Hacker News: obahareth

New comment by obahareth in "Patrick Stewart has died"

obahareth — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:09:40 +0000

He was so influential and his performances truly changed my life for the better. He will be sorely missed.

New comment by obahareth in "Muse Code by Meta is out of Beta"

obahareth — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:02:05 +0000

Muse Code is now out of beta.

https://x.com/finkd/status/2094500475710099945?s=20

Muse Code by Meta is out of Beta

obahareth — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:02:05 +0000

Article URL: https://dev.meta.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514235

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by obahareth in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

obahareth — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:30:52 +0000

I found the same with Arabic as well.

New comment by obahareth in "OpenAI Codex Compaction Failing"

obahareth — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:42:50 +0000

Compaction is currently failing for users using Codex.

OpenAI Codex Compaction Failing

obahareth — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:42:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/17809

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768745

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by obahareth in "Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers"

obahareth — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:06:26 +0000

Kind of strange that it's only for npm?

New comment by obahareth in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

obahareth — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:58:53 +0000

https://omar.engineer

New comment by obahareth in "Meta Segment Anything Model Audio"

obahareth — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:26:08 +0000

I tried it with their examples, trying to isolate speech only or background music only, but it seems to produce audio that is near identical to the original.

New comment by obahareth in "Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes"

obahareth — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:24:12 +0000

I had a very bad experience with it, it’s almost trying to select the complete opposite of what I’m looking at. Tried on iPhone 15 Pro.

New comment by obahareth in "All AI Coding Assistants"

obahareth — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 08:22:10 +0000

Bolt (from bolt.new) Replit

New comment by obahareth in "Ask HN: How do you code when you're not feeling well?"

obahareth — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:58:29 +0000

For me, I recently got into drinking Yerba Mate (unsmoked, traditional way) and it's made me able to stay productive even in bad days.

Not really a technique, but something that worked for me.

EDIT: This is for when I'm feeling unproductive/down, not when I am feeling ill. The best thing for illness is rest and the right meds and nutrition.

New comment by obahareth in "Ask HN: Bidirectional Text Navigation"

obahareth — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 21:52:04 +0000

Yeah browsers are much better at this but there's still a lot of places where it's problematic (e.g. Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, etc.)

In terms of text editing no not really, most folks I know are either using Word, Pages, or Google Docs.

Usually the caret going the opposite direction is because of bidi characters. It would behave properly if you used Eastern Arabic / Indo-Arabic numerals, e.g. ١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ because those count as RTL.

If you need to have on line that has both RTL, bidi, and LTR, that's when I find everything goes to hell no matter what software I am using.

New comment by obahareth in "Ask HN: Bidirectional Text Navigation"

obahareth — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:52:28 +0000

I'm bilingual and frequently use English and Arabic together.

What I'm used to is that the caret is unchanged.

The best setup I've seen out there is web browsers with dir set to auto and using properties like padding-start instead of padding-left.

If I start a block with an LTR character the content is automatically left-aligned and vice versa.

The annoying issue comes up when you have bidi characters in the middle of RTL (e.g. Comma or exclamation mark), all tools I've currently seen just break, I have no idea where the cursor is, or where it will move to when I press my arrow keys. I would prefer that bidi characters are treated the same way as the paragraph or block they're in.

I wrote an article a while back with some GIFs that showcases these difficulties:

https://blog.prototypr.io/the-case-of-the-jumping-dot-17f97a...

I've not found any software that gets it all right when it comes to mixed direction content, but for RTL-only then most of the popular word processors (e.g. Google Docs) are quite good with some tweaking.

Happy to chat more on this.

New comment by obahareth in "Apple changed how reading books works in iOS 16"

obahareth — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 07:48:58 +0000

Some of the ones from Onyx Boox have customizable cold/warm temperature sliders.

New comment by obahareth in "Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention in conversation"

obahareth — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 09:35:52 +0000

Thanks for posting this, I was brought up the same way. It's very uncomfortable for me to have eye contact in a conversation, I usually just do it when greeting people.

New comment by obahareth in "Meta Quest Pro"

obahareth — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:41:48 +0000

I wonder if they managed to solve the text blurriness issues. On my Quest 2 I tried using Immersed, Virtual Desktop, and other software to create virtual monitors in VR.

Text was always very blurry no matter how much I played with resolution, monitor sizes, or distances. Images and video always looked great but for reading text it was completely unusable.

For $1500 coupled with them marketing it for work, I would hope they've solved this issue.

New comment by obahareth in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

obahareth — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:10:33 +0000

https://omar.engineer

Recently moved it to Notion using super.so

Bridgetown - progressive site generator and framework, powered by Ruby

obahareth — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 22:48:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bridgetownrb.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30716727

Points: 79

# Comments: 19

New comment by obahareth in "Suture: A Ruby gem that helps you refactor your legacy code"

obahareth — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 13:52:38 +0000

This looks really cool! It reminded me of another library I came across a while back, Scientist from GitHub: https://github.com/github/scientist