Hacker News: gajus

New comment by gajus in "Pico CSS is no longer maintained"

gajus — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:18:32 +0000

Been working on https://bamboocss.com/ for couple of months.

It's build-time, Rust/Oxc, type-safe, zero-runtime CSS-in-JS, with per-route CSS splitting.

Show HN: Gitwal – every open-source project mention on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc.

gajus — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:50:25 +0000

Article URL: https://gitwal.com/mentions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158566

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by gajus in "Treg (OpenRouter for Tools)"

gajus — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:23:04 +0000

I saw you post about Treg positioning it as Clay-alternative and also as OpenRouter for agent tools. Personally, I resonate better with Clay positioning because most use cases I can think of would come down to data enrichment and such. Something to consider. Otherwise, great product!

Also, checkout https://gitwal.com/superdesigndev/treg That's every social media mention of your product.

Show HN: Gitwal – know when people talk about your code

gajus — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:21:43 +0000

This is actually a reincarnation of a project I did almost 10 years ago (GitSpo). I index social sites (X, Bluesky, Reddit, HackerNews, etc) and track content that mentions any GitHub repository. If you are an open-source author – this gives you a daily or weekly summary of all social mentions of your project. If you are evaluating open-source projects, this allows you to validate them by observing that has been said about these projects in public forums.

Provided as a public service. Doesn't cost you anything.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982151

Points: 2

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spellfort

gajus — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:20:38 +0000

spellfort

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675394

Points: 1

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New comment by gajus in "Gitwal – GitHub Event Archive"

gajus — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:51:16 +0000

As a long-time open-source contributor, I've always been fascinated by using GitHub to track trends. However, recent GitHub changes (whatever the public stated reasons are) make parts of what used to be public data unavailable and raise concerns about the future of other data availability. Similar to Internet Archive, I think it is important to preserve public GitHub data.

If you are researcher with the need to access the data or would like to donate to the project, get in touch.

Gitwal – GitHub Event Archive

gajus — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:51:16 +0000

Article URL: https://gitwal.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646764

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by gajus in "Show HN: Bamboo – build-time, Rust/Oxc, type-safe, zero-runtime CSS-in-JS"

gajus — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:36:41 +0000

If you are curious how it compares against StyleX and Panda, I made a public benchmark https://github.com/gajus/css-in-js-arena

New comment by gajus in "Show HN: Bamboo – build-time, Rust/Oxc, type-safe, zero-runtime CSS-in-JS"

gajus — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:35:14 +0000

There is a lot of jargon in the title, but the key things to know about Bamboo are that:

* it eliminates all runtime overhead for static styles

* it pre-computes all dynamic styles leaving only boolean logic in runtime

* parsing all your source code is computationally expensive, therefore parts of Bamboo are written in Rust and leverage Oxc to make it fast

Happy to take any questions

Show HN: Bamboo – build-time, Rust/Oxc, type-safe, zero-runtime CSS-in-JS

gajus — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:29:38 +0000

Article URL: https://bamboocss.com/docs/overview/getting-started/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49602667

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by gajus in "Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI"

gajus — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:42:32 +0000

The funny thing is that DO itself has an MCP for spinning up VMs, resolving IPs, etc.

New comment by gajus in "Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI"

gajus — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:40:07 +0000

OpenRouter is valuable because it has a large catalogue of competing providers for a fungible service. This does the opposite (lock in with a specific vendor).

New comment by gajus in "Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI"

gajus — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:37:58 +0000

Can you give me a practical example of 3 most deserving use cases? Something that customers are actually using them for today.

New comment by gajus in "Show HN: CSS-in-JS Arena Bamboo, StyleX and Panda on Pixel-Identical Apps"

gajus — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:37:11 +0000

A few other things to callout:

* Bamboo started as a fork of Panda. The vast majority of the codebase has been refactored. However, their test suite has been incredibly useful to identify all the edge cases.

* Bamboo's API is a subset of Panda. One of Bamboo goals has been to introduce more consistency to how we write styles (without introducing lint rules). Bamboo dropped JSX factories, template literals and style props.

* Strict API is also what allows us fold 100% of styles.

* Strict API is also what allows to prune unused styles.

* Bamboo resolution is _strict_. Missing tokens will produce build error.

Show HN: CSS-in-JS Arena Bamboo, StyleX and Panda on Pixel-Identical Apps

gajus — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:21:25 +0000

A little context, I've been working on Contra for the last 6 years. It's a marketplace-network – an application that's comparable to the likes of LinkedIn, UpWork, and similar in terms of its surface area. That's hundreds of routes, thousands of components, and tens of thousands of styles.

Over the last year, we have been obsessed with performance. We have optimized every layer of our infrastructure to the point where profiling the application increasingly started to surface bottlenecks in client-side (bundle size, and metrics like TBT, LCP, and INP). That's where CSS-in-JS comes in.

6 years ago, we started with styled-components. Then zero-runtime alternatives emerged and we started to experiment with them, eventually landing on Panda CSS. Panda took us a long way, but... they aren't _actually_ zero-runtime. Panda extracts CSS at build time, but it uses ~15KB runtime to map those style objects at runtime. This overhead surfaced repeatedly when profiling pages with lots of components (server-side and client-side).

That's where I ended up writing Bamboo to solve this.

Bamboo folds styles at build-time achieving _near_ zero-runtime (0.5KB vs 15 KB). If you write:

Title

it becomes:

Title

at build time.

If the variant is dynamic, then bundle is inlined with pre-computed map of classes.

That's the main idea behind Bamboo.

Thanks to folding, we were able to improve our server-side and client-side performance.

I built CSS-in-JS Arena as a sanity benchmark to track how we compare to Panda, but also to any other emerging frameworks.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346044

Points: 1

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Clawtopus

gajus — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:52:32 +0000

Article URL: https://clawtopus.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306426

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by gajus in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

gajus — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:13:14 +0000

this gives strong "you wouldn't steal a car" vibes

New comment by gajus in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

gajus — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:25:34 +0000

The moment Google announced SynthID, the first domain I bought was deSynthID.com

Several open-source projects have already proven SynthID to be ineffective.

New comment by gajus in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

gajus — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:24:08 +0000

There are already small models trained specifically to prevent statistical detection, e.g., https://huggingface.co/kalpeshk2011/dipper-paraphraser-xxl

I guess whoever is the policy maker is assuming that some protection is better than none and that most people will not reach for such tools.

New comment by gajus in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

gajus — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:21:06 +0000

Most likely watermark will be proportional to the input/output ratio, i.e. if you input a long document and ask to make edits, it will not attempt to watermark it. On the other hand, if you provide a tweet and ask it to write an article, that will include watermark. Just a guess (and yes, it feels flawed)