Hacker News: kasajian

New comment by kasajian in "Closing Canario Terminal source code"

kasajian — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:48:15 +0000

Nah, you're just twisting things around. We are criticizing and calling out the rationale he's giving. Not even interested if he hears it. It's message to the public of the maintainers behavior. Not to him. He's got a right to do what he wants.

The critique is not about the demands for his time as a maintainer, which is what he is addressing, that no one here is complaining about. In fact, post folks have made it clear that they have no issue with it.

New comment by kasajian in "Closing Canario Terminal source code"

kasajian — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:44:01 +0000

That b.s. It has to do with the fact that the project is not making it clear that it's not interested in PRs.

Don't have Issues. Don't have PRs. Just push your code to github. Add to the README that this is a mirror of the actual development branch that follows an internal process. The Github repo is only used as a way to publish the latest snapshot of the source.

The "going closed source" because of harassment is just an knee-jerk punitive reactionary response. It's akin to taking your ball and going home.

New comment by kasajian in "Closing Canario Terminal source code"

kasajian — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:52:34 +0000

He has a right to do anything he wants with hit source, but Open Source is nothing more than a license. We had GPL 2 before there was github. All you had to do is either deliver the source with your software, or make the source available upon request, even if it's by snail-mail.

My only exception to this article is the section, "People underestimate what open source costs from the maintainer side. It’s not just writing code. It’s issues, pull requests, discussions, people demanding things from you for free. I got spammed like crazy. And now with AI, spamming a maintainer is so easy: low effort issues, generated pull requests, and every single one of them takes a bit of your time and energy"

This is all self-inflicted. Don't take Issues. Don't take PRs. Make the repo read-only to everyone but you. There's zero effort, unless you're planning on keeping all the source on your computer and never push it anywhere. Well, I guess, in that case you're saving yourself from doing a push.

So if you don't want to do all that stuff, that's fine. You don't have to. But don't pretend the only alternative is to close the source.

New comment by kasajian in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

kasajian — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:13:04 +0000

Someone explain to me why this product is unique. If Mozilla never came out with it, does that mean businesses are stuck with using cloud-based AI? C'mon. There's a lot of products that already offer local-AI. What am I missing?

New comment by kasajian in "Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)"

kasajian — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:51:00 +0000

Content should be in a github org.

New comment by kasajian in "Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux"

kasajian — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:40:37 +0000

I'll check back every few years to see if either this project, Wine or ReactOS can run Visual Studio 2026 (or 2022) and .NET Framework 4.

Not talking about the cross-platform versions of .NET and VS-Code. I'm specifically talking about the Windows-specific software I mentioned above.

I don't see this happening, despite the fact that by now, these types of porting efforts were supposed to be trivial because of AI. Yeah, I'll wait.

New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS

kasajian — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:24:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45997212

Points: 315

# Comments: 165

New comment by kasajian in "Show HN: FocusStream – Learn from YouTube Without the Distractions"

kasajian — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:10:08 +0000

Yes, but you are not giving people anyway to close their account, nor make it obvious to unsubscribe. That's not very good.

New comment by kasajian in "Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments"

kasajian — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:34:53 +0000

Yep, also Microsoft Dev Box: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/dev-box

New comment by kasajian in "Greenland is a beautiful nightmare"

kasajian — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:34:10 +0000

The article wasn't proof-read. Too many basic English errors are too distracting and makes it hard to read.

New comment by kasajian in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"

kasajian — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 18:16:33 +0000

I don't agree. I don't think of Oracle at all when I think of JavaScript. And I also don't care whether they own the trademark.

There's no hypocrisy.

New comment by kasajian in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"

kasajian — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 18:12:58 +0000

I don't get why this is so important. I don't love Oracle. I do love JavaScript. I couldn't care less who owns the trademark, and not sure what if anything would make me care.

New comment by kasajian in "Moving off of TypeScript, 2.5M lines of code"

kasajian — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:12:23 +0000

Are you experiencing any perf issues when using "Blazor Server"?

New comment by kasajian in "Mathematician Finds Easier Way to Solve Quadratic Equations"

kasajian — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:16:54 +0000

The Popular Mechanics article talks about it as if it was just "discovered" Both the original blog post and the video linked from the article are 5+ years old. Not exactly news.

New comment by kasajian in "Clojure Async Flow Guide"

kasajian — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:32:01 +0000

Since you mentioned SBCL, I thought this announcement about ECL and WebAssembly would be worth mentioning for those who are curious. It was announced just last month: https://ecl.common-lisp.dev/posts/Web-ECL-Grant-Announcement... (2025-07-29)

Web ECL Grant Announcement

kasajian — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:30:45 +0000

Article URL: https://ecl.common-lisp.dev/posts/Web-ECL-Grant-Announcement.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44937955

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by kasajian in "Clojure Async Flow Guide"

kasajian — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 03:33:02 +0000

Funny. I was just thinking about dismissing Clojure for a project I'm going to work on because I was concerned about it's lack of ability to work with async calls. I'm too used to how async in JavaScript and C#, and I'm not sure I'd want to work in an environment that doesn't have a simple way to structure async calls. It doesn't necessarily have to be async / await. Just some attention to the issue rather than completely ignoring it.

Reverse engineering natively-compiled .NET apps

kasajian — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:41:42 +0000

Article URL: https://migeel.sk/blog/2023/09/15/reverse-engineering-natively-compiled-dotnet-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867833

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by kasajian in "Wired Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' over a Broken Display"

kasajian — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:04:41 +0000

The product with fewer features being recommended makes sense if they do those things well. The customer buying it is aware of the limitation, whereas the customer buying your unit getting a broken display is a disappointment. Maybe it was an unfair review, but this comparison is lame.

New comment by kasajian in "Lorem Gibson"

kasajian — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:02:07 +0000

Do View Source -- just take a look lol