Hacker News: azangru

New comment by azangru in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

azangru — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:24:44 +0000

If the argument, which seems to be "code is cheap; let's write implementations for multiple platforms", remains true, what do you think will continue turning the wheel?

New comment by azangru in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

azangru — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:35:39 +0000

Signal requires a mobile phone for an account; so it's not entirely web-friendly. Plus, can you read what's posted to signal without an account?

New comment by azangru in "Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M"

azangru — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:03:43 +0000

Well, DHH managed to attract Dell, which are kinda sorta promising through a single representative that their new XPS laptops are fully tested with Omarchy:

https://www.youtube.com/live/Bic2KjFFj6w?si=g0wyGBQi63NmhWr5...

So that's encouraging. But still, I don't see any acknowledgement on the Dell site (apart from a single blog post) about their stance on supporting and testing linux on their laptops.

New comment by azangru in "Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M"

azangru — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:40:41 +0000

> given that developers are the one group of people today that don't generally have a problem running Linux on the desktop.

I am a developer; and I do have a problem: I don't have a choice of good laptops that are guaranteed to work with linux, and preferably come with linux preinstalled. I can go buy a macbook, or a windows laptop; but I can't walk into a store and buy a linux laptop.

New comment by azangru in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"

azangru — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:26:45 +0000

I hate it when a comment tells me to see JIRA-1234. What if in a year's time we stop using Jira?

New comment by azangru in "How the words we teach English language learners changed"

azangru — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:03:49 +0000

All that time spent programming those visuals. Which, I think, ironically, have made the article harder to read, not easier.

New comment by azangru in "I don't recommend Tailwind CSS"

azangru — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:50:39 +0000

Do your sass customers know what javascript is or how it's different from java? Does this mean developers shouldn't care either?

New comment by azangru in "A big win for Android interoperability"

azangru — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:25:50 +0000

> it's that small businesses cannot buy phones, install a patched version of Android without a restriction

Pardon my ignorance; but why would Android need to be patched? Is it because it wouldn't run on the phone hardware otherwise?

New comment by azangru in "Mozilla: The state of open source AI"

azangru — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:01:07 +0000

> This new trend of content appearing while scrolling down is so terrible accessibility-wise, I do not understand how Mozilla of all institutions would do it.

Could you explain what is wrong with the accessibility of this page? All the content is included in the html payload, so it is accessible to screen readers and text-based browsers; and as for the "reveal" effect, it seems to respect user's choice of "prefers reduced motion" and is disabled when that is user's preference.

New comment by azangru in "Mozilla: The state of open source AI"

azangru — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:53:38 +0000

From the title of a chart:

> The venture-funded open-source ecosystem: total disclosed funding, USD M

> Bars grow as you scroll.

The bars, in fact, don't grow as you scroll. And I don't even see why they should.

New comment by azangru in "The Lunduke Computer Operating System"

azangru — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:27:58 +0000

Not OP; but I would define it as a cluster of specific and strongly held opinions on several topics, such as race/ethnicity, sex, migration, climate change. These opinions cluster together, and produce certain recognizable behaviors including speech patterns, speech taboos, and aggressiveness towards people who do not share these opinions.

New comment by azangru in "Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch"

azangru — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:12:12 +0000

I'd rather have something I can tinker with on my own machine, thank you very much

New comment by azangru in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

azangru — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:40:11 +0000

> And then please, please test for prompting with challenging assignments that would usually be beyond a student's skills

Does this mean you will requre all students to pay for a subscription to an llm provider?

New comment by azangru in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

azangru — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:09:39 +0000

> You can cheat on your homework all you like, but you'll completely fail the exams

This might sound principled, but we need to recognize that school administrators are incentivised to have as few kids as possible fail their exams; and consequently, so are the teachers. Either exams will change, or the teaching will change.

New comment by azangru in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

azangru — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:16:52 +0000

Well, at least the copy on the site reads like satire. I didn't notice it at first, looking at components; but then I started reading the text.

P.S.: The popover description is brilliant:

> The obtrusive newsletter modal every AI startup deploys. Takes over the entire viewport with a blurred backdrop. By design, neither the Escape key nor backdrop clicks close it; the visitor either submits the form inside or clicks the tiny dismissal link at the bottom. Pair with `timer` to auto-open after the visitor has skimmed a few paragraphs.

New comment by azangru in "Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm"

azangru — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:33:51 +0000

Thanks! Found it.

New comment by azangru in "Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm"

azangru — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:01:28 +0000

> Source available in Github through NoSuggest website.

Where? I couldn't find any link to the source on the website.

New comment by azangru in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

azangru — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:14:18 +0000

> Submit a feature (our version of a pull request) that looks and behaves exactly the way I want

What happens after the submission? Who reviews the feature? How long? Are there any limits to the size of the diff? Do reviewers push back? How often are features submitted?

New comment by azangru in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

azangru — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:58:59 +0000

Will there be developers at all then? What would they do? What would define their role? What skills/qualifications would they need?

New comment by azangru in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

azangru — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:47:06 +0000

> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand

Users don't. Question is, do developers, who are tasked to read, modify, and maintain the code?