Hacker News: beanaroo

New comment by beanaroo in "Ten lines of code that changed my world"

beanaroo — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:42:02 +0000

Another fun one for a bit of shenanigans:

  #define true ((rand()&15)!=15)

Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders

beanaroo — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:40:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/wellington-second-hand-book-store-s-mysterious-orders

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323983

Points: 86

# Comments: 84

New comment by beanaroo in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

beanaroo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:13:32 +0000

We have tried reaching out to their sales multiple times but never get a response.

New comment by beanaroo in "Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser"

beanaroo — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 10:50:41 +0000

Surfingkeys is my preferred extension

New comment by beanaroo in "Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released"

beanaroo — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 20:52:23 +0000

Not exactly the same but various basic HTTP server implementations are presented at https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Web_server

New comment by beanaroo in "Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?"

beanaroo — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:27:11 +0000

Additionally, there is https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors

I personally find it a bit easier to use with better docx support.

New comment by beanaroo in "So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine"

beanaroo — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:41:22 +0000

What happens when your business has a portfolio of products/services over multiple departments, spanning various platforms, and only one consumer mobile app uses Unity for an augmented reality component that's not a core offering (premium feature)?

Should Unity still be entitled to the same cut?

New comment by beanaroo in "JSON Schema Store"

beanaroo — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 06:45:03 +0000

I like to use zod for Typescript and Pydantic for python.

https://github.com/StefanTerdell/zod-to-json-schema

https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/usage/json_schema/

New comment by beanaroo in "Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode"

beanaroo — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 18:00:31 +0000

This looks really awesome. Are there any plans to support teams that do not use VS Code or GitHub?

New comment by beanaroo in "Reddit Strike Has Started"

beanaroo — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 03:57:32 +0000

I can no longer access subreddits I have been subscribed to. They are also no longer listed in my subscriptions.

Private subreddits are indeed invitation only

New comment by beanaroo in "Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software"

beanaroo — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:15:26 +0000

I can also recommend https://www.focalboard.com/

New comment by beanaroo in "“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4"

beanaroo — Sat, 20 May 2023 22:48:51 +0000

The most elegant is certainly sleepsort. Maybe not the most efficient, but definitely elegant.

New comment by beanaroo in "Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search"

beanaroo — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:36:18 +0000

For coding problems that DDG can't answer, I've been falling back on phind.com instead with reasonably good results.

New comment by beanaroo in "Ask HN: What's on your home server?"

beanaroo — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:48:11 +0000

I use Cloudflare to proxy a number of self-hosted HTTPS services, which is great.

I still haven't found a solution to obscure, geo-filter and WAF arbitrary TCP/UDP.

Spectrum Enterprise seems like it is capable but not really the answer for a personal server that handles megabytes of traffic a day.

New comment by beanaroo in "Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage"

beanaroo — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:25:25 +0000

btop instead of htop instead of top

New comment by beanaroo in "Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design"

beanaroo — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:53:46 +0000

This looks great!

One minor thing I'd like to see, and I don't know if this is to do with the underlying calendaring spec, is the differentiation of physical location and online meeting.

Some events may have both and I have found the "Join" buttons on desktop notifications for Outlook/Teams to be pretty convenient.

New comment by beanaroo in "JetBrains – Addressing the New UI Comments"

beanaroo — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 20:10:38 +0000

I really prefer the new look. I don't need or want labels in my field of view all day for buttons that I learned the purposes of years ago. If there's a new icon I don't understand, I can simply hover over it for a second.

I tend to rely on keyboard shortcuts and fall back to Search Everywhere (double shift), so the first thing I do on a new install is hide the menu bar.

I find the extra bit of whitespace helps with less travel and accuracy when switching to mouse.

The new UI has been a net positive in my personal experience.

New comment by beanaroo in "Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI"

beanaroo — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:46:04 +0000

I haven't really used VSCode, so I can't really compare, but as a long time user of JetBrains IDEs I too really enjoy the new interface.

I mostly use keyboard shortcuts and when I don't know the combination, I rely on the Search Anywhere (double shift) and Run Anything (double ctrl) functionalities.

I find the new UI less distracting and the new VCS menu is a nice addition.

I also wonder how much technical debt has accumulated in the previous UI that is being addressed by a refresh.

New comment by beanaroo in "Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe"

beanaroo — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 20:40:09 +0000

Also proprietary and relatively new on the scene:

https://www.jetbrains.com/space/

New comment by beanaroo in "New XPS 13 Shows the Price of Going Too Thin"

beanaroo — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:51:46 +0000

I have a 9550 and I remember the battery recall.

They called me, explained the issue, and offered to either pay for shipping them my laptop or to ship me a battery with instructions on how to swap it it out myself, warranty preserved.

Maybe it's because I purchased it from their site and they had my contact details.

I was hoping this would eliminate the coil whine and random ticking I had since day one which they claimed was to be expected. Sadly, I still live with it.

The soft touch coating on the palm rest has now also started to degrade and go tacky.