Hacker News: polyaniline

New comment by polyaniline in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

polyaniline — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:22:43 +0000

In what sense is it native if it uses Tauri?

New comment by polyaniline in "Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig"

polyaniline — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 04:11:25 +0000

What memory safety?

New comment by polyaniline in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

polyaniline — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:59:08 +0000

A comment from a post in the simulator:

> The article consistently refers to DHRUV64 as a "microprocessor". This is technically incorrect. It is a microprocessor, not a microprocessor. The distinction matters; a microprocessor is the entire chip, while a microprocessor is a specific component. Basic terminology should be accurate.

New comment by polyaniline in "How the U.S. National Science Foundation enabled Software-Defined Networking"

polyaniline — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:01:03 +0000

What was the problem?

New comment by polyaniline in "Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker"

polyaniline — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 02:49:34 +0000

I get an "EmptyToken" error if I leave keys like AXIOM_TOKEN empty. I'm sure I can remove the requirements in code, but it's just that this wasn't expected from reading the project description.

Anyway, thanks for your work and good luck!

New comment by polyaniline in "Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker"

polyaniline — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:09:53 +0000

I just tried to build on Linux and it keeps panicking because it requires dozen(s) of API keys. I was not expecting that from local first software.

New comment by polyaniline in "Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps"

polyaniline — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:53:30 +0000

Check out Lawnchair.

New comment by polyaniline in "Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps"

polyaniline — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:48:24 +0000

As far as I'm concerned, I run LineageOS, which doesn't come with everything I need OTOB, so I use app suites like Fossify, Simple Mobile Tools and other great work. Others may just want alternatives to pre-installed or standard apps that are more private and tuneable (eg. I maintained a fork of KDE Connect until they switched to Material 3 colors, and still do for VLC) because they're open source.

New comment by polyaniline in "Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'?"

polyaniline — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:56:58 +0000

It is

New comment by polyaniline in "Programming on 34 Keys (2022)"

polyaniline — Mon, 26 May 2025 10:59:02 +0000

I have a really similar setup to yours. NixOS, Niri, Draculad. I think being forced to use something like Windows 11 with something like VSCode would be very frustrating long term. Mostly the looming knowledge of we can do better, we have done better.

New comment by polyaniline in "Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview"

polyaniline — Wed, 07 May 2025 12:48:05 +0000

Asking it explicitly once (not necessarily every new prompt in context) to keep output minimal and strive to do nothing more than it is told works for me.

New comment by polyaniline in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

polyaniline — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:44:10 +0000

Sorry for going out of subject but I had to ask - how did Apple take you from waiter to developer?

New comment by polyaniline in "Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally"

polyaniline — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 06:14:19 +0000

Hindi is spoken by only around 40% of the total population, and is very regional. Using Hindi as a catch all for Indian users alienates around 800M people. English makes much more sense.

New comment by polyaniline in "Servo's progress in 2024"

polyaniline — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:53:55 +0000

Hasn't Servo been around much longer than Ladybird? Has it stagnated?

New comment by polyaniline in "Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally"

polyaniline — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 23:14:16 +0000

And don't wrote in Hindi for INR

New comment by polyaniline in "Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text"

polyaniline — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:09:39 +0000

Helix is on Windows, right?,

New comment by polyaniline in "Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text"

polyaniline — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:07:31 +0000

That's unexpected. I've used it for over a year and haven't had a single crash. I've used it for data files millions of lines long, and often open the same file in buffers side by side too. Could you share the issue you opened?

New comment by polyaniline in "If GPUs Are So Good, Why Do We Still Use CPUs at All?"

polyaniline — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:29:38 +0000

The only time a CPU "discovers" parallelism is in

New comment by polyaniline in "Refactoring in C++: Top Techniques and Best Practices"

polyaniline — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 05:05:23 +0000

I haven't worked on a large C++ codebase yet, but with Rust my refactoring technique has been 1. Roughly model the data flow on paper so you don't have to fight the borrow checker or make design changes later. 2. Make the obvious changes related to the refactor. 3. Listen to Rustc and Clippy. 4. Everything usually works with surprisingly few issues.

New comment by polyaniline in "Borgo Programming Language"

polyaniline — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 13:31:16 +0000

If it skipped the GC wouldn't it just be Rust?