Hacker News: sheerun

New comment by sheerun in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

sheerun — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:35:42 +0000

This domain must have costed $$$$

New comment by sheerun in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

sheerun — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:51:57 +0000

Postgres is king of its own, other solutions can be incorporated in it eventually by someone or some organization, that's it

New comment by sheerun in "VimGraph"

sheerun — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:08:40 +0000

I guess it's a proof that you can describe rare vim movements as a graph

New comment by sheerun in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

sheerun — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:17:05 +0000

I've played it through, very relaxing and esthetically pleasing

New comment by sheerun in "Context is the bottleneck for coding agents now"

sheerun — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:22:44 +0000

Could be, but it's not. As soon as it will be infinite new brand of solutions will emerge

New comment by sheerun in "UTF-8 is a brilliant design"

sheerun — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:07:41 +0000

You reserve 32 bits of these 128 just like UTF-8 did for theirs for ASCII for backward-compatibility, and request backward compatible fall-back from user interfaces, I hope it clears it

New comment by sheerun in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

sheerun — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:02:16 +0000

Very strong move, by one of the few fair comanies that can pull this off

New comment by sheerun in "Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta"

sheerun — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:38:36 +0000

This was long awaited thing, very good!

New comment by sheerun in "Just let me select text"

sheerun — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:44:04 +0000

Are you machine?

New comment by sheerun in "Just let me select text"

sheerun — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:38:41 +0000

Another website where you can't post as yourself. What is the point

New comment by sheerun in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

sheerun — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:29:14 +0000

New comment by sheerun in "UTF-8 is a brilliant design"

sheerun — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:44:41 +0000

I'll mention IPv6 as bad design that could have been potentially UTF-8-like success story

New comment by sheerun in "Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management"

sheerun — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:40:18 +0000

This. It is true science how to preserve data long-term. And if you want to encrypt it (e2e or not), you better have very good plan how to recover it when you die

New comment by sheerun in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

sheerun — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:46:59 +0000

Exactly this, with note that due ecosystem and history of software, setting up such environment is either really hard or relatively expensive

New comment by sheerun in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

sheerun — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:37:19 +0000

Back as in using less dependencies or throwing bunch of "certifying" services at all of them?

New comment by sheerun in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

sheerun — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:59:56 +0000

Secondary reminder that it means nothing as soon as you run any of scripts or binaries

New comment by sheerun in "VIM Master"

sheerun — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:31:31 +0000

I like how it starts with how to exit vim, but let's be honest: word jumps are not that common to teach second

New comment by sheerun in "Debian 13 “Trixie”"

sheerun — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:55:55 +0000

And I mean Debian 12, not some old version, much more impressive

New comment by sheerun in "Debian 13 “Trixie”"

sheerun — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:53:46 +0000

Debian was often the only linux os that worked on old "spacestations" of mine. Great sentiment

New comment by sheerun in "Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient"

sheerun — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 17:42:07 +0000

Author or contributor? Great work, by the way, I love such shows