Hacker News: xigoi

New comment by xigoi in "Incident with Github.com"

xigoi — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:44:14 +0000

Even my faculty, which otherwise licks Microsoft’s boots at all opportunities, uses self-hosted GitLab.

New comment by xigoi in "Every fucking website: 2026 edition"

xigoi — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:27:51 +0000

I still haven’t seen anyone point out how this is more dangerous than running an executable that you obtain any other way.

New comment by xigoi in "Why do we assume everyone should be working?"

xigoi — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:43:59 +0000

When my girlfriend was conversing with an LLM in Czech, it often made grammatical mistakes or even switched into a different Slavic language (including ones that use the Cyrillic alphabet!).

New comment by xigoi in "I hate packaging my software for Linux"

xigoi — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:37:00 +0000

In order to be packaged, it first needs to become popular, so this is a chicken-and-egg problem.

New comment by xigoi in "Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML"

xigoi — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:28:38 +0000

Being able to read a website at night without blinding yourself is a part of accessibility.

New comment by xigoi in "Why do we assume everyone should be working?"

xigoi — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:12:51 +0000

In non-English languages, LLMs seem to make typos way more often than humans.

New comment by xigoi in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

xigoi — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:36:42 +0000

Open source would mean publishing the training data and code.

New comment by xigoi in "Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language"

xigoi — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:42:36 +0000

> Running a GC takes time, pollutes the cache, and is often run at an unpredictable time.

Isn’t this only the case for tracing garbage collectors? (And even then, not all of them are stop-the-world.)

New comment by xigoi in "Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)"

xigoi — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:44:53 +0000

> What does weight affect?

Obesity is strongly associated with several health problems.

New comment by xigoi in "OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record"

xigoi — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:15:59 +0000

Every physical gift card I’ve seen had an expiry date.

New comment by xigoi in "Manual: •.,:;…!?·"

xigoi — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:28:21 +0000

But then there would be no space for the extremely useful Copilot key!

New comment by xigoi in "Clockwise/Spiral Rule (1994)"

xigoi — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:42:44 +0000

> Especially if you use square brackets for generic instantiation, so your example is semantically close to std::array of C++.

Yes, it is like that.

New comment by xigoi in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

xigoi — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:06:23 +0000

I don’t use AI for ethical reasons. I don’t want to support companies that are destroying the planet and inflating hardware prices.

New comment by xigoi in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

xigoi — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:59:28 +0000

You can have that without writing them in C or C++.

New comment by xigoi in "Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era"

xigoi — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:55:11 +0000

A Microslop employee won’t get promoted for that.

New comment by xigoi in "Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions"

xigoi — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:10:34 +0000

F-Droid makes it much easier to discover apps.

New comment by xigoi in "Clockwise/Spiral Rule (1994)"

xigoi — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:07:25 +0000

Or even

  var str: array[10, ptr char]

New comment by xigoi in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

xigoi — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:53:15 +0000

> The lack of digital evidence is not proof of innocence.

A claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

New comment by xigoi in "Em dashes are amazing"

xigoi — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:05:51 +0000

Where do you think the bots learned it from?

New comment by xigoi in "git's –end-of-options Flag"

xigoi — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:59:39 +0000

On Linux, the en dash is typed with `[Compose]--.` and the em dash with `[Compose]---`.