Hacker News: eklavya

New comment by eklavya in "First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In"

eklavya — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:13:05 +0000

I would invite you to read my comment again (take a wild guess what my main machine is from the list) and especially the comment I was replying to (like how the build quality is great for other laptops to still be running as a "server" and a capable laptop). My comment might start to make more sense than you think.

New comment by eklavya in "First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In"

eklavya — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:05:27 +0000

Yeah, I guess so. I was just wondering when people said it's great value, is it because they believe that the build quality (all metal) is the most important factor here. But then I can get an HP omnibook 5 oled for the same price with "almost" a metal body.

I started thinking, ok I was going to buy an iPad maybe, why not neo? It makes so much sense since my wife could do much more with it. Then I started looking at what the market has to offer for the price and it stopped making sense. The marketing does seem great on this. I am sure it makes a lot of sense to some people who wanted a cheap macOS laptop and got it.

New comment by eklavya in "First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In"

eklavya — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:47:51 +0000

I bought a macbook pro m1 pro. Its value is 25% in 4/5 years. I bought a second hand dell latitude 7/8 years ago, it was 3/4 years old then. Still running as a server today. A cheap acer bought in 2017 runs almalinux and is surprisingly fast and capable today, I had upgraded ram and put in nvme SSD long back.

New comment by eklavya in "First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In"

eklavya — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:37:27 +0000

But I have been and so many around me have been buying those. They are ok.

New comment by eklavya in "First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In"

eklavya — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:32:31 +0000

I was thinking the same but then I looked at what I could get for 70000 INR on Amazon and it would be crazy to buy this over the alternatives. What is the draw for this device given the price?

New comment by eklavya in "Fast-Servers"

eklavya — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:01:54 +0000

It is not a good idea, especially with the new chiplet/CCX processors.

New comment by eklavya in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

eklavya — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:04:45 +0000

I was using a dell S3225QC with 120 hz and even variable rate with macbook m1 pro. No hdr with 120 or variable rate though, only at 60.

New comment by eklavya in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

eklavya — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:42:42 +0000

So we will have a closed OS just like macOS and Windows but linux based. I don't see why it would stop all the other open source distros to exist.

New comment by eklavya in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

eklavya — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:38:35 +0000

I wanted to check the hype, so I installed Zed and opened a go project.

Ram usage:

VS Code 580 MB

Zed 410 MB

I don't see a reason yet to switch away from VS Code, more feature complete and I don't care about scroll speed, it's good enough in vs code.

New comment by eklavya in "LineageOS 23.2"

eklavya — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:02:38 +0000

I don't know what's going on in this thread. Of course PKI needs some root of trust. That root HAS to be predefined. What do people think all the browsers are doing?

Lineage is signed, sure. It needs to be blessed with that root for it to work on that device.

New comment by eklavya in "My AI Adoption Journey"

eklavya — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:04:31 +0000

Right, now what would you say is the probability of getting a bug in compiler output vs ai output?

It's a great tool, once it matures.

New comment by eklavya in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

eklavya — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:23:56 +0000

I am not getting what that linked url is supposed to mean. It is a very decent business page where ubuntu is selling consulting for "your" projects and telling why ubuntu is great for developing AI systems.

New comment by eklavya in "India and EU announce landmark trade deal"

eklavya — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:53:01 +0000

I hope for our (India's) sake, it doesn't. We need to keep as much talent here as we can.

New comment by eklavya in "Replacing Protobuf with Rust"

eklavya — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:40:58 +0000

I would advise against it. Too much friction, try it, maybe you will have a different experience than mine.

New comment by eklavya in "Replacing Protobuf with Rust"

eklavya — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:35:35 +0000

That would make sense if protobuf was complex, bloated, slow. But it's not, so the question should be why not use it, unless you are doing browser stuff.

New comment by eklavya in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

eklavya — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:30:24 +0000

Every time I hear any Indian trope, I find it interesting that it's only people in online forum who experience it.

Somehow none of my non/Indian colleagues over the course of more than a decade have faced these ridiculous situations. They must be unlucky.

New comment by eklavya in "“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)"

eklavya — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:36:12 +0000

I don't know ruby or rails so probably wrong on this but why does the author say no framework for Java web. How different is Spring from that?

They talk about the programmer which doesn't know neither cares about the language stuff. So what is Spring lacking from that perspective?

New comment by eklavya in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

eklavya — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:47:06 +0000

Pretty damning evaluation of apple's capabilities to be sure that they won't be able to compete on merit! I don't believe that. So much apple software is absolutely loved.

iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan

eklavya — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:30:45 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines-jp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453950

Points: 439

# Comments: 408

New comment by eklavya in "Go away Python"

eklavya — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:23:31 +0000

Real world experience for the author which they probably lack in other langs. It would be an absurd statement otherwise.