Hacker News: seivan

New comment by seivan in "How I use Obsidian (2023)"

seivan — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:18:44 +0000

I've been doing this as well, but using regular editors. What benefit does Obsidian give here that a text editor doesn't give? You just want to write/paste something for storing but I never understood why I needed a different editor for it.

New comment by seivan in "Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid"

seivan — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:44:49 +0000

Right, I wonder what else is under NSFW. Are they really forcing users to enable NSFW which includes actual smut, in order to get a bible app? This is malicious.

New comment by seivan in "Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS"

seivan — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 04:46:41 +0000

A killer feature that none of the tiling managers for macOS will ever implement for reasons I don’t know why:

Make it so I can double tap the cmd key to see outlines of windows and allow me to swipe using the touch board to shift windows around into pockets space.

New comment by seivan in "Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)"

seivan — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:34:33 +0000

CS hasn’t been a paid game since it was a mod for HL back when you needed cd-key for online, which predates Steam.

New comment by seivan in "Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)"

seivan — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:32:40 +0000

Network connection, lobby, matchmaking, leaderboards or even chats, yes. But the actual simulation, probably not for fast paced twitchy shooter.

Also not just for performance reasons, I wouldn’t call BeamVM hard realtime, but also for code. Your game server would usually be the client but headless (without rendering). Helps with reuse and architecture.

New comment by seivan in "Parrot – type-safe SQL in Gleam, supports SQlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL"

seivan — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:22:49 +0000

The best query builder I’ve seen is Kysely and it works because of anonymous sum types. So far no other library in any other language has come remotely close. You’d think Rust would have that level of type safety, but alas no.

New comment by seivan in "Parrot – type-safe SQL in Gleam, supports SQlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL"

seivan — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:20:37 +0000

What are the options for GenServer, GenStage, Tasks, Supervisors in gleam?

New comment by seivan in "Beyond OpenMP in C++ and Rust: Taskflow, Rayon, Fork Union"

seivan — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 08:59:24 +0000

Wow that was a big difference between rayon and fork union. But it’s still missing convenience apis for drop in par_iter().

New comment by seivan in "NixOS moderation team resigns in protest of Steering Committee interference"

seivan — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:43:08 +0000

What is “their work” exactly?

New comment by seivan in "Python-Style Kwargs in TypeScript"

seivan — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:26:29 +0000

That would pollute the namespace. The type could be namespaced under the function signature, it's not its own type unless you extract it with FunctionParamater[0] or along those lines.

New comment by seivan in "Python-Style Kwargs in TypeScript"

seivan — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:24:10 +0000

I wish rust and typescript had this builtin. Obj-C and Swift spoiled me. Named/keyword arguments is worth the verbosity. Maybe not Obj-C-tableViewcellForRowAtIndexPath level, but still.

New comment by seivan in "New US curb on high-skill immigrant workers ignores evidence of its likely harms"

seivan — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 03:25:08 +0000

You forgot how beholden the visa holder is, which aside to cost is the other benefit.

New comment by seivan in "Ask HN: How do you choose languages for building applications?"

seivan — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:16:12 +0000

Static typing is a must unless the compromise is worth it. For instance even without static typing Elixir is worth it for OTP and the preemptive scheduler (VM) is just a bonus.

But then you also have to include what type of application it is. Real time or soft real time, etc.

New comment by seivan in "Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools"

seivan — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:26:29 +0000

How did AWS mess up errors?

New comment by seivan in "MacBook Pro Insomnia"

seivan — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 03:45:47 +0000

You don’t need that application that sounds like a narcotic.

That’s built in, “man caffeinate”.

New comment by seivan in "Jujutsu for busy devs"

seivan — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:09:37 +0000

The way I understand it, its for those who can't help but to fix B while working on A and want to make sure that they are two different PRs? The way I do it is after B is done, I just create a new branch and point B to A in the PR. A is pointing to dev/master/upstream. Does JJ make this workflow more convenient?

New comment by seivan in "Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game"

seivan — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:39:55 +0000

The training course to sneak past behind enemy lines for the SF role was the hardest, lol.

New comment by seivan in "Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game"

seivan — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:38:53 +0000

I loved how slow that game was, my favourite map was the bridge one, before they added the ridge so you could circumvent the bridge as a chokepoint.

New comment by seivan in "Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC"

seivan — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:21:43 +0000

What’s the monetisation strategy here? Raising 5M for what exactly?

New comment by seivan in "Introduction to the A* Algorithm"

seivan — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:41:08 +0000

If you want cohesion between entities pathfinding, adjust the cost when you do the pathfinding for tiles that has friendlies on them to be lower than their base cost.

The way to think about water crossing with naval transports, is to consider those things to be conditions. You already have a set of condition when pathfinding. Just add another case for water. Make it so the requirement is that you’re either on a ship or there is a ship on the adjacent tile you checked previously, e.g N-1. If valid, set a flag and now every tile check that is water should be appropriate.