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Code Golf

code.golf
1 points·by alabhyajindal·2개월 전·0 comments

AI Makes Sitting with Discomfort Feel Shameful

bennadel.com
2 points·by alabhyajindal·3개월 전·0 comments

Lean Game Server

adam.math.hhu.de
1 points·by alabhyajindal·3개월 전·0 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by alabhyajindal·3개월 전·0 comments

Creative Coding

en.wikipedia.org
1 points·by alabhyajindal·4개월 전·0 comments

Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office

en.wikipedia.org
2 points·by alabhyajindal·4개월 전·0 comments

Why Are Geniuses Destroying Jobs in Uganda? (2017)

cgdev.org
3 points·by alabhyajindal·5개월 전·0 comments

Show HN: Reminders to Stay in Touch with Friends

myfriends.lol
1 points·by alabhyajindal·6개월 전·0 comments

India proposes forcing smartphone makers to give source code

reuters.com
10 points·by alabhyajindal·6개월 전·1 comments

If it's not a hit, switch

sive.rs
1 points·by alabhyajindal·7개월 전·0 comments

Think in math, write in code (2019)

jmeiners.com
208 points·by alabhyajindal·8개월 전·72 comments

myNoise: Custom Soundscapes to Focus, Relax & Sleep

mynoise.net
2 points·by alabhyajindal·8개월 전·1 comments

Dive into Systems

diveintosystems.org
1 points·by alabhyajindal·8개월 전·0 comments

Text-Mode Games as First Haskell Projects

jackkelly.name
4 points·by alabhyajindal·9개월 전·1 comments

The Elm Architecture

guide.elm-lang.org
3 points·by alabhyajindal·9개월 전·0 comments

Humans Are Just Stochastic Parrots

tinyclouds.org
4 points·by alabhyajindal·9개월 전·1 comments

The Programming Languages Zoo

plzoo.andrej.com
125 points·by alabhyajindal·9개월 전·55 comments

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

andrewkelley.me
1 points·by alabhyajindal·2년 전·0 comments

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alabhyajindal
·8시간 전·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
·4개월 전·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
·4개월 전·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
·4개월 전·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
·4개월 전·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
·4개월 전·discuss
BOOM! Let's go
alabhyajindal
·4개월 전·discuss
I wonder if the Small Android Phone project has moved forward since the last time it was posted here: https://smallandroidphone.com
alabhyajindal
·5개월 전·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
·5개월 전·discuss
How do you block users on HN? Are you using a different client?
alabhyajindal
·5개월 전·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
·5개월 전·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
·5개월 전·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
·5개월 전·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
·5개월 전·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
·5개월 전·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
·5개월 전·discuss
Wow Wails looks interesting! Hadn't heard of it before.
alabhyajindal
·6개월 전·discuss
They should switch to a native installer then. Quite confusing
alabhyajindal
·6개월 전·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
·6개월 전·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
·6개월 전·discuss
Nice! Love the domain. Did you use Claude to design the landing page?