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New comment by qazxcvbnm in "Graphical Emacs Browser"

qazxcvbnm — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:06:13 +0000

Interestingly, just the same day I find that xwidgets isn't dead anymore (https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/4e855f90d1b1c39...); life is funny!

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "Graphical Emacs Browser"

qazxcvbnm — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:31:20 +0000

Finally found a working graphical Emacs browser! I've been looking for just this since webkit widgets died. In my experience on macOS, EAF was very buggy (plus spawning an ugly extra Python window).

This comes with a lovely transient menu even!

Installation was quite smooth, works just as advertised. Still have some hiccups (link hinting often requires multiple calls to detect; events get stuck after pressing Google AI Search popup; on first setup displays what appears to be an undismissable chromium video cast popup; consumes more CPU than ideal), but altogether something I definitely can work with!

Graphical Emacs Browser

qazxcvbnm — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:30:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/emacs-os/embr.el

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890828

Points: 28

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New comment by qazxcvbnm in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

qazxcvbnm — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:23:26 +0000

My goodness, how so thoughtful Emacs Solo is!

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

qazxcvbnm — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:44:28 +0000

The new Emacs features sound great! (We have native window management finally)

I wish we would someday be able to edit in xref too, wgrep having landed in Emacs 30 (especially since project.el grep goes to xref by default).

By the way, anyone more informed know about any work on getting a graphical browser to work on latest Emacs, now that webkit xwidgets is dead for Emacs 30+? (Have tried EAF; extremely buggy on Mac)

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014)"

qazxcvbnm — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:27:49 +0000

M-n, M-p. M-r for searching on past commands. C-c c-n/C-p for next/previous prompt. C-c C-r to scroll to focus on output.

Having switched recently to Emacs, my current issue is how to get Emacs shell history saved properly for my other shell buffers, and getting completions from shell (not Emacs) to work, planning to try MisTTY soon.

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e"

qazxcvbnm — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:35:18 +0000

By the way, anyone have experience using emacs to analyse and visualise data (think spreadsheets and charts)? I’d really like to be able to use it to view any sort of data I happen to have.

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR"

qazxcvbnm — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:32:34 +0000

An uninformed question: If the network is fully composed of 1x1 convolutions, doesn’t that mean no information mixing between pixels occur? Would that not imply that each pixel is independent of each other? How can that not lead to incoherent results?

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? [pdf]"

qazxcvbnm — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:47:27 +0000

What are some more information on the state of the art in runtime adaptation? I confess I do not feel like I possess such a thing from the databases I regularly use.

Adaptation sounds very compelling; if instead of emitting a plan based on a cardinality estimate, we emit a plan and a range of reasonable intermediate cardinalities together with expected time, and interrupt the original plan when the expectations are exceeded by an order of magnitude, and perform alternative plans based on newly gathered physical information, it sounds like it would be greatly beneficial. Are there concrete reasons that this has not been done (e.g. cost, complexity)?

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "The Synology End Game"

qazxcvbnm — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:16:04 +0000

When things aren’t ticking perfectly for Synology their software can be kind of weird. Sometimes after power failures, some disks get corrupted and… you simply can’t log in to the Synology UI during this time (unless you “synobootseq --set-boot-done”, why, of course) for an unspecified number of hours.

Their custom software has its quirks (eg scp doesn’t work unless you apply the -O flag, for “security” reasons), and the quirks change sometimes after updates.

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "The principles of database design, or, the Truth is out there"

qazxcvbnm — Mon, 19 May 2025 06:51:31 +0000

I’ve once attempted to implement a solution where ids are generated by UUIDv5 from a certain owner and the relationship of the new item to the owner; that way, users cannot generate arbitrary ids but can still predict ahead of time their new ids to ease optimistic behaviour.

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "What Every Programmer Should Know About Enumerative Combinatorics"

qazxcvbnm — Mon, 19 May 2025 01:07:55 +0000

Yeah, its a theoretical general connection. Once you’ve pinned down the specific structure and know how many structures to skip by virtue of knowing how to count them, it becomes a somewhat practical algorithm.

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "What Every Programmer Should Know About Enumerative Combinatorics"

qazxcvbnm — Sun, 18 May 2025 16:07:40 +0000

For those who are not aware, knowing how to count the number of structures is (nearly) the same as knowing how to encode said structure as an integer (space-optimally) (the naive general algorithm would not have good time complexity); to convert to integer, simply define some ordering on said structures, enumerate until you find your structure, the index of the structure is the integer encoding; conversely, to decode, simply list all structures and pick the structure with the index of the integer.

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "Show HN: Hardtime.nvim – break bad habits and master Vim motions"

qazxcvbnm — Sun, 18 May 2025 15:07:03 +0000

A somewhat more “complete” solution that doesn’t give you hints (thus doesn’t rely on the plugin support for all of vim’s vast functionalities), but conditions your instincts to get better: increase the latency of my whole terminal (c.f. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/778196/how-to-add-d...) (also see the comment) by running my terminal session on a ssh session into my own machine through a ProxyCommand of the command delay.

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "The Fifth Kind of Optimisation"

qazxcvbnm — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 05:55:57 +0000

And batching

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability"

qazxcvbnm — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 13:43:26 +0000

You're right, it's not the same. Undecidable properties are not related in general.

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability"

qazxcvbnm — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 07:09:37 +0000

Halting (problem) is undecidable. Undecidability is not just the halting problem. Whether you go to the park on a given day is undecidable (assuming you have free will, and all such assumptions), but that you can be an oracle for this does not solve the halting problem.

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "Succinct data structures"

qazxcvbnm — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:10:02 +0000

Note that succinct data structures may not be faster than conventional structures if your dataset fits in memory http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~huanche1/slides/FST.pdf . Of course, for large datasets where storage access times dominate, succinct data structures win all around. In any case, succinct trees are works of art (If I recall https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.11255 was a good exposition) (just look at how that RMQ works)!

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

qazxcvbnm — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 04:23:35 +0000

To be fair, searching with Spotlight has been equally slow and useless for me… Whenever I need to find a file and mistakenly use Command F in my Finder, the complete cessation of activity that inevitably results reminds me yet once again to just go to my terminal to use trusty GNU’s find instead.

New comment by qazxcvbnm in "Vine: A programming language based on Interaction Nets"

qazxcvbnm — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 06:17:34 +0000

You may be interested in my other comment. To put it simply, pure languages remove serialisation of false data dependencies, exposing data parallelism, and interaction nets remove serialisation of false control dependencies, exposing control parallelism.