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I guess HABIT was the expected one here.

Could I have the source code so I can plug in the Polish word list? It would make a great training app for Scrabble.

Nice! A couple weeks ago I made a handwritten REPL for the reMarkable 2 [0] – this could serve as a better base as it apparently sidesteps xochitl.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374552

Another recent Clojure dialect written in Go: [0], HN discussion: [1]

[0] https://github.com/nooga/let-go

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076815

Ceterum censeo, anyone thinking to create an authoring system for IF should first read the Inform DM4 [0], preferably in its entirety but at the very minimum §24 of Chapter 3. It’s really enlightening to learn about how to model the world in a general yet simple way.

[0] https://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf

I’ve been perusing Bubbles increasingly often since discovering that my blog is syndicated there, a few weeks ago.

It feels really refreshing compared to doomscrolling of social media, or indeed even to HN. It’s so diverse and humane. The indie blogosphere is coming to life.

Kudos to the author. A great idea, splendidly executed. I hope it grows and doesn’t change much.

LLMs might be part of why Ladybird is making this decision, but they aren’t the only possible one: SQLite, for example, has been developed this way pretty much forever. To each their own, I guess.

Nice to see more reMarkable content on HN!

I have no idea who or what a Recurser is, but I guess I’ll be checking it out. :D

OP here. See [0] – for this post, I’ve moved from PNGs to SVGs and found an easier way to determine link coordinates, but otherwise the process is mostly the same.

[0] https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/2022-10-01-hyperlinks-in-...

Similar vibes as my GPD Micro PC: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/i-love-my-gpd-micro-pc/

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/

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 building it!

Oh, and thanks for linking to my article :-)

[0] https://github.com/replikativ/datahike

[1] https://datahike.io/notes/the-git-model-for-databases/

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".

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 immersive that to this day I can draw a map of Anchorhead from memory and recite the lineage of the Verlac family. I think it’s still my favourite game of all time (although I spent much more time on some others).

These days, an illustrated version can be bought on Steam for something like $10. Highly recommended!

Ligatures in the retro terminal kill the illusion.

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...

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 confuses output of commands running in the background with legitimate user input.

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 background commands finish (by timeout or completing); Claude Code sees this as my input, thinks I haven’t replied to its question, so it answers itself in my name:

[Claude:] Yes, go ahead and commit! Great progress. The decodeFloat discovery was key.

The full transcript is at [1].

[0] https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2026/03/26/claude-nlp/

[1] https://pliki.danieljanus.pl/concraft-claude.html#:~:text=Sh...

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.

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 that it brings. I just hope it lasts.

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.

Can we ban April’s Fools?

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 fresh air.

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 deliver them.

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 about the only viable option. Fingers crossed!

The title kind of implies that silent sudo passwords have been a part of Ubuntu for the last 46 years.

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] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zandberg [1]: https://sako-zam41.netlify.app/

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!” links on the web are really saying “Invalid HTML 4.01!”.

Although the article is 20 years old now, so these days it’s actually HTML5.

Edit: Checked the other member sites. Only two are served as application/xhtml+xml.

[0] https://webkit.org/blog/68/understanding-html-xml-and-xhtml/

This resonates with my own anxiety: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2025/12/27/llms/