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New comment by axkdev in "AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering"

axkdev — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:50:41 +0000

But can a bee create a video of Will Smith eating pasta?

Show HN: Unified.nvim – A Neovim plugin for inline Git diffs

axkdev — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:53:57 +0000

Hi HN,

I was looking for a way to view diff in a unified/github style in neovim and didn't find any satisfying solution. There are a couple of plugins that partially address like vgit.nvim, but all of them lacked some of the things I need, so I built unified.nvim.

The functionality is very basic. You just call :Unified command with a commit reference as first argument (for ex. HEAD). A tree window opens on the left listing all of the changed files and navigating the tree opens that file automatically in a buffer. It's just a normal buffer with highlights + virtual lines. You can modify it and the diff will update accordingly, also your normal LSP go to definition etc. will work, similarly to diffview. In fact I took a lot of inspiration (but no code) from diffview and it's UI. The reason why this woulld not work as a feature in diffview, is because diffview relies on build in neovim diffing.

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New comment by axkdev in "Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison"

axkdev — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:10:52 +0000

I dunno what you would consider non trivial. I am building a diffing plugin for neovim. The experience is.. mixed. The fast progression at the start was impressive, but now as the code base have grown the issues show up. The code is a mess. Adding one feature breaks another and so on. I have no problem in using the agent on code that I know very well, because I can stir it in the exact direction I want. But vibe coding something I don't fully understand is a pain.

New comment by axkdev in "Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more"

axkdev — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:52:49 +0000

Hi! Looks like a very interesting tool, as a stubborn cli-only user, I was pleased that there is cli version of this alongside the GUI verison. However, trying to look into the documentation of the cli has left me with a 404 page. https://docs.xpipe.io/cli/man

New comment by axkdev in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

axkdev — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:10:47 +0000

They should write a typescript-to-go transpiler (in typescript) , so that they can write their compiler in typescript and use typescript to transpile it to go.

New comment by axkdev in "With AI you need to think bigger"

axkdev — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:29:12 +0000

> I'm excited to understand more about how aider creates a map of the repository and effectively compresses the information in ways similar to how I keep track of high level ideas.

Run /map. It's nothing fancy, really.

New comment by axkdev in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

axkdev — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:11:20 +0000

I do not disagree with your point, except, given the current state of US, it is hard to describe it as not repressive. I understand it's a spectrum. I checked on Wikipedia - abortion is legal in China. That's one right that many US women don't have. Which does not mean that China is a free country, but just to gain some perspective. The notion of some place being a dictatorship was many times weaponized to launch invasions and economic sanctions that left that place broken and impoverished.

New comment by axkdev in "TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]"

axkdev — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:48:42 +0000

We already new that TS types are Turing complete so it's more of demonstration than a proof.

New comment by axkdev in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

axkdev — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 11:39:54 +0000

It seems like you could use aider in architecture mode. Basically, it will suggest the solution to your problem fist, and prompt you to start editing, you can say no to refine the solution and only start editing when you are satisfied with it.

New comment by axkdev in "Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy"

axkdev — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:09:02 +0000

Citation? I think this is not true. The EU law seems to just require explicit consent. So websites and apps can ask whether user wants to share data to keep using them for free or pay a subscription fee.

New comment by axkdev in "Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder"

axkdev — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:20:40 +0000

Good advice!

New comment by axkdev in "Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder"

axkdev — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:17:14 +0000

For all the talk about "beautiful" design, the photos and videos look super overlit and quite amateurish.

New comment by axkdev in "Bash-Oneliners: A collection of terminal tricks for Linux"

axkdev — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:19:32 +0000

I'd like to point out that, for example, Ctrl+a is not specific to bash, it's a readline[0] keybinding. A subset of those will work in the text box in which I am typing this comment. C-f and C-b work, even C-h, but not C-w. Perhaps this key combo is reserved for closing the firefox tab on windows? Anyway, I love readline and wish it would work on literally all text inputs.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline

New comment by axkdev in "How to do the jhanas"

axkdev — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 06:34:37 +0000

I see. I don't subscribe to Tantra, so can't comment on that. What I believe is that there is no magic and it just depends on the conditions. Those can be from your birth or before your birth. Like if you have a genetic mutation that inhibits brain developement, it will make it harder to grasp these concepts and / or meditate.

New comment by axkdev in "How to do the jhanas"

axkdev — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 21:38:23 +0000

>Then, understanding Brahmā’s invitation, the Buddha Vipassī surveyed the world with the eye of a Buddha, out of his compassion for sentient beings. And he saw sentient beings with little dust in their eyes, and some with much dust in their eyes; with keen faculties and with weak faculties, with good qualities and with bad qualities, easy to teach and hard to teach. And some of them lived seeing the danger in the fault to do with the next world, while others did not. It’s like a pool with blue water lilies, or pink or white lotuses. Some of them sprout and grow in the water without rising above it, thriving underwater. Some of them sprout and grow in the water reaching the water’s surface. And some of them sprout and grow in the water but rise up above the water and stand with no water clinging to them.

This is from Digha Nikaya 14. There is another one, but I don't remember which sutta, where Buddha says that for some people the path is long and hard, while for others it's short and quick.

New comment by axkdev in "Helix 23.10 Highlights"

axkdev — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:02:03 +0000

I wonder how their fuzzy finder fares against fzf-vim in the livegrep scenario

New comment by axkdev in "If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch"

axkdev — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 11:24:41 +0000

Your comment creates a false appearance that FDA has anything to do with granting a patent. If you or anyone else has an issue about a patent being granted (assuming the rest of your comment is correct) then you should take it to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) https://www.uspto.gov/.

On the issue of patent vs exclusivity https://www.fda.gov/drugs/development-approval-process-drugs...

New comment by axkdev in "Fish Shell 3.5.0"

axkdev — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 20:32:21 +0000

You can 1. Make your scripts executable or 2. Use bash / zsh inside of fish. 3. You can define wrapper functions in fish that just call bash/zsh functions internally. I use fish, although I hate writing scripts in it. It just feels wrong. Better stick to good old bash.

New comment by axkdev in "I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium"

axkdev — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 15:26:46 +0000

I was a jetbrains guy until I discovered the vim/neovim ecosystem. Yes, configurling vim takes time but 1.its fun 2. I can fine tune it to my specific work flows in ways simply not achievable with Idea or any other editor. After configuration is finished, the actual time it takes to do my work is comparable with a full fledged ide. It's probably even faster, considering vim loads faster and also forces you to use the keyboard for everything.

New comment by axkdev in "Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?"

axkdev — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 10:17:17 +0000

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