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New comment by arikrahman in "Even more batteries included with Emacs"

arikrahman — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:50:42 +0000

I find that Emacs is actually the first mover on prime technologies. Just look at gptel and org-mode. Nothing else really even comes close. The reason some odd names exist like yank and kill or kill chain is because Emacs was the first and didn't have anything else to use as reference.

New comment by arikrahman in "Lisp's Influence on Ruby"

arikrahman — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:42:09 +0000

Even the Lisps have Lisps. Like Clojure with ClojureScript, CLR, ClojureDart, Jank... etc.

New comment by arikrahman in "Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing"

arikrahman — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:26:10 +0000

Thanks, will try this out on the Kobo later.

New comment by arikrahman in "Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing"

arikrahman — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:24:52 +0000

This is what I first thought and it's a very elegant solution, and not needlessly overcomplicated.

New comment by arikrahman in "Rayforce"

arikrahman — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:47:09 +0000

Bummer

New comment by arikrahman in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

arikrahman — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:46:59 +0000

I find myself unable to fold it in public as I'm worried it puts a target on my back. Albeit, with more folds coming to market it will be seen less as a premium.

New comment by arikrahman in "The Case for Free Online Books (2014)"

arikrahman — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:43:58 +0000

The colleges will raise tuition anyways, and they do it at a runaway cost. Might as well throw in something useful and tangible like textbooks that they can bargain wholesale with the publishers. Individually, the students can only beg.

New comment by arikrahman in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

arikrahman — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:33:05 +0000

I am also strongly perturbed by the misrepresentation, especially with no real package support. An alpha flatpak that posts "coming soon" is a bad first impression.

New comment by arikrahman in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

arikrahman — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:40:23 +0000

With my foldable, I find that I hardly use the full display and just use the main screen.

New comment by arikrahman in "Rayforce"

arikrahman — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:14:19 +0000

Any relation to the smash hit SHMUP of the same name?

New comment by arikrahman in "Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps"

arikrahman — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:13:50 +0000

It's the language best positioned for AI with world class nREPL.

New comment by arikrahman in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

arikrahman — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:31:15 +0000

The problem is using the build system. Using Nix flakes could help alleviate a lot of concerns, I wrapped a target meant for debian. After wrapping it with a flake, it worked on NixOS. But since I'm building it declaratively and not imperatively, it could target any distribution, even mac. I've done this with Bitwig, https://github.com/ArikRahman/Nixwig and Jank lang (https://github.com/jank-lang/jank) in this PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/523741

New comment by arikrahman in "Ableton Extensions SDK"

arikrahman — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:53:46 +0000

Yes I'm glad Bitwig 6 finally hit Nixpkgs making it truly natively reproducible and easy to use.

New comment by arikrahman in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

arikrahman — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:42:19 +0000

Is this different from https://github.com/jbensmann/mouseless ? I am confused since they have the same name and product offering but website seems commercial?

New comment by arikrahman in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

arikrahman — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:40:20 +0000

I completely agree, very well said.

New comment by arikrahman in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

arikrahman — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:38:51 +0000

I completely agree.

New comment by arikrahman in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

arikrahman — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:51:16 +0000

The predictive word machine seems to be malfunctioning

New comment by arikrahman in "Ask HN: High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile?"

arikrahman — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:25:41 +0000

How I advise people is that programming is worthwhile but the technology sector is oversaturated. But technology is pervasive and having an understanding and fluency over it is necessary and advantageous. The doctor that researches cancer can use image recognition and AI to detect tumors. This wouldn't be possible without staying in touch with the SOTA and knowing how to set up this system.

New comment by arikrahman in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

arikrahman — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:17:29 +0000

I am referring to the comment two parents above, the one that is demanding an explanation owed to them crudely.

New comment by arikrahman in "Ableton Extensions SDK"

arikrahman — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:46:29 +0000

I see it on Nixpkgs, excited to try it out. I hope Wayland compatiblity on tiling manager works, I had to use some workarounds previously.