Hacker News: zilti

New comment by zilti in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

zilti — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 19:40:57 +0000

> (they no longer teach that in "computers" at school, by the way, iPads only)

I swear, some decisionmakers deserve a brutal punch in their face. I don't even care anymore about being civil in such matters.

New comment by zilti in "Show HN: Community-written abstracts for research papers"

zilti — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:37:08 +0000

Has that abomination of a title also been generated by one?

New comment by zilti in "Hitting every branch on the way down"

zilti — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:30:34 +0000

"But it is littering the commit history with useless commits!" is what I always hear

New comment by zilti in "Only9Fans"

zilti — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:26:02 +0000

Angry fruit salad

New comment by zilti in "Only9Fans"

zilti — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:24:02 +0000

That hasn't seen so much as even a patch in years

New comment by zilti in "Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify"

zilti — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:59:23 +0000

Just set up a simple VPN with nginx and upload the page, done. Stop overthinking and overengineering everthing to smithereens.

New comment by zilti in "TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales"

zilti — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:36:42 +0000

We have something similar in Switzerland called FairTiq

New comment by zilti in "World Wide Web (1991)"

zilti — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:19:21 +0000

Technically, there was DSSSL already though. It is missed dearly.

New comment by zilti in "Opengist: Open-source alternative to GitHub Gists"

zilti — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 08:13:44 +0000

I guess one neat feature is that every gist is actually also a git repository, but that's about it...

New comment by zilti in "Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager"

zilti — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 08:10:31 +0000

That is literally a bash oneliner - pipe curl into tar, and have it unpack to ~/.local/bin.

New comment by zilti in "Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager"

zilti — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 08:10:14 +0000

That is literally a bash oneliner - pipe curl into tar, and have it unpack to ~/.local/bin.

New comment by zilti in "Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager"

zilti — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:43:09 +0000

Or Guix

New comment by zilti in "Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager"

zilti — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:42:38 +0000

Thank goodness, someone with a decent distro

New comment by zilti in "Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager"

zilti — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:41:00 +0000

Ah yes, when using your package manager is too cumbersome...

New comment by zilti in "Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager"

zilti — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:38:49 +0000

We're doomed.

New comment by zilti in "The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language"

zilti — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:33:32 +0000

>Demotic then mixed with the greek alphabet by the Coptic community into the Coptic script!

At that point, it already was a looong time since the greek alphabet evolved - via a few other cultures in between - from hieroglyphs, so it went back to egypt the long way around

New comment by zilti in "No one buys books"

zilti — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 02:01:50 +0000

At least as long as you manage to find an old, not-yet-mutilated version...

New comment by zilti in "No one buys books"

zilti — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:40:22 +0000

Most Harry Potter fans have never even read the books, but just seen the films, further supporting your argument

New comment by zilti in "Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to break copyright law"

zilti — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:47:56 +0000

You need a really warped view of reality to see these three phrases as "meant to neg the person into thinking they are worth less"

New comment by zilti in "LLM-powered automated software testing"

zilti — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:45:24 +0000

So, generative testing.