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by nathell 4mo ago
Posting stuff that has been around for years makes it possible for today’s lucky 10,000 [0] to learn about that stuff. [0]: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by nathell 5mo ago
It appears that Datahike [0] is a Datomic workalike that supports branching. I haven’t tried it out myself (yet), but the documentation suggests it’s possible [1]. That said, I’m adding xitdb to the list of tech to try out. Thank you for bu
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How can I keep from singing?(blog.danieljanus.pl)
105 points by nathell 5mo ago|38 comments
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by nathell 5mo ago
Gentle reminder about this excerpt from HN Guidelines: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
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How can I keep from singing?(blog.danieljanus.pl)
1 points by nathell 5mo ago|0 comments
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Remembering Piotr "Chastell" Szotkowski(pragtob.wordpress.com)
2 points by nathell 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nathell 5mo ago
Mine is ‘Anchorhead’ (1998), by Michael Gentry. I think it’s actually my favourite game of all time, of all genres. I’ve played the old, text-only, Z-code version back in high school, around 1999, and the experience was so vivid and immersi
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by nathell 5mo ago
Ligatures in the retro terminal kill the illusion.
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by nathell 5mo ago
Joel Spolsky in 2000 [0]: „Users can’t read anything, and if they could, they wouldn’t want to.” [0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-peop...
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by nathell 5mo ago
I don’t think so, at least not in this particular case. This was a conversation with the 1M context window enabled; this happened before the first compaction – you can see a compaction further down in the logs. My theory is that Claude conf
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by nathell 5mo ago
I’ve hit this! In my otherwise wildly successful attempt to translate a Haskell codebase to Clojure [0], Claude at one point asks: [Claude:] Shall I commit this progress? [some details about what has been accomplished follow] Then several b
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Major Polish crypto exchange presumed insolvent(money.pl)
2 points by nathell 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nathell 5mo ago
The post is just a prelude to a 10-part article, most of which is not yet released (but will be shortly). Judging by the table of contents, the things you expected will be elaborated on in subsequent parts.
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by nathell 5mo ago
Can attest to this. I picked up singing 4 years ago (I’m 42 now), starting from nothing, and I’ve been taking regular lessons. I still suck. But I suck slightly less than I did when I was starting, and what motivates me is the sheer joy tha
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by nathell 5mo ago
HN’s guidelines say ‘Don’t editorialize’. The original title here is ‘[BUG] Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows’, which is more specific and less clickbaity.
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Translating non-trivial codebases with Claude(blog.danieljanus.pl)
3 points by nathell 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nathell 6mo ago
Can we ban April’s Fools?
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Human.json(nedbatchelder.com)
1 points by nathell 6mo ago|0 comments
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Translating non-trivial codebases with Claude(blog.danieljanus.pl)
4 points by nathell 6mo ago|0 comments
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Translating non-trivial codebases with Claude (C++ to Java, Haskell to Clojure)(blog.danieljanus.pl)
3 points by nathell 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nathell 6mo ago
I almost overlooked this, and then when I didn’t, I almost dismissed this as Yet Another Linux Distro with a custom skin. But no, there’s novelty and exploration in here. There’s attempt to venture off the local maximum. This is a breath of
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by nathell 6mo ago
No. Even if it’s a central piece of infrastructure, any and all maintainership effort is still a token of good will of the maintainer – and needs to be appreciated, rather than expected. If you need stronger guarantees, pay someone to deliv
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by nathell 6mo ago
Congratulations on forking! Always remember that open-source is an author’s gift to the world, and the author doesn’t owe anything to anyone. Thus, if you need a feature that for whatever reason can’t or won’t go upstream, forking is just a
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by nathell 6mo ago
The title kind of implies that silent sudo passwords have been a part of Ubuntu for the last 46 years.
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Web of Documents (2019)(blog.danieljanus.pl)
2 points by nathell 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nathell 7mo ago
Counterpoint: in December, a Polish MP [0] has vibe-coded an interpreter [1] of a 1959 Polish programming language, feeding it the available documentation. _That,_ at least, is unlikely to have appeared in the model’s training data. [0]: h
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by nathell 8mo ago
It’s ironic that the very site in question, despite claiming XHTML compliance, is served as text/html instead of application/xhtml+xml, so the browser will never parse it as XML. To quote [0]: > All those “Valid XHTML 1.0!” lin
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by nathell 8mo ago
This resonates with my own anxiety: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2025/12/27/llms/
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Is Polish Scrabble the most difficult in the world? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nathell 8mo ago|0 comments
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by nathell 8mo ago
Well there's aalib and libcaca, but I'm not sure about their fidelity compared to this.

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