Hacker News: microflash

New comment by microflash in "iOS 27 features we didn't see onstage"

microflash — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:18:12 +0000

Waiting for the day when I can set my own Search Engine in Safari, set Wifi hotspot as default (it defaults to USB / bluetooth), and use iPhone hotspot to update my iPad (iPad refuses to download updates when connected to iPhone hotspot even when Low-Data mode is disabled).

Dimidium – terminal color scheme crafted with science

microflash — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:49:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dofuuz/dimidium

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480019

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by microflash in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

microflash — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:59:17 +0000

Not launching in EU feels like a smell. It does look interesting enough for me to try it out before disabling Apple Intelligence again.

New comment by microflash in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

microflash — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:50:11 +0000

Since I don't care about Apple Music at all, I just lock the ~Music/Music folder. It prevents the app to launch while still keeping the key functional in other apps.

New comment by microflash in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

microflash — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:18:30 +0000

Might as well report all users of internet to authorities for using internet because internet can also be used to commit fraud.

How Safari search engine extensions work

microflash — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:22:40 +0000

Article URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/2/2.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387728

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

Mellum2 Goes Open Source: A Fast Model for AI Workflows

microflash — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:27:54 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/06/mellum2-goes-open-source-a-fast-model-for-ai-workflows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366057

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

New comment by microflash in "Kore: Binary File Format Optimized for Modern Data Systems (Open Source)"

microflash — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:25:25 +0000

> The fastest, most compressed columnar format for big data

How large a dataset can it tackle? I work with Parquet files spanning 300million+ records (~800MB files) using DuckDB and it works within seconds.

I might be interested to see benchmarks against Parquet and Vortex. A DuckDB extension would be great as well.

New comment by microflash in "Gradle Is Javamaxxing"

microflash — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:05:10 +0000

Every single time I experience Gradle, I’m grateful Maven exists.

New comment by microflash in "Does anybody like React?"

microflash — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:19:52 +0000

Vue 2 to Vue 3 has been equally painful for atleast one app I know about. Compare that to last three versions of Astro (with web components) and it has been a breeze.

> I migrated from Angular 4 to 18 (including ngrx and material) and didn't find it especially problematic.

The pain varies from project to project. Mine has been touched by a generation of developers of different levels of proficiency. A more disciplined project would’ve been easier to migrate in retrospective.

I think Angular ecosystem really missed the train with schematics (even ngrx!). Schematics could tackle a lot of toil if implemented exhaustively but apart from Angular and Material, nobody else seems to implement them effectively for brownfield projects.

New comment by microflash in "Does anybody like React?"

microflash — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:47:23 +0000

Angular 2+ is equally horrible. Having spent 6 years on various versions of Angular, their migration story time and again has been an incredible pain.

These days I use web components for component writing and frameworks to handle routing, state management, bundling, and so on.

New comment by microflash in "Designing Firefox for the Future"

microflash — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:00:01 +0000

> And we’re bringing back compact mode.

This design is already a success IMO.

Designing Firefox for the Future

microflash — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:58:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/new-firefox-design/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232147

Points: 14

# Comments: 3

New comment by microflash in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

microflash — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:12:06 +0000

> I’m a lot better at CSS than I was when I started using Tailwind.

> I got curious about what writing more semantic HTML would feel like.

This is so relatable. In the beginning of my career, I used to add so many dependencies for things I did not know. But these days, I mostly work on removing dependencies because I'm a lot better at using the web platform. I treat the web platform and browser primitives as materials to build what I want rather than a blank canvas to paint things from scratch.

New comment by microflash in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

microflash — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:30:50 +0000

I guess it is time ... (sigh)

New comment by microflash in "Perl versus Java – The Moving Finger (2025)"

microflash — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:35:24 +0000

> I am biased towards Perl

This entire article reeks of bias of someone who hasn’t looked at Java since Java 8.

New comment by microflash in "AluminiumOS, by Google: Android Reimagined for the Desktop"

microflash — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:45:55 +0000

> Gemini AI baked into every layer of the operating system.

This itself is a dealbreaker (and probably a recipe for some litigations in future).

New comment by microflash in "Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol"

microflash — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:55:43 +0000

This is fantastic. I’ve been building an Excel-like but columnar spreadsheet app using DuckDB and had to reinvent the “client” through classic HTTP layer.

Liquid Radius – standardize the corner radius of every app on macOS Tahoe

microflash — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:09:20 +0000

Article URL: https://liquidradius.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107736

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by microflash in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

microflash — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:32:51 +0000

Refactoring is not cheap when you take into account the cost of not breaking things.