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alabhyajindal

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Code Golf

code.golf
1 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 2 Monaten·0 comments

AI Makes Sitting with Discomfort Feel Shameful

bennadel.com
2 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

Lean Game Server

adam.math.hhu.de
1 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

Creative Coding

en.wikipedia.org
1 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 4 Monaten·0 comments

Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office

en.wikipedia.org
2 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 4 Monaten·0 comments

Why Are Geniuses Destroying Jobs in Uganda? (2017)

cgdev.org
3 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 5 Monaten·0 comments

Show HN: Reminders to Stay in Touch with Friends

myfriends.lol
1 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 6 Monaten·0 comments

India proposes forcing smartphone makers to give source code

reuters.com
10 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 6 Monaten·1 comments

If it's not a hit, switch

sive.rs
1 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 7 Monaten·0 comments

Think in math, write in code (2019)

jmeiners.com
208 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 8 Monaten·72 comments

myNoise: Custom Soundscapes to Focus, Relax & Sleep

mynoise.net
2 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 8 Monaten·1 comments

Dive into Systems

diveintosystems.org
1 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 8 Monaten·0 comments

Text-Mode Games as First Haskell Projects

jackkelly.name
4 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 9 Monaten·1 comments

The Elm Architecture

guide.elm-lang.org
3 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 9 Monaten·0 comments

Humans Are Just Stochastic Parrots

tinyclouds.org
4 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 9 Monaten·1 comments

The Programming Languages Zoo

plzoo.andrej.com
125 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 9 Monaten·55 comments

I am not a "JavaScript Developer". (2013)

andrewkelley.me
1 points·by alabhyajindal·vor 2 Jahren·0 comments

comments

alabhyajindal
·vor 8 Stunden·discuss
> I always have a book with me when I go out with my partner, even if I don’t usually end up reading it. If she has to run an errand and I have to wait, I don’t waste my free time with nothing to read. I have become good at walking my dog while reading — I even got complimented for that by a stranger — and I make sure I never go to the bathroom without a book.”

This does not sound an improvement over using a phone. We don't have to occupy ourselves every waking moment. It's okay to not do something for a minute.
alabhyajindal
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Hi Bruno - this looks great! I remember collaborating with you a couple times on Kagi's browser extensions. Was there a specific moment that made you want to work on Uruky, or was it because of the overall direction Kagi is heading in?
alabhyajindal
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
100%. Not sure what the solution is but I have lost interest in Show HNs these days. Part of it is because when someone posted before, it usually meant they spent a fair amount of time thinking, and found it worthwhile to spend energy on the project. This was a nice first filter for bad ideas and now no longer exists.

Even for posts that are interesting to me, I get the feeling that it's not worth looking at because it was probably made using LLMs. Nothing against them, but I personally thought of Show HNs as doing something for the love of it, the end result being a bonus.
alabhyajindal
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
I built something very similar recently but eventually lost interest because I couldn't find customers. It's main focus was sending email reminders to users to contact their friends.

https://alabhya.me/myfriends
alabhyajindal
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Nice very cool. Unfortunately, the blog post looks like it's been generated by an LLM.

> Going from a high score to the highest score isn’t usually about making minor tweaks. It requires fighting for every small, boring, consequential decision—the ones that determine whether a repair isn’t merely possible or practical, but within easy reach.
alabhyajindal
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
BOOM! Let's go
alabhyajindal
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
I wonder if the Small Android Phone project has moved forward since the last time it was posted here: https://smallandroidphone.com
alabhyajindal
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
I can highly recommend Brave Search to anyone who is looking for an alternative. I found it to be much better than DuckDuckGo. Feels like Kagi almost, but free.
alabhyajindal
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
How do you block users on HN? Are you using a different client?
alabhyajindal
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
I am also going to now implement an existing project and invent a different name for it. Look out for Waterfox, a minimal web consumer.
alabhyajindal
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
From their post on Twitter in 2024 when they adopted Swift, with a comment on Rust.

My general thoughts on Rust:

- Excellent for short-lived programs that transform input A to output B

- Clunky for long-lived programs that maintain large complex object graphs

- Really impressive ecosystem

- Toxic community

https://xcancel.com/awesomekling/status/1822241531501162806
alabhyajindal
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Looks like they changed it:

> Warp raised a $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital and grew to over 500,000 engineers on the platform.
alabhyajindal
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
> This is not becoming the main focus of the project. We will continue developing the engine in C++, and porting subsystems to Rust will be a sidetrack that runs for a long time.

I don't like this bit. Wouldn't it be better to decide on a memory-safe language, and then commit to it by writing all new code in Rust, or whatever. This looks like doing double the work.
alabhyajindal
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Here's another approach using Rclone and an editor of your choice. Rclone has a built in crypt library that can encrypt your data and store it in a cloud provider. I use it along with Sublime Text to journal, and store my encrypted data on Dropbox.

More here: https://alabhya.me/rclone
alabhyajindal
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Amazing - congrats on this work. Do I understand it correctly that the goal of the platform is help organise online protests? If so, I would love to understand how this approach is different from using something like change.org. I have read through the linked README and it looks sophisticated and technical - I'm just wondering if this is the best way to protest online.
alabhyajindal
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Wow Wails looks interesting! Hadn't heard of it before.
alabhyajindal
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
They should switch to a native installer then. Quite confusing
alabhyajindal
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Very very cool! Just signed up. Reminds me of Val Town which I'm a big fan of. Did you choose Lua because you love using it, or for some other pragmatic reasons?

Do you think a service like yours with support for many variety of languages a good idea? Not in order to meet user demand but purely because I think it would "just" require running the program on the server using a different interpreter/compiler, assuming code sandboxing has been achieved to make the initial language work.

For example, I love the long list of languages supported by Code Golf: https://code.golf/wiki.
alabhyajindal
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Is this solving the same problem as Netlify's forms? https://docs.netlify.com/manage/forms/setup/

I guess one advantage here is that the user is not locked into a specific hosting provider.
alabhyajindal
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Nice! Love the domain. Did you use Claude to design the landing page?