Hacker News: aaws11

Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term 'Dev Mode'

aaws11 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:24:39 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/figma-sent-a-cease-and-desist-letter-to-lovable-over-the-term-dev-mode/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43731136

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by aaws11 in "The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)"

aaws11 — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:52:13 +0000

previously on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37361947

New comment by aaws11 in "There's a mechanical watch feature called a “hack”"

aaws11 — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:59:02 +0000

is there a threadreader equivalent for mastodon?

New comment by aaws11 in "There's a mechanical watch feature called a “hack”"

aaws11 — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:58:12 +0000

I manually compiled the tweets for readability:

https://pastebin.com/raw/dTGJS3Se

is there a threadreader equivalent for mastodon?

New comment by aaws11 in "A group of open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions"

aaws11 — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 07:29:51 +0000

previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490250

/r/reactjs will go dark 2 days to protest Reddit's API policies

aaws11 — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 19:20:01 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/145b2b9/announcement_rreactjs_will_go_dark_june_1214_to/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36262753

Points: 16

# Comments: 3

Realtime traffic monitoring and stats for your AdGuard Home instance on Terminal

aaws11 — Tue, 30 May 2023 16:18:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Lissy93/AdGuardian-Term

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36126680

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by aaws11 in "The dark forest and the cozy web (2020)"

aaws11 — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:05:41 +0000

The cozy web relies on "(human) protocol of everybody cutting-and-pasting bits of text, images, URLs, and screenshots across live streams", hopefully one day changing "from cut-and-paste to a personal blockchain of context-permissioned, addressable, searchable, interlinked clips"

New comment by aaws11 in "My thoughts on OCaml"

aaws11 — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:03:54 +0000

Almost all modern statically typed languages have closures, higher-order functions/methods, lazy streams, and combinators that run efficiently. Persistent/immutable data structures can be implemented even in C.

Also, OCaml has no tracking of side-effects (like in Haskell), and the language and the standard library have lots of features and functions with mutation, such as the array update syntax, mutable record fields, Hashtbl, and the regex module.

The only thing that makes OCaml more “functional” than e.g. Dart, Java, or Rust is that it supports tail calls. While having tail calls is important for functional programming, I would happily give up on tail calls if that means not having the problems listed above.

When you mix imperative and functional styles tail calls become less important. For example, I don’t have to implement a stream map function in Dart with a tail call to map the rest of the stream, I can just use a while or for loop.

In my opinion there is no reason to use OCaml in a new project in 2023.

New comment by aaws11 in "Custom Game Engines: A Small Study"

aaws11 — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:01:52 +0000

Creating a custom engine is a big endeavour and not many are ready for that. I recognize Unity (and Unreal to less extent) have really democratized video game development. Lots of small-medium size companies can use Unity today to develop games quickly, and sometimes, with very low budgets! But, still, lots of big companies prefer to rely on their own custom technologies.

New comment by aaws11 in "Custom Game Engines: A Small Study"

aaws11 — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:59:35 +0000

I feel that people today overestimate how difficult it is to create a game engine, or maybe they underestimate the other aspects of game development.

For clarity, I mean here a basic engine (for example, a custom engine for a 2D game), not a photorealistic and generic 3D game engine like Unity (that definitely is very difficult and probably not worth reinventing the wheel without a good reason).

New comment by aaws11 in "A look at Lucid’s next luxury EV, the Gravity SUV"

aaws11 — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:57:50 +0000

I am glad to see the Gravity SUV moving forward so quickly in its development, as it builds upon everything this organization has achieved so far and moves forward the advancements of their in-house tech to make a luxury electric SUV like no one else.

New comment by aaws11 in "Twitter Blue: What's Wrong with the Way They're Blueing It"

aaws11 — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:54:47 +0000

Twitter has the advantage of huge entrenchment of many communities for a lot of use cases, and a lack of good competitors. I do not believe that a decentralized alternative is likely to take their place.

New comment by aaws11 in "Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing"

aaws11 — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:52:47 +0000

It’s probably a good idea to disable Edge’s follow creator feature until this privacy issue is fixed.

Central Air Data Computer gave airspeed for fighters used gears for computations

aaws11 — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:49:15 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1650565976294055937

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35704097

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by aaws11 in "Discord, or the Death of Lore"

aaws11 — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 11:44:12 +0000

for whoever unable to access the article directly:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230306164958/http://ascii.text...

New comment by aaws11 in "Old Reddit Is Down"

aaws11 — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:57:13 +0000

Seems like old.reddit.com is experiencing problems. Shows message:

> Our CDN was unable to reach our servers > Please check www.redditstatus.com if you consistently get this error.

However, according to the status page everything should be operational.

Old Reddit Is Down

aaws11 — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:55:42 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34885234

Points: 46

# Comments: 16

New comment by aaws11 in "How to make YouTube less distracting"

aaws11 — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:45:00 +0000

and someone stole the opportunity from you. BAM!

New comment by aaws11 in "How to make YouTube less distracting"

aaws11 — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:43:42 +0000

here's something I use (more simpler than installing those numerous extensions and bloating your browser) for making youtube less distracting and more productive: less addictive youtube: https://github.com/AlexisDrain/Less-Addictive-YouTube

and follow the uBlock origin instructions mentioned in this blog post: https://pawelurbanek.com/youtube-addiction-selfcontrol