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Re:The Best Windows is Linux on Saturday May 23, 2026 @05:02AM (#48246044)
One should turn this into a distro – Free10/FreeXP[1]-like base for the UI, with solid Wine integration for Windows compatibility.

Wonder if anyone's ever tried to run linux with only windows apps.

[1] https://xpq4.sourceforge.io

Re:How we made v0 an effective coding agent on Saturday January 10, 2026 @06:20PM (#46570978)
I feel like using sequential transformers generating code feels like a brute-force solution for UI generation.

The "obvious" path forward for frontend assistants is to move away from raw code generation toward some domain-specific language. UI is inherently structural - it should be expressed through component hierarchies that implement pre-defined design guidelines (with colors, margins, border radius etc being defined outside of the core model, and applied as a kind of theme to the model's output).

If we define the UI as a composition of VStacks/HStacks and predefined components, we can use diffusion models to generate the layout, and consistently apply the 'theme' afterwards. It's a much cleaner abstraction than asking an LLM to hallucinate valid CSS classes.

Ask HN: What's the best way to deploy container-based apps for a small project?

Hi HN,For the last couple of months I've been working on a side project I'd now finally like to publish.I developed and packaged everything into a few small docker containers (2 python apps, 1 postgres db, and 1 db cleanup script in another container. I'll likely also add some reverse proxy like Nginx or Caddy) and run it locally using docker-compose, with all secrets in a .env file (although I...

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This is great! I really like the style of shadcn/ui.

Recently I’ve been using ChatGPT to convert shadcn components to JinjaX. Will definitely give yours a try!

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025) on Monday February 24, 2025 @02:45AM (#43156813)
Still working on RunGen.AI – a platform to deploy any LLM or Image model from HuggingFace by just pasting a link.

Still a lot of work to do, but solves a real pain I had while building my previous side project