alabhyajindal

> 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.

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

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.

Wow Wails looks interesting! Hadn't heard of it before.

They should switch to a native installer then. Quite confusing

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.

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.

Nice! Love the domain. Did you use Claude to design the landing page?

I agree that there is signal, and that phrasing his original post as you pointed out would have been better.

My issue is that the cost, in terms of time, for these experiments have really gone down with LLMs. Earlier, if someone played around with the posted project, we knew they spent a reasonable amount of time on it, and thus care about the subject. With LLMs, this is not the case.

Thank you! I don't use Mataroa but I can see the similarities. My current blog setup is a Python script that parses content written in markdown and emits HTML. The CSS is inspired by the other minimal blogs I see here.

Thanks a lot for checking out my blog/project. Have a great day!

It's interesting but I don't think it belongs as a comment under this post. I can use LLMs to create something tangential for each project posted on HN, and so can everyone else. If we all started doing this then the comment section will quickly become useless and not on point.

> OpenAI releases a new model to distract from their board drama

This one shows the "age" of the LLM, or the data cut off time

Amazing! Though I can't get the theme to stop changing while the music is playing. Is there a setting I'm missing?

The difference is restricting removal of the app. It takes away the user's choice. As far as I know all preloaded apps, at least on Android, can be disabled if not uninstalled.

> The November 28 order, seen by Reuters, gives major smartphone companies 90 days to ensure that the government's Sanchar Saathi app is pre-installed on new mobile phones, with a provision that users cannot disable it.

I heard that the ML version was a translation of the C version, and is thus not easy to follow along. Or it may have been the other way around!

I used to be very against closed source products but changed my mind recently. One of the founders of Obsidian makes some great points here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515/1...

I saw this for GitButler in the past, as it's linked in their DEVELOPMENT.md file. Didn't find it useful. The strain of having to verify each statement's correctness is a lot more than the utility provided by fancy diagrams and bullet points.

Besides, I don't think a person needs to understand how the entire system works when they are looking to contribute to a new project.

I created a RescueTime alternative for KDE Plasma. It runs in the background as a daemon and records time spent on each window in a SQLite database. Next step here would be to add a Firefox extension, since a lot of my time is spent browsing the web.

Tracking windows on Wayland is hard because the protocol doesn't support it. I hacked together a script using Claude Code that somehow works, but I barely understand how.

https://github.com/alabhyajindal/timeowl

Nice! I have another idea: DerangedOS. An operating system that allows you to scroll social media and view short form video content. It immediately shuts down if you attempt to do anything productive.

> if you read physical books, you can attach an NFC tag to your book

I'm hearing this for the first time. Having a video demonstrating this would be nice.

I currently get a very productivity/measure all things vibe from the marketing site. Given how many readers read for pleasure, I would alter the site to position this as something that helps users become aware of their reading habits, not necessarily something to measure, and optimise their reading habits.

Congrats, looks great!

This is written by an LLM. Can we have less of these on HN?

> What kind of code snippets could you suggest?

Anything really! Some websites that do this currently: https://ziglang.org, https://crystal-lang.org and https://www.ruby-lang.org/en

> I have a comparison table mentioning features

Yes - I did see this in the README. Maybe worth adding it, or something similar to the website.

Very nice! Some feedback about the home page and presentation:

- A snippet on the home page to give the reader a quick feel of the language.

- A line or two on how to pronounce Ü.

- Using a list or sections to highlight important features prominently and make the home page more information dense.

- Date of publication on the blog posts.