Hacker News: Farrynet

New comment by Farrynet in "Show HN: Markwright – a 2MB native screen annotator with no telemetry"

Farrynet — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:50:24 +0000

2mb for a native app is incredibly refreshing these days. What language/GUI framework did you use to keep the footprint that small without bloating it?

New comment by Farrynet in "Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend"

Farrynet — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:46:18 +0000

4 hours and 20 commits with Cursor is wild for getting something like this off the ground. How much of that time was spent fighting with prompt context vs actually structuring the browser media APIs?

New comment by Farrynet in "Show HN: Proton – A Pure Go, Immediate-Mode GUI Library (Zero CGO)"

Farrynet — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:52:33 +0000

Zero CGO cross-compilation to Windows and macOS is a massive selling point for Go desktop apps. The immediate-mode approach also makes UI state management a breeze for quick internal tools.

New comment by Farrynet in "Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time"

Farrynet — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:37:51 +0000

Its always wild seeing the sheer volume of background noice on public IPs. Fun project.