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vpribish··on Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
you earned my upvote simple with the name "Times New Bastard". goddamn
vpribish··on The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Glad you did. It’s just reasonable behavior to me
vpribish··on Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails
this is the rock solid truth
vpribish··on Halt and Catch Fire
the terror was excellent! glad it's continuing
vpribish··on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
almost as if "England" is more than one person!
vpribish··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Microsoft is unforgivable. So much time and so much money and they made the world worse whenever they could make a buck. They need to be broken up.
vpribish··on Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app
Nah. That’s not how it looks once you start working with it. Its code-equivalent for sure. You probably would not keep your plan files or the working chats though.
vpribish··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
fuck microsoft. it absolutely is the big badness of that monster. microsoft's sick monopoly has dragged humanity back by years from where we should be. every hour wasted, every email lost, every skilled career sacrificed to their garbage is the future lost.
vpribish··on Statecharts: hierarchical state machines
This could have been represented in a yo-dawg meme.

i gave it some time, but that's not a good site. it takes forever to explain simple things and never gets to any important and novel idea. i gave up when it turned out that it's just a tree of state machines - for some reason called a 'chart' despite not apparently having any chart-like property.

ugh. it's just a doodling exercise for architecture astronauts. OMG it actually, unironically references UML and has Statechart XML!

flipping the bit on this one

vpribish··on Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)
good hilights! but - and i mean this kindly - you are starting to talk like an AI: "overshadowing real wins" "There's real momentum happening".
vpribish··on Coding agents could make free software matter again
right. because free software stopped mattering. what an asshole headline
vpribish··on Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
nice
vpribish··on Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments
HAHAHA - I like me. but claude (sonnet 4.6) seemed like it was cheerleading a bit
vpribish··on A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
and that's a faux pas, for sure
vpribish··on A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
SNORT
vpribish··on A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
competitive perfumed calligraphic etiquette -- of your grandfathers!
vpribish··on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
spotify's recommendation systems really work for me to discover new music i will enjoy, not just more music like what I already listen to
vpribish··on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
maybe you did, but I did not. my attention is valuable to me and I do not pay people to waste it. i had tapes, CDs, mp3s, and paid spotify. this is a well-proven market.
vpribish··on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
they funnelled money and attention to joe rogan. I hate them - not as much as i hate microsoft or oracle - maybe about as much as adobe. but i'm using them because i have not found an acceptable alternative ... yet.
vpribish··on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
IF this is happening it's gotta be a mistake. Ads on paid spotify will be the end of my subscription.
vpribish··on Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks
I thought he was being tactfully humorous, yous daves. And you counted that as an insult?! jesus.
vpribish··on Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks
pray tell, where do we learn this simple truth?
vpribish··on The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now
No popcorn? This needs popcorn
vpribish··on Someone needs to go to jail
yikes
vpribish··on Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
dang, we appreciate all you do. thanks
vpribish··on Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
This has just happened - i'm giving Ars a bit more time to come out with a piece examining the situation. They're a pretty good operation, I think. but it they don't...
vpribish··on If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?
Mostly that’s going to be noise. But in some rare occasion I could see it being useful. So my unhelpful notion is that we might need a new thing - leave the commit message as a meaning- dense human-to-human message, and also have a development process flight-recorder log stored alongside. Storage is basically free so why not?
vpribish··on First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study
Interesting - they had done surgery before, but not with stem cells. 6 babies operated on, results were very good and they are recruiting for phase 2
vpribish··on IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL
zerohedge is absolute trash, do not look to it for information.
vpribish··on Sizing chaos
“BMI fails to represent the 'fat' levels improperly” - what is that supposed to say. I’m just done trying to understand things that the writer didn’t even read.
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