Hacker News: jbirnick

New comment by jbirnick in "Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web"

jbirnick — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:45:03 +0000

Luckily GPUI isn't vibe coded at all but a mature and well thought-out project.. /s

New comment by jbirnick in "sshole"

jbirnick — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:32:13 +0000

Am I the only one who is shocked that such important and security-relevant software just does unorthodox stuff like "well let's just return `*` if it fails" and other kind of "hacks" ?! The developers must know that this is very bad software engineering and will definitely cause issues at _some_ point in time, no?!

New comment by jbirnick in "English ↔ Claudish Translator"

jbirnick — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:34:18 +0000

You could look what this translator does: https://github.com/programasweights/claudish/blob/main/specs...

It would be great to have a little program (or Agent Skill) that could clean up the Claude language in a whole repository.

New comment by jbirnick in "KOReader"

jbirnick — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:16:51 +0000

I absolutely love KOReader on my Boox Go 10.3!

It has super useful features like the semi-auto-cropping which removes margins in PDFs (like papers or books), including unnecessary things like page numbers or similar, so that you can really maximize the size of the core content. It also has a nice chapter overview and other useful things!

Truly one of the best pieces of software I have used so far.

Google Antigravity CLI

jbirnick — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:04:49 +0000

Article URL: https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravity-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197843

Points: 3

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New comment by jbirnick in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

jbirnick — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:04:24 +0000

They complain about a startup time of 380ms, but with the default configuration it's only 60ms on my laptop. That's faster than the final startup time of 70ms of their custom config, and it has all the features that they added to their config. So with all the features they need OMZ should be fast enough for them? I don't get it.