Hacker News: Austizzle

New comment by Austizzle in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

Austizzle — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:10:16 +0000

The vs code integration is pretty slick. I can copy and paste function names into the prompt and it automatically turns them into these `#sym:` reference objects that I presume populate the context window with metadata about the function and where it lives. It knows what file I'm currently looking at as I jump around in the code, and that automatically gets loaded into the context. I can also drag and drop folders or specific files for context into the sidebar.

It's a lot of stuff that makes me have to type less into the prompt, since it's already getting so much info from my editor

New comment by Austizzle in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

Austizzle — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:30:07 +0000

> in his work

Women, however, are welcome to use electron

New comment by Austizzle in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

Austizzle — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:25:09 +0000

As somebody who frequently switches between windows and Linux, I will pretty much never install an app that's only on one platform. Cross platform options mean I don't need to pay for or learn separate apps for the same thing on each OS

I don't care if it's QT or a WebView or something else, I just want to lower friction for myself

New comment by Austizzle in "GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '"

Austizzle — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:12:15 +0000

I feel the same way. I recently installed Windows XP in a VM for nostalgia and it was shocking how much I realized windows has improved since then.

I'm not obsessed with windows 11, but I am the happiest using it than I've been with any other version (aside from the TPM 2.0 requirement, that's my #1 complaint)

New comment by Austizzle in "Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner"

Austizzle — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:20:11 +0000

I'm probably listening to more music than the majority of people, but I have about 6,000 songs on mine.

New comment by Austizzle in "Please just try HTMX"

Austizzle — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:15:06 +0000

That's what got me into Vue and I still use build less Vue all the time for tiny little sites that aren't worth setting up a whole CI process for. It's really lovely that it's an option.

Just like how easy jQuery was to get started with back in the day, but a whole framework

New comment by Austizzle in "When is it better to think without words?"

Austizzle — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:42:54 +0000

I'm the same way, and I often feel like I don't know what the words that come out of my mouth will be until they happen.

I'm thinking in abstract feelings and images, and then it feels like some subconscious part of my brain is actually figuring out the words and saying them, if that makes any sense.

It can be spooky sometimes since it doesn't always feel like I'm in control of the specific words I use

New comment by Austizzle in "Pyrefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust"

Austizzle — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:47:23 +0000

It's not valid from a typing perspective, but python will let you. If you want to disregard types though then none of this matters anyway and you won't get much benefit from these tools

New comment by Austizzle in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

Austizzle — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 11:55:57 +0000

I've heard people say this, and believed it myself for a long time, but recently I set up a windows XP VM and was shocked by how bad the quality of life was.

I think nostalgia is influencing this opinion quite a bit, and we don't realize the mountain of tiny usability improvements that have been made since XP

New comment by Austizzle in "Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag"

Austizzle — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:30:38 +0000

When I do scripting for resolve the UI API feels a lot like QT. Unless they made a very QT-like wrapper around JavaScript code.

I wonder if instead there's small parts that are done in electron but most of it is qt

New comment by Austizzle in "Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools"

Austizzle — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:11:02 +0000

I think the phrase _emotionally_ resonates with people who write code that would work in other languages, but the compiler rejects.

When I was learning rust (coming from python/java) it certainly felt like a battle because I "knew" the code was logically sound (at least in other languages) but it felt like I had to do all sorts of magic tricks to get it to compile. Since then I've adapted and understand better _why_ the compiler has those rules, but in the beginning it definitely felt like a fight and that the code _should_ work.

New comment by Austizzle in "How to make things slower so they go faster"

Austizzle — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:14:39 +0000

They said this a bunch in the movie F1 that's playing in theatres right now, so that could be why there's been an uptick in usage

New comment by Austizzle in "Physically Based Rendering in Filament"

Austizzle — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:39:44 +0000

Man, I got excited for a second from the title thinking this was about a way to produce 3d printer filament from PBR settings, so you could tweak a material on the computer and have your filament match the digital version

New comment by Austizzle in "Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework"

Austizzle — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 21:01:05 +0000

Lots of games don't run on Mac or Linux

Others, like adobe software, only run on Mac or windows

Windows computers are generally cheaper than macs for the same hardware

Plenty of stuff annoys me about windows, but for now it's still what I end up going with every time I need a new computer

New comment by Austizzle in "Modern Android Client for Hacker News"

Austizzle — Sat, 17 May 2025 16:55:24 +0000

It's on the play store and there's APK files in the GitHub releases

New comment by Austizzle in "Anatomy of a SQL Engine"

Austizzle — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 05:14:31 +0000

Man, this title tripped me up for a minute because I pronounce it with the letters like Ess-Queue-Ell

So the "A" in "A ess-queue-ell" engine felt like it should have been an "An" until I realized it was meant to be pronounced like "sequel"

New comment by Austizzle in "You might not need WebSockets"

Austizzle — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:31:51 +0000

I've definitely used websockets through nginx

New comment by Austizzle in "Pricing software adds billions to rental costs, White House says"

Austizzle — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:46:48 +0000

Except the market isn't perfect and many companies actively work to decrease competition

New comment by Austizzle in "Seamlessly transition your Twitter network to Bluesky with just a few clicks"

Austizzle — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 07:48:23 +0000

Oof yeah this site feels sketchy

New comment by Austizzle in "Achieving high Python performance with code generation (2022)"

Austizzle — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 17:50:26 +0000

I've done this and it's a really lovely way to work once the rust stuff clicks!