Hacker News: zeendo

New comment by zeendo in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

zeendo — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:27:07 +0000

Because Anthropic, at least, gives you the option to opt out of training? I think Google and OpenAI do, too.

New comment by zeendo in "Show HN: The Mog Programming Language"

zeendo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:00:57 +0000

I'm asking this with probably half curiosity and half rhetorical intent but....why even give a warning?

New comment by zeendo in "Beyond agentic coding"

zeendo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:22:17 +0000

Her blog has lots of quality content that's been featured on HN several times - well before AI writing became a thing. Not that you should necessarily know that but just strong evidence that your intuitions here are way off on so many levels.

Your entire take is super strange and presumptive.

New comment by zeendo in "The RCE that AMD won't fix"

zeendo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:03:06 +0000

Are you being willfully obtuse or do you actually believe that's true of everyone? There are so many reasons why someone might have a laptop in such a situation but not be able to use a hotspot on their phone - it's not even worth listing them.

New comment by zeendo in "The RCE that AMD won't fix"

zeendo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:57:08 +0000

This comes down to intentions versus results. Viewed through the lens of results the comment you're replying to is still correct: The result is incompetence. I'd argue that's the only lens that matters when you're on the receiving end of such work.

New comment by zeendo in "OrangePi 6 Plus Review"

zeendo — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:29:40 +0000

Yeah. I mean, I still hold out hope that enough of the driver support will get mainlined or just rolled into some distro I want to use that I can use it for _something_ but right now it just sits unplugged on my desk. :(

Last I checked BredOS was close to having a reasonable experience with it but I haven't had the time to poke at it again. Personally I'd prefer an Arch derivative like BredOS or FreeBSD. I don't really want to buy a GPU to put in it but it seems like that's my only option at the moment?

New comment by zeendo in "Can I start using Wayland in 2026?"

zeendo — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:27:21 +0000

Embarrassingly, I don't really understand Hyper. I have a Moonlander and AFAICT the firmware (or at least the Oryx configurator tool they provide) says Hyper is just a combination of the basic 4 - Alt+Shift+Ctrl+Meta. I'm pretty sure that's at least not historically true... but I don't have a whole lot of use for it so I haven't tried to wrap my head around what's going on there.

I imagine there's a "real" hyper modifier but I haven't attempted to use it. For my sake, since I use GUI Emacs I find that I have enough mappings without it (I'm also a dirty evil user). A friend makes extensive use of it because he primarily uses Emacs via a terminal and Hyper avoids all other terminal keybind conflicts he might otherwise run into. But, he uses X11, too so no PGTK Emacs even if/when he does run GUI Emacs.

I'll try to dig into this some though and see if I can (a) determine a way to map a "true" hyper to my keyboard and (b) use it in PGTK Emacs and follow up with you.

New comment by zeendo in "Can I start using Wayland in 2026?"

zeendo — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:38:28 +0000

Glad to see a good write-up of Wayland issues. My day-to-day doesn't run into the vast majority of these problems so when I see people melt down over a single trivial seeming Wayland choice about window coordinates then I have a really hard time relating.

This post is a lot more relatable.

As an aside, regarding remote Emacs - I can attest that Waypipe does indeed work fantastically for this. Better than X11 ever worked over the network for me.

I, too, suffer from the pgtk is slow issue (only a 4k monitor though it's mitigable and manageable for me)

New comment by zeendo in "OrangePi 6 Plus Review"

zeendo — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:38:02 +0000

The Orion? God mine is so annoying. What a waste of money.

New comment by zeendo in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

zeendo — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:20:28 +0000

Not who you're replying to, but no - this isn't the same. You can't share that album with others. Or have others collaborate on it.

You can do this with a few scripts and the Immich API - but that's not something the average user will do.

New comment by zeendo in "C100 Developer Terminal"

zeendo — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:35:25 +0000

Agreed. The weird shilling of this nonsense is exhausting.

New comment by zeendo in "Omittable – Solving the Ambiguity of Null"

zeendo — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:38:22 +0000

Can you not have an Optional> in Java? That would allow you to represent explicit null with Optional, wouldn't it?

New comment by zeendo in "Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)"

zeendo — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:09:52 +0000

This style of engagement is so off-putting.

New comment by zeendo in "Git-Annex"

zeendo — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:00:08 +0000

As a full time Haskell developer, I have a similar aversion to Haskell-based distro packages which aren't statically linked.

There ARE statically linked Haskell packages in the AUR so it's at least feasible. I haven't even dug into the conversations around why packagers are insisting on dynamic linking of distro packages - I just avoid them for the same reasons you mention.

I can't really speak confidently to why it is exactly - I can only guess. Clearly dynamic linking makes sense in a lot of cases for internal application distribution - which is where Haskell is often used - so maybe people are incorrectly projecting that onto distro packages?

New comment by zeendo in "That viral video of a 'deactivated' Tesla Cybertruck is a fake"

zeendo — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:31:02 +0000

You mean X users, right?

New comment by zeendo in "You might not need tmux"

zeendo — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:51:55 +0000

These seem nice but honestly feel like overkill for the most basic (and probably most typical?) use of tmux and similar.

I generally have a single session I care about per machine (rather than per project) and wezterm's built-in multiplexing handles this out of the box.

New comment by zeendo in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"

zeendo — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:50:05 +0000

If you can't install screen then I'm surprised you can install tmux - BUT if you can install wezterm then it solves this need nicely by adding sessions + multiplexing to the terminal emulator itself.

https://wezterm.org/multiplexing.html

New comment by zeendo in "You might not need tmux"

zeendo — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:48:47 +0000

Yeah - it seems like this is a pretty undersold feature of WezTerm. It has completely eliminated tmux and Zellij for me outside of pairing with others.

New comment by zeendo in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"

zeendo — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:47:50 +0000

Run WezTerm on the server, too. https://wezterm.org/multiplexing.html

New comment by zeendo in "XSLT: A Precision Tool for the Future of Structured Transformation"

zeendo — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:06:15 +0000

I used XSLT and Active Server Pages to build my school district's website back around 2000 - each school had their own page and each teacher had their own, too - teachers could modify their pages directly in the browser.

I forget the _exact_ mechanics but it was definitely all done in Internet Explorer with XML as the actual content per-page and transformation was done using XSLT.

Interesting but I definitely hate XSLT as a result. Considering this was my first real programming job, it's surprising I continued.