Hacker News: kermatt

New comment by kermatt in "A Windows terminal built on the Ghostty core"

kermatt — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:56:03 +0000

https://github.com/deblasis/wintty

A Windows terminal built on the Ghostty core

kermatt — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:56:03 +0000

Article URL: https://wintty.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741760

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by kermatt in "Prompting Is Dead in 6 Months. Andrew Ng, Stanford [video]"

kermatt — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:18:36 +0000

AI AII AIII AIV AV ...

New comment by kermatt in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

kermatt — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:26:08 +0000

I wonder if when one goes down, activity shifts to others, in turn pushing them over a threshold.

New comment by kermatt in "Fastpotify"

kermatt — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:15:00 +0000

I recently went through most of the Spotify clients I could find on GitHub, looking for something "lean", including screen real estate.

Most of the GUI apps had something similar to the official app in the maximized window, but none had a good mini-player, something I could put in the corner of an external monitor and control most of the important functions with minimal mouse clicking, including EQ and playlist.

Interestingly this one with its Winamp mode is what I was looking for. Nostaliga is probably playing a part, but it a good UI does not have to be "modern".

I also went through a tour of TUI apps. Lots of interesting work there, but a full TUI with windows was less convenient to navigate, and some of them try to do too much. I wound up using https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot because it specifically does not attempt to be a character mode GUI. Almost like a ViMusic.

New comment by kermatt in "I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul"

kermatt — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:59:02 +0000

Anything with a soul that gains popularity is doomed to value extraction.

A TUI file manager for cloud and remote storage

kermatt — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:51:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mrpbennett/bucky

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452226

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kermatt in "People sick, 57 hospitalized in 32 states courtesy of contaminated jalapeños"

kermatt — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:42:14 +0000

Wait for the new TacOS release on Tuesday.

New comment by kermatt in "Go 1.27"

kermatt — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:12:25 +0000

A problem was so many others were screaming about the lack of generics, as though there were not other language options that provided them.

New comment by kermatt in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

kermatt — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:01:40 +0000

It is stopping some of the adults I work with from learning.

In the case of some management, is causing them to unlearn, forgetting about proper review and maintenance practices.

New comment by kermatt in "Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical"

kermatt — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:01:33 +0000

Maybe a machine that did not require the inclusion of a Windows license in the purchase price?

At one point, I think Dell would let you subtract a small amount from an order when no OS was installed.

New comment by kermatt in "Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal"

kermatt — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:34:50 +0000

DeepMole

Bbv is a minimalist data plotter/viewer for the command line

kermatt — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:53:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ftonneau/bbv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311604

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kermatt in "Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia"

kermatt — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:11:09 +0000

I was wondering the same: https://www.morageology.com/earthquake_year.php

New comment by kermatt in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

kermatt — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:36:33 +0000

> but it makes the site seem less legitimate

I have yet to head that cookie prompts are a sign of legitimacy. What business has customers that would think that way?

End-to-end encrypted .env sharing

kermatt — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:48:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/p-arndt/shenv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294537

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kermatt in "Delta"

kermatt — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:57:52 +0000

Maybe an approach for interactive code reviews with distributed teams.

Also see: https://subethaedit.net/

New comment by kermatt in "Cineplex CEO Says Gen Z Will Go to the Movies: Tired of Looking at Small Screens"

kermatt — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:50:37 +0000

Nope. The "small screen" at my home has better selection, better and _cleaner_ seating, and most importantly anyone who won't be quiet during the film gets ejected no questions asked.

I would love to go to theaters again, if only some level of decorum was enforced. Too often patrons seem to be looking for a place to sit and talk, not watch films.

New comment by kermatt in "BMW ads: "I feel a deep, smothering, let-down at the promise of futurism""

kermatt — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:24:08 +0000

> There are software teams over in Munich who spend their days thinking of ways to show me videos instead of improving wireless CarPlay reliability or writing updates to make iDrive more stable, intuitive, useful.

Seen elsewhere: "The smartest minds are figuring out new way to get people to click on ads"

New comment by kermatt in "Ask HN: Are you working 996 hours?"

kermatt — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:41:46 +0000

I'm not getting paid by the hour, so hell no.

If I was paid hourly, hell no.