Hacker News: exidex

New comment by exidex in "Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing"

exidex — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:13:15 +0000

My choice is to not do a PhD and just invest as much or as little effort in the topic as you like

New comment by exidex in "MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be"

exidex — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:50:27 +0000

That is only because there is no viable platform to build similar gui-based tooling on

New comment by exidex in "I wrote a WebAssembly plugin system for my Wayland compositor"

exidex — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:48:43 +0000

This is the idea I had in mind since initial wasm release but wasm wasn't ready then but now it is. Glad to see somebody is working on this. If executed properly this could be the last windows manager that people will ever need

New comment by exidex in "How I write software with LLMs"

exidex — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:49:10 +0000

I was more thinking in terms of creating a benchmark which would optimized during training. For regular projects, I agree, you have to count that anyway

New comment by exidex in "How I write software with LLMs"

exidex — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:35:03 +0000

Now you have to count defects

New comment by exidex in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

exidex — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:53:47 +0000

Add that to a long list of side projects I would like to do "at some point"

New comment by exidex in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

exidex — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:49:46 +0000

Pantograph[0] seems to be a more recent attempt to implement the same idea. It is still not a general editor but generalizing it to ranges of tree selections looks promising

[0]: https://pantographeditor.github.io/Pantograph/

New comment by exidex in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

exidex — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:00:25 +0000

And I am sure that people have been complaining about the hand gymnastics you have to do to press those shortcuts since around that time as well

New comment by exidex in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

exidex — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:42:06 +0000

There are certainly different possibilities of where the line would be drawn. I am not that familiar with vim internals, but I don't consider file management to be part of vim editing model. And we are only talking about editing model (e.g. b being beginning of a word), not the whole editor (plugin system, ui, lsp and treesitter integration, etc). Though it is true that some parts are more tightly related to "vim". There some cases were Neovim already wants to disconnect itself from vim legacy like allowing to scroll viewport without moving the cursor

By "recreating everything" I was also referring to the ecosystem around the editor

New comment by exidex in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

exidex — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:12:34 +0000

I didn't really spent time thinking about it, because from reading their issue tracker, I very much doubt neovim would consider something like that. Partially because of how much of it is already vim specific and it would be very difficult to abstract that away, but mostly because of ideology.

You can already to a lot in Neovim with plugins, including recreating Helix, Ki, whatever. But the problem is that the vim state machine is always present underneath it, resulting in unwanted behaviors or impossibility to implement some things. I would envision it to pretty much allow to listen on raw keyboard and mouse events. However cursed it sounds, it should be possible to fully implement vscode or any other editing model in neovim

New comment by exidex in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

exidex — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:42:40 +0000

It's a shame that editors are build around the editing model, so much time has been wasted by recreating everything. Neovim is a perfect editor in many aspects but editing model is not one of them, in my opinion. Helix or even Ki would not be needed if Neovim allowed to completely replace the vim part of it with plugins

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

exidex — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:40:24 +0000

To some extend that is true for any opinionated piece of software. But that is a beauty of opensource don't use it if it doesn't match your idea of how that software should look like

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

exidex — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:56:49 +0000

Having been in the community for some time, it is just how the authors are, very enthusiastic about the wording. They like to come up with some wild terms explaining different behaviors and reasoning behind those behaviors, like "positional coherence" or "behavioral asymmetry", and the term "kimmunity" to reference to ki editor community. On a surface level, sure, it looks LLM generated, but I would be very surprised if they used LLM to generate that sentence. I choose to look at the actual meaning of the content and what they are trying to do differently

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

exidex — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:11:09 +0000

Have you tried Ki Editor[0]? It seems to be more into direction that you are looking for. It is not as mature as the rest of the editors but the editing model is definitely an improvement from ux perspective

[0]: https://ki-editor.org/

New comment by exidex in "Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream"

exidex — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:28:58 +0000

What a grim future, just chat with a bot without ever seeing the code

New comment by exidex in "Why CSV is still king"

exidex — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:35:01 +0000

There is https://github.com/SixArm/usv which is exactly that, but with special unicode characters

New comment by exidex in "Show HN: Gauntlet – Raycast-inspired open-source application launcher"

exidex — Sat, 04 May 2024 14:09:20 +0000

> I couldn't find the SWR hooks though.

What do you have in mind?

> Also, the interface isn't pretty atm.

Agreed, creating pretty UIs is not my strongest suit if I am completely honest, and could use a help with that. But I have been polishing it up steadily, though sometimes it is an uphill battle with iced-rs.

> The Video could probably show more practical examples than Game of Life

Also agreed. Game of Life demo was supposed to show the interactivity of a view and was easy to implement but at some point I would like to add something more usable as a builtin plugin. For the code example I think it would be better to have that in documentation which is the next on my TODO list

All in all, good points

Show HN: Gauntlet – Raycast-inspired open-source application launcher

exidex — Fri, 03 May 2024 18:01:23 +0000

Hi everyone, about a year ago I discovered Raycast and really liked the idea of it: writing plugins in React and TypeScript. But Raycast is available only on macOS and I am hopping between different OS quite a lot. It also isn't open source, which is not a huge deal but would have been nice to have. So I decided to create my own, because it looked like it could be a lot of fun and the scope was manageable for a single person.

I went with plugin-first approach focusing on plugin APIs, everything builtin plugins provide (and more) can be also implemented by any plugin. At the moment API surface is minimal but usable, I want to work on creating plugin documentation before extending it further.

Plugins are distributed as part of Git repository, meaning no central server is required.

For JS runtime Gauntlet is using using Deno, which, among other things, gives nice security model allowing to be explicit about things plugins can do on your system.

Gauntlet is also designed with cross-platform in mind from the start. Currently supporting Linux with macOS and Windows support coming in near future.

Please join Discord server if you want to follow for updates or interested in creating a plugin. You can find the link in the beginning of the README. It is currently pretty empty in here but hopefully not for long.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40250462

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New comment by exidex in "Java 22 Released"

exidex — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:16:51 +0000

They said it is waiting for some feature from project Valhalla. Not sure which one though