It’s a frequently used metaphor in LLM responses.

Often for trivial things that LLM is proud that it has noticed but bear no load whatsoever.

I made an edit to my post because you're not the only one to point this out. Just wanted to say thanks again!

Why can’t I scroll on mobile Safari on this site? What in the world are we doing with websites these days where a user can’t even scroll?

I don't know...

.. Perhaps something about the same site being by the DOGE guys?

Dang, I didn't know that. I thought it was decent enough to get people exposed to doas(1), pkg_add(1), syspatch(8), etc... from which they could then read the man pages.

Thanks for pointing this out and I appreciate the other recommendations in this thread. Massive +1 for @jcs. That dude is awesome and puts out great stuff.

Anyone know a decent place where I can buy a giant print of this for my wall?

Good question. Check out Reddit - that is where I found the original. I understand it was made for the movies but I have not been able to locate the exact source or a place to order it from.

The source image is here if it helps - https://i.redd.it/r8403tg0wo5c1.jpeg.

I blew a few minds a week ago when I told my younger coworkers about man pages. I hit ‘em with the `man man` and one dude was like “whoa!”

Further blow their minds by showing them `apropos` https://manpages.debian.org/testing/man-db/apropos.1.en.html

I remember my first days with Linux/Unix and being taught about man and apropos and info. But somehow I could never find anything useful via apropos!

With many years of insight, I think I probably never updated the database.

man -k, apropos, but less to type

I'm 100% certain this is user error, but I have not once gotten apropos to give me any output other than "nothing appropriate."

Reminds me of the old canard of 'man woman'

man, cat, lynx... We're all just creatures in a vast universe

$ man -k <whatever>

It’s 60Hz. “Pro Motion” is Apple speak for 120Hz, which as of right now, is only reserved for the MacBook Pro machines.

Anyone know a good resource for getting started writing a compiler? I'm not trying to write a new LLVM, but being a "software engineer" writing web-based APIs for a living is leaving me wanting more.

I've favorited a fair number of compiler discussions here. Some you may find useful, either for the linked content or the discussions therein:

- Writing a Compiler is Surprisingly Easy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38182461

- Write your own retro compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591662

- Compiling a Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216904

- Writing a C Compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41227716

- Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593088

- Working through 'Writing a C Compiler' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44541565

- Build a Compiler in Five Projects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46031220

Personally I found Crafting Interpreters to be a terrific introduction to the key concepts: https://craftinginterpreters.com

(But I'm just a kibitzer, I've never written anything more serious than a DSL in Perl.)

Traditionally you would start with the Dragon Book[1]. Another starting point is reading the documentation for Yacc (aka Bison) and Lex.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniq...

The dragon book is a classic, and was a terrific resource thirty and forty years ago. Today there are many far better resources. Several listed adjacent to this one.

It’s focused on theory and very heavy on parsing. All of that is fine, but not especially useful for the hobbies.

There are several good suggestions in this thread already, but I think Nora Sandler's newish book (https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Compiler-Programming-Language...) is approachable and fun if you want a less academic approach.

I am currently going through that book. I recommend it with one caveat: you'll need to have written some interpreters before (Crafting Interpreters is a perfect starting point) because it expects you to already know some things like to how write a simple recursive decent parser.

I would highly recommend Wirth's Compiler Construction. Great, short book with a lot to say.

There is supposed to be some event "creators" were invited to from Jan 27-29 [1]. I have yet to hear anything about it.

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/23/apple-invites-creators-...

Is that the launch of the creator subscription bundle?

Well this certainly mucked with the width of the mobile HN site.

A css fix would prevent this.

Also make the damn upvote buttons bigger on mobile.

Hckrnews.com is a far better frontent. Implemented the long line fix, and also preserves topics that were upvoted to the top and subsequently flagged to death by bot farms or the owners.

I was wondering what’s wrong with the HN site on mobile today. I thought something from my other safari settings carried over thinking is this another macOS / iOS problem. Good to know this time Apple is not to blame. Interesting psychology here how easy it was for me to go there.

Have you checked out Harmonic? It's an amazing Hacker News android client!

Opera browser can render any page in word wrapping mode

Not on Chrome or Firefox for me. So I assume you are using Safari.

This is an iOS 26 regression. There are a bunch of soft hyphens in there, which is why it works on other browsers and in previous versions of iOS.

It automatically hyphenates on Firefox mobile, must be a safari issue.

Can someone fix this? I don’t believe it is the first time

Brain figured out this title being the culprit of horizontal scroll today. Brain predicted this being the top comment in this thread. Not disappointed.

The long words must continue until word wrap increases.