Hacker News: alabhyajindal

New comment by alabhyajindal in "Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI"

alabhyajindal — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:10:57 +0000

You mean handy.computer?

New comment by alabhyajindal in "Seven books I keep close because I love them"

alabhyajindal — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:13:18 +0000

and the seven books I keep close: diary of a wimpy kid 1-7

New comment by alabhyajindal in "Transcribe.cpp"

alabhyajindal — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:51:11 +0000

Congrats! I just tried Handy again which now uses transcribe.cpp and it works brilliantly. Love the streaming output from Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B. I remember using Handy about a year ago and it's amazing to see the improvements!

New comment by alabhyajindal in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

alabhyajindal — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:27:15 +0000

Did solutions to problems just pop into your head when you were programming before LLMs? Did you not pause and think about the code you were writing before?

New comment by alabhyajindal in "How to read more books"

alabhyajindal — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:59:51 +0000

> I always have a book with me when I go out with my partner, even if I don’t usually end up reading it. If she has to run an errand and I have to wait, I don’t waste my free time with nothing to read. I have become good at walking my dog while reading — I even got complimented for that by a stranger — and I make sure I never go to the bathroom without a book.”

This does not sound an improvement over using a phone. We don't have to occupy ourselves every waking moment. It's okay to not do something for a minute.

Code Golf

alabhyajindal — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:16:56 +0000

Article URL: https://code.golf/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265972

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

AI Makes Sitting with Discomfort Feel Shameful

alabhyajindal — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:57:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4890-ai-makes-sitting-with-discomfort-feel-shameful.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932377

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Lean Game Server

alabhyajindal — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:10:43 +0000

Article URL: https://adam.math.hhu.de/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922686

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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

alabhyajindal — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:31:54 +0000

Hi Bruno - this looks great! I remember collaborating with you a couple times on Kagi's browser extensions. Was there a specific moment that made you want to work on Uruky, or was it because of the overall direction Kagi is heading in?

New comment by alabhyajindal in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

alabhyajindal — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:01:25 +0000

100%. Not sure what the solution is but I have lost interest in Show HNs these days. Part of it is because when someone posted before, it usually meant they spent a fair amount of time thinking, and found it worthwhile to spend energy on the project. This was a nice first filter for bad ideas and now no longer exists.

Even for posts that are interesting to me, I get the feeling that it's not worth looking at because it was probably made using LLMs. Nothing against them, but I personally thought of Show HNs as doing something for the love of it, the end result being a bonus.

New comment by alabhyajindal in "Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships"

alabhyajindal — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:47:30 +0000

I built something very similar recently but eventually lost interest because I couldn't find customers. It's main focus was sending email reminders to users to contact their friends.

https://alabhya.me/myfriends

Creative Coding

alabhyajindal — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:59:57 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_coding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255218

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by alabhyajindal in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

alabhyajindal — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:08:14 +0000

Nice very cool. Unfortunately, the blog post looks like it's been generated by an LLM.

> Going from a high score to the highest score isn’t usually about making minor tweaks. It requires fighting for every small, boring, consequential decision—the ones that determine whether a repair isn’t merely possible or practical, but within easy reach.

New comment by alabhyajindal in "Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]"

alabhyajindal — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:51:54 +0000

BOOM! Let's go

New comment by alabhyajindal in "iPhone 17e"

alabhyajindal — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:30:52 +0000

I wonder if the Small Android Phone project has moved forward since the last time it was posted here: https://smallandroidphone.com

Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office

alabhyajindal — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:21:24 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Office

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208083

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by alabhyajindal in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

alabhyajindal — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:38:06 +0000

I can highly recommend Brave Search to anyone who is looking for an alternative. I found it to be much better than DuckDuckGo. Feels like Kagi almost, but free.

New comment by alabhyajindal in "Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better"

alabhyajindal — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:04:26 +0000

How do you block users on HN? Are you using a different client?

New comment by alabhyajindal in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

alabhyajindal — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:08:23 +0000

I am also going to now implement an existing project and invent a different name for it. Look out for Waterfox, a minimal web consumer.

New comment by alabhyajindal in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

alabhyajindal — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:38:43 +0000

From their post on Twitter in 2024 when they adopted Swift, with a comment on Rust.

My general thoughts on Rust:

- Excellent for short-lived programs that transform input A to output B

- Clunky for long-lived programs that maintain large complex object graphs

- Really impressive ecosystem

- Toxic community

https://xcancel.com/awesomekling/status/1822241531501162806