Hacker News: alpha_trion

New comment by alpha_trion in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

alpha_trion — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:32:04 +0000

This is pretty cool, dunno if I'd want to commit to a specific monitor brand to get this functionality though. My primary concerns with monitor selection are ports and color quality.

I have an old TrendNet KVM that I've used for years but it doesn't support Thunderbolt so it's getting a bit long in the tooth.

New comment by alpha_trion in "An Apple (II) for Teacher"

alpha_trion — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:28:32 +0000

Apple IIs and Commodore VIC20 were my first exposure to computers as a kid. My elementary school had a lab of Apple IIs, played a good amount of Oregon Trail on it.

New comment by alpha_trion in "Zed 1.0"

alpha_trion — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:31:01 +0000

Congrats Zed team! Big fan, Zed is my daily driver.

New comment by alpha_trion in "GitHub is having issues now"

alpha_trion — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:30:31 +0000

Their Elasticsearch cluster went down and it's taking forever to rebuild their index. They should really consider looking into some more modern alternatives for that layer of the application.

New comment by alpha_trion in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

alpha_trion — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:28:11 +0000

I'm interested to see where you land the project at post-GH. The platform has just not grown in the ways I had hoped and their reliability has been a real issue for awhile now.

I would hope they would prioritize stability and features that devs have been asking for but it seems like that is not where their focus is at.

New comment by alpha_trion in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

alpha_trion — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:46:59 +0000

This will be the first time Apple has had an engineer as CEO. I'm excited to see what this brings.

New comment by alpha_trion in "Creating a search application in under 2 minutes with Claude"

alpha_trion — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:18:27 +0000

Creating a search application in under 2 minutes with Claude, Searchcraft and MCP

Creating a search application in under 2 minutes with Claude

alpha_trion — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:18:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs_98sUrFqA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517829

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by alpha_trion in "Product Hunt is dead"

alpha_trion — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:12:34 +0000

It's just been grift for a long time.

New comment by alpha_trion in "Rust is a language for building foundational software"

alpha_trion — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:40:51 +0000

Matthias's suggestion about reframing the context of the purpose of the Rust language struck a chord with me. His post is building a bit off of Niko Matsakis's blog post about the same concept but goes a bit more in depth. There is a perception of Rust as being just a "systems programming" language when really it is a language for building "foundational software".

Rust is a language for building foundational software

alpha_trion — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:40:51 +0000

Article URL: https://corrode.dev/blog/foundational-software/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985934

Points: 12

# Comments: 4

New comment by alpha_trion in "Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first"

alpha_trion — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:01:46 +0000

This feels unnecessary.

New comment by alpha_trion in "US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years"

alpha_trion — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:59:49 +0000

And still this administration is pushing for rate cuts.

New comment by alpha_trion in "Stylish Bugs"

alpha_trion — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:57:11 +0000

My brain misinterpreted the title of this as "stylish rugs" so I was expecting something totally different.

New comment by alpha_trion in "Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?"

alpha_trion — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:45:47 +0000

Ads have been an arms race for awhile now. If ad creators stop making overly intrusive, CPU sucking ads then perhaps people would be less inclined to use ad-blockers.