Hacker News: hexo

New comment by hexo in "Why TUIs are back"

hexo — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:26:53 +0000

I'm not surprised at all, if I was to choose from TUI or browser-gui (electron, react, react-native, anything similar) i'd always choose TUI. Good gui design died a long ago. Almost every gui designer needs us to always look at some nonsense animations that serve zero purpose and just make you needlessly wait. There is no such thing as "essential" animation in GUI. And no, plain simple progress bar does not count as animation, but rotating "progress circle" does. GUIs got so unbelievably bloated, it used to be an advantage to have more pixels, as you could pack more information in useful way. Today? Nah. Look at signal (or signal-desktop), it's not even funny anymore. Dolphin used to be good file explorer. Today it's borderline usable, animated so much so that i have to maintain own patched version. One just cannot hide from this, mostly because devs do not understand (or want to acknowledge) need for this stuff to be configurable (instead they more likely focus on stuff no one actually needs. again looking at you, signal.). Or stuff like libadwaita that is likely one of the most arrogant take on gui library ever.

New comment by hexo in "NASA Force"

hexo — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:15:40 +0000

What is it about? I can't get past this "scrolling" website formats. Makes my brain hurt.

New comment by hexo in "Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code"

hexo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:52:24 +0000

Heh, this is like the last thing you need claude for. I mean, you have eyes and brain.

New comment by hexo in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

hexo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:04:23 +0000

No way they really named it thunderbolt. I mean. Seriously? What is next Mozilla USB-C vibeslop?

New comment by hexo in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

hexo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:14:03 +0000

because it is common sense

New comment by hexo in "Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt"

hexo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:09:46 +0000

Wow, very cool indeed and i'd use it immediately if it was human-written.

New comment by hexo in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

hexo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:44:59 +0000

how long? 10 years

New comment by hexo in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

hexo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:11:16 +0000

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New comment by hexo in "Show HN: Iron-Wolf – Wolfenstein 3D source port in Rust"

hexo — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:16:12 +0000

again?

New comment by hexo in "Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?"

hexo — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:11:01 +0000

Both netflix and hbo are significantly worse with pretty much zero watchable content

New comment by hexo in "Show HN: Inamate – Open-source 2D animation tool (alternative to Adobe Animate)"

hexo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:17:36 +0000

> - What features would make you switch from your current tool?

Native software. Certainly not anything browser based. No electron. No react. Software that understands color management. And actual animation tools, not onion strips - it is not 1970 anymore.

> Try it out, break it, and tell us what you think.

Sorry i'm not even trying stuff that needs browser. I'm so very tired of it.

New comment by hexo in "The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware"

hexo — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:28:08 +0000

that is so ridiculous.

New comment by hexo in "Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop"

hexo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:49:38 +0000

No thanks, it stinks.

New comment by hexo in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

hexo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:28:26 +0000

I really love how they waste energy for stuff like this. Even better, all that nonsense talk we constantly kept hearing about energy crysis just a few years ago...

New comment by hexo in "What's going on at Heathrow Airport"

hexo — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:12:12 +0000

Using runways in browser seems a bit strange to me

New comment by hexo in "Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray"

hexo — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 02:10:32 +0000

Serverless? So it runs on... nothing?

New comment by hexo in "What happened to WebAssembly"

hexo — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:04:53 +0000

Nothing, it is still disabled on all my devices as it always was and will be.

New comment by hexo in "MCP is a fad"

hexo — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:10:58 +0000

Why would we use something that makes us dumber and wastes our planet more than anything else.

Nah, I'll skip.

New comment by hexo in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

hexo — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:54:36 +0000

Windows becoming less and less relevant every day and then they do this. 2026 is gonna be true Year of the Linux Desktop.

New comment by hexo in "Go away Python"

hexo — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:46:33 +0000

You don't see that happening because you don't want to.