Hacker News: kitd

New comment by kitd in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

kitd — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:18:05 +0000

I've not used it myself, but I've heard good things about Wails.

https://wails.io/

New comment by kitd in "Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity"

kitd — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:15:56 +0000

"So good, you can't put it down"

New comment by kitd in "Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity"

kitd — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:12:59 +0000

Best of luck to you! My son is doing them too. This is a great project btw. Doing this sort of stuff teaches you far better than endless lessons.

New comment by kitd in "Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity"

kitd — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:08:52 +0000

Funnily enough, I actually prefer the VSCode model for git. On the occasions I use IntelliJ, I find the git actions spread across multiple panels or dropdowns. In VSCode, it's all in one place and the current state clearly visible. YMMV ofc.

New comment by kitd in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"

kitd — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:20:55 +0000

He basically invented the natural history documentary, maybe even the science documentary. Before him, there was little to no serious natural history programming, or what there was was quite "folksy". And with it, he created, sustained and increased the public interest and concern about the natural world.

I suspect many scientists can trace their early interest in science back to him. And I believe the green movement would have had a lot less impact without him.

New comment by kitd in "GeoJSON"

kitd — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:07:44 +0000

There's a map facility not linked here that allows you to build GeoJSON graphically:

https://geojson.io/#map=12.42/51.50593/-0.13003

New comment by kitd in "HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker"

kitd — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:39:35 +0000

A radio report I heard said that hantavirus is nothing like coronavirus. It is not new, endemic, and there is plenty of immunity around to slow down local spread.

New comment by kitd in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

kitd — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:16:59 +0000

Agreed. I found compose overlay files merged list values differently between the Docker and Podman versions, which was a PITA in teams running Docker & Linux dev machines.

New comment by kitd in "UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations"

kitd — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:04:35 +0000

The majors that do upstream (taking it out of the ground) as well as downstream (refining and selling it on the forecourt or wholesale) make their profits on the oil markets.

When crude is high, it's upstream that earns the income. When it's low, it's selling it to the customer.

Fun fact: when I worked at BP, the product with the highest margin on the forecourts was the Wild Bean coffee.

New comment by kitd in "Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case"

kitd — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:47:06 +0000

Isn't that (part of) the purpose of using something like Ariel OS, to isolate you from changes?

New comment by kitd in "Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming"

kitd — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:15:58 +0000

> I've also found that using those attributes inherently pushes your code to make ownership more explicit. I personally stopped being terrified of double-pointers and started using them for ownership transfers, which eliminates a large class of bugs.

This is very interesting. Do you have a practical example?

New comment by kitd in "K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes"

kitd — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:08:14 +0000

Missed the opportunity to call it Kink ...

New comment by kitd in "New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome"

kitd — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:57:10 +0000

Yeah, that threw me as well.

Also worth pointing out that the Old English version at each of those dates probably varied quite a bit. This was the time period over which Old English was being influenced by external factors such as Norse and Latin.

New comment by kitd in "Before GitHub"

kitd — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:06:33 +0000

"countryclub.com" - ie, a bunch of fossils :)

New comment by kitd in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

kitd — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:11:30 +0000

Google could invest in Graphene as a hedge.

New comment by kitd in "Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go"

kitd — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:30:23 +0000

Nice work. The hot-reload dev cli looks very cool in a compiled-binary world.

New comment by kitd in "DeepSeek v4"

kitd — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:48:42 +0000

I can't find any info on what exactly is open sourced.

And in any case what does open source actually mean for an llm? It's not like you can look inside it to see what it's doing.

New comment by kitd in "Laws of Software Engineering"

kitd — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:39:30 +0000

Did you get the job ... or were you overqualified?

New comment by kitd in "JVM Options Explorer"

kitd — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:12:27 +0000

Your stack trace tells you where in the code the error occurred, but doesn't tell you what it was doing with what data. For that you need to pass context for the error up the chain of calls, adding to it as you go up. Exceptions are not a great way of doing it as you only have the local context, which isn't a great help when you're catching N levels up.

And if you're not catching N levels up but catching at each level, then you are emulating error values but with try/catch blocks.

New comment by kitd in "JVM Options Explorer"

kitd — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:27:36 +0000

This is the kind of scenario that is served better by Go/C-style error values than exceptions. Error values facilitate and encourage you to log what you were doing at the precise point when an error occurs. Doing the same with exceptions idiomatically often requires an exception hierarchy or copious amounts of separate try/catches.

The difference really becomes apparent when trying to debug a customer's problem at 3am (IME).