Hacker News: railka

New comment by railka in "Ghostty 1.4"

railka — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:55:29 +0000

My experience with terminals was like this - Alacritty -> Ghostty -> tty7. The last one implements exactly what I had in mind when I used Alacritty and Ghostty. Only it doesn't hype much (the author apparently doesn't strive for that much), maybe that's for the better.

New comment by railka in "A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices"

railka — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:35:57 +0000

Minions is an internal enterprise system already in use at Apple. It pools idle Mac GPUs into a shared compute cluster for ML inference.

There is no distributed execution of a single LLM across multiple GPUs using tensor parallelism here. Instead, it relies on task-level parallelism-breaking down a large workload into independent subtasks that run across separate machines. For example, generating embeddings for a million documents.

New comment by railka in "Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust"

railka — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:26:32 +0000

Does almost every project in the Tokio ecosystem start with T? Tokio, Topcoat, Tracing, Toasty, Tonic, Tower, Turmoil

But: Hyper, Bytes, Mio, Axum, Prost

New comment by railka in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

railka — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:34:10 +0000

Check out Zed IDE - it's exactly what JetBrains Fleet should've been. Native, fast, and built for "code by hand", but also with some AI features.

New comment by railka in "The new CC, an AI agent built for families"

railka — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:05:52 +0000

IMHO, the "CC" acronym is already claimed by Claude Code. They sure know how to pick project names.

New comment by railka in "Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity"

railka — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:55:51 +0000

There are two types of VPN users: those who care about privacy and those who care about bypassing DPI.

New comment by railka in "Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)"

railka — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:19:47 +0000

It feels like Herdr + Warp. It is fast and has vertical tabs grouped by project, and the tabs are part of the native UI rather than a multiplexer. I also like that it separates the daemon and the GUI - with Warp, I accidentally hit Cmd+Q a few times, which closed all my sessions at once. In tty7, they keep running in the background. Compared to Warp, the SSH experience in tty7 is implemented much better. Also, while I liked Warp is blocks at first, now they get in the way more than they help. Another thing I dislike about Warp is the autocomplete: it inserts a path 3 or 4 levels deep at once instead of one step at a time.

Overall, after working with Warp, Ghostty+Herdr, and tty7, tty7 has felt the most comfortable so far.

tty7 has its drawbacks too - the biggest one for me is the lack of support for switching tabs with `Cmd+Shift+[` and `Cmd+Shift+]`.

New comment by railka in "Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)"

railka — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:18:05 +0000

I tried different terminals and multiplexers for agent development: tty7, Warp, Herdr... Now my favorite is tty7. It does exactly what i wanted from a modern terminal, what Warp should have become.

New comment by railka in "Shopify moves back to Native from React Native"

railka — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:40:56 +0000

IMHO, now is a great time to use native Swift/Kotlin code alongside shared Rust code via UniFFI

New comment by railka in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

railka — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:28:07 +0000

Yes, AI have changed the game, and now you can build and maintain two separate projects in Swift & Kotlin instead of one on React

New comment by railka in "TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store"

railka — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:59:54 +0000

Is fsync needed for every write in all projects? I am willing to trade database speed for the loss of the last written data within a 1-10ms window once or twice a year for non-financial and other non-critical data. So, power loss shouldn't be such a frequent event when there are active transactions at that moment, right?

New comment by railka in "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"

railka — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:17:11 +0000

Also announced GLM-5.3-Flash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449507

New comment by railka in "Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents"

railka — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:05:39 +0000

Ah, I understand, thank you for the answer!

New comment by railka in "Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents"

railka — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:04:19 +0000

There is an example on GitHub with a prefix: "task_storm-delta-stone" (prefix: 'task'). Wouldn't it be more logical to have it reversed, like "task-storm_delta_stone"?

New comment by railka in "Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents"

railka — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:02:01 +0000

Why do people choose the hyphen ("-") as the separator in an identifier? When double-clicking, the ID does not select completely, unlike when an underscore ("_") is used.

New comment by railka in "Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU"

railka — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:01:36 +0000

Congratulations on the launch! It's useful for Ollama users, for example. And LM Studio has built-in hints in the interface.

New comment by railka in "VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot"

railka — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:50:39 +0000

I think many people don't know or underestimate Zed. Native, fast, with extensions, with Vim mode support.

New comment by railka in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

railka — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:20:19 +0000

I am a regular Firefox user; it is literally the tool I use most often during my working hours. I like it more than Chrome.

Firefox is steadily losing market share, and any attempts to do something about it are met with negativity. The 2-4% of users who use it care about their privacy. But they are not being deprived of it; the AI tab is optional, and no one is removing the regular tab. (Of course, it would be better if they allowed the integration of local models or aggregators, such as Openrouter, Huggingface...)

Meanwhile, developers continue to ignore Firefox, testing only Chromium browsers. Large companies are also choosing the Chromium engine for their browsers.

Perhaps if they implement this functionality conveniently, more average users will use Firefox.

New comment by railka in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

railka — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:40:59 +0000

These tabs will probably be similar to the tabs in browsers from OpenAI and Perplexity. And some people really do use these browsers. Perhaps this is Mozilla's chance to monetize. Give at least some users the opportunity to use this feature and pay Mozilla.

New comment by railka in "Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped"

railka — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:22:44 +0000

If politicians keep bringing this up, why shouldn't EU citizens bring up the issue of losing trust in politicians (using the same tactic—over and over again)?