Hacker News: hackermanai

New comment by hackermanai in "Zed 1.0"

hackermanai — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:35:47 +0000

I recently tested input latency on Mac Mini M2 Pro, keypress to visible pixel (p95 value).

- Zed 36.8ms (26.3 avg) - Sublime 33.5ms (25.9 avg) - VSCode 31.7ms (20.6 avg) - Hackerman Text 15.3ms (12.5 avg)

All editors tested as stripped down as possible, minimal UI etc., empty file, no syntax highlighting. Mostly surprised by VSCode tbh.

Testing on sqlite3.c (with syntax highlighting): Zed 60.5ms, Sublime 37.1ms, VSCode 22.0ms, and Hackerman Text 18.4ms.

New comment by hackermanai in "Zed 1.0"

hackermanai — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:20:40 +0000

And soon™, https://hackerman.ai/

New comment by hackermanai in "Zed 1.0"

hackermanai — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:09:31 +0000

> How else are you going to have “a quick glance at code” across project files without using a new view for that?

By showing the text around match inline with the search result in the tree. Especially useful if you do not expect to edit every search result. If you do expect to edit every search result, then Zed's multibuffer is arguably better/ faster.

New comment by hackermanai in "Zed 1.0"

hackermanai — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:03:54 +0000

I think VSCode use ripgrep and Zed has its own ripgrep-like search. Zed likely still do more work per match due to the multibuffer. A normal nested tree-based result should be faster.

I think multibuffer can be good in edit/renaming use cases, but it's very annoying for fast lookups/navigation across different files (as mentioned elsewhere).

New comment by hackermanai in "Zed 1.0"

hackermanai — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:19:53 +0000

> Zed felt it had the right to download, install, and run node.js without any permission just to run some LSP (which I don't even use).

Yes. This is bad. Zed keeps installing and running all sorts of random background stuff. This should be an opt-in.

New comment by hackermanai in "Zed 1.0"

hackermanai — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:11:45 +0000

> never loses unsaved files

This is a big one indeed. I keep many unsaved tmp notes and pastes open all the time. Sublime Text also have it's super smooth pane and window management, so easy to select many tabs, drag and drop tabs to windows etc. Never mind what is unsaved and not. Everything always there on open anyway.

I think this is a highly requested feature in Zed as well, but not sure if they are actually working on this or not.

New comment by hackermanai in "Show HN: Pets for Cursor"

hackermanai — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 08:57:05 +0000

This is cool! ...and probably very annoying after a while :P

New comment by hackermanai in "File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface"

hackermanai — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:04:40 +0000

I don't even dislike default file explorers that much and will buy this (whenever they release Mac one).

I like to buy good software.

New comment by hackermanai in "Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations"

hackermanai — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:03:03 +0000

This looks very nice!

How long have you been working on this?

I will be releasing hackerman.ai text editor later this year (or ASAP), also somewhat niche product with support for creating/editing lexers (eg for your own languages), able to customize almost everything, set key bindings to use self-defined functions (scripting), and ofc integrated AI features, which can also be customized and added as commands etc.

Built on top of Qt framework.

New comment by hackermanai in "Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations"

hackermanai — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:40:53 +0000

> 1. Perpetual fallback licenses on SaaS products are (unfortunately) not terribly common - so if it's not explicitly stated then you can bet your bottom dollar that it's highly unlikely.

I also think perpetual fallback licenses are great and will def use this for hackerman.ai text editor (when released later this year).

I also wish devs would start offer one time payments again (especially for downloadable software).

Show HN: Pro Tip, Check This

hackermanai — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 06:52:42 +0000

Article URL: https://hackerman.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42355452

Points: 1

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New comment by hackermanai in "Jaguar Cars rebranding without any cars"

hackermanai — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:10:04 +0000

their website looks shady too, like eu bag scam websites

New comment by hackermanai in "Jaguar Cars rebranding without any cars"

hackermanai — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:07:58 +0000

> Jaguar is a luxury brand.

Jaguar is not a luxury brand

New comment by hackermanai in "Show HN: Void - open source Cursor AI code editor"

hackermanai — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 02:50:01 +0000

I'm also working on an AI code editor, but why VS code clone tho?

Zero to ones in this space seems more challenging but might be worth it