Hacker News: kushalpandya

New comment by kushalpandya in "New iPad mini"

kushalpandya — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:36:03 +0000

Lack of 120hz display on a $700 device is non-negotiable.

New comment by kushalpandya in "Gemini 4 Argon"

kushalpandya — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:25:00 +0000

Even Google itself stated (internally at least) that nobody has a moat https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat...

New comment by kushalpandya in "Show HN: ResolveHQ – A Helpdesk Built on Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2 and Queues"

kushalpandya — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:33:42 +0000

I built something similar, but for in-app Issue Reporting, as my macOS app needed a way for users to file bugs without having to create an issue in GitHub https://github.com/kushalpandya/Sluice

New comment by kushalpandya in "PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in"

kushalpandya — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:09:13 +0000

While PlayStation is on a streak of one bad decision after the other, I'd give them benefit of the doubt here.

Kojima likes to work unhinged on grand ideas with a tall budget which may stick or not stick at all. So may be Sony didn't like the direction of Physint and decided to dump it.

While Sony may be wrong in judging the game in its early stage, the replacement publisher, Microsoft, has solid track record of terrible taste at creating exclusives.

Show HN: Petrichor – Native offline music player for macOS

kushalpandya — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:32:03 +0000

Over a year ago I shared about Petrichor on HN[1] while it was still in alpha, it started out as a hobby for me and has now grown into a mature product while staying free and open source[2]. I've just released v1.7 that added a whole bunch of features that I originally envisioned for this app. It remains free and open source, doesn't do any usage tracking or analytics, and still strives to be one of the best music players available on the platform.

Features:

- Everything you'd expect from an offline music player!

- Supports more than 40 audio file formats.

- Map your music folders and browse your library in an organized view.

- Stream Internet Radio and organize saved stations into collections.

- Synced lyrics of a playing track when available, including ability to download missing lyrics.

- Create, import or export playlists.

- Smart playlists with conditional, negative, and regular-expression rules.

- Manage the play queue interactively using drag and drop.

- Browse music using folder view when needed.

- Pin anything (almost!) to the sidebar for quick access to your favorite music.

- Navigate easily: right-click a track to go to its album, artist, year, etc.

- Native macOS integration with menubar and dock playback controls, plus dark mode support.

- Miniplayer and immersive mode.

- Gapless playback, Crossfade, ReplayGain volume normalization, Equalizer, Spatial Audio, and AirPlay 2 support.

- Last.fm scrobbling support.

- Shortcuts and Automation API support along with Siri.

- Works well with large libraries containing thousands of songs.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44515266

[2]: https://github.com/kushalpandya/Petrichor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49565238

Points: 2

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New comment by kushalpandya in "Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri"

kushalpandya — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:37:21 +0000

The macOS installer is not notarized, and while adding an exception in Gatekeeper exists, not everyone would be willing to do that, especially currently when even the app source is unavailable.

New comment by kushalpandya in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"

kushalpandya — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:45:13 +0000

They certainly wield power to mobilise poor farmers, leading to anarchy.

Highly recommend reading about Farm Bills that govt. had to take back even when surveys by Supreme Court showed that over 85% farmers across the country were in favor of those bills and wanted them turned into laws.

New comment by kushalpandya in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"

kushalpandya — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:27:59 +0000

India (central govt.) also doesn't tax farmers even when they've made bumper profits from their produce. The moment a political party even mentions of taxing rich farmers, their politics is over.

Basically country is going to shits purely due to votebank politics, and this is true across party lines no matter who is in power.

New comment by kushalpandya in "GIMP Development Update"

kushalpandya — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:25:22 +0000

The attitude partly affects GNOME too, any time you'd constructively criticize it on places like their Issue tracker or r/gnome, their defenders would come with pitchforks at you. Glad I moved to KDE nearly a decade ago.

New comment by kushalpandya in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

kushalpandya — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:48:08 +0000

Petrichor, a music player for macOS: https://petrichor.page/

This has been my work outside of work, which I spend most of my weekends on. It has gotten enough downloads (23k+) and traction to motivate me to continue.

New comment by kushalpandya in "Our position on open-weights models"

kushalpandya — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:12:34 +0000

Classic Holier-than-thou

New comment by kushalpandya in "98.css"

kushalpandya — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:21:02 +0000

While the browser support is not complete, styling the dropdown menu to match with Windows 98 should still be doable https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...

New comment by kushalpandya in "Reflecting on a Year of Building Petrichor"

kushalpandya — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:24:34 +0000

I spent the last year building Petrichor, an offline music player for macOS. This is an essay on how the journey has been so far.

I also shared it on HN last year [1], and the project has come a long, long way since then.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44515266

Homepage: https://petrichor.page/

GitHub: https://github.com/kushalpandya/Petrichor

Reflecting on a Year of Building Petrichor

kushalpandya — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:24:34 +0000

Article URL: https://doublslash.com/blog/2026/07/22/reflecting-on-a-year-of-building-petrichor/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001874

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by kushalpandya in "Googlebook"

kushalpandya — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:05:09 +0000

That's still the default state of Google Hardware. Just look at their out-of-warranty Pixel Watch repairs.

And if you're not in North America (or EU), chances are very high that any repair to Pixels is going to be either not possible or will cost you dearly. I personally had a terrible experience of this with Pixel 7 Pro that was in warranty and had a water-related damage, since then, I've stayed away from any device made by Google.

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

kushalpandya — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:18:34 +0000

Should've named it ZeroGravity to stay true to its design goals.

New comment by kushalpandya in "What did you love about VB6?"

kushalpandya — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:12:07 +0000

The thriving ecosystem of dynamic libraries that you could just link and create a Windows Vista-esque UI (AKA Aero) in an IDE built in 1998, thanks to Win32 API.

New comment by kushalpandya in "Apple reports second quarter results"

kushalpandya — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:30:25 +0000

Perhaps something that Ternus can add to his legacy-building exercise, given that he led hardware.

New comment by kushalpandya in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

kushalpandya — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:27:53 +0000

I wish Google would launch Mac Mini-like devices running their consumer-grade TPUs for local inference. I get that they don't want it to eat into their GCP margins, but it would still get them into consumer desktops that Pixel Books could never penetrate (Chromebooks don't count and may likely become obsolete soon due to MacBook Neo).

New comment by kushalpandya in "OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports"

kushalpandya — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:59:10 +0000

The duopoly slowly turning into a monopoly won't be pretty.