Hacker News: awalGarg

Kova: The hardware ecosystem from sketch to shelf

awalGarg — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:41:41 +0000

Article URL: https://kova-five-zeta.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630291

Points: 1

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New comment by awalGarg in "Data breach at shipping giant Ceva Logistics"

awalGarg — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:33:24 +0000

Full title: A data breach at shipping giant Ceva Logistics is rippling across banks, retailers, Steam gamers, and beyond

Data breach at shipping giant Ceva Logistics

awalGarg — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:33:24 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/a-data-breach-at-shipping-giant-ceva-logistics-is-rippling-across-banks-retailers-steam-gamers-and-beyond/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364567

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by awalGarg in "Scrcpy v4.0"

awalGarg — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:38:32 +0000

Yep. And the author of scrcpy is also one of the developers of VLC media player - another piece of software that just works.

New comment by awalGarg in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

awalGarg — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:54:32 +0000

> > If I know the answer to all these questions, wiring it together takes me LESS time than passing it to Claude Code.

> That's just not true, and if it is in your case, then you're not great at writing prompts yet.

That's just not true, and if it is in your case, then you're not great at writing code yet.

21 Years Living Off-Grid on a Remote Island in a Self-Built Cabin and Homestead [video]

awalGarg — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:17:57 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313100

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: JSON spreadsheets with vi bindings (proof of concept)

awalGarg — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:59:54 +0000

Hi folks! I'd like to share a proof of concept for an idea I've thought about for a long time. Think of a new form of spreadsheets where the primary data structure is not a rigid grid but a free-form JSON-like structure (but with first class tables support of course). I'm linking here a demo which uses vi style hotkeys for interaction, although of course the idea is not limited to that mode of interaction.

The addresses end up being JSON paths. The layout is currently rigid because it's just a PoC but ideally you'd have much more control over it, kind of like a canvas.

Expressions can refer to other cells via their JSON based address, even relative to their current address. There is no expressions support in the PoC yet but a table in the example does show a dynamic column. Since you have arbitrarily nested arrays/hashes anyway, you can reserve tables to represent arrays of homogenous records, and some of the columns can be dynamically calculated (or have a default dynamic calculation) based on other columns. The expressions are just JavaScript functions, but they can be anything that works with JSON types.

This is very far from finished. I'm just been trying to share early these days and I think many of you'd find the idea itself interesting.

Why? I think spreadsheets are great but they are underutilized because of their rigidity. They are not suitable for version control, being authoritative data sources, powering APIs etc. I don't know if this is the right direction either. I'd be happy to hear your thoughts!

The code is 100% manually written by me (except for the CSS background which I copied from SO). If there is sufficient interest in collaboration, I'd be happy to put up the source on codeberg.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772908

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A (mostly) POSIX-compatible make implemented in Rust

awalGarg — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:05:40 +0000

Article URL: https://code.boringcactus.com/makers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46632702

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by awalGarg in "Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates"

awalGarg — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:15:38 +0000

> I can assure you that the core utils have all already went through static analysers doing more checks than the Rust compiler.

I'd be very interested in reading more about this. Could you please explain what are these checks and how they are qualitatively and quantitatively better than the default rustc checks?

Please note that this is about checks on the codebase itself - not system/integration tests which are of course already applicable against alternative implementations.

Default Search Engine: Wikipedia

awalGarg — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:35:29 +0000

Article URL: https://paste.sr.ht/~awal/2310cfca431e9f723df281d02558eaebd77e2091

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45067069

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Default Search Engine: Wikipedia

awalGarg — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:35:36 +0000

Article URL: https://paste.sr.ht/~awal/2310cfca431e9f723df281d02558eaebd77e2091

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054186

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by awalGarg in "Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft"

awalGarg — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:44:57 +0000

Sounds like a reasonable theory but do you have an actual example? The one you gave:

> For example, a typical bilingual speaker of Indian English and Hindi will replace instances of the /æ/ phoneme (as in "blast" or "fast") with another phoneme like /a:/ (as in "father"). Which isn't that unusual since /æ/ is pretty uncommon among languages.

does not apply to Indian languages because most of them have daily-use-words with the /æ/ sound.

New comment by awalGarg in "Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI"

awalGarg — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:25:59 +0000

The headline already rubbed me the wrong way, but seeing this made me immediately cancel my Duolingo subscription. I encourage others to do the same.

New comment by awalGarg in "F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund's FOSS Sustainability Grant"

awalGarg — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:24:29 +0000

To add insult to the injury, they claim that most people should stick to Play Store - a malware repository controlled by an ad distribution company - for better privacy. We're supposed to take this seriously.

New comment by awalGarg in "Our structure"

awalGarg — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 14:26:42 +0000

I understand why the other comments would be flagged, but this one is legibly reasoned and I've vouched for it.

It is obvious that historical advancement of technology has caused widespread cultural changes, and a sizable percentage of them are considered negative by a large portion of the population. To state that commercially viable AI could cause such effects as well does not seem necessarily unhinged to me, but in fact worthy of discourse on this forum.