Hacker News: saghul

New comment by saghul in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

saghul — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:49:36 +0000

Does that advertised "expandable RAM" also work on Debian? I assume that's just a fancy name for swap, right?

New comment by saghul in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

saghul — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:48:21 +0000

I went on Aliexpress and I seem to be able to get it for 73 euro.

New comment by saghul in "The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama"

saghul — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:37:46 +0000

I asked myself the same question. Some other commenter mentioned above they started with some Kubernetes infrastructure thing and they pivoted later.

New comment by saghul in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

saghul — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:26:30 +0000

Really nice writeup, thanks for sharing!

New comment by saghul in "You can make PS2 games in JavaScript"

saghul — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:38:53 +0000

A similar thing, also using QuickJS, but for the Nintendo Switch: https://github.com/TooTallNate/nx.js (I'm not the author).

New comment by saghul in "Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture"

saghul — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:06:11 +0000

You are right, we dropped the ball on this one. We'll try and do better.

New comment by saghul in "Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture"

saghul — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:01:37 +0000

Jitsi dev here. We are currently revisiting this. It exists because in cases such as when Jitsi Meet is being embdeed there are pre-join pages provided externally by the "host" site. We will be limiting how this can be used going forward.

New comment by saghul in "Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS"

saghul — Mon, 26 May 2025 11:16:28 +0000

But network effect doesn't have an impact here, does it? Matrix exists and would be a great fit for this initiative.

If someone is committed enough to help out but using Matrix (either directly from the web browser or installing the Element client) is too big a burden I'd question that original commitment.

PS: I'm not affiliated with Matrix in any way.

New comment by saghul in "Just use HTML"

saghul — Tue, 13 May 2025 08:05:00 +0000

Ha, nice! I created a little static site generator inspired by this "brutalist" style, in order to learn some Swift: https://github.com/saghul/brutalist-blog-generator

New comment by saghul in "JSLinux"

saghul — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 08:02:02 +0000

I work on that codebase (we forked it off to QuickJS-ng) and while daunting at first, it's somewhat easy to work with, with the right editor! Many of them choke on such a large file, alas.

While it being a very large file, it's sorted somewhat semantically, so it's easy to work on adding a new iterator method, for example, since they are all close to each other.

New comment by saghul in "OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release"

saghul — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 09:12:22 +0000

Really looking forward to that one.

New comment by saghul in "Open-TV: Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app"

saghul — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:48:54 +0000

But it's not a web browser? It now seems to use Tauri just for UI and do the actual rendering with mpv.

New comment by saghul in "Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion"

saghul — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:00:16 +0000

I'm currently using colima, and none of the other alternatives that I have found support forwarding UDP ports, which I use a lot, so that's a bummer!

Thankfully, lima has landed a new port forwarder with UDP support! [0]. I'm hoping to be able to use it soon once it makes into a release.

[0]: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/commit/13e9cbcabc6a0a05ec389...

New comment by saghul in "My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website"

saghul — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 08:26:58 +0000

Love it! The background is awesome! The 90s / early 2000s vibes this gives! Looks straight out of geocities and I love it. Great work Naya!

New comment by saghul in "Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS"

saghul — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 08:27:28 +0000

Interesting! Is there a way to center the content of the bar on the screen? The split is very cumbersome to use on an ultrawide display and I'd be happy if there was a way to put the content on the middle 3rd.

New comment by saghul in "iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload"

saghul — Tue, 21 May 2024 20:49:01 +0000

I tried it but I get an error: "There was a problem with the AI query: Error from OpenAI: [] is too short - 'messages'"

According to the docs it only uses that if the model doesn't begin tieh gpt- and uses an old API, so alas it doesn't seem compatible with ollama.

Edit: here is the relevant part of the code: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/a196d31658a8d0aa2dc5...

Looks like adding ollama support is really a matter of changing a few lines of code.

Edit 2: Seems to be fixed in the next beta release: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/fcd212490626f1d8ea...

New comment by saghul in "Llama 3 8B is almost as good as Wizard 2 8x22B"

saghul — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:58:15 +0000

Kinda surprised the 8B gets this wrong: "what's heavier a kilo of steel or two kilos of feathers?" GPT-3.5 gets it wrong too. The 70B model does get it right, so does GPT-4.

New comment by saghul in "What is the most useful project you have worked on?"

saghul — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 07:29:18 +0000

The one and only Beej! Your guide is a phenomenal resource, thanks for that!

So what are you up to now? (if you can share, that is!) :-)

New comment by saghul in "The Disappointing Tea.xyz"

saghul — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:04:24 +0000

IIRC he stepped away from Homebrew years ago. See https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/graphs/contributors

New comment by saghul in "FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips"

saghul — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:40:51 +0000

I've been going to FOSDEM since 2011 and you folks impress me every year! Outstanding work!