medium.com/predict/why-the-dark-forest-theory-is-pro...

This video is pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0SvgT9Lc2M

This post attempts a formal refutation.

https://www.pgmusings.ca/journal/dfh

New comment by xenophonf in "Let AI Burn"

xenophonf — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:10:55 +0000

I don't think this guy's blog tries to sell me on a subscription enough. Maybe he could add even more pop-ups or inline pleas for funding. I'm sure he's got a newsletter he's desperate to monetize.

New comment by xenophonf in "Automating AI Away"

xenophonf — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:05:16 +0000

> Rewrite this Python code to use match/case instead of if/elif/else chains

Is this a real example of something people use AI to do? If so, I don't understand why that's difficult, because prompting the AI to do stuff with ASTs etc. seems a bit over the top.

New comment by xenophonf in "Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork"

xenophonf — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:38:15 +0000

> I forget that what I miss was not the system, but the community on the system.

Same. I had VMS running on an AS200 next to a beautiful X terminal, just like the computer lab at school. But my dad wasn't sitting next to me, hunting and pecking away at his old C.Itoh terminal. None of the usual suspects were across the table, locked into their favorite MUDD. And so on. I miss them all so much.

New comment by xenophonf in "I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)"

xenophonf — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:39:15 +0000

Comedy is dead. I can't believe so many folks didn't clock this post.

(Also, the word is "cue", as in "signal". English sucks.)

New comment by xenophonf in "AI coding is addictive. Engineers are paying the price"

xenophonf — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:03:53 +0000

https://archive.is/2pKhN

New comment by xenophonf in "Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers"

xenophonf — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:00:50 +0000

Don't concurrency. forget about

New comment by xenophonf in "CSSQuake"

xenophonf — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:08:59 +0000

Every time I click in the window, the menu disappears. I tried both Firefox and Chrome.

New comment by xenophonf in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

xenophonf — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:31:51 +0000

> Tree-sitter that just works

Hallelujah and thank you, sweet little baby Jesus. Now I can get rid of this bullshit from my dotfiles:

    rm -rf ~/.emacs.d/tree-sitter
    mkdir -p ~/.emacs.d/tree-sitter
    set _plat = windows
    if ( `uname` == Linux ) set _plat = linux
    if ( `uname` == Darwin ) set _plat = apple
    set _arch = x86
    if ( `arch` == arm64) set _arch = aarch64
    gh release -R emacs-tree-sitter/tree-sitter-langs download -p "*${_arch}*${_plat}*"
    tar -C ~/.emacs.d/tree-sitter --transform 's/^\(.*\.\(so\|dylib\|dll\)\)/libtree-sitter-\1/' -xzf tree-sitter-grammars*.tar.gz
    rm tree-sitter-grammars*.tar.gz

That's csh, BTW, just like the Founding Fathers intended.

New comment by xenophonf in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

xenophonf — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:20:19 +0000

This is a gift to reactionary gerrymandering and voting restriction efforts, along with things like yesterday's FBI raid of an Ohio voting rights organization.

https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2026-06-12/ohi...

Representative Joyce Beatty is from Ohio and was instrumental in stopping Trump from illegally renaming the Kennedy Center.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/06/kennedy-center-b...

New comment by xenophonf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

xenophonf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:26:04 +0000

> quite annoying

It's also quite stable, which you'd think more people would prize given the recent and on-going supply chain attacks.

New comment by xenophonf in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

xenophonf — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:02:38 +0000

This commit looks... odd.

https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog/commit/36434f93f03dec1d7d4...

I want to have as much fun as the next developer, but that makes me worry, what with supply chain attacks in the news and all.

New comment by xenophonf in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

xenophonf — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:06:13 +0000

It took me way too long to realize you were referring to r/localllama.

AI and the Psychology of Cognitive Surrender

xenophonf — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:37:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202606/ai-and-the-psychology-of-cognitive-surrender

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382223

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

The Two Doors

xenophonf — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:54:01 +0000

Article URL: https://pilgrima.ge/p/the-two-doors

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343137

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by xenophonf in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

xenophonf — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:46:05 +0000

> most people who work in tech do not make good instructors

Guilty as charged, despite my best attempts to the contrary. I wish I had time to go back to school for some kind of teaching degree. Is there something else I can do or read or watch or something to make me a better teacher? Knowledge transfer is probably the most important aspect of my job.

New comment by xenophonf in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

xenophonf — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:34:43 +0000

Simon writes:

> To [switch users], /bin/login would need to be setuid, and it certainly isn’t on Linux... _Perhaps_ Solaris (or SolarOS) is different?

The login command is indeed setuid root on SunOS 4, to which the movie pays homage, as its documented behavior is "to [permanently] change from one userID to another". The su command explicitly means "temporarily switch to a new user ID".

Here are copies of the SunOS 4 manual pages, if you're curious:

http://www.typewritten.org/Manual/Sun/SunOS/4.0.2/man1/login...

http://www.typewritten.org/Manual/Sun/SunOS/4.0.2/man1/su.ht...

And here's a link to the relevant bits of the SunOS 4.1.3 source code:

https://github.com/Arquivotheca/SunOS-4.1.3/blob/2e8a93c3946...

New comment by xenophonf in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

xenophonf — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:43:52 +0000

Can someone explain how the ChatGPT Codex Connector works in concert with GitHub access controls? I am not sure how to add it to my GitHub repositories, accounts, or organizations without potentially giving any OpenAI customer access.

New comment by xenophonf in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

xenophonf — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:37:19 +0000

I'm amused at how thoroughly Google adopted Microsoft's playbook. Chrome supplanted Internet Explorer by embracing the open web. But then Google immediately started on extensions, and now they're trying to extinguish the open web with nonsense like Cloud Fraud Defense. All very smoothly done. I mean, people are actually _asking_ for this junk. I'm impressed.