Hacker News: cui

New comment by cui in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

cui — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:37:54 +0000

I built the exact same thing 2 years ago, and then figured out that Inoreader actually already had it in their product. They are disabled by default, probably because this feature is not popular at all.

New comment by cui in "Show HN: Video Off – a Chrome extension that blocks common online video"

cui — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:16:54 +0000

I built Video Off to reduce autoplay/video distractions.

Background: in Firefox, I can edit user.js and disable specific media codecs, which makes blocking video much easier. Chrome doesn’t provide an equivalent user.js/codec-disable path, so this extension uses MV3 static declarativeNetRequest rules to block common video delivery requests.

No analytics/telemetry. No remote code. It blocks many common video requests, but it doesn’t claim perfect coverage on every site/player. I’d love feedback on false positives/negatives and breakage cases.

Show HN: Video Off – a Chrome extension that blocks common online video

cui — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:12:04 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kjnez/video-off

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680748

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by cui in "How We Rewrote 130K Lines from React to Svelte in Two Weeks"

cui — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:33:51 +0000

Do you mind sharing your master ruleset about Svelte?

New comment by cui in "Direnv Is All You Need to Parallelize Agentic Programming with Git Worktrees"

cui — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:03:41 +0000

Thanks. How are you dealing with worktrees right now?

New comment by cui in "Direnv Is All You Need to Parallelize Agentic Programming with Git Worktrees"

cui — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:10:03 +0000

But how did you use your main worktree's .env before? Symlink it?

New comment by cui in "Direnv Is All You Need to Parallelize Agentic Programming with Git Worktrees"

cui — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:59:34 +0000

This is how I currently use Git worktrees. Curious about how you are using it.

Direnv Is All You Need to Parallelize Agentic Programming with Git Worktrees

cui — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:58:37 +0000

Article URL: https://waldencui.com/post/direnv_is_all_you_need_to_parallelize_claude_code_with_git_worktrees/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372855

Points: 30

# Comments: 8

New comment by cui in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

cui — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:46:40 +0000

I've been working on django-rclone, which bridges Django and rclone.

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone

New comment by cui in "Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone"

cui — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:34:48 +0000

Author here. django-rclone is a Django backup package that delegates everything non-Django to rclone.

The existing solution (django-dbbackup) reimplements a lot: Django Storages for upload, GPG in Python for encryption, gzip for compression, regex for backup listing. django-rclone replaces all of that with rclone subprocesses — rclone rcat for uploads, rclone cat for downloads, rclone sync for media, rclone lsjson for listing. Encryption and compression are handled by configuring rclone crypt and compress remotes.

Database dumps stream directly into rclone via Unix pipes — no temp files written to disk. DB passwords are passed via environment variables instead of CLI arguments (which are visible in ps).

The result is significantly less code. Django-rclone only owns what Django must own: database connectors, management commands, and signals. Everything else — storage abstraction, encryption, compression, incremental sync — is rclone's problem. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite, MongoDB, and 70+ storage backends via rclone.

Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

cui — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:33:30 +0000

django-rclone bridges Django's database layer with rclone's file transfer layer. You get native database dumps piped directly to any of rclone's 70+ supported cloud storage backends -- no temp files, no intermediate archives, no Python reimplementations of what rclone already does.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46929481

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Book Review: Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield

cui — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 07:08:59 +0000

Article URL: https://waldencui.com/post/book_review_turning_pro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834204

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How to Save Windows: Unsolicited Business Advice from a Concerned Former User

cui — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:38:53 +0000

Article URL: https://waldencui.com/post/save_microsoft_windows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812559

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cui in "Bye Bye Gmail"

cui — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:55:27 +0000

I thought it's meant for business usage. Why are you interested in WorkMail compared to other million email products?

New comment by cui in "Show HN: Claude Code for Django"

cui — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:47:38 +0000

I honestly don't know because I never used Copilot. Hopefully we'll have some open source projects that can take one set of configurations and produce similar set of files for others.

Show HN: Claude Code for Django

cui — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 02:37:26 +0000

Chris Wiles showcased his setup for Claude Code and I thought it was sick. So I adapted it for Django projects. Several skills have been added to address the pain points in Django development.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549488

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"

cui — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:22:19 +0000

Article URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/revisiting-lets-build-a-compiler/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46214693

Points: 276

# Comments: 51

LMArena Is a Plague on AI

cui — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:28:03 +0000

Article URL: https://surgehq.ai/blog/lmarena-is-a-plague-on-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46198504

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by cui in "Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025"

cui — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:37:04 +0000

I actually wrote a blog post about it and checked lower level abstractions for web developers: https://yncui.com/post/lower_level_abstractions_for_web_deve...

New comment by cui in "Book Review: The Way of Effortless Mindfulness"

cui — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:16:10 +0000

Thanks for pointing it out. I've fixed the title and added a link in the post.