Hacker News: eklavya

New comment by eklavya in "Root shell on Samsung TV"

eklavya — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:43:38 +0000

There are a lot of things you don't have to worry about in China because someone else makes the decision for you. Sure you want to strive for that?

I feel sorry that democracies are failing their citizenry like this.

New comment by eklavya in "Religious scholars met with Anthropic"

eklavya — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:18:21 +0000

Life has a meaning for the person living it.

New comment by eklavya in "Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated"

eklavya — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:11:23 +0000

WTF, I find it hard to believe that during a sexual assault, the perpetrator doesn't know what they are doing. WTF is this?

New comment by eklavya in "Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated"

eklavya — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:08:39 +0000

Do you mean it should be guilty unless proven otherwise?

New comment by eklavya in "Java 27"

eklavya — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:14:45 +0000

Absolutely not, I am not an amateur. Forget about the codebase, I am sure you won't claim that the dev tooling for Java is lighter than golang.

New comment by eklavya in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

eklavya — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:03:58 +0000

For me the greatest thing about KDE is that once you have it, you don't miss anything from any other DE or OS. It has everything! I find gnome and the new gtk4 apps definitely more beautiful but I end up running KDE always.

New comment by eklavya in "Java 27"

eklavya — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:55:39 +0000

I am not sure I understand your point. It's a meaningful comparison based on my situation. But even if it isn't, what are you arguing for? I change my use case rather than the tool/lang? Sorry if I misunderstood.

New comment by eklavya in "Java 27"

eklavya — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:39:17 +0000

One particular test was running for 20 minutes, doing repetitive calculations, hopefully enough to get jitted. It finishes much much faster now. I could have profiled to check what was going on but the test was simple and the dev tooling and the ram usage was a major concern for me. Also gradle upgrades were painful.

Java tooling taking up a lot of ram was a major motivation for me. I have done a lot of Scala as well. I don't think either Java or Scala in the real world beat go on performance for most cases. I don't doubt that in some cases jvm can do better but at least before Valhalla delivers all the promises, in real world, I am doubtful.

I have been a Java/Scala user almost for the majority of my career. I doubt I would pick jvm over golang going forward though. Also not having to deal with OOP is a plus.

New comment by eklavya in "Java 27"

eklavya — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:05:11 +0000

I ported a moderate sized java project to golang. Test suite runs order of magnitude faster now. There isn't much change in terms of the architecture. Pretty much the same algos and data structures. The whole dev tooling runs on a 16 gb mac without swapping now. I used vs code for both

New comment by eklavya in "Fuck it, make it anyway"

eklavya — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:50:20 +0000

That's not how I read it at all. Why do you think the latter group likes free stuff made for them?

New comment by eklavya in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

eklavya — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:43:45 +0000

I keep wondering about this western worldview where they keep equating a militant failed state with the largest democracy in the world. I can't fathom why they do it.

New comment by eklavya in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

eklavya — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:34:24 +0000

This is the most reddit thread I have seen on HN ever.

New comment by eklavya in "OpenLogi"

eklavya — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:15:04 +0000

That would imply that the complainer has nothing useful to add to the discussion, whereas just saying that the website is probably ai generated and off putting to them is valuable info about the project.

New comment by eklavya in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"

eklavya — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:04:07 +0000

KDE has absolutely no issues with it.

Gnome >= 47 is fine, you will need to do:

`gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer', 'xwayland-native-scaling']" ` That stops being necessary as some point around 49/50 I think.

New comment by eklavya in "Flutter 3.47"

eklavya — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:28:50 +0000

You are in luck then, use jaspr.

New comment by eklavya in "That time when I failed the Microsoft interview"

eklavya — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:53:08 +0000

So if somebody tried to solve the brainteaser with an impossibly high likelihood of being completely wrong. You get the signal that their values match yours, they are open minded and that they are good at writing great programs?

New comment by eklavya in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

eklavya — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:25:10 +0000

Sure buddy, they gave it up because it was not worth it.

New comment by eklavya in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

eklavya — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:38:36 +0000

If you don't like rust for whatever reason, use any other memory safe language. If you need more convincing that bugs and vulns are dropping let and right from decades old battle tested software, ask anyone with access to frontier ai sec models.

New comment by eklavya in "Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM"

eklavya — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:46:06 +0000

How are you running these together, splitting the model somehow or did you mean different models on any one card at a time?

New comment by eklavya in "Deno Desktop"

eklavya — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:06:35 +0000

Try dioxus, it has live reload but it's a work in progress.