moishe_syzslak

He got on his bike and rode off...

Had the last ten years of emacs development never happened, I suspect emacs would be just as used. So no, I don't think the anti-AI stance would extinguish the compelling repl-as-editor proposition that emacs does so well. I wouldn't put too much stock in the agent-shell business. It's got junior dev written all over it, and they're the most vocal.

There's a megathread on r/programming about the Gosling/Stallman legal fight, but long story short, the GNU Emacs we know today was continuously built upon a foundation first laid down by Jim Blandy and Stallman. Very little, if any, code from Gosling, Moon, or Steele survives.

You're doing it right. When I was gainfully employed, emacs was purely a black-box means to a greater end, i.e., promotions and added responsibility. In my premature retirement, the vortex of emacs became an end unto itself. Believe me, I'd happily trade my emacs expertise for a more meaningful pursuit.

Should HN encourage posting open alternative sources? No, both as a matter of policy and logistics. You want them to post a sticky "Free sources encouraged" up top?

Should mods replace paywalled links? No. I'm sure HN's filter bots can reliably detect paywall links, but removing them also removes the discussion. Presumably some readers do have access, and so the forum serves that minority. People who would accuse HN of advertising for these pay sites can suck it.

Not a math major here. But is this paper way too long? So long that it raises the possibility that OpenAI's staff mathematicians passed through AI's raw output as-is?

Whenever someone asks for an ELI5, there's always got to be somebody who further confuses the issue.

Excellent work.