Hacker News: xz18r

New comment by xz18r in "Tells of a Slop UI"

xz18r — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:01:17 +0000

Ironically, your portfolio website gave me some 'slop vibes'. Not saying in any way that it was made with AI, maybe seeing monospace fonts where none are necessary triggers me now.

https://pranavdesai.vercel.app/

Roko's Basilisk

xz18r — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:44:15 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752968

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by xz18r in "Show HN: Syq – copy files between machines fast (better than rsync)"

xz18r — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:24:04 +0000

You live up to your username!

New comment by xz18r in "Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage"

xz18r — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:38:02 +0000

I'm Belgian, this has been public knowledge since the guy was born. At least it was dealt with a lot more amicably than the other case (Delphine Boël being the child of King (then Prince) Albert II), which was decades of bad lying and denial.

We Are Living in a 'ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic'

xz18r — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:19:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/we-are-living-in-a-chatgpt-flyer-pandemic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843552

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

New comment by xz18r in "Writing Postcards with a 3D Printer"

xz18r — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:33:28 +0000

Not a 3D printer but really cool video by Stuff Made Here explaining how he tried to make 'realistic' handwritten forgeries with a pen plotter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQO2XTP7QDw

New comment by xz18r in "The Raku Foundation is born"

xz18r — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:41:01 +0000

The link isn't working for me - anyone else?

New comment by xz18r in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

xz18r — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:14:24 +0000

The blog writer is in Belgium, just like myself. Can confirm that there are almost no brick and mortar toy stores left in my area (which from what I can tell is the opposite side of Flanders).

The Future of Obsidian Plugins

xz18r — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:45:54 +0000

Article URL: https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109970

Points: 452

# Comments: 177

New comment by xz18r in "Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler"

xz18r — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:34:25 +0000

Given it's built by Matz, how realistic is it that this becomes a core part of Ruby? And if so, how threatening is that for Crystal?

Raising a few $thousand to keep version control magical

xz18r — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:19:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/5555

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716980

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by xz18r in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

xz18r — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:10:14 +0000

I see yabai mentioned, definitely check out Aerospace. Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a margin. It just works (tm)

https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace

New comment by xz18r in "Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026"

xz18r — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:01:28 +0000

Which will be released in full first, the X-files or the Epstein files?

Nim 2.2.8

xz18r — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:34:55 +0000

Article URL: https://nim-lang.org//blog/2026/02/23/nim-228.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120940

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by xz18r in "LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions"

xz18r — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:33:06 +0000

I wrote some automation scripts that are not triggered via browser extensions (e.g., open all my sales colleagues’ profiles and like their 4 most recent unliked posts to boost their SSI[1], which is probably the most ‘innocent’ of my use-cases). It has random sleep intervals. I’ve done this for years and never faced a ban hammer.

Wonder if with things like Moltbot taking the scene, a form of “undetectable LinkedIn automation” will start to manifest. At some point they won’t be able to distinguish between a chronically online seller adding 100 people per day with personalized messages, or an AI doing it with the same mannerisms.

[1] https://business.linkedin.com/sales-solutions/social-selling...

New comment by xz18r in "Show HN: Spacelist, a TUI for Aerospace window manager"

xz18r — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:57:55 +0000

I've been using Aerospace for the past couple of days, and I love it. This will be neat to have if you have a couple of dozen workspaces open at all times (which I don't, but appreciate it nonetheless).

New comment by xz18r in "Codeberg is down"

xz18r — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:59:46 +0000

I had a few updates failing because parts of it are hosted on Codeberg. If anything, this shows that people are moving there.

New comment by xz18r in "Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good"

xz18r — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:09:01 +0000

I use git (with Working Copy) for sync for this exact use-case.

Nim 2.2.6

xz18r — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:15:12 +0000

Article URL: https://nim-lang.org//blog/2025/10/31/nim-226.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45772224

Points: 164

# Comments: 88

New comment by xz18r in "First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself"

xz18r — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 08:46:25 +0000

Truly a special gem of a channel.