Hacker News: xenophonf

New comment by xenophonf in "'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone"

xenophonf — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:15:28 +0000

Moral Orel is part homage and part satire of Davey and Goliath, but also more than that. It's hilarious, disturbing, and poignant, all at once. Case in point, the "I'm a church" scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyNJ03l82sw

If you're an Aimee Mann fan, you might enjoy this Moral Orel mashup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OokJP_c2cCw

New comment by xenophonf in "'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone"

xenophonf — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:52:20 +0000

How appropriate that "Rose Bud" makes an appearance in _A Grand Day Out_!

New comment by xenophonf in "Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend"

xenophonf — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:39:35 +0000

> Strong static typing is an absolute must for building anything bigger than trivial systems

I was under the impression that TypeScript is only statically typed, not strongly typed, too. Am I mistaken?

New comment by xenophonf in "On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted"

xenophonf — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:29:43 +0000

It's hardly a rant. Not once did either author question the birthright of the Neovim developers in Russian.

I think more software engineers should worry about this stuff. If I had to teach a bunch of juniors in a computer science or software engineering degree program, I'd make them read this as a case study alongside good ol' Therac-25. The software we create is _useful_. How it affects other people _matters_. We ought to care about that no matter what the legal disclaimers say.

New comment by xenophonf in "I don't want to read what you didn't write"

xenophonf — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 02:02:29 +0000

E. M. Forster wrote that story in 1909.

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/th...

New comment by xenophonf in "Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)"

xenophonf — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:50:12 +0000

That was so much fun!

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.