Hacker News: chadrs

New comment by chadrs in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

chadrs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:55:05 +0000

surely you've witnessed the backlash to uv as a result though

New comment by chadrs in "Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal"

chadrs — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:48:15 +0000

I love this but with all the advances of TUI frameworks, using C + ncurses feels like such a hard path.

New comment by chadrs in "Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg"

chadrs — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:21:12 +0000

yeah I remember learning this trick in like 2007 with libaa and later caca for color.

It looks like this app is shelling out to ffmpeg to get the bitmap of a frame and then shelling to something called chafa to covert to nice terminal-friendly video.

https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/

New comment by chadrs in "0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix"

chadrs — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:28:26 +0000

I had been confusing this game with Unknown Horizons, another RTS but based on the game 1602 AD. Just realized they're totally unrelated.

New comment by chadrs in "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)"

chadrs — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:40:49 +0000

"the sham legacy of Richard Feynman" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc

New comment by chadrs in "Collaboration sucks"

chadrs — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:24:17 +0000

Collaboration slows things down but going fast at all cost leads to tech fragmentation, tech debt, and product debt.

fwiw I'm not in the camp of "we must have everything done in one consistent way" but there are places, for example a public API, where having 4 different names for the same concept, 3 different response format/url path styles, etc. starts to look really sloppy.

New comment by chadrs in "iPhone Air"

chadrs — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:41:53 +0000

As someone who does not use a case, I almost never see anyone else without one. To the point that when I do, I usually mistake their phone for mine.

New comment by chadrs in "2048 with only 64 bits of state"

chadrs — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 04:43:56 +0000

Yeah, the first few times I thought maybe I was just imagining it; but I went from STATE=7280398215952, tried to merge my 64s into the left corner and instead ended up in STATE=7280398025476; my 64s have become 4s.

Can't reproduce it exactly as it happened, but if I run `STATE=7280398215952 bash 2048.bash` and press a 8 times, the 128 always becomes a 2.

New comment by chadrs in "Hertz accelerates sales of Tesla vehicles as value crumbles"

chadrs — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000

and even if some analysts at Hertz could did their job, I'm sure they were promptly ignored by executives who just liked Elon's vibe.

New comment by chadrs in "React Lua"

chadrs — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:08:37 +0000

I think the equivalent would be if you ported Vue to the beam, but impressive work nonetheless!

New comment by chadrs in "First randomized trial of Ozempic for alcoholism shows big drops in drinking"

chadrs — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:36:52 +0000

I'm certainly not qualified to speak on this but I heard this story recently about an effective treatment for alcoholism that's been available for decades but for complicated reasons hasn't been widely accessible: https://www.reflector.show/p/how-to-listen-to-episode-1-the-...

New comment by chadrs in "Using AirPods as a Morse Transmitter"

chadrs — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:21:50 +0000

This is a cool toy, I've been wanting to do something similar with my flipper zero to make a BT morse keyboard.

This also reminds me of TapXR, which I would totally buy if did morse, instead of inventing their own encoding. I get it, theirs is probably way faster but fluency is morse is more general purpose.

New comment by chadrs in "Show HN: I made a CLI tool to create web extensions with no build configuration"

chadrs — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:14:13 +0000

I’ve been pretty happy with web-ext, I’m curious what abstractions and configurations Extensions.js avoids comparatively. I’m assuming you’ll still need a manifest.json, and it looks like both use npm/package.json for dependencies.

https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext

New comment by chadrs in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

chadrs — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 08:08:12 +0000

For working, it's not as good as an actual monitor but much easier to travel with. Really shines for games/movies though.

New comment by chadrs in "Monolith: The Recommendation System Behind TikTok"

chadrs — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:41:11 +0000

I must be rare in that the longer I use tiktok, the less relevant the recommendations feel. Maybe because I compulsively watch videos until the end even if I don't like them.

New comment by chadrs in "Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app"

chadrs — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 21:15:06 +0000

I have the opposite opinion. These things tend to get lost in my tabs.

New comment by chadrs in "The most popular chess streamer on Twitch"

chadrs — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:48:46 +0000

He literally doesn't even care

New comment by chadrs in "New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars"

chadrs — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 21:31:59 +0000

Can we ban car alarms next? I can't believe we allow such an obnoxious feature with basically a 100% false positive rate.

New comment by chadrs in "Show HN: Luna is a Clojure domain specific language that translates to regex"

chadrs — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:23:20 +0000

Kind of reminds me of parser combinators but not extensible.

New comment by chadrs in "Which version of JDK should I use?"

chadrs — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:27:30 +0000

Yeah I agree we should be using 17 except Gradle still does not support it, despite having been out for an entire month...

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/compatibility.html