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internet_points··on Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language
llm-optimized in reality would mean you asked and answered millions of stackoverflow questions about it and then waited a year or so for all the major models to retrain.
internet_points··on Xfce is great
I use Arc-Dark with elementary-xfce-dark icons (but have a script to switch to toggle dark-mode, where light mode is Adwaita with elementary-xfce icons).

TBH I typically run things fullscreen, so the only part of xfce I normally "see" is a thin task bar at the bottom with open windows and clock and such. Well, except for when I use Thunar, which is a nice enough file manager.

internet_points··on Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)
I don't use emacs in termux; I use organice (though considering switching to orgro). It supports all the features I need on mobile.
internet_points··on Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)
I think the implementation challenge is the reasoning behind https://karl-voit.at/2021/11/27/orgdown/ So you can say "my org-mode parser implements orgdown level 1" meaning it has the basics. I think it sounds like a pretty good idea, though it's kind of a third party effort – it'd be better if there were some officially sanctioned compatibility level standard from the orgmode authors.
internet_points··on Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)
https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download is handy for images (org-mode shows images just fine).

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/copy-as-org-mode/ lets you copy formatted text from web pages to org-mode format

pdf's – do you mean downloading them? I mean, emacs can view pdf's, your computer can store them as files, making a clickable link to ./sicp.pdf from org-mode is just [[./sicp.pdf]] (or, while you're reading the pdf or browsing it in dired, hit your key for org-store-link and then in org-mode hit the key for org-insert-link).

internet_points··on Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)
llm's handle org-mode just fine in my experience. It's not like there's a dearth of org-mode to train on on the internet.
internet_points··on Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism
Highly recommend the book "Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean" by Morten Strøksnes if you're interested in old sharks, small boats or deep oceans https://bookshop.org/p/books/shark-drunk-the-art-of-catching...
internet_points··on Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
I find it horrifying (though not surprising) how many people can assume that just because you express some level of support for a group, you are complicit in all actions taken by that group.

In the extreme, that sort of view makes it impossible to have criminal lawyers. (And not far below that extreme, we have people using all their power to go after independent judges and lawyers with every extrajudicial tool at their disposal, legal system be damned.)

The nuance between speech and action was one of the many casualties of social media. I wonder if, back in the 90's, people would get arrested for holding "FREE KEVIN MITNICK" posters, if we'd had two decades of social media before it.

internet_points··on Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
well, it's not a high bar – these days anyone who says "I support Palestine Action" or "she was murdered by ICE" is called a terrorist sympathizer
internet_points··on The Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14
Found another (ancient) one: https://ku-fpg.github.io/software/hood/
internet_points··on IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
and the tech behind the original google translate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_alignment_models
internet_points··on Reading Without Limits or Expectations
For me, just writing down the books I read into a list seems to have made me read more. (Well, I can't be sure, since I don't have a log from before I started logging, but I certainly feel like I'm spending more evenings reading!)

I don't want to "gamify" reading, that would make me choose short/easy reads. I love those challenging reads that stay with you, change you, give you new perspectives. (And I also love obsessive fun reads.) But I think often I don't read because I don't feel like I'm being "productive". So it's not lack of motivation, but this nagging feeling of "wasting time" (and so I'd open my laptop and click around aimlessly online as if that was more productive). However, simply being able to change an item in my org-mode file from "TODO" to "DONE" has mostly taken away that feeling, now I both read from enjoyment and don't feel like I should be doing something on the computer.

internet_points··on The Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14
Well, there has always been some very bare-bones debugging support in ghci (you can set breakpoints, step and inspect variables), but only for interpreted code, and zero debug adapter protocol integration or such things https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/latest/docs/users_guide/gh... I've never managed to get any use out of it.

This new `hdb` however looks like the real thing. I like that they added a `DebugView` class for debug-specific pretty-printing. Even has a nice web page :) https://well-typed.github.io/haskell-debugger/

internet_points··on Gnome dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger
someone opened an issue.

must be a slow news day.

internet_points··on Selective Applicative Functors
https://chrispenner.ca/posts/expressiveness-spectrum has some good examples showing why one might want selectives (then continues to explore arrows https://chrispenner.ca/posts/arrow-effects )
internet_points··on Linux is good now
now if only Thinkpads were good again :-/
internet_points··on I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
while a blog is like the simplest thing you can self-host apart from static sites
internet_points··on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks
At least better than completely disallowing it I guess.
internet_points··on Please just try HTMX
if you require a backend/frontend split, you're maybe not in the htmx use case

if you can imagine having just one "end", maybe you can use htmx

internet_points··on Please just try HTMX
https://www.monash.edu/business/marketing/marketing-dictiona...
internet_points··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
how do you deal with spam/abuse?
internet_points··on No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
To me it sounds like a reasonable "AI-conservative" position.

(It's weird how people can be so anti-anti-AI, but then when someone takes a middle position, suddenly that's wrong too.)

internet_points··on Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter (non-ironically!)
internet_points··on Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
I think me and my partner have read too many fantasy books to use an app named "Coupling" without chuckling :)
internet_points··on Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
Idunno, languagetransfer is a huge success, and is super calm and non-gamified. Or, it's a huge success in that it helps a lot of people learn languages, maybe not so huge success in SV/YC terms =P
internet_points··on McDonald's removes AI-generated ad after backlash
Hey, i used em-dashes long before they got appropriated by AI!

How sad, what it does to us.

internet_points··on McDonald's removes AI-generated ad after backlash
It's not just a reflex, it's disappointment

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art said it better than I ever could

internet_points··on Is it a bubble?
Yeah, can someone explain how you get rich by making the previously-employed workforce unable to afford your products?
internet_points··on VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III
how's the AI (as in computer opponent) these days? last time I played vcmi, that was my only gripe – the bots were so stupid.
internet_points··on Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
there is also https://gitlab.com/dto/cell-mode and https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/ses.html... and https://github.com/ShuguangSun/ess-view-data

though I tend to stick with org

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