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Re:Herdr has released native app on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:30AM (#50304449)
I understand this got funded by YC. But how is it supposed to make money?
Re:AWS Acquires DuckDB on Thursday August 27, 2026 @05:59AM (#49462268)
I work at a company heavily invested in AWS. Every now and then AWS developer advocates presents a way to adopt "latest" technology in the most obscure way possible.
I would prefer a single binary and skill over mcp.
Re:What is jj and why should I care? on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @09:20AM (#47765312)
yes exactly, pressing space bars to select them. I referred these selection as marks.
Re:What is jj and why should I care? on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @08:38AM (#47764878)
I love jj, but mostly I use jjui.

I would like more uniformity in the way jjui handles commands when you are viewing changes vs when you are viewing files within a single change.

Often I just make my changes and leave it there without `new`, as I am not sure which file should go in a single commit. I just leave it there and I interactively commit later.

For me to use `new` more, I would like the ability to also simply be able to get a tree view of all changes, which contains file which contains file changes, so I could can have marks that span multiple changes and then either `split` or `commit` or `squash` the change, idk if there is a good word for it. Right now I can only mark within a single change, and I lose it once I navigate up.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:46AM (#47764355)
https://github.com/Swoorup/shadml I got tired of lack of functional features in wgsl.

So making a new language that is a mix of haskell and F# that transpiles to wgsl. It has traits, bitfields, adts, module/imports externs to bind to other wgsl. Was born from a fork called fwgsl.

Very early days though.

Re: on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @04:29AM (#45653686)
not to be that annoying guy, but does anyone have a nix flake for this xD ?
Re:Show HN: Firm, a text-based work management system on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:07PM (#45612412)
It will. But humans have eyes, observability, metrics will still need graphs or eye-candy for most people. Though the means of communication might be heavily be based on text.
This smells of regulatory capture.
Re:Show HN: Firm, a text-based work management system on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @06:12AM (#45590252)
I would like the native web UI when I am being too lazy, and terminal when I am in the zone..
Re:Show HN: rift – a tiling window manager for macOS on Sunday October 12, 2025 @10:21AM (#45558425)
Does anyone have nix flake for this? I am trying out several window managers after yabai. Aerospace is just laggy sometimes, not sure if it is to do with the events I emitted for it to display nice workspaces in sketchybar.

I might try this later.

Re:What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments on Thursday September 18, 2025 @01:52AM (#45285948)
A C# dev can't complain, because complexity creates job.
Re:Convo-Lang: LLM Programming Language and Runtime on Thursday August 14, 2025 @06:16AM (#44898751)
Money Incinerator Lang would be fitting name as well.
Re:Online Collection of Keygen Music on Saturday August 02, 2025 @11:07PM (#44773748)
Nostalgic xD
Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @03:20AM (#44497837)
Same, and it's quite obvious. You will get the same government regardless of who you vote for, its controlled opposition design to cushion some of your grievances but policies are set in stone.
Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR on Monday July 07, 2025 @11:27PM (#44496719)
The world has been a sad state of affairs since Covid. People in power need more power for themselves, view the world as a zero sum game, use coercion, deceiving, propaganda to achieve their goals, in this case a territorial expansion. Anyone who opposes the means it's currently being carried out is a anti-.... whatever.
Does this always have to be p2p or does it also allow for client server architecture
Imho there are js libraries which goes through the traditional rendering based shader path to emulate general purpose computations on the GPU, gpu.js for example https://gpu.rocks/#/
Re:I Think It's Time to Give Nix a Chance on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @01:48AM (#44104229)
Nix is great but the user interface is ugly and cryptic. Debugging dependency issues (what depends on this package of particular hash), installing a particular version of a package is just more trouble than something you would get from the likes of npm or cargo.

Would I use nix for my servers? Yes. Would I also use nix personally to keep my systems in sync? Yes. Will I recommend nix to others? Absolutely not.

Unrelated question, but how was the process of getting backed by ycombinator like?
Re:Rust Dependencies Scare Me on Saturday May 10, 2025 @05:27AM (#43944335)
This feels like a pointless issue. At best perhaps establish a good trust model, than blaming the tooling.
Re:I built a hardware processor that runs Python on Monday April 28, 2025 @08:50AM (#43820956)
How does garbage collection work here? Are they just set of PySM code?
Re:I Just Want to Code on Monday April 28, 2025 @04:50AM (#43819061)
One can combat it by just choosing discipline, grit, perseverance and stop boxing themselves into angel vs devil kind of thinking. You are either working for self or working for someone else.

Life is rather what you make of it than the society perception of it.

Re:I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022) on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @09:18PM (#42958207)
I love reading posts and comments like these, as it gives me better insights and questions what I have been doing wrong as I can relate to this shiny new attachment syndrome very much myself.
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @09:05PM (#42958112)
I am betting my chips in dioxus. Looks like a very clean project although few critical parts missing.
Re:I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022) on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @12:10AM (#42944080)
Surprisingly the cost to develop is fairly accurate, using scc's COCOMO

Estimated Cost to Develop (organic) $1,023,233

Estimated Schedule Effort (organic) 13.87 months

Estimated People Required (organic) 6.55

Re:Apple Introduces M4 Pro and M4 Max on Thursday October 31, 2024 @06:17AM (#42005260)
It makes sense as the group that are most likely to upgrade are using M1 or below, the others will wait for few more generations
Same it was time-wasting interview experience. They seem interested and not interested at the same time. They pinged me for a different role after passing me up for the first role, but didn't get any response later..
Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @04:14AM (#41705840)
It seems more like a problem that should be solved elsewhere? Are there cases where the company forces you to gamble?

How do you draw the line between someone who wants to gamble recreationally and someone who does it because they are addicted without harming the recreational parties?

New to Borg, and backups in general.

Does borg have the ability to split chunks over multiple repository of varying sizes? For example, I might have just 15GB Google Drive Storage, whereas on others I might have 100GB available.

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