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New comment by shlewis in "Upload Your RAM"

shlewis — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 14:15:55 +0000

You dont sound like a geek god.

Show HN: Typos – Render Typst Documents to Thermal Printers (Go and ESC/POS)

shlewis — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:56:21 +0000

I built typos because handling CJK fonts (Korean in my case) natively on thermal printers using standard ESC/POS code pages was pretty terrible.

Instead of messing with internal fonts, I've decided to write a simple script that can do Typst -> Image -> Print.

It features CLI, an optional REST server with async job queue and with template support.

The core Go CLI and printer logic are 100% hand-written. I experimented with AI tools via Opencode to write the REST API once the core logic was done (detailed full disclosure in the README), which is entirely optional.

Repo: https://github.com/shlewislee/typos

Happy to take feedback, especially regarding code quality, or answer questions!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50379858

Points: 2

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New comment by shlewis in "Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand"

shlewis — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:51:02 +0000

saying that it costs to retrieve data is a massive understatement. afaik it costs about $80 to retrieve a single 1tb file, and it takes about 2 days.

New comment by shlewis in "BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter"

shlewis — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:42:02 +0000

> That approximately nobody outside the US really cares about

That's just not true at all.

New comment by shlewis in "A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021)"

shlewis — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:16:57 +0000

Quite a lot of websites do that, actually. That's why Firefox Android has _always allow zoom_ toggle under accessibility.

New comment by shlewis in "Show HN: Use your phone as a Windows mouse and keyboard, without a phone app"

shlewis — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:19:53 +0000

I guess hand svgs aren't as prepared as pelicans

New comment by shlewis in "Show HN: NanoMuse – An open-source AI agent for your phone and computer"

shlewis — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:43:36 +0000

Great name to be replaced in about a week.

New comment by shlewis in "Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today"

shlewis — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:16:56 +0000

Which is almost certainly less than how they really should be, according to what they (allegedly) cost.

Various cost-saving measures have been discussed, including a separate Assistant plan.

Again, it will be priced according to how much the market will deem fit, which is less than what it costs at the moment.

New comment by shlewis in "Writing fingerprint analysis of responses reveals Kimi's similarity to Claude"

shlewis — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:25:49 +0000

Moonshot pay for access at the price point Anthropic sees fit, potentially more, since they likely had to jump through multiple hoops?

It's hard to feel sorry about the breach of their ToS, which ultimately is all Anthropic can argue, when they are constantly being sued by countless IP owners

New comment by shlewis in "Writing fingerprint analysis of responses reveals Kimi's similarity to Claude"

shlewis — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:02:38 +0000

Yes. I bet Moonshot paid for API access as opposed to pirating like Anthropic did.

New comment by shlewis in "Decoy Font"

shlewis — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:56:45 +0000

Not even AI. I think I can write PIL script that will fix the font to be read by any ocr software.

New comment by shlewis in "How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown"

shlewis — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:53:51 +0000

One of my favorite website ever. Delight as always.

New comment by shlewis in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

shlewis — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:59:58 +0000

> So the question isn’t “bots vs no bots” - it’s what kinds of automated access should exist, and under what norms.

I think it's pretty simple: if a website clearly isn't welcoming automated access, like when they set up UA filters and such, it should not be automatically. Stealth browsers that bypasses those filters are abusing the site.

New comment by shlewis in "ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content"

shlewis — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:28:38 +0000

> Redaction added by Mindgard

"AI does horrible things when told to. We use AI to hide them."

New comment by shlewis in "Image Toolbox (T8RIN)"

shlewis — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:19:21 +0000

One from my essential FOSS apps list. Especially helpful with compression/conversion.

New comment by shlewis in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

shlewis — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:07:42 +0000

In the mean time, HTMX is pretty much that with much more. Definitely recommend.

New comment by shlewis in "South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools"

shlewis — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:28:02 +0000

No traditional media talk about this as much as it should be. No one seems to care but the always-angry, chronically online. I had no high hopes for free internet in this country but it's getting worse than I've ever imagined.

New comment by shlewis in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

shlewis — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:31:40 +0000

1. There is a link to a demo website, which is in fact in similar style.

2. I don't think the website is _nearly unreadable_.

3. Pretty rude remark.

New comment by shlewis in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

shlewis — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:25:50 +0000

I had no problem with it not supporting Linux, like I said, it was expected and if anything, I'm to blame.

New comment by shlewis in "Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for World Makers"

shlewis — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:28:23 +0000

After all, I'm still using it. But I'd have ditched the laptop if it weren't for the linux kernel. Can't thank them enough.