Hacker News: smusamashah

New comment by smusamashah in "A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears"

smusamashah — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:01:59 +0000

Article with better quality video here https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-origami-robot-built-prin...

New comment by smusamashah in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

smusamashah — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:25:57 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing this article. I have been having issues with my second monitor which is connected to my my laptop making it 3 screens. It was very annoying having to replug it to dock everytime it decided to turn off. I have also been feeling less productive for quite a while now.

After reading this, I have let the second one stay off and then unplugged and I can already notice the difference a lot. I didn't switch between apps much or procrastinated as much. It's only been a day or two and I have yet to see how I fare in long term. For now, I am happy.

New comment by smusamashah in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

smusamashah — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:29:26 +0000

> I've replicated some of Jetbrains refactorings

How? Jetbrains in a Java code baes is amazing and very thorough on refactors. I can reliably rename, change signature, move things around etc.

New comment by smusamashah in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

smusamashah — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:35:41 +0000

The DB lists popular games, what about indie games coming out every day?

New comment by smusamashah in "With one million displaced, Lebanon turns to digital wallets for aid"

smusamashah — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:29:51 +0000

And they are also using humans as shield? Is it only the enemies of Israel that use human shields or do criminals/terrorists in Israel (if there is such a thing) or any other country do that too?

New comment by smusamashah in "Some Unusual Trees"

smusamashah — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:32:19 +0000

The traveller tree looked the most interesting, like a peacock's feather.

https://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2017/12/12/the-travel...

DreamLite: Lightweight On-Device Unified Model for Image Generation and Editing

smusamashah — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:17:59 +0000

Article URL: https://carlofkl.github.io/dreamlite/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595216

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by smusamashah in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

smusamashah — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:00:06 +0000

I dont think 1 and 2 are that clear cut. We recently started using Codex at work. I never thought it would be able to do even closer to what it has been doing for me in our legacy code base.

But I am not the fan of code it writes most of the times. I want my code to read and behave certain way. I can not submit that code, even if it works, if I can't explain or just don't like it. I then iterate over that code myself or ask AI until it has the shape I agree with.

For my personal side projects I don't care as much what code looks like as long as it works correctly and easily modifiable. But for work, it still remains my responsibility no matter which tool was used.

New comment by smusamashah in ""Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video]"

smusamashah — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:26:32 +0000

I want this thing to have flailing hands and shouting 'weeee'

New comment by smusamashah in "Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout"

smusamashah — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:05:19 +0000

By the author of the library

> This was achieved through showing Claude Code and Codex the browsers ground truth, and have them measure & iterate against those at every significant container width, running over weeks

https://x.com/_chenglou/status/2037715226838343871?s=20

There was another comment about using Autoresearch probably for this but I might be misremembering

New comment by smusamashah in "Trust signals as sparklines for Hacker News"

smusamashah — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:09:13 +0000

This could become/converted to a userscript making it easy to inspect and more cross compatible. It's very easy these days.

New comment by smusamashah in "The Little Book of C"

smusamashah — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:39:43 +0000

I wonder how many hallucinated wrong facts are in there. It looked like a good resource until I learned its LLM generated. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45479268

New comment by smusamashah in "Algorithm Visualizer"

smusamashah — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:35:16 +0000

I made an only sorting algo visualizer which runs same algo on many randomly sorted arrays at the same time. The swap call which actually does the sorting also does the drawing. You could draw whole array or just one swap.

It looks very cool on large arrays.

https://xosh.org/VisualizingSorts/sorting.html

https://xosh.org/sorting-algorithms-visual-comparison/

New comment by smusamashah in "Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)"

smusamashah — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:52:17 +0000

They had funny ads about it being fast. One showed opening a tab vs peeling a potato. Another one was opening a tab vs starting a jet.

I loved gestures, built in IRC client, RSS reader, notes and the experimental website hosting from the browser. There were many cool plugins too. Did it have a torrent client too? I seem to remember as if it had everything :)

New comment by smusamashah in "Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)"

smusamashah — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:46:20 +0000

They use to send you a custom binary with your name on it in the title bar or something.

New comment by smusamashah in "Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)"

smusamashah — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:44:05 +0000

Opera was so fully packed with features. I started from Opera 2 or 3 from what I recall and stayed until they became Chrome. No other browser came close in features while being fast.

They had lots of cool featues built in:

IRC Client

Email Client

RSS Reader

Note taking (I used it a lot)

Gestures (those were awesome, I fondly remember holding left then right click and the other way around to move back and forward, but these proved to be a sign of Operas decline, some bugs with them were never fixed while we kept getting newe releases, (remember the potato ad?))

Sharing local files as a website right from your browser

They invented tabs

They might have had torrent support too, don't remember clearly.

It was fast even with all this.

Vivaldi's UI is built in JS, it feels slow, all my clicks are slow. I never got myself to using it more than a few minutes.

Lumalabs Uni-1

smusamashah — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:06:12 +0000

Article URL: https://lumalabs.ai/uni-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496901

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by smusamashah in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

smusamashah — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:18:38 +0000

These are not improvements, its not even a good bait. I don't care about their stupid taskbar anymore. I 100% believe that any improvements they are promising will be so tiny it won't matter.

New comment by smusamashah in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

smusamashah — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:16:24 +0000

I am a Windows user since Windows 98. State of windows currently really hurts.

This article is so disconnected and uninterested in the actual needs of users who despise windows in its current form today.

New comment by smusamashah in "Flash-KMeans: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact K-Means"

smusamashah — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:14:14 +0000

Project website https://svg-project.github.io/