Hacker News: srik

New comment by srik in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

srik — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:55:27 +0000

A saving grace is they're perfect for linux distros.

New comment by srik in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

srik — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:47:14 +0000

I don't think homebrew allows throttling bandwidth but it does let you set maximum concurrent downloads though. I believe the default is twice number of cores; you must have quite a few :) Set this to your preference:

HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY

New comment by srik in "Apple's AI Can Now Change Your Passwords. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"

srik — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:38:18 +0000

This one is getting a lot of undue flak. Not only does it require explicit confirmation, it’s also contained entirely within the passwords app which already has access to all your passwords because you chose to trust it.

If you use this app, open it and look at how many entries fall under the “security” section. Everyday another password is compromised and added to the list, just too many to keep up. So, albeit apprehensively, I for one appreciate this feature.

New comment by srik in "Various LLM Smells"

srik — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:37:21 +0000

These LLM idioms are constantly being consumed every day and are bound to make it into the next, if not current, generation's vernacular. It's going to be unbearable.

New comment by srik in "Hokusai and Tesselations"

srik — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:51:45 +0000

There is a i18n “English” button on top right. Unless you meant something else.

New comment by srik in "Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image"

srik — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:17:52 +0000

I have never been more stress-free than when I was running nixos as a daily driver. Had to return to macos as primary unfortunately but still use nix as much as possible.

New comment by srik in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

srik — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:19:53 +0000

Make it opt-in then.

New comment by srik in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

srik — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:03:40 +0000

Living in developing countries taught me to never plugin expensive computers without a surge protector UPS.

New comment by srik in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

srik — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:30:15 +0000

Not op but I’ll vouch for the mini.nvim plugin suite. While I take advantage of their high configurability, their defaults are well thought out and I happily use some like that as well.

New comment by srik in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

srik — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:24:21 +0000

Neo/vim does this with community and built-in “text objects”.

https://neovim.io/doc/user/usr_04/#_text-objects

New comment by srik in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

srik — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:21:09 +0000

I love your website! Your url has a typo, here's it fixed in the meantime https://www.niche-museums.com

New comment by srik in "Vim 9.2"

srik — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:49:56 +0000

> For over 30 years, Vim has been "Charityware," supporting children in Kibaale, Uganda. Following the passing of Bram Moolenaar, the ICCF Holland foundation was dissolved […] and its remaining funds were transferred to ensure continued support for the Kibaale project. […] Vim remains Charityware. We encourage users to continue supporting the needy children in Uganda through this new transition.

I settled on vim for its technical merits but Bram using his goodwill to fund a charity like this for so long always made me feel good about my choice.

New comment by srik in "Monosketch"

srik — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:58:31 +0000

Likewise. I can unreservedly say it’s one of my best app purchases of all time.

New comment by srik in "What functional programmers get wrong about systems"

srik — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:29:46 +0000

reader mode

New comment by srik in "Apple Creator Studio"

srik — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:18:20 +0000

Apple really should’ve grabbed Affinity before canva. Would’ve rounded out this suite much better.

New comment by srik in "Floss Before Brushing"

srik — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:22:11 +0000

Using mouthwash every time is not ideal because most mouthwashes disrupt your oral microbiome which will result in undesired side-effects like teeth staining etc.

New comment by srik in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

srik — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:13:34 +0000

> We have an iOS app in the store for 3 years and out of the blue apple is demanding we provide new licenses that don’t exist and threaten to kick our app out.

Crazy! If you can elaborate here, please do.

New comment by srik in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

srik — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:59:22 +0000

This case was different from hackclub’s usual donations. Someone spotted OXY2DEV, a prolific Neovim plugin dev, coding on his phone and shared it with the community. People rallied to raise money specifically for him, and hackclub stepped in to facilitate. The drive ended with a small surplus, and since the funds were raised only for him, they let him decide how to use it. Smart choice because in South Asia chasing service centers is such a hassle and Apple’s service process is a dream in comparison.

New comment by srik in "Lens: Lenses, Folds and Traversals"

srik — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 21:03:11 +0000

I learned lenses from the mentioned Edward Kmett video but wish I'd learned from the "Optics by Example" book instead; it's more cohesive, comprehensive and can save you a bunch of time - https://leanpub.com/optics-by-example/

New comment by srik in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

srik — Thu, 22 May 2025 02:39:54 +0000

The comment also includes brand value in the next paragraph and Jony has loads of that.