Hacker News: srik

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.

New comment by srik in "Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest"

srik — Wed, 14 May 2025 10:44:59 +0000

They really should put something to that effect on the homepage.

New comment by srik in "One hundred and one rules of effective living"

srik — Wed, 14 May 2025 09:38:51 +0000

It's funny that this is by Ben Franklin, someone notorious for routinely violating at least half of these virtues.

New comment by srik in "Photographs of 19th Century Japan"

srik — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:00:56 +0000

They’re lovely, thank you!

New comment by srik in "The Dire Wolf Is Back"

srik — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:07:59 +0000

At some point far in the future, humanity will populate an entire planet with custom designed species, something like the engineers from prometheus. If only there were a way to live long enough to see all that.

New comment by srik in "I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad"

srik — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:38:37 +0000

MNT reforms get more and more appealing by the day as I’ve become increasingly disillusioned by the state of current hardware offerings.

New comment by srik in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

srik — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:24:54 +0000

Elm. Gonna hold on to it for as long as possible because it’s fantastic for personal projects - drama free, functional, simple, typed and comes with batteries and great errors and tooling.