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New comment by ByteAtATime in "Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux"

ByteAtATime — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 18:10:31 +0000

That makes sense -- I'll go figure something out, thanks for the explanation!

New comment by ByteAtATime in "Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux"

ByteAtATime — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:48:42 +0000

Fair point! I've actually thought about that before; I've tried to be extremely clear in the project's README with a disclaimer that this is a non-commercial hobby project and is not affiliated with the official Raycast team in any way.

The name is just for identification, as the project's goal is to be a compatible, open-source alternative for the Linux community, a platform they don't currently serve.

That being said, I'll definitely keep it in mind. Thanks for bringing it up!

Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

ByteAtATime — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 16:57:48 +0000

Hey HN!

I'm a huge fan of Raycast, but as a Linux user, I was always disappointed it wasn't available on my main OS. This summer, I decided to just build it myself. This project has the goal of being interoperable with Raycast itself, including a majority of the extensions.

It's built with Tauri and Rust on the backend, with a Svelte frontend. The biggest challenge was getting it to run existing Raycast extensions, which required building a custom React renderer as well as making a custom API.

I also wrote a quick post, which I hope to expand on in the future, about this project. You can find it here: https://byteatatime.dev/posts/recreating-raycast

The project is still very rough, but I'm sharing it now to get any feedback you may have!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44551762

Points: 192

# Comments: 60

New comment by ByteAtATime in "Show HN: I made an AI that turn live lecture into structured notes,mind-maps,PDF"

ByteAtATime — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 04:50:47 +0000

One of the reasons people take notes is that you’re processing the information while taking the notes. This is removing that important step, and I would argue it means these notes are less effective than manually taking them in the first place

Lessons From Cursor's System Prompt

ByteAtATime — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:49:05 +0000

Article URL: https://byteatatime.dev/posts/cursor-prompt-analysis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154962

Points: 44

# Comments: 0

Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)

ByteAtATime — Sat, 31 May 2025 03:49:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cerebras.ai/press-release/maverick

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44141728

Points: 93

# Comments: 93

New comment by ByteAtATime in "What is HDR, anyway?"

ByteAtATime — Wed, 14 May 2025 20:26:06 +0000

In my opinion, HDR is another marketing gimmick -- the average layman has no idea what it means, but it sounds fancy and is more expensive, so surely it's good.

New comment by ByteAtATime in "WebGL Water (2010)"

ByteAtATime — Sat, 10 May 2025 01:07:22 +0000

Back in 2010, this "require[d] a decent graphics card"

Now, my phone's integrated graphics can run it very smoothly. Moore's law at play.

New comment by ByteAtATime in "How Cline Quietly Changed The Game For Code Copilots"

ByteAtATime — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:54:03 +0000

I think one of the main selling points of Cursor, as an investor-backed company, is that it's cheap. For $0.04 per prompt, I can get Claude 3.7 Sonnet to use 25 tool calls. In comparison, one of the images in the article shows either one prompt or a conversation that cost $7 (a third of Cursor's monthly subscription).

New comment by ByteAtATime in "Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database"

ByteAtATime — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:43:37 +0000

This is really cool! Just a small nitpick: on a low-powered device, the hero globe is really laggy (it's fine if I scroll past it, though).

New comment by ByteAtATime in "Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL"

ByteAtATime — Tue, 06 May 2025 03:17:36 +0000

Have you seen duckdb? https://duckdb.org/

It's basically what you're building, but more low-level. Really cool, to be honest -- serves the same market too. Do you have any significant differentiator, other than charts?