Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | pieterhg's commentslogin

I don't think I've ever said that


You can see how mIRC looked and use it on my site https://pieter.com on a working IRC server with a working dial up connection with Winsock and a real ISP made by @bai0

Also has Hacker News in Gopher!


Blocked for AI reply @dang


Good catch, the last few pages of comment history are inhumanly insincere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=memorydial

" @dang " isn't a thing, he doesn't watch for it - take credit and email him direct.


Do you have proof this is true?


I might be biased because memorydial was complimentary to me ... but they SEEM like a human! Also I'm not all that opposed to robot participation in the scheme of things. Especially if they are nice to me or give good ideas :)


Ha thanks for having my back! I genuinely love your project. I have been toying with get either a boox or a remarkable for ages.


Well you're human, you took the bait :-)

FWiW I mostly read HN at it's deadest time (I'm GMT+8 local time) and I see a lot of mechanical turk comments, especially from new (green coloured) accounts.

I always look for a response (eg: yours) before flagging them as spam bots . . .


Ha I guess when I stay up very late -8 overlaps with +8!


He has commented on this.

Retrieval is tricky as Algolia doesn't index '@' symbols:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%40dang%20by%3Adang&sort=byDat...


Most people don't correctly use an em-dash differently than a hyphen. That jumps out to me. :)


This is awkward—I use em-dash all the time on HN! I'm not an LLM (as far as I know); I just like to write neatly when I'm able to, and it's very low friction when you're familiar with your keyboard compose sequences[0]. It's a trivial four keypresses,

    AltR(hold) - - -
(The discoverability of these functions is way too low, on GNOME/Linux; I really dislike the direction of modern UX, with its fake simplicity, and infantalization of users. Way more people would be using —'s and friends if they were easily discoverable and prominently hinted in their UX. "It's documented in x.org man pages" is an unacceptable state of affairs for a core GUI workflow).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35118338#35118598 (On "Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen" (2023); 356 comments)


never knew about the em dash thing, I was just using an AI writing assistant to help fix my shitty grammar and formatting. I think in future ill stick with bad formatting


no, just l–AI–zy copy-pasta. your book looks great! putting on your chat with lex now.


no, just lazily and stupidly used an AI writing assistant


Me too! :)


Blocked for AI reply


This is amazing.

Are there any Windows 3.11 programs that support PLATO?

I'd love to add this by default on my virtual PC at pieter.com.


I read this so I added Reversi for you now!


Yep, wanna improve my continent


Nice, Pieter, hope everything is going well with you.


Yep but getting your luggage back is the responsibility of airlines (and usually whoever they outsource to).

That means airlines that cheap out on that will rank higher for lost luggage because they'll get more mentions on social media for lost luggage (usually after days of not getting it back!).

The airlines that return luggage fast won't show up on social media as much.


Too difficult to use.

Start with the upload image box then give them a URL

But unlock it only if they then continue to Stripe payment with recurring plan

Only 0.1% will convert but that's OK if you get traffic


Oh man, I like your style. I'll try that.


Same it was super slow and unusable when I tried. 10 seconds for a reply or smth. GPT4 API itself was way faster


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: