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New comment by struanr in "Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS"

struanr — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:22:12 +0000

As a rare counterexample, Starling Bank in the UK has acknowledged and fixed updates breaking functionality on GrapheneOS multiple times.

AI Slop by Robobun

struanr — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:54:47 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/33864

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858688

Points: 1

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New comment by struanr in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

struanr — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:57:10 +0000

Is a camera bump really that much of an issue? Most people have a case on their phone anyway

New comment by struanr in "In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended"

struanr — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:34:56 +0000

I have seen quite a few chippys in Glasgow and Dundee, but it has always seemed to me like a thing for tourists

New comment by struanr in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

struanr — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:18:32 +0000

Arc Raiders is a great example of a modern and popular multiplayer game that works with proton. I haven't heard about it having a problem with cheating.

New comment by struanr in "Tiger Style Coding Philosophy"

struanr — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:13:47 +0000

Tiger Style is a coding philosophy focused on safety, performance, and developer experience. Inspired by the practices of TigerBeetle, it focuses on building robust, efficient, and maintainable software through disciplined engineering.

Tiger Style Coding Philosophy

struanr — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:13:47 +0000

Article URL: https://tigerstyle.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45444183

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by struanr in "Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo"

struanr — Tue, 13 May 2025 08:47:19 +0000

Although I have certainly created pull requests before that have been ignored so not sure GitHub solves this problem.

New comment by struanr in "FreeBSD for hi-fi audio: real-time processing, equalizer, MPD and FFmpeg"

struanr — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:45:39 +0000

> bluetooth audio is lower quality than it could be (AptX and LDAC codes unsupported)

Not sure what you mean by this, aptX and aptX HD work flawlessly for my Bluetooth headphones with pipewire

New comment by struanr in "Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?"

struanr — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:07:07 +0000

I have been using Syncthing fork since before the official app was discontinued, and can vouch for its quality. My favorite feature is that it allows conditional pausing of folders based on phone state, such as if the phone is charging or connected to WiFi. Just be warned that the version on Google Play was no longer updated last time I checked (Googles fault), so you're better downloading releases from the Github repo.

New comment by struanr in "Guile-Emacs Relaunched"

struanr — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:31:19 +0000

Completely anecdotally, but my personal experience over the past ~2.5 years of using Emacs has been the opposite of a dwindling community. Releases are frequent, often containing exciting new features; the community maintains many great packages, with new ones get released frequently; and I see more Emacs discussions online than I did when I started using Emacs, many of which involve new users. Emacs has a brutal learning curve, awful defaults and ancient bones, so will always appeal to a smaller number of people than VSCode or (Neo)Vim. However, for those willing to learn the arcane art, it can wield immense power.

New comment by struanr in "Advent of Code 2024"

struanr — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 19:14:19 +0000

Excited to try this. I was aiming to be done by Christmas, but this is my first AoC and reading other replies makes this seem a bit unrealistic. Decided to do it in elisp to try and improve my emacs-fu and lisp knowledge.

New comment by struanr in "Vimium – The Hacker's Browser"

struanr — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:25:12 +0000

I use this; it does require changing the Firefox accelKey to something other than control, but works well. I also tried using nyxt but found it to be far too slow.

New comment by struanr in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

struanr — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:14:47 +0000

This looks great! It seems to solve the issue I always had with civilisation where the game becomes progressively easier as you advance ahead of the AI, leading to a late game which involves lots of management but little risk.

New comment by struanr in "Emacs: Contextual Interfaces in Casual Calc"

struanr — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:26:04 +0000

If you press '?' in the magit window a popup of available commads should appear. If I remember correctly from when I used to use DOOM emacs before switching to vanilla, evil (vi emulation) keybingings mean the keys listed in the magit popup are incorrect, however it should give you an idea of what commands are available and you can use other Emacs help facilities to find the Spacemacs keybindings.

New comment by struanr in "Aeon: OpenSUSE for Lazy Developers"

struanr — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:20:44 +0000

Personally I went from Arch to NixOS and now back to Arch. Whilst I can appreciate the power of NixOS it felt like such a huge amount of abstraction and secret sauce it made it impossible to fit in my head. In addition, the documentation and debugging experience of the Nix language were very poor. Nix shell was useful for trying out programs temporarily, however I found it a poor substitute for native Python and Julia package managers, especially for scientific work where a requirements.txt is useful to a lot more people than a flake.nix

Going back to Arch has felt like a breath of fresh air. Everything is simple, easy to understand and incredibility well documented. Using a snapper pacman hook I can now revert my system to undo updates, which was the main functionality I found useful in NixOS.

New comment by struanr in "A Road to Common Lisp (2018)"

struanr — Wed, 22 May 2024 08:03:17 +0000

For non Django code, the IPython REPL with the %pdb magic enabled drops you in a ipdb debugger on an exception. Doesn't allow resuming but still very useful.

New comment by struanr in "Mathematica 14"

struanr — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 09:34:33 +0000

An actively developed alternative is emacs-jupyter, which allows you to use an org file similarly to a notebook.

New comment by struanr in "Mastering Emacs"

struanr — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 07:45:15 +0000

Also worth swapping the control and caps lock keys (system wide if possible). Takes a while to relearn but much easier to reach with your pinky.

New comment by struanr in "Searches for VPN Soar in Utah Amidst Pornhub Blockage"

struanr — Wed, 03 May 2023 21:43:47 +0000

I feel like a VPN ban might be difficult to enforce due to corporate usage of the same technology