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New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

abhijeetpbodas — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:32:05 +0000

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian"

abhijeetpbodas — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:10:12 +0000

For lwn.net articles, aren't these subscriber-only links meant to be used only by the subscriber? Is sharing them on HN sabotaging lwn?

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)"

abhijeetpbodas — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 06:05:47 +0000

Relatedly: "How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM"- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42752604

Not involved with any fishy crypto fishy business

abhijeetpbodas — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:24:48 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/torvalds/6faadce34c56d53b2d5352da0c3cd093

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44835390

Points: 3

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New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Python performance myths and fairy tales"

abhijeetpbodas — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:19:06 +0000

An earlier version of the talk is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir5ShHRi5lw (I could not find the EuroPython one).

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?"

abhijeetpbodas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:19:33 +0000

Librewolf on Linux, and IronFox on Android seem to be working very well for me based on ~ 1 week of usage, after moving away from FF.

Both work well with Firefox Sync, and also support addons, which is great.

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "AI killed the tech interview. Now what?"

abhijeetpbodas — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:48:00 +0000

> reserved for companies that are pushing the boundary of the industry

In a world where every company beleives (or wants to beleive) that they are doing some ground-breaking, bleeding edge work (see any tech company blog and you can only find hyped technologies in there), I do not think one can expect companies to do a fair assessment of if they really are doing such work.

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Things we learned about LLMs in 2024"

abhijeetpbodas — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:57:18 +0000

> ask very precise questions explaining the background

IME, being forced to write about something or verbally explaining/enumerating things in detail _by itself_ leads to a lot of clarity in the writer's thoughts, irrespective of if there's an LLM answering back.

People have been doing rubber-duck-debugging since long. The metaphorical duck (LLMs in our context), if explained to well, has now started answering back with useful stuff!

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

abhijeetpbodas — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:27:59 +0000

Specifically worth noting:

> It’s important to note that, if you’re using a non-commercial license, you cannot opt out of the collection of anonymous usage statistics.

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Learning about distributed systems: where to start? (2020)"

abhijeetpbodas — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 05:19:49 +0000

Which OS book would you recommend? Anything similar to the DDIA style (not too academic)?

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Pylyzer – A fast static code analyzer and language server for Python"

abhijeetpbodas — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 10:47:33 +0000

This unfortunately has `docstring-to-markdown` as one of its dependencies, which is a pain to install behind corporate pip proxies because it's under GPL.

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers"

abhijeetpbodas — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 03:03:43 +0000

I prefer the simplicity of a single `notes.md` for this,always open in vim in a terminal tab.

To do the separation, I've a keybinding to insert current timestamp, and but me on a new line:

`nnoremap t :r! date "+\%F \%T"I#o`

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993)"

abhijeetpbodas — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:41:43 +0000

And happy 30th birthday to debian! Really appreciate all the work and effort that has gone into it.

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993)"

abhijeetpbodas — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:38:48 +0000

It would have been fair to say it aged well, if the version which is currently called testing was their flagship version.

For most software, the testing version gives you relatively latest stuff. But that doesn't mean every software can advertise itself as being up-to-date.

For debian specifically, I don't think they recommend using the testing version unless you're a Debian contributor/tester.

I've tried using Sid (desktop) in the past, but ran into several version issues while installing through apt. Didn't try much to debug, and switched to stable. Been a happy user since!

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993)"

abhijeetpbodas — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:39:40 +0000

> 2) Debian will contain the most up-to-date of everything.

Hasn't aged too well, I suppose.

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Emacs 29.1"

abhijeetpbodas — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:40:46 +0000

Bash/readline also has a vi mode :) https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Readline-...

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Why are online recipes so long-winded?"

abhijeetpbodas — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 15:14:46 +0000

https://based.cooking/

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Diff Models – A New Way to Edit Code"

abhijeetpbodas — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 14:28:44 +0000

On a philosophical level, AI for writing code has always seemed redundant to me. Here's why:

1. Humans create programming languages which machines can understand. OK.

2. Humans build tools (LSP, treesitter, tags, type checkers and others) to help humans understand code better. OK.

3. Humans build (AI) programs which run on machines so that the computer can understand... computer programs???

Aren't computers supposed to be able to understand code already? Wasn't the concept of "computer code" created so as to have something which the computer could understand? Isn't making a (AI) program to help the computer understand computer programs re-inventing the wheel?

(Of course, I get that I use the terms "understand" and "computer programs" very loosely here!)

New comment by abhijeetpbodas in "Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites"

abhijeetpbodas — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:49:51 +0000

Interesting that their website itself uses CSS: view-source:https://kristall.random-projects.net/style.css

Effective Neovim: Instant IDE

abhijeetpbodas — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 06:17:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stqUbv-5u2s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34102809

Points: 2

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