Hacker News: abareplace

New comment by abareplace in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

abareplace — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:26:10 +0000

I continue to add more features to my search-and-replace tool for Windows (https://www.abareplace.com/). I initially built in for myself and it was one of the first incremental grep implementations (allowing you to see the results as you are typing the search pattern). Now it supports various formats like Base64, URL encoding, or timestamp conversions. With one-liners, you can add width/height attributes to tags or insert file contents.

Are We Anti-AI?

abareplace — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:01:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2026/02/11/is-nearlyfreespeech-net-anti-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974419

Points: 3

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New comment by abareplace in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

abareplace — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:38:57 +0000

I'm working on a regex / data conversion tool for web developers: https://www.abareplace.com

Plan to add more handy features in the next version.

New comment by abareplace in "More Mac malware from Google search"

abareplace — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:58:13 +0000

Agreed, the lack of borders or indentation on the screenshots is very confusing. It's hard to understand what text comes from the malicious website and what is from the author.

On coding with LLMs

abareplace — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:57:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abareplace.com/blog/ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46676536

Points: 1

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New comment by abareplace in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

abareplace — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:31:42 +0000

Is it for iOS? Then, it could be the Swift runtime library.

Reflections on My Tech Career: Microsoft, Valve, and Google

abareplace — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:42:05 +0000

Article URL: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/reflections-on-my-tech-career-part-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45885638

Points: 6

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New comment by abareplace in "The Rise of Whatever"

abareplace — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:20:20 +0000

Eevee is she, not he. See the website footer and the home page.

New comment by abareplace in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

abareplace — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:21:05 +0000

https://www.abareplace.com/

An old-school regex and text processing tool for web developers. Great for browsing source code, automating complex replacements, and decoding Base64, URL encoding, or Unix timestamps from your clipboard.

New comment by abareplace in "Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?"

abareplace — Thu, 15 May 2025 10:55:53 +0000

It helps to start blogging about things that are related to your product or interesting to your target audience. I got the first users by writing about text-processing tasks that you can do with regular expressions: https://www.abareplace.com/blog/

New comment by abareplace in "Notepad++ is 21 years old"

abareplace — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 20:14:56 +0000

Exactly, not loading the whole file into memory works well only for hex editors.

New comment by abareplace in "AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted"

abareplace — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:03:24 +0000

Yep. BitBlt originally used complex 16-bit "operation codes" that store the binary operations in reverse Polish notation. Then, they added "operation index" that stores the same information in a byte, like in Amiga, which is shorter and more elegant. The coding is now redundant because each raster operation code contains both an operation index and an operation code. See https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180528-00/?p=98...

New comment by abareplace in "Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison"

abareplace — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:33:37 +0000

If there is no application manifest, you will get Windows NT4 / Windows 9x style buttons. Just tested this on Windows 11.

New comment by abareplace in "The "email is authentication" pattern"

abareplace — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:19:24 +0000

booking.com natively supports this "email is authentication" pattern, so you even don't have to change your password and come up with a throw-away password. They just send you a link by email, you click the link, and you are logged in.

New comment by abareplace in "Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful"

abareplace — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:37:54 +0000

No, they won't get dark mode and this is the biggest problem for Win32 UIs now. If Microsoft would make dark mode available for classic Win32 apps, it would meet all requirements of the original poster.

New comment by abareplace in "Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful"

abareplace — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:16:53 +0000

Check out the Scrollbars series from Raymond Chen:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030731-00/?p=43...

https://github.com/mity/old-new-win32api?tab=readme-ov-file#...

New comment by abareplace in "Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful"

abareplace — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:53:16 +0000

My app is around 500 KB (not megabytes) and it supports dark mode (see https://www.abareplace.com/). So this is definitely possible without using Electron or bloated GUI libraries.

New comment by abareplace in "Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers"

abareplace — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 10:39:03 +0000

Unfortunately, it does not load under Firefox

New comment by abareplace in "Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?"

abareplace — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:53:36 +0000

I'm working on a bulk search-and-replace tool for webmasters and developers that allows you to correct errors on your webpages, add width/height attributes to https://www.abareplace.com/

New comment by abareplace in "Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file"

abareplace — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:18:49 +0000

The CPU usage is around 30% when idle (not handling any HTTP requests) under Windows, so you won't want to keep this app running in background. Otherwise, it's a nice try.