alt Hacker NewsLet's focus on the real issue here, which is that HN has apparently normalized the double hyphen in the title to an en dash--yes, an en dash, not even an em dash.
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I agree that it should be left as a double hyphen, but an en dash is far more appropriate considering the decades-long precedent set by LaTeX (and continued by Typst).
Article: "Major issue with most popular AI coding tool"
comments: "ThE tItLe iS aI cOded !!!1"
Pro tip: pros don't copy and paste from HN titles straight into the command line.
(Or... do they?? Hmm, ok, maybe I need to let this roll around in my mind.)
And it should be "--" to begin with, i.e. "--hard".
Two hyphens for an en-dash, three for an em-dash.
double hyphens –
triple hyphens —
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Apple actually had the nerve to make it a point to say they’d made their keyboard intelligence better. What a joke. Can’t keyboard, my ass!
That's LaTeX convention, double hyphen is an en-dash, triple hyphen is an em-dash.