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New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?"

oleg_antonyan — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:00:30 +0000

Case in point: a naive belief in "high moral". Bad guy (Ru) attacks good guy - bad, punish, cancel. When good guy (US) attacks bad guy - that's different, whataboutism etc. Such POV falls apart when good guy (US) attacks another good guy (EU), and while you may chose to ignore such possibility, European leaders don't (a rare case of competence on their side).

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?"

oleg_antonyan — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:41:10 +0000

Russia had assets in Europe, look what happened to those. We got so naive and relaxed in the abscense of big wars within the "western hemisphere" that some people geniunly forgot what will happen to all of their "assets" when shit hit the fan.

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV"

oleg_antonyan — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:06:44 +0000

Do recruiters actually care about your open source contributions? Especially now when only LLMs read CVs and match them against strict criteria, I doubt there are many companies that actually care about your work outside of work, in fact they might care in opposite direction - thinking that you'll be distracted from work

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Show HN: Build and distribute native Linux packages easily"

oleg_antonyan — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:57:22 +0000

I tried initially making it an action itslef, but turns out there's not much to abstract into such action. Installing binary is not as smooth as running scripting languages, compiling Rust binary every time is long and wasteful. Just copy-paste a workflow file is easier and more flexible. For example: https://github.com/olegantonyan/bruno/blob/main/.github/work... Maybe I missed something here

Show HN: Build and distribute native Linux packages easily

oleg_antonyan — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:32:17 +0000

Linux has issues when it comes to distributing software. Centralized repositories existed long before the App Store, but they aren't meant for indie developers sharing their app.

Omnipackage sits on top of existing infrastructure to build RPM, DEB, and Arch (more to come) packages and host them on your S3 or local filesystem. It's one config alongside the RPM spec and other templates that live in your project's repo, and it can run a build-sign-publish pipeline locally or on GitHub Actions.

You share with users a link to a generated HTML page with instructions on how to add the repository and install your app (example: https://repositories.omnipackage.org/omnipackage-rs/stable/i...), or just share the install instructions directly. Once hooked into the package manager, your app becomes apt-installable and updatable as if it were in the official repos. S3 isn't required - a local filesystem works as a repo too, handy if you want to package some app just for yourself or share it through other channels.

Think fpm and OpenBuildService had a baby. There's an "init" command that guesses how to build your project and generates the necessary files that you need to change slightly. There's also a Claude skill that does very well on most projects I've tried packaging. More rationale: https://omnipackage.org/about

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545235

Points: 4

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New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

oleg_antonyan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:03:13 +0000

Pure tech dimensions of AI are out of scope. The internet is full of tech critiques and praises, what's the point of yet another opinion on it. Can't open linkedin without seeing only AI-generated posts about AI replacing people next to AI dumb. But the political dimension seems completly abscent from the public discussion

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

oleg_antonyan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:55:14 +0000

I call these AI tools "proprietary non-determenistic database of the free internet". They belong to american companies which can cut off your access if american government doesn't like your country's government. They fed from the free internet that many of us grew up in, store it in humans unreadable form and sell you access to it. If some day claude starts to spit out compiled binaries instead of code nobody will notice, and we'll essentially get proprietary cloud-hosted compiler that most in the world depends on to build software. With built-in telemetry and backdoors and clause in license that allow full overtake of your business if provider wants it ofc. It's a great shift from the internet we all know and love towards the new subscription-based access to world's propriatary knowledge base. It's a perfect "mind control" tool as well - you don't need USAID, "free media" and stuff like that in other countries when all people there including politicians ask chatgpt everything from meaning of life to recipies of pancakes. Once you see these political and philosophical dimensions it's hard to unsee how claudecode running on my PC won't turn into a weapon some day. But in blissful ignorance it's fun to use, and companies love it for the promise of replacing people. Amen

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

oleg_antonyan — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:52:06 +0000

https://omnipackage.org - a tool that simplifies building RPM and DEB packages and managing repositories on S3

Show HN: Music player for big local collections with mpd support

oleg_antonyan — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:55:45 +0000

mpz is a C++/Qt music player focused on UX, with derectory tree and playlists management. Version 2 got experimental https://musicpd.org support.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330809

Points: 4

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New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

oleg_antonyan — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:41:32 +0000

Working on adding MPD [1] client mode to my music player: https://github.com/olegantonyan/mpz

Currently it works as standalone player. Addition of MPD client mode opens possibility to play music on a separate device while keeping the UX of the music player that I like.

[1] https://www.musicpd.org/

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?"

oleg_antonyan — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 09:51:40 +0000

In dynamic languages things like autocomplete often make it worse, they cannot identify the correct types and locations 100% of the times. So at some point I decided to avoid these and got used to it. To the point where I avoid QtCreator for Qt/C++ projects b/c autocomplete and fancy navigation features become annoying and distracting

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Rails is better low code than low code"

oleg_antonyan — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 06:10:00 +0000

My escape from this: https://github.com/olegantonyan/typerb

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Fisker EVs Hired an IT Spy Who Funneled Millions to N. Korea's Missile Program"

oleg_antonyan — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:34:58 +0000

A simple IT guy has access to company's finances in such way to move millions. Am I the only one who smells either ridiculous incompetence or plain fraud by the company trying to cover up "something"?

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Foobar2000"

oleg_antonyan — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 06:06:08 +0000

try https://github.com/olegantonyan/mpz/ not even close in terms of features, but it could be enough

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Every company should be owned by its employees"

oleg_antonyan — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:05:32 +0000

Yep, that's what it leads to. But it all began with "good" intentions. They destroyed well-developed empire, took the land from the rich and see where it all now. Trust me, you don't want "to take money from the rich and spread them across poor" in USA, it sucks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization. Pleas, keep being a place where anyone can build a unucorn company and become rich af

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Every company should be owned by its employees"

oleg_antonyan — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 06:54:30 +0000

The headline itself literally repeats Marxists theory: the means of production belong to workers aka proletartiat. Inside the article they oppose this working class to "evil rich CEOs" aka bourgeoisie. I won't even go deeper to unrelated to the article topics like "evil imperialism" and other nowadays popular in the west ideas used by Lenin&co hundred years ago. This crap cannibalizes the very foundation of the success of the western civilization and many people fall into this - that's insane to me

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Every company should be owned by its employees"

oleg_antonyan — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 06:38:13 +0000

It's insane how socialism is growing in the west after defeat of soviet union

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "The Linux audio stack demystified (and more)"

oleg_antonyan — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 07:07:44 +0000

PipeWire is drop-in replacement for pshshaudio with additional features (while preserving pshsh part sometimes). Only difference is 15 years ago half of the problems with sound were fixed by uninstalling pulseaudio as it was in early stages full of bugs but still pushed to many distros similar to systemd. Today's pipewire is as easy as uninstalling pulseaudio, installing pipewire, and most of the times it will continue working

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

oleg_antonyan — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 05:21:46 +0000

Switched to Linux in Windows' "golden age" - XP. Never looked back. There's one thing that reminds me that old Windows - cloud providers. Their configuration in UI looks a lot like group policies on Windows. Every time I have to deal with those IAM permissions in Google Cloud I get flashbacks, except now the UI is much slower

New comment by oleg_antonyan in "Cyber Scarecrow"

oleg_antonyan — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:38:08 +0000

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