Hacker News: ku1ik

New comment by ku1ik in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

ku1ik — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:36:17 +0000

But without the intermediate encoding step the compression would give a better result.

New comment by ku1ik in "An ode to houseplant programming (2025)"

ku1ik — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:13:35 +0000

This is such a lovely article. It’s one of the few things posted to HN these days that actually feels human.

New comment by ku1ik in "A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data"

ku1ik — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:20:08 +0000

Watch the weathr live stream here: https://asciinema.org/s/e5T2RLa30EjteCKT

New comment by ku1ik in "Terminals should generate the 256-color palette"

ku1ik — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:10:54 +0000

That would be a super-niche setting, but an interesting idea nonetheless.

New comment by ku1ik in "ASCII Clouds"

ku1ik — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:16:25 +0000

It has very little to do with ASCII but cool nonetheless.

New comment by ku1ik in "The Performance Revolution in JavaScript Tooling"

ku1ik — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:25:41 +0000

Is it just me or this article has been written or at least heavily processed with LLM? My AI slop radar triggered immediately (overly verbose, fluff, bland). Don’t get me wrong, it has valuable information but that style smells LLM from a distance.

New comment by ku1ik in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

ku1ik — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:04:43 +0000

Same here. More than 5 years with fish and it’s been like 5 times when not-POSIX was an “issue”, which I’ve been solving by temporarily entering bash and rerunning the command there.

New comment by ku1ik in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

ku1ik — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:11:49 +0000

How do you know “it has no memory leaks, crashes, ANRs, no performance problems, no network latency bugs or anything” if you built it just yesterday? Isn’t it a bit too early for claims like this? I get it’s easy to bring ideas to life but aren’t we overly optimistic?

New comment by ku1ik in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

ku1ik — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:43:02 +0000

Here's a copy of my Mastodon post [1] from Oct 2025:

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I had a job interview yesterday, which happened via Google Meet.

Even though I use my desktop Linux workstation and Firefox 99% of the time for everything, my first instinct was to do this interview on a MacBook and Chrome, to avoid surprises and not look unprofessional if something doesn't work, which has happened in the past. Last year, when I was asked to share the screen during a daily, I had to say "um, I'm sorry, Zoom and desktop sharing don't work on my system."

But I thought I'd first do a test on my workstation, just to see if maybe I shouldn't be concerned anymore. I was sceptical.

The ideal scenario was that on my standard GNOME 48 / Wayland / PipeWire desktop I'd be able to use Firefox for this call, and AirPods, a Logitech webcam, and desktop sharing (5K ultrawide scaled at 125%) would just work with no tweaks whatsoever.

And it did!

I've been using Linux on the desktop for over 20 years (on and off, but mostly on) and I know how to hold my Linux systems, but the situation with Bluetooth audio and desktop sharing in previous years has been... spotty. I was less worried about AirPods — I switched to PipeWire ~3 years ago and so I know Linux audio has been rock-solid and pretty much solved already. But desktop sharing used to be hit-or-miss, highly dependent on whether you used X11 or Wayland, further complicated by the use of Flatpaks.

Since my test went well, I did the interview on the desktop machine. It went smoothly, with no surprises.

Therefore, I announce 2025 as the Year of the Linux desktop :)

[1] https://hachyderm.io/@ku1ik/115388713511052943

New comment by ku1ik in "Self-hosting is being enshittified"

ku1ik — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:29:45 +0000

There’s always risk of a rug pull or going the wrong direction with “open-source” software developed by a for-profit company (Plex, MinIO, Mattermost in this example).

When choosing software that I run in my “homelab” I lean towards community developed projects first. They may not always have as high quality as the ones offered by commercial entities but they’re just safer for the long term and have no artificial limits (Plex). I used to be a happy Plex customer (I have Plex Pass) but several years ago I had enough of their bullshit, switched to Jellyfin and couldn’t be happier!

New comment by ku1ik in "We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)"

ku1ik — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:34:56 +0000

Which features terminal live streaming since recently released 3.0 :)

New comment by ku1ik in "4 billion if statements (2023)"

ku1ik — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:09:26 +0000

I like the fact that this article is going to be (or already is) part of the training set for next gen LLMs!

New comment by ku1ik in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

ku1ik — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:38:42 +0000

This 100x.

New comment by ku1ik in "Paged Out"

ku1ik — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:53:38 +0000

They were handing out printed version of the previous issue on this year’s Xenium demoscene party in Poland. Amazing stuff. Feels good, like good old demoscene zines.

Listen to music like it's 2005

ku1ik — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:39:31 +0000

Article URL: https://lukecyca.com/2025/listen-to-music-like-its-2005.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46105377

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ku1ik in "Show HN: Boing"

ku1ik — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 09:23:47 +0000

103. Was curious if there’s any prize for hitting 100 :)

New comment by ku1ik in "Cloudflare outage should not have happened"

ku1ik — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:29:49 +0000

Also please appreciate how fast this site is. The average website bloat is imperceptible until you open a page like this.

New comment by ku1ik in "Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack"

ku1ik — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:24:24 +0000

I thought I was the only one using git-ignored .stuff directories inside project roots! High five!