HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

zenethian

384 karma · joined July 26, 2018

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/zenethian; my proof: https://keybase.io/zenethian/sigs/nzvX8hbHms88Z76nGX9SIyyJxk0RRqnJeI0BOXB3HlM ]
submissionscomments
zenethian··on Mathematicians discover prime number pattern in fractal chaos
I wonder, has anyone tried looking for the pattern for prime numbers in a non-base-10 representation? I've always had a hunch that maybe the chaos only seems random because our representation of numbers could be misaligned with the pattern.
zenethian··on I do not want to be a programmer anymore
Yeah, I share this same sentiment about the author. His inability to see why his wife was actually upset by his behavior is astounding. I'm going to wager that she very much meant to say that she thought he would be incessantly argumentative with the AI as well, and when he wasn't it surprised her because she suddenly realized that it was only her that he was like that with and it became very personal for her.
zenethian··on I do not want to be a programmer anymore
It sounds less like that you "give in" to AI and more like that you have some weird opposition to your wife's ideas and always believe her to be wrong.

I stopped reading after the first paragraph or two.

zenethian··on Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
1st amendment is irrelevant here: Apple doesn't have to abide by it at all, as Apple is not the government.
zenethian··on Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
I mean, it's still a valid point even if it's a fixation. The enshittification of the web to work "only on Chrome" while Chrome is controlled by an advertising company whose motivation is to sell ads with it over providing a good consumer-oriented product is a problem.
zenethian··on No Figma, I won't fit in your little box
How does this compare to something like Storybook?
zenethian··on Why we develop EloqDB mainly in C++
Unfortunate that this blog can't be read on mobile without considerable pain. Seems fitting, though, I guess.
zenethian··on Burnend alive inside a Tesla as rescuers fail to open the car's door
Article deleted?
zenethian··on About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5
I'm reading this now on a Pixel 2XL. It runs reasonably well, though I've currently got a few too many apps running in the background crapping it up. It's asinine that Google dropped support for this model so quickly, and I really have no faith in them at all anymore. 7 years is what it should have always been.
zenethian··on The life-changing Sarah Paine framework
Did anyone else find this article particularly difficult to read? There's so many (breakouts) and things "in quotes" that it was really hard to follow.
zenethian··on Show HN: Vapor – A notepad that fades away as you type
I can't seem to enter spaces at all.
zenethian··on Say Bye with JavaScript Beacon
You're a hero, and I love your extension. Thank you for all of your hard work.
zenethian··on It’s not wrong that (for HN) “[facepalm emoji]”.length == 36
You should read the article...
zenethian··on Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent
Fish shell has this capability and you don't need any special terminal.

I imagine there are zsh scripts and/or omz plugins for it too.

iTerm2 on Mac has extra integrations also.

zenethian··on Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent
I tried Warp once. Well, tried to install it. But when I ran it, instead of giving me a terminal, it showed me a login prompt. Perhaps I mistakenly downloaded a login prompt app instead of a terminal app? ;) Either way, I promptly uninstalled it as I needed a terminal app and not whatever that was.
zenethian··on Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub
> GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon.

Just in case you thought that Microsoft considered GitHub to be a development tool.

zenethian··on Docker for Developers: Essential Commands in One Cheatsheet
I kinda wish that it was an actual printable cheatsheet and not just a list of commands on a website that I have to bookmark and hope it's still up in a year.
zenethian··on All the Women I Met in Jail
Just in case it's taken down, retracted, lost, slashdotted, etc.
zenethian··on Notion Mail is out
Yeah, I'm moving away from it too. I loved everything about Notion 3 years ago and nothing about it now.

I love Obsidian and I really wish there was an enterprise-level hosting option for it.

zenethian··on We are still using 88x31 buttons
Ha, opened the comments to say exactly this. Truly infuriating.
zenethian··on A look at /e/OS on tablet hardware
The names of Android OSes are always so cryptic. It's quite off putting.
zenethian··on Shef
This seems mildly interesting but I'm not installing a bunch of Golang tools just to try it.
zenethian··on The swallow's flight, cardinal's color, mockingbird's song, hummingbird's nature
It really makes me wonder why humans never developed the ability to see UV light when so many other creatures in nature can.
zenethian··on What's New in Emacs 30.1?
I wish that websites would stop using "justified" text layouts. It reads particularly awful on mobile,and is hard to read in general.
zenethian··on Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
Thanks for clarifying and the resources!
zenethian··on Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
I don't understand why my question got reported. I didn't say that Matrix is bad or shouldn't be funded. Even if it's just to compete with other protocols, that alone would make it worth funding. I just can't find enough information to actually understand it's angle. Thanks for those who replied to help explain it. :)
zenethian··on Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
I still don't understand why Matrix exists. It feels like a solution looking for a problem to solve. I must be missing something? Can someone explain the gap it closes?
zenethian··on A password generator inspired by the Xkcd password spec
Yeah, the code looks like it was written by a Java programmer writing Python code.
zenethian··on When your last name is Null, nothing works
The number of times that a website rejects my first name because it has a hyphen in it, even in 2025, is astounding. I get told all manner of things by support staff, like "just leave it out" as if it's just not an important part of my name or anything.
zenethian··on I ditched my Pi-hole but still block ads with NextDNS
Mine craps out every 2-3 months for no apparent reason. It doesn't crash, there's no errors in the logs, it just stops responding. I restart the service and it's fine. No idea why. I setup a cron to restart it weekly just to keep it from being a problem.
← PreviousPage 3 of 5Next →