Hacker News: cehrlich

New comment by cehrlich in "Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials"

cehrlich — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 06:27:32 +0000

As a maintainer of a different library, I think there’s something here. A revised version of this tool that also gets fed the docs and asked to find inaccuracies could be great. Even if false positives and false negatives are let’s say 20% each, it would still be better than before as final decisions are made by a human.

New comment by cehrlich in "Apple introduced its Retina MacBook 10 years ago today"

cehrlich — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:26:34 +0000

Yeah, I don't think the 12" MacBook was anywhere near the most controversial, because it was always clear that it was a niche product. I had one and loved it. Those who it wasn't right for didn't buy it.

The 2016-2019 Pros on the other hand replaced a machine that was universally loved. there were entire podcasts dedicated to complaining about them for four years.

New comment by cehrlich in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

cehrlich — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:07:52 +0000

Not sure which version was more popular, but I bought a red/blue switch on launch day. And anecdotally I'd say I've seen more of those than the grey one over the years.

New comment by cehrlich in "No more blurry fonts in Linux (2023)"

cehrlich — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:29:54 +0000

Macs used to have good font rendering on Low-DPI displays (I would say the best, but I suppose that’s a matter of opinion)

Then Mojave switched to Metal and removed subpixel AA, and now it’s the worst.

Thread from when it happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476873

New comment by cehrlich in "Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?"

cehrlich — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:27:21 +0000

- Raycast for clipboard history and window management (it uses Rectangle internally)

- TripMode for reducing data usage while tethering

- KeyboardCleanTool for disabling the keyboard when wiping it down

New comment by cehrlich in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023"

cehrlich — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:27:53 +0000

cracking everything wide open for 5 minutes doesn't have too bad of an effect on temperature in my experience, and gives you good air for a few hours.

New comment by cehrlich in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023"

cehrlich — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:09:21 +0000

CO2 Monitor to let me know when I need to let some new air into my office. Mine is a TFA Dostmann 31.5009, but any model with an NDIR sensor should be fine, there are many choices around 70-150 EUR.

New comment by cehrlich in "It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom"

cehrlich — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:08:19 +0000

Same but Astro on Vercel's free tier. If my traffic suddenly spikes 1000000x, my site might go down temporarily. That's ok.

Paying $400/year to get some static html based on markdown for a personal website seems insane to me.

New comment by cehrlich in "Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?"

cehrlich — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 03:40:25 +0000

I got hired from there about a year ago

New comment by cehrlich in "RasaGPT: First headless LLM chatbot built on top of Rasa, Langchain and FastAPI"

cehrlich — Mon, 08 May 2023 10:54:23 +0000

I'd suggest to not put a bunch of 4chan memes in your product demos.

New comment by cehrlich in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

cehrlich — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 08:54:05 +0000

Shouldn't be too difficult. The main thing you'd need is a dictionary that's as close as possible to covering the entire language (ie a digital-first one rather than a digital representation of a paper dictionary), and at least one but ideally several frequency lists. Ideally in the JSON format that Yomichan uses, as that's what the script for generating the data currently expects, but if not then the data can always be massaged. Then you just need to replace the specifics in the app (hardcoded frequency list names etc) with the stuff for your language.

New comment by cehrlich in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

cehrlich — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 13:59:12 +0000

When language learners learn vocab, there are two main processes: 1. Use a premade list of the top x words. Pro: they are guaranteed to be common words. Con: Once you make it past 2000 or so, they might not show up depending on what sort of niche things you read/watch/talk about 2. Look up random words as you come across them, and learn those. Pro: These are words you really saw. Con: You don't know how common that word is, maybe this is the only time in your life that you'll see it

I made a web app that lets you note down words that you come across and might want to learn, and then generates a learning order of those words based on a variety of frequency lists, as well as linking offsite for sample sentences etc. It allowed me to pass the JLPT N1 with just 6k known words (people usually need 8-10k)

vocab.c-ehrlich.dev

New comment by cehrlich in "Framework Laptop 16"

cehrlich — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:54:26 +0000

The exciting thing to me is that if there is enough demand, someone can make a keyboard module without having to make a whole laptop.

Thinkpad-style? Sure! Ortholinear? Why not!

New comment by cehrlich in "Using a Mac without a network connection"

cehrlich — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 11:03:38 +0000

Given the title I was expecting some kind of surprise, but everything works exactly as you would expect.

New comment by cehrlich in "Widespread ethernet issues reported on new M2 Pro Mac mini"

cehrlich — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:37:01 +0000

According to many commenters in the linked thread, it's fixed in MacOS 13.2.1. Not great that it happened at all, but good to see that it was a software issue.

New comment by cehrlich in "GitHub's Copilot AI for Business now available for $19/month"

cehrlich — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 19:38:04 +0000

If Copilot and ChatGPT cost the same and I could only have one, I'd pick Copilot.

New comment by cehrlich in "Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?"

cehrlich — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:58:48 +0000

T3 stack (Next.js, tRPC, Prisma with MySQL, NextAuth, either Tailwind or a component library depending on the project), deployed to Vercel. Maybe swap Prisma for Kysely if cold starts become an issue.

Disclaimer: I maintain an init tool for this stack so I'm somewhat biased

New comment by cehrlich in "Ask HN: Has anyone successfully started their career over in their 30s?"

cehrlich — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 17:40:29 +0000

At age 31 I was was working as a part-time university lecturer in a non-stem field plus constantly struggling to find any additional freelance work, couldn't really see a realistic path forward in that career. Had also just become a father, so being broke felt even worse than before. I spent about 18 months learning web dev (just free resources online), and successfully made the career change. Required a lot of sacrifices in that time period though as well as a bit of luck, and I don't think my path is representative of the average person who tries this.

New comment by cehrlich in "Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?"

cehrlich — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 14:14:25 +0000

CS50x and CS50web are fantastic. web is a bit outdated but it doesn't matter because the projects are so good.

New comment by cehrlich in "How tRPC Works [video]"

cehrlich — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 11:30:56 +0000

I got a bit frustrated at YouTube dev videos being aimed primarily at entry-level developers, so I tried to record some more mid-level content. There is definitely room for improvement on the production values, but hopefully the content itself makes up for it. Any feedback appreciated :)