Hacker News: anta40

New comment by anta40 in "HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager"

anta40 — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:42:59 +0000

Mmmmm just noticed MacOS is now supported. Guess time to say farewell to DBeaver...

New comment by anta40 in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

anta40 — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:43:06 +0000

So which one has the biggest chance to be Android/iOS alternative?

Many many years ago, smarphone users had these choices:

Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, PalmOS... what else?

New comment by anta40 in "Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989"

anta40 — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:16:28 +0000

Just noticed in cannot build a standalone Rust source file

"error: could not find 'Cargo.toml'"

I assume first need to create a project by "cargo new" ...?

Anyway, love the good ol' Turbo Pascal 7 Reference. Haven't touch it for more than 1 decade.

New comment by anta40 in "Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989"

anta40 — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:07:03 +0000

>> Rust is notorious for its slow compile times

Don't forget Haskell. And what's other... C++, OCaml, etc?

I guess a language with complex/complicated design is difficult to be compiled "blazing fast"

New comment by anta40 in "Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026?"

anta40 — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:01:47 +0000

Why choose one if you can use all of them? Windows: gaming, running proprietary Windows-only apps (like engineering stuffs) Linux: back end development, kernel hacking macOS: mobile app development

Well nowadays I'm stick with macOS not because it's pretty, but because a necessary to do my work as a mobile app dev.

New comment by anta40 in "New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges"

anta40 — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:08:21 +0000

Is there a completely mechanical version of XPan? Of course I mean shoot 65:24 and have interchangebale lens support?

So far, I think there's no one for 35mm. For medium format shooters, there's the much bigger Fuji/Linhof 617. Of course pretty expensive. Perhaps 3D print is the only viable option...

New comment by anta40 in "New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges"

anta40 — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:24:08 +0000

I unserstand this camera is pretty popular among street shooters/photodocumentary folks.

Personally, I prefer less distortion and XPan is the better choice for that (and of course interchangeable lens support). Too bad it's bloody expensive nowadays and since the shutter is battery-dependant, you just have to accept one day it may become a paper weight.

New comment by anta40 in "Zed 1.0"

anta40 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:45:25 +0000

Congtats for reaching 1.0

Gotta say farewell to Sublime. Now Zed is my general purposed text editor. For doing most of my coding work, still use VSCode and nvim.

New comment by anta40 in "Kefir C17/C23 Compiler"

anta40 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:10:41 +0000

Very impressive for a single dev project.

Nice to see someone started the work from zero instead of piggybacking LLVM.

New comment by anta40 in "Hacker News CLI (2014)"

anta40 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:10:05 +0000

Anyone use hnterm? https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm

I think it still works pretty well, and written in C++ instead of the "cool kids" Go/Rust

New comment by anta40 in "Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)"

anta40 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:20:06 +0000

Cool. Is macOS (Apple Silicon) also supported?

If not, well there's another reason to have a Linux VM ready :)

New comment by anta40 in "A Compiler Writing Journey"

anta40 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:07:05 +0000

Perhaps using this: https://github.com/nlsandler/nqcc2

New comment by anta40 in "I Quit Editing Photos"

anta40 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:31:06 +0000

Yes this is my workflow when shooting digitally. Always in RAW & color for greater flexibility during B/W conversion.

New comment by anta40 in "I Quit Editing Photos"

anta40 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:29:39 +0000

"Shoot and scan" is convenient. Hard to argue with it. But hey, if you want convenience, why are still using film?

But anyway, yes print making is both art and science on its own. Finding local labs to develop and scan films is pretty easy. But darkroom to print your photos the old school way? Happy to find a new one (I'm on Jakarta, btw).

New comment by anta40 in "I quit editing photos"

anta40 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:14:36 +0000

Whatever floats the boat.

Even back to film/analog era, taking a photo is just the 1st step. Then apply some darkroom work (dodge/burn/use some filters to adjust the highlight/shadow etc etc). Image editing softwares like Photoshop simplify the process.

I mostly shoot in black & white (both film and digital). Since once of my biggest inspirations is Ansel Adams, then no I don't adhere to "SOOC" (straight out of camera) philosophy. Fine tuning in Photoshop is a must.

New comment by anta40 in "Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it"

anta40 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:28:02 +0000

Yes, I'm happy with Zed a Sublime replacement, usually for general text-editing.

For coding, I'm still stuck with VSCode and nvim.

New comment by anta40 in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

anta40 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:19:36 +0000

So.... a sort of modern Corewar?

New comment by anta40 in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

anta40 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:23:07 +0000

Wezterms is certainly nice. I guess they haven't release another update? Currently stick to iTerm2.

New comment by anta40 in "Finding forall-exists Hyperbugs using Symbolic Execution"

anta40 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:53:21 +0000

I thought this has something to do with this book:

https://forallx.openlogicproject.org/forallxyyc-accessible.p...

New comment by anta40 in "DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit"

anta40 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:44:04 +0000

Ah good old dial up days in early 2000s. Browsing means the phone cannot be used for calling.