Hacker News: andunie

New comment by andunie in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

andunie — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:41:04 +0000

This works great for me to transfer stuff between my own devices in my home, but it's not an AirDrop replacement at all, so I don't know why they advertise it like that.

New comment by andunie in "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux"

andunie — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:35:49 +0000

Why is WebKit so bad?

The Tailwind Debacle

andunie — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:17:53 +0000

Article URL: https://njump.me/naddr1qqtk7m3dw35x2tt5v95kcamfdejz6er9vfskxmr9qgsvhgf6d6s4qykqn9qfykf5tu6vw6smndxcuvqswkjcp6uvyz79uhgrqsqqqa28jlw4gs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548941

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by andunie in "Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers"

andunie — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:57:49 +0000

So what is this article about?

1. How to do sets in Go?

2. What changed between Go 1.24 and 1.25?

3. Trusting an LLM?

4. Self-hosted compilers?

It is not clear at all. Also there are no conclusions, it's purely a waste of time, basically the story of a guy figuring out for no reason that the way maps are implemented has changed in Go.

And the title is about self-hosted compilers, whose "advantage" turned out to be just that the guy was able to read the code? How is that an advantage? I guess it is an advantage for him.

The TypeScript compiler is also written in Go instead of in TypeScript. So this shouldn't be an advantage? But this guy likes to read Go, so it would also be an advantage to him.

New comment by andunie in "Being poor vs. being broke"

andunie — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:35:23 +0000

I don't understand what am I supposed to do with this information.

Now that I know what it means to be poor what should I do?

New comment by andunie in "The G in GPU is for Graphics damnit"

andunie — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:15:43 +0000

I read somewhere that CPUs are better at generating graphics than GPUs (although I imagine much slower). Is that true? Does that explain why GUI libraries like Egui are so much uglier than, for example, Iced?

New comment by andunie in "Nostr"

andunie — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:26:14 +0000

Why do you say they're "clearly aimed at technical people"? Do you know the minds of people who created them?

New comment by andunie in "Nostr"

andunie — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:24:51 +0000

Those phrases you mentioned do not sound like they were addressed to children, and they have more text afterwards that expand on them.

Maybe you could explain what they're lacking?

New comment by andunie in "How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?"

andunie — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:45:12 +0000

Wasn't it better when only .com mattered? There are thousands of TLDs now and that forces companies to buy multiple, these domain names are not even memorable anymore specifically because of the TLD part.

New comment by andunie in "How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?"

andunie — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:44:18 +0000

Such a stupid system.

New comment by andunie in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

andunie — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:38:53 +0000

Wow, that is crazy. These prices are hard to believe.

New comment by andunie in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

andunie — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:03:10 +0000

I don't know if these work or not for the specific case mentioned here, but the cheapest eSIMs by a huge margin are from https://silent.link/ if anyone is interested. They definitely do work under normal internet circumstances.

New comment by andunie in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

andunie — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:00:02 +0000

How can it be that one person living in Indonesia says everything is blocked and the country is in chaos and another, very calmly, is completely unaware and can't even find any news about it? This is so odd. What is the truth?

New comment by andunie in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

andunie — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:56:24 +0000

About VPNs I don't know but you could all start using Nostr instead of Twitter and Discord.

Also Telegram using MTProto proxies (that you have to host, do not use those free ones out there), if those don't qualify as VPNs.

New comment by andunie in "Git-Annex"

andunie — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:09:36 +0000

Oh, really? rclone is great, but as a standalone thing it's really annoying to use. I didn't realize until now that it was missing a git-annex integration to be great. Thank you! I'll start using it again.

New comment by andunie in "Bluesky now platform of choice for science community"

andunie — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:08:00 +0000

No, because Bluesky the platform has to actively crawl my PDS, and it can freely decide to not do that.

New comment by andunie in "Bluesky now platform of choice for science community"

andunie — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:19:59 +0000

Can you expand on that? In my understanding it is a completely different approach.

New comment by andunie in "Bluesky now platform of choice for science community"

andunie — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:05:58 +0000

It's so odd that they still get to enjoy their status as a "decentralized" "open" social network when it's really just a centralized platform by definition (and it's not even their fault, there is simply no way to do what they want to do without centralization).

Sure, someone may say "the AT Protocol is open", but that means nothing because the AT Protocol is not Bluesky, Bluesky is one centralized platform that happens to "talk" that protocol (well, of course, since the "protocol" is literally defined by whatever they happen to be doing), it still controls who can be inside and who can't.

TL;DR: Nostr is a much better option for most use cases, sadly for some unfortunate reason it never got to enjoy too much attention from a wider technologist community.

New comment by andunie in "Claude for Chrome"

andunie — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 02:20:52 +0000

A browser extension that interfaces between a webpage and some LLM?

Am I stupid or this a very obvious thing that tons of other companies could have done already? It's crazy nobody thought of it before (I certainly didn't).

New comment by andunie in "Git-Annex"

andunie — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:13:08 +0000

I've used this for years, but to me the big selling point was integration with cloud storage providers as a means of backup. That, however, was always flaky and dependent on unmaintained third-party plugins. I think there was also a bug at some point that caused some data inconsistencies, so eventually I stopped.

Does anyone know if the situation has improved on that front in the past 5 years?