Hacker News: rauli_

New comment by rauli_ in "Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell"

rauli_ — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:19:49 +0000

Lisp was meant to be written with M-expressions instead of S-expressions anyway.

New comment by rauli_ in "VisiCalc Reconstructed"

rauli_ — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:02:27 +0000

I actually created one for some time ago. It's nothing special but it has Vi keybindings.

https://github.com/RauliL/levite

New comment by rauli_ in "Banned C++ features in Chromium"

rauli_ — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 03:13:38 +0000

Unchecked exceptions will eventually lead into programs crashing because some developer forgot to catch specific type of exception somewhere.

New comment by rauli_ in "jQuery 4"

rauli_ — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:43:48 +0000

In case you want to use React to make Web sites as well.

New comment by rauli_ in "Just the Browser"

rauli_ — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:26:28 +0000

Mozilla later added them after the concept became popular thanks to Firefox. Mozilla and Firefox browsers coexisted for quite a while and Firefox was the lite version of Mozilla that didn't include E-mail client and other such features that Mozilla did.

New comment by rauli_ in "Xfce is great"

rauli_ — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:56:53 +0000

Xfce is way too minimal to be great. An great DE must be written mostly in JavaScript and hoard gigabytes of memory in order to render a single window.

New comment by rauli_ in "Corroded: Illegal Rust"

rauli_ — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:15:06 +0000

A good reason not to use those LLMs if they can be manipulated that easily.

New comment by rauli_ in "EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay"

rauli_ — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:09:39 +0000

We already have Sailfish OS but no one is using it.

New comment by rauli_ in "EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay"

rauli_ — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:02:53 +0000

Future goal of the "digital euro" is to get rid of the banks.

New comment by rauli_ in "T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types"

rauli_ — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:31:39 +0000

I remember a time in early 2000s when everybody seemed to be raving about duck typed languages and how awesome they are. Now we have separate tools for the same languages to implement typing.

New comment by rauli_ in "Eating stinging nettles"

rauli_ — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:12:01 +0000

In my country soups made from stinging nettles have been eaten most likely for thousands of years. It tastes a lot like spinach and is full of vitamin C and such.

New comment by rauli_ in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

rauli_ — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:34:01 +0000

Which very very few people have actually installed on their system.

New comment by rauli_ in "Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT"

rauli_ — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:27:32 +0000

Windows and *nix systems are often used for very different things so I don't understand why there would be need for some kind of universal superbinary. And thanks to WSL you can already get GNU coretools running in Windows anyways.

New comment by rauli_ in "Open Source is one person"

rauli_ — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:43:04 +0000

Not in Finland which has never been a communist country. His parents were just political activists who forced young Linus to participate in that as well. Linus has said that the experience made him very apolitical person.

New comment by rauli_ in "Framework Laptop 16"

rauli_ — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:32:40 +0000

It's so weird to hear people who have problems with NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, because for me it's always been the opposite. I have had problems with AMD but never with NVIDIA.

New comment by rauli_ in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

rauli_ — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:39:25 +0000

That used to be the case few years ago. Now it seems that all popular podcasts are hidden inside commercial services such as Spotify.

New comment by rauli_ in "Introducing tmux-rs"

rauli_ — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:16:26 +0000

Not every code project needs to turn out to be world changing. Experiments like this sometimes produce excellent results.

New comment by rauli_ in "YouTube No Translation"

rauli_ — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:35:36 +0000

I would add sponsorblock to this list.

New comment by rauli_ in "Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room"

rauli_ — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:52:35 +0000

That Git GUI got my attention. Does anyone have an idea what it might be? The titlebar says aurora but when I searched for it all I got was an commercial product with AI nonsense stuck into it.

New comment by rauli_ in "Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad"

rauli_ — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:06:10 +0000

Didn't know notepad has tabs these days. It's been almost a decade since I last used it.