Hacker News: dilawar

New comment by dilawar in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

dilawar — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:46:29 +0000

May not work with bluetooth keyboard (debian 13).

New comment by dilawar in "GitHub Actions down again today"

dilawar — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:41:01 +0000

Once you get used to it, it's not so bad which is probably true for all functional UIs. I switch between gitlab and GitHub quite a lot and I can't say which one is objectively better. I do like that cross-linking is easier in GitHub but I prefer gitlab ci over GitHub actions. Too bad that gitlab ci runner has removed the command to run ci locally but third party foss solutions are there.

New comment by dilawar in "Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died"

dilawar — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:40:55 +0000

I was amused today when Morty was praising 7-eleven in s0901.

New comment by dilawar in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

dilawar — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:29:07 +0000

Never mind. I didn't read the article (paywalled) and someone in the comments below answered this exact point.

New comment by dilawar in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

dilawar — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:28:15 +0000

> and airfoils also benefit from micro-roughness for lowest friction.

I thought this was known to some extent that smooth surfaces are not always the best e.g. golf balls have dimples on them? No?

New comment by dilawar in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

dilawar — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:48:42 +0000

> Support : I'm telling you, nothing changed!!! The only difference between the old version and the new version is that the old version was in COBOL, and the new one is in C!!!

Thanks for the chuckles!

New comment by dilawar in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

dilawar — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:04:01 +0000

Nice project. People may also want to checkout Tiddlywiki.

US reportedly dropped fraud charges against Adani after he hired Trump's lawyer

dilawar — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:38:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/gautam-adani-billionaire-trump

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144617

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by dilawar in "The Future of Obsidian Plugins"

dilawar — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:12:47 +0000

On the same boat here.. I am trying to leave notion for a couple of reasons. And falling Rupee also not helping. But nothing is as easy to use.

I was a big todo.sh fan in college. Then wundrrlist and joplin. Still miss wunderlist. Tried Tiddlywiki too and liked it. You can make all of them work if it's just you. Sharing and collaboration is pain!

Then Notion. It is just perfect. Was very happy to pay for personal plan which is now removed. There is no official client for Linux (thanks Lotion). I was even using it to host my blog. Now downgraded to a free plan. Using wordpress for blogging.

Have tried obsidian and joplin as notion replacement but couldn't make it work. Notion mobile app is not very fast but better than any other options. I am so used to its databases, cross-linking, creating reminders.

Why not bring back the personal plan! It was really affordable.

New comment by dilawar in "PySimpleGUI 6"

dilawar — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:54:09 +0000

This project started when I started my Ph.D.. I had a few interactions with the author when I added UI to some programs I wanted to showcase as TA.

Every time I needed a GUI, I reached out to this library. Very beginner friendly. Good memories.

New comment by dilawar in "Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search"

dilawar — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:11:08 +0000

There is also https://pkgs.org ..

New comment by dilawar in "South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf"

dilawar — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:10:26 +0000

Not OP. Indian here. I find [1] to be a perfect example.

[1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/fir-against-reporter-...

New comment by dilawar in "Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"

dilawar — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:45:04 +0000

Fair point but unlike code, design (webpage), audio, video are seen by consumers. If Sora (AI video) didn't fly, how'd AI web-design fly?

It is pretty good for internal apps and dashboards or small hobby pages and websites where being generic look and feel doesn't matter much.

New comment by dilawar in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

dilawar — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:29:39 +0000

I grew up in North India, close to Ramganga river (Jim Corbet park is on this river). We grew rice in addition to sugar cane.

The smell of paddy (and also of large quantity of cooked rice) is absolutely soothing for me and it brings back memory.

During my grandfather time, it was very common for a crab to grab your fingers when you are planting the paddy. My father would chase turtles and large frogs when he was a kid.

When I was a kid, the crabs and turtles were gone but frogs were pretty abundant. In last twenty years, there are hardly any frogs left. Earthworms are also under stress.

The Japanese style of planting paddy wasn't very common in India before green revolution. Then we had a some new varieties that took over almost all old varieties for a simple reason for yield. My grandmother used to complain about a lost variety a lot. Apparently it had such a strong aroma that whole village would know what rice you have cooked. Glad to see more efforts preserving old varieties [1].

[1] https://ruralindiaonline.org/article/let-them-eat-rice

New comment by dilawar in "Chuck Norris has died"

dilawar — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:35:36 +0000

In India, we have Rajni (Rajnikanth) jokes that keep increasing in number and are still pretty popular...

I remember reading 'The Vinci Code' in college which was very popular those days and getting a SMS from a friend almost the same day, "Rajnikanth gave Monalisa that smile!".

Meta reportedly plans layoffs as AI costs increase

dilawar — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:43:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/13/meta-layoffs-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373988

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by dilawar in "Tony Hoare has died"

dilawar — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:20:39 +0000

"At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way-- and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay."

This explain quite a lot actually!

New comment by dilawar in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

dilawar — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:25:07 +0000

> I got tired of nil checks in Go and became a squeaky wheel in incident retros, where I finally got the chance to rewrite parts of our system in Rust during a refactor.

At a new job, I am writing my first microservice in golang. Used to be a Rust/C++ (kernel) and Python/PHP/JS dev (fullstack). Rust is allowed by team is heavily invested in go already.. I don't think I'll be able to convince them to learn rust! Lol

New comment by dilawar in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

dilawar — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:47:05 +0000

I have been using an ergonomics keyboard for a while and find it impossible to go back to normal keyboard.

For the last two weeks, I was forced to work at a normal keyboard. After initial pain for one day, I got back to typing at normal speed. Without losing my comfort with the ergonomic one. I can now just context switch. It wasn't easy though.

Perhaps you will also become comfortable with both vim and helix after the initial struggle?

New comment by dilawar in "Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel"

dilawar — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:39:20 +0000

What the guarantee is that folks won't abuse this system in the same way they do the citation system? The recommendation letter system is often abused for the pettiest of reasons...