<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jvican</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jvican</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:06:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jvican" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvican in "Men who stare at walls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What a gem! Thank you for sharing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:24:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928216</link><dc:creator>jvican</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvican in "Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Having an OS that versions all my VMs and allows A/B running the actual OS, has a high quality CLI, is built on modern standards, supports declarative files, and it’s simpler than Proxmox.<p>I don’t really care for enterprise support. Incus hits a sweet spot no other solution does.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:26:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902178</link><dc:creator>jvican</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902178</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvican in "Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use my own solution (set of bash scripts) on top of IncusOS support for declarative files.</p>
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<p>I use IncusOS in my homelab. It's a joy to set up and use.<p>Migrated from Proxmox and manage all my VMs. Heavily use coding assistants to automatically set things up through the IncusOS CLI, translate Docker-Compose images to Incus, write bash scripts to automate launching new containers to use `--dangerously-skip-permissions` without fear of repercussions, etc.<p>What I love the most about it is that it's possible to manage IncusOS with declarative files, so you always have visibility into networking setups, resource configuration, etc.<p>Highly recommend checking IncusOS out if you have similar use cases!</p>
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<p>I personally like and use watchexec [1] to run commands on repeat.<p>Syntax example: `watchexec -r -e py uv run pytest -xvvs file.py`<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec</a></p>
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<p>Plus, I don't think Japanese eat a lot more fermented foods than other cultures. It's way more prevalent in South Korea, China, Russia, etc.</p>
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<p>I agree with you. I followed him out of curiosity for one or two months, watched about 10 of his videos.<p>He seems to have a good intuition, but he gives weak and often cherry-picked reasonings, to the point that many of his takes are completely unreliable.<p>For a channel called Predictive History, he made too many weirdly precise explanations and predictions that turned out to be wrong. Then, he'd look over the old failed ones to find new ones.<p>That being said, I'd say his macro level analysis is directionally correct, as well as his read on the incentives of each party involved. Watch his lectures, but be skeptical and double check everything he says, because he does indeed make factual mistakes... some of them are caught in the comments by other viewers, some are not obvious.</p>
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<p>He might indeed need some personal development himself. I followed him when the US bombed Iran's nuclear sites last year. He was involved in a controversy with his kid and turned into a dick, going into a charade against the Western education system, for being overly harsh to his kid in a public space and getting reprimanded for it. I'm not condoning his behavior, I wasn't there, but I'd take anything this guy has to say on personal development with a pinch of salt. By the way, he published a post of apologies in his Substack IIRC.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:03:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252225</link><dc:creator>jvican</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvican in "Show HN: cmux - Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you looked into zmx? [0]<p>It doesn't have built-in notifications and there's no panel to see all the open sessions, but I wonder how hard that would be to add.<p>I've used zmx since I ran into it a few weeks ago. Uses libghostty as well. It's great because it allows me to replace tmux completely in all my ssh sessions, and can keep one session per assistant.<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/neurosnap/zmx" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/neurosnap/zmx</a></p>
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<p>Does it do bufferbloat checks?</p>
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<p>Is there any plan for this?</p>
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<p>I used it for close to a year and abandoned it because I kept running into issues with tabs getting randomly reloaded and extensions causing trouble.<p>What would you say has changed over the past few months?
I just felt like Kagi wasn't prioritizing Orion development enough, being busy with their main Kagi subscription and all.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/chemical-hygiene/">https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/chemical-hygiene/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331373">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331373</a></p>
<p>Points: 8</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:51:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/chemical-hygiene/</link><dc:creator>jvican</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvican in "How I'm using Helix editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure OP configured it this way, but it's possible. For example, yazelix gives you that functionality.</p>
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<p>`hx --tutor` is a life saver though. Did that to quickly catch up on hx keybindings and Claude chips in when I need more efficient things to do certain text editing operations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:40:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543532</link><dc:creator>jvican</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvican in "Notes on switching to Helix from Vim"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've fallen in love with Helix and now use it for everything. Moved from neovim and VS Code to Helix for the majority of my coding.<p>For me, after trying the Lazy neovim plugin distro and being a long-time vim user, Helix fills a unique need:<p>- It's beautiful (lots of attention to detail)
- It's fast (meaning: at no point did I think Helix is slower than it should)
- It's hugely ergonomic (each default keystroke resonates with me and the modal selection is a boon for my brain and productivity)
- It requires almost no configuration out-of-the-box<p>I can't be bothered to use neovim and configure it, and vim doesn't cut it. I need something in the middle between nvim and VS Code, and that's Helix for me. This might have been different had I been a vimscript wizard, which I'm not.<p>I don't need Helix to be more modular or UNIXy, I simply need it to keep on the direction they've taken. There's a thriving ecosystem of tools around it, and I can use it with Claude Code (by simply refreshing the buffer when there's a new edit). What else can I ask for?<p>Helix is a great editor, one of the very best I've ever used. As a result, I started chipping in monthly money to keep the project going.<p>In terms of future improvements, the only one I'm missing the most is the ability to render images or math formulas from the editor, which I hope can at some point be done through a plugin using Kitty's terminal protocol or sixel. This is especially handy when working on Markdown files for notes or blog posts.<p>Long live Helix.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:13:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45541305</link><dc:creator>jvican</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45541305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45541305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvican in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is great. We definitely need something like this.<p>Where are the safe levels limits to interpret test results? This would be a small addition that would make any of the results interpretable. I had to open the PlasticList website to get the baseline safe thresholds for each chemical and to do some rough approximations.</p>
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<p>There are contexts where the differences matter, but not in the vast majority of contexts (especially the OP's context).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:20:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242916</link><dc:creator>jvican</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvican in "Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not always. People from the center and west side of Spain typically refer to it as "español" rather than "castellano". Nonetheless, it's true educated people typically refer to it as "castellano" as well as other Spaniards that live in a region where other official languages are spoken.</p>
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<p>Yes, but when people refer to "Catalan people", they refer to people from Catalunya, Spain, not Andorra.</p>
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