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Re:Folke/sidekick.nvim – Your Neovim AI sidekick on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:04AM (#45449747)
Really? No comments? Has AI completely shot down excitement for real devs who “use vim btw”?
Re:Show HN: Void - open source Cursor AI code editor on Thursday September 12, 2024 @06:23PM (#41526280)
I'm excited about this idea. I don't like using non-open source thing because I like to know that I'm investing in something which I can tweak and contribute to. Open source is all around a better idea.

I also like the idea of using on-prem models. As open source LLMs get better and hardware gets cheaper, I can see being able to use local models being the winning advantage.

Please give me early access!

Account creation process is unnecessary. Biggest issue with the app

The Web Is Beautiful, Mobile Is Beautiful

It's a beautiful thing having the internet in my pocket where ever I go. I can access virtually any information I want by just pulling my mobile device out of my pocket.It's a beautiful thing, the web. I can access a constantly growing network of information, and I can even add information to it. I can use and build systems that do amazing things with this information, without too much...

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Re:Quality and awareness on Monday August 03, 2015 @10:46PM (#10001360)
I had a feeling it was going to be mentioned that I need to delegate the marketing a partner. Does this mean that for anything to be successful one must need a partner to complete the other half (or be superman and be good at both)?

Quality and awareness

I want to create quality things. I'm sure this is shared by a lot of people, specifically entrepreneurs.Quality to me is something that works well at doing something that is useful to me in someone's life.When I achieve quality, I'd expect my return to be others wanting (or wanting to use) the thing I created.But, how do I know if my venture is going to be worthwhile even if I create something...

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Why would I want to run Android apps on any device?

Where's Apple?

There hasn't been much excitement or rumors about what Apple will do next. Is the next version of iPhone really all that exciting anymore? What do you think Apple will do to stay current; or would you think that with the lose of Steve Jobs, Apple will expire?There's the iWatch speculation/rumor, but is this all that interesting? What is so exciting about an iPhone on your wrist? Or do you think...

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Re:Gitmo Is Killing Me on Monday April 15, 2013 @01:24AM (#5549916)
What does this have to do with hacking?
Re:What does one trillion dollars look like? on Saturday April 13, 2013 @08:34PM (#5545304)
I guess I could live on that amount. :\
Re:Exposed Webcam Viewer on Saturday April 13, 2013 @06:48PM (#5544973)
It's not so smooth for me. :(
Re:New Hacker News on Friday April 12, 2013 @11:04PM (#5542365)
I've updated some things to this design.

* I made the background not white, which seemed to be hard on the eyes; I decided to keep the color scheme from orignal HN.

* Changed vote button icon; moved point count together with the button.

* Moved comments from the right to the left, closer to the link and vote button. Reason: it's too important of an element to have it be all on the very far right.

* Moved less important content (time and poster) to the far right.

* Internal stuff: I'm using localStorage APIs to cache the data I'm scrapping from a third party hackernews API source. This is because the source kept getting hiccups.

Here are my questions to the rest of those who are still interested in this endeavor:

Should I go with grey text on white, or black text on tanish grey (like it is now)?

Are the icons too distracting? Are they good, or would you suggest I do something else? Maybe I should ditch the orange background on these icons, and go with orange text when mousing over the buttons?

Some idea I have planned:

* Search field in header * Automatic next page loading with ---page n--- separators (if I can get this to work with the API I'm using) * Replace submit button with a visually persistent composer item.

Let me know what you think of these ideas too.

Re:Yummy cookies across domains on Friday April 12, 2013 @10:45PM (#5542315)
What sort of malicious things can be accomplished with a cookie tossing attack?
Re:New Hacker News on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:55AM (#5537742)
It's slower because it hooks into an unofficial API. YCHN has no API I can use, so I had to use what some other sites were able to scrap.
Re:New Hacker News on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:54AM (#5537735)
True. I need a good API to hook into in order for it to be functional. Maybe that could be another project, if anyone wants to help with that. :)
Re:New Hacker News on Friday April 12, 2013 @05:59AM (#5537517)
This is a continuation of a post I made a couple days ago, title "Hacker News Redesign". It was a link to a jsbin. This time, it's a Github Page, which means it can update, so check back often.

I plan on accepting feedback on this redesign. I already took some feedback from the last post. This time, I can update the project upon feedback, and keep a dialog about the design.

Hope you enjoy it! :)

Re:Hacker News Redesign on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @05:05PM (#5528168)
I'm going to design this thing into a Github page, but I need to get HN feed data. Could someone comment on where I could get HN data through an API?
Re:Hacker News Redesign on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @05:02PM (#5528154)
I want to remove the metadata if I can. Would you agree that the titles and "comhead" (the domain name) should be the visually promenant part? My goal is to minimize on the meta as much as possible without removing the usefulness of it.
Re:Hacker News Redesign on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @05:00PM (#5528133)
There will be less white space and it will be used more scarcely, however I'd rather use a little bit of white space instead of something like a horizontal line. Wouldn't you agree with this? :P
Re:Hacker News Redesign on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @04:59PM (#5528124)
I agree. My intention is to use white space to separate things, vs lines or other graphical distractions. Having said that, I still need to work on the list part of the design.
Re:Hacker News Redesign on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @03:43PM (#5527579)
Wow! I really didn't expect this much attention and feedback! First, I want to say thanks for all the comments!

I designed this last, late California night. So the design isn't finished; this is a first draft.

Obviously the posts themselves are an issue. I didn't put much attention to the posts. I'll do that. Some of the feedback I got on it were: 1. Larger vote buttons. 2. Less contrast (too hard on the eyes). 3. Too much white space, a little too small of text. 4. Focus on title, not author.

Some other feedback I got was on the orange color. I pulled this straight from HN's header bar. I guess because the bar is taller that the color is brighter. I need to think about if it's the color or the surrounding elements that make it feel this way.

Keep up the commenting and feedback. I'm not finished here yet. I really liked the HackerWeb design, but it's too narrow; it feels like a mobile app. I'll pull some inspiration from there, but I really want to bring the design back to a "hacker" feel. So stay tooned!

Re:Hacker News Redesign on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @07:41AM (#5524480)
I designed a slightly new Hacker News. Comment and let me know what you think.
Re:Bitcoin hits $200 on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @07:41AM (#5517439)
Looks like I should be selling pizza
The purpose of the post was to re-define existing terminologies. I've researched into Elm, and I like that they called these "behaviors" signals instead. And instead of FRP (which honestly sounds like a fart if you pronounce it), I wanted to coin SOP and compare it to OOP, in that it could be a term used as a foundation for a new way of programming.

I wanted to compare signals to that of event emitters, and show how they're each like a single event. This will hopefully help to make others familiar with the applications of signals.

I think FRP, or SOP, is brilliant and should be implemented in JavaScript. There isn't any non-benefits to having signals in a language, especially one that's so heavily dependent on events and functions like JS.

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