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New comment by pkage in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

pkage — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:45:22 +0000

I switched from iTerm2 because at the time (possibly still), iTerm2 had a performance bug where large amounts of underlined text would cause the terminal to slow down noticeably. Wezterm works perfectly, and I appreciate the .lua configuration over iTerm2's mess of menus.

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

pkage — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:12:10 +0000

https://ka.ge

Lockdown project during early COVID, I tried to be as close as possible to the original windows 98 functionality.

New comment by pkage in "Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility"

pkage — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:30:43 +0000

Does not appear to work under Firefox, getting a bunch of CORS-related errors (header ‘user-agent’ is not allowed according to header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Headers’ from CORS preflight response) on the /graphql endpoint.

New comment by pkage in "GHC now runs in the browser"

pkage — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:20:18 +0000

In addition to the other responses, it's also worth noting that wasm itself is useful outside of the web itself; e.g. in containerized applications.

New comment by pkage in "Docker Hub is down (again)"

pkage — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:43:15 +0000

Yes, that's an http connection to the Docker Engine api on localhost failing due to the same issue—the docker engine cam't negotiate with the Docker Hub to get the new image and is passing the error back through the local api to your updater process.

New comment by pkage in "Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc"

pkage — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:05:35 +0000

There's native ad blocking on iOS and has been for a while—I've found that to significantly enhance the usability of the device. I use Wipr[0], other options are available.

[0]: https://kaylees.site/wipr2.html

New comment by pkage in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"

pkage — Sun, 18 May 2025 17:02:00 +0000

The DC Metro system operates similarly.

New comment by pkage in "Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file"

pkage — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:59:23 +0000

Not OP, but common solutions in this space represent the state as conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs). Some popular browser-based libraries for that are Y.js[0] and Automerge[1].

[0]: https://yjs.dev/ [1]: https://automerge.org/

New comment by pkage in "Beej's Guide to Git"

pkage — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:12:29 +0000

mispasted, thanks!

New comment by pkage in "Beej's Guide to Git"

pkage — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:42:28 +0000

I remember reading the excellent Beej's Guide to Network Programming[0] and Beej's Guide to Unix IPC[1] as a teenager, which were incredibly approachable while still having depth—fantastic reads both and very influential on the programmer I ended up being.

[0] https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/ [1] https://beej.us/guide/bggit/

New comment by pkage in "Apple Introduces M4 Pro and M4 Max"

pkage — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:59:52 +0000

Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41995701 (171 comments)

New comment by pkage in "JabRef – Literature Management"

pkage — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:58:14 +0000

For me, that's manual—I make sure everything I've cited is in the .bib file, and move papers into another collection if they end up not being relevant for a particular paper.

This is probably an automatable task, but it's generally not too much of a burden to do manually. I add a 'needs-review' tag to papers I've identified in a literature review, and categorize it when I get around to reading it.

New comment by pkage in "JabRef – Literature Management"

pkage — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:35:30 +0000

Same here, except that I gather all the bibliography entries into a Zotero collection organized by paper and only export that to the latex workspace rather than using JabRef. Works a treat and keeps the size of the .bib file small.

New comment by pkage in "Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047"

pkage — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:10:14 +0000

There is no concrete concern past "models that can simulate thinking are scary." The risk has always been connecting models to systems which are safety critical, but for some reason the discourse around this issue has been more influenced by Terminator than OSHA.

As a researcher in the field, I believe there's no risk beyond overconfident automation---and we already have analogous legislation for automations, for example in what criteria are allowable and not allowable when deciding whether an individual is eligible for a loan.

New comment by pkage in "Plain Text Accounting (PTA)"

pkage — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:16:10 +0000

If you're willing to hold your nose a little bit, Plaid[0] might be worth looking into. They have (had?) a testing tier which is more than enough for personal uses (100 linked accounts).

[0]: https://plaid.com/

New comment by pkage in "Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models"

pkage — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:29:49 +0000

I mean, it's entirely possible the boy has two mothers. This seems like a perfectly reasonable answer from the model, no?

New comment by pkage in "Kolmogorov-Arnold networks may make neural networks more understandable"

pkage — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:51:23 +0000

LIME and other post-hoc explanatory techniques (deepshap, etc.) only give an explanation for a singular inference, but aren't helpful for the model as a whole. In other words, you can make a reasonable guess as to why a specific prediction was made but you have no idea how the model will behave in the general case, even on similar inputs.

New comment by pkage in "Micrograd.jl"

pkage — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:05:05 +0000

Same here. I started my PhD with the full intention of doing most of my research with Julia (via Flux[0]), and while things worked well enough there were a few things which made it challenging:

- Lack of multi-GPU support,

- some other weird bugs related to autograd which i never fully figured out,

- and the killer one: none of my coauthors used Julia, so I decided to just go with PyTorch.

PyTorch has been just fine, and it's nice to not have to reinvent to wheel for every new model architecture.

[0] https://fluxml.ai/

New comment by pkage in "Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in Your Inbox"

pkage — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:41:50 +0000

I like this! I feel like I've written a half-version of this a dozen times, it's nice to see a version which is fully fleshed out.

One feature request: you could likely fully remove the need for an NPM package by accepting POST requests from forms, and staple the API key in with either the URL or an —is that in the roadmap?

New comment by pkage in "Stop Hiding Python Dev Dependencies"

pkage — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:22:49 +0000

I agree, the `dev` extra group should be used for development dependencies. The arguments against it are pretty weak, especially the "i don't want dev dependencies listed as dependencies of the package on pip" line; imo if a package is required to interact with the dev environment it is a de facto dependency regardless of whether it gets installed in a normal installation.