Hacker News: leonheld

New comment by leonheld in "Modernish – A library for writing programs for POSIX-based shells and utilities"

leonheld — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:31:03 +0000

It's all written in shell, no other dependencies. This is what so many shells that tried to "revitalize" sh missed! I'll definitely adopt this.

New comment by leonheld in "Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?""

leonheld — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:07:35 +0000

My experience with HackerNews would be significantly improved if I could exclude the LLM-related stuff... it's overwhelming.

New comment by leonheld in "uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust"

leonheld — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 09:27:33 +0000

My apologies: "mydependencies" are packages from PyPI (https://pypi.org/), as if you did "pip install ...".

New comment by leonheld in "uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust"

leonheld — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:39:58 +0000

I adore the

  uv add  --script mycoolscript.py

And then shoving

  #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run

on top so I can run Python scripts easily. It's great!

New comment by leonheld in "Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland"

leonheld — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:40:41 +0000

Haiku/BeOS to me is simply peak computer design. This is beautiful!

Static binaries and Homebrew as a channel for internal tools

leonheld — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:41:27 +0000

Article URL: https://leonardoheld.ovh/static-binaries-and-homebrew-for-internal-tools.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44292245

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by leonheld in "Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi"

leonheld — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 01:16:50 +0000

We use it for testing binary embedded Linux distros where tricking the OS to think there's a display connected introduces a new variable that is not present in the user's deployment - and it's a cheap hardware solution. Buying and installing them is probably more cost-effective than having an engineer writing the `echo on > /sys/whatever` and the logic around it.

New comment by leonheld in "Launch HN: Nomi (YC X25) – Copilot for Sales"

leonheld — Mon, 26 May 2025 17:55:21 +0000

I get nomi.ai, which is a service to:

"... build a meaningful friendship, develop a passionate relationship, or learn from an insightful mentor."

Jesus Christ.

New comment by leonheld in "Don't guess my language"

leonheld — Mon, 19 May 2025 12:33:28 +0000

While others have expressed sentiments about YouTube and Google, let me tell you what I really hate - translated reddit posts.

They're polluting search results and it's the ultimate disrespect against multi-lingual users... it's made my life hell when trying to find localized information (for example, in Portuguese), when my computer is set to Portuguese but I'm searching in English.

New comment by leonheld in "$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder"

leonheld — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:58:43 +0000

Good point. I did not scroll to the rules.

New comment by leonheld in "$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder"

leonheld — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:10:00 +0000

What are you talking about? 25~30k is almost a year's salaries for a dev in Eastern Europe/South America.

New comment by leonheld in "The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority"

leonheld — Tue, 13 May 2025 12:16:44 +0000

If we're talking numbers, there are many, many more embedded systems than general purpose computers. And these are mostly built on ancient process nodes compared to the cutting edge we have today; the shiny octa-cores on our phones are supported by a myriad of ancilliary chips that are definitely not cutting edge.

New comment by leonheld in "Spade Hardware Description Language"

leonheld — Mon, 12 May 2025 13:27:19 +0000

> Honestly my sense is that it's just time to rip the bandaid off and generate synthesizable hardware from Python or Rust or whatnot.

I worked a bit with VHDL and the parallelism aspect is - to me - so fundamentally different than what our sequential programming languages can express that I'm not sure I a layer of abstraction between this and that. How would that work?

New comment by leonheld in "Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++"

leonheld — Tue, 06 May 2025 18:58:45 +0000

I love Rust, but I after doing it for a little while, I completely understand the "brain drain" aspect... yes, I get significantly better programs, but it is tiring to fight the borrow-checker sometimes. Heck, I currently am procrastinating instead of going into the ring.

Anyhow, I won't go back to C++ land. Better this than whatever arcane, 1000-line, template-hell error message that kept me fed when I was there.

New comment by leonheld in "The True Size Of"

leonheld — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:42:40 +0000

It's about half of my state in Brazil (which is one of the smallest in the country). However, I've been to Belgium many times and it feels bigger. I think the key is the population density: 388/km^2 in Belgium vs 70/km^2 here. Like, yes, it's big, but empty space is truly boring.

New comment by leonheld in "How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare"

leonheld — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:43:48 +0000

I profoundly do not understand why one needs Hugo or Jekyll or whatever other generator. Why not write HTML in the first place? It's so absurdly easy and it makes you not depend on external infrastructure at all.

I tried some generators but it was so much more complicated than writing a style sheet and some pages. Maybe for some more complex use-case, okay, I get it, but the author's blog is so minimal and simple.

edit: today I learned people have very strong opinions about static site generators. Good valid reasons, y'all. Maybe my use case really is too simplistic!

Ask HN: Where are people sharing their blogs these days?

leonheld — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 03:30:27 +0000

I really like blogs, and I've started blogging again like this past week. I want to share what I write but get some nice reading lists going to.

Today I basically use HN as my blog curator, but I yearn for more.

Where do you find a blogging community nowadays? How to discover new blogs and how to share your content?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43768391

Points: 33

# Comments: 24

New comment by leonheld in "Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell"

leonheld — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:18:07 +0000

Has been done: https://youtu.be/Z1Nf8KcG4ro?t=1107

New comment by leonheld in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"

leonheld — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:08:58 +0000

It's obvious to you becase you seem like a decent human being, judging from this comment.

New comment by leonheld in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"

leonheld — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:49:52 +0000

The response here would be significantly different if this was about measuring the performance of software engineers in wealthy countries.