Hacker News: pseufaux

New comment by pseufaux in "Ente – Opening Our Books"

pseufaux — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:32:51 +0000

I have been impressed with Ente products and customer service. It's good to see they are growing. That said, revenue information is not entirely helpful in a vacuum. I'd be more keen on seeing profit (even at a lower timeline resolution). What's the average cost for taking on a new customer? What's the retention/turnover? Etc. That said the products are great and I'd recommend them to anyone.

New comment by pseufaux in "Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub"

pseufaux — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:45:43 +0000

Ah. Missed that. Thank you

New comment by pseufaux in "Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub"

pseufaux — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:24:57 +0000

But isn't this built into uv already? Just point the sources table to GitHub.

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/dependencies/#pr...

New comment by pseufaux in "Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions"

pseufaux — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:22:25 +0000

Not sure if you're referring here to Windows or Microsoft as a company. Could fit either /S

New comment by pseufaux in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

pseufaux — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:32:25 +0000

> They already did

Yes, but they don't and won't too (at least until they do again)

New comment by pseufaux in "Apple Business"

pseufaux — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:12:43 +0000

What's bad is that it's so much better than it used to be and still this bad.

New comment by pseufaux in "Outsourcing thinking"

pseufaux — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:44:30 +0000

I really enjoyed and agree with the majority of the article, but this was my nit as well. My hatred of vacation planning is often the reason I don't go on more vacations. It seems like automating a task that is experienced by the individual as completely monotonous ( and only affects that individual) would be a great example of something worth handing off to a text generator.

New comment by pseufaux in "Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI"

pseufaux — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:01:39 +0000

I read though the GitHub readme but I'm still unsure what "new" this brings this brings to the table. It seems like a thin wrapper over existing tools. Since Microsoft rarely deprecates and removes anything, this feels like just another unnecessary complexity layer.

I'm not a traditional app dev on Windows though, so I'm likely missing something. For those of you who are more familiar, what about this are you excited about?

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

pseufaux — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:43:51 +0000

This is awesome! I can't believe I've not heard of it before. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by pseufaux in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

pseufaux — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:45:48 +0000

This is how WinGet works. It has a small SQLite db it downloads from a hosted url. The DB contains some minimal metadata and a url path to access the full metadata. This way WinGet only has to make API calls for packages it's actually interacting with. As a package manager, it has plenty of problems still, but it's a simple, elegant solution for the git as a DB issue.

New comment by pseufaux in "Ask HN: What are your top reads and listens of 2025?"

pseufaux — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:15:31 +0000

Really enjoyed Goliaths Curse by Luke Kemp

New comment by pseufaux in "Ask HN: What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models"

pseufaux — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:59:33 +0000

Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead

New comment by pseufaux in "Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)"

pseufaux — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:38:27 +0000

This is one place jj really shines. Using jj new to quickly switch to a new change makes it easier to not drop flow but still break up work. You can come back later and add descriptions or reorder and squash. That way, you don't get into as many situations where splitting a commit is necessary. For those that remain, jj split works well.

New comment by pseufaux in "Hacking on the ReMarkable 2"

pseufaux — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:01:04 +0000

Have you seen these? https://usetrmnl.com/developers

I was thinking about picking one up and giving it a shot.

New comment by pseufaux in "After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be"

pseufaux — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:32:04 +0000

Reference? My anecdotal experience so far leads me to believe the opposite.

New comment by pseufaux in "The Algorithm Failed Music"

pseufaux — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:07:19 +0000

I wish there was a good in between option. I despise the autogenerated playlists for all the reasons mentioned in the article, but I also enjoy the ease of not having to choose what to listen too.

Algorithmically generated playlists from my personal library with the occasional new song thrown in. Maybe, new songs introduced that my social circle is listening to.

That said, I'm recently back to listening to albums exclusively again, which mostly solves this for me. If a friend suggests a song or I hear something on the radio, I pickup the album and listen through. It's a great way to discover new stuff while avoiding the trash. My only real issue is that so many artists I enjoy are in the EP only stage of their career, so for those, custom playlists is the only way.

New comment by pseufaux in "Gmail AI gets more intrusive"

pseufaux — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 23:28:21 +0000

Unrelated, but if you have an iPhone, I use Chuck for this. The free tier is plenty if you just want to use it to clean up the inbox.

https://chuck.email

New comment by pseufaux in "How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code"

pseufaux — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:29:46 +0000

Recent related post where Apple seemingly forgot to disable source maps for the App Store

Apple's App Store Full Front End Source Code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804664

edit: formatting

New comment by pseufaux in "Shutdown with no clear end poses new economic threat"

pseufaux — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:52:29 +0000

Saw this related post a bit ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45637049

usa-status.com was enough to make me laugh a bit at least

New comment by pseufaux in "Ripgrep 15.0"

pseufaux — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 21:39:43 +0000

> Directories containing .jj are now treated as git repositories.

So glad to see this!