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New comment by Sirental in "Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK"

Sirental — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:42:36 +0000

The website is a little too obviously made by Claude. The first thing I noticed is the classic "pill with pulsing green dot that says something is active or live" claudism.

New comment by Sirental in "I built a Game Boy emulator in F#"

Sirental — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:06:43 +0000

It's a shame though that if you come from the world of OCaml, F# feels like its stuck in C#'s shadow a bit. You can get pretty far with F# by using it as a functional language, but eventually you'll want to interop with the rest of the .NET ecosystem and suddenly you're writing in a weird OOP/Functional hybrid style.

New comment by Sirental in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

Sirental — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:57:06 +0000

You do have to ask yourself why Windows has such a high market share. Chrome OS is Linux based but still managed to poke a deeper hole than much of us expected in the consumer space. Android is Linux based and practically annihilated Windows CE off the face of the earth. Mac OS has been competing fairly well with Windows despite being hardware exclusive. I very very very rarely see a Linux distribution in the wild being used on a PC/Laptop. When I do, it's usually being used by a nerd who knows their thing.

I think the reason Windows is so successful is because it's stable, bulletproof and easy. You don't have to burn an ISO to a USB and boot from it, partition a disk and install it. You don't have to grep grub at any time. You rarely have to use PowerShell for much of anything at all, including device management, managing services and even tweaking the registry.

The "desktop environment" is the operating system, not a seperate abstraction around it. There's no research required on what distro works best for you, what package manager is ideal, what file system to use, what window manager to use, what desktop environment to use. There's no messing with repositories either. No issues with drivers that require compiling from source, no marking an executable as "executable" through chmod.

I like Linux, but the Linux community overestimate how usable it is outside of their meta, and underappreciate their own mental model of what a computer is and how it differs from the layman. Most people want to open their laptop, double click a browser and watch Family Guy funny moments on facebook.com without having to troubleshoot PulseAudio because it's suddenly gone super quiet.

New comment by Sirental in "LLMs can be exhausting"

Sirental — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:49:33 +0000

I agree. The more expensive models I must admit have impressed me, but sometimes they take so long and are so expensive you might as well do it yourself. That being said if you're feeling particularly lazy there is now a "do it for me" button built into code editors, but until perhaps 2035 this technology is still somewhat pedestrian compared to what it could be in the future.

New comment by Sirental in "LLMs can be exhausting"

Sirental — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:42:00 +0000

No to be fair I do see what he's saying. I see a major difference between the more expensive models and the cheaper ones. The cheaper (usually default) ones make mistakes all the damn time. You can be as clear as day with them and they simply don't have the context window or specs to make accurate, well reasoned desicions and it is a bit like having a terrible junior work alongside you, fresh out of university.

New comment by Sirental in "Show HN: Cloud to Desktop in the Fastest Way"

Sirental — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:29:04 +0000

I think this particular design language became a bit of a trend before AI ate it up. I'm not sure what it's called but it proceeded neobrutalism and every single desktop app or self hosted solution had a landing page that looked exactly like this. I imagine AI saw the pattern and doubled down cause it's Claude's favourite design language.