Hacker News: vishnuharidas

New comment by vishnuharidas in "Guide to data tools landscape for developers"

vishnuharidas — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:32:05 +0000

+ Also a few diagrams showing the end-to-end data flow and where all these tools fit in.

New comment by vishnuharidas in "My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs"

vishnuharidas — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:11:10 +0000

And here's a UTF-8 Playground: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app

Ticking Timebomb in Mac OS [video]

vishnuharidas — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:42:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9GAJ_ka4l4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053907

Points: 1

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New comment by vishnuharidas in "Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python"

vishnuharidas — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:32:47 +0000

This took me down the nostalgic memory lane of the planet-source-code days. There were hundreds of such projects in Visual Basic, Delphi, C/C++/MFC etc., and text editors and paint clones were the most popular projects.

New comment by vishnuharidas in "An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode"

vishnuharidas — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:16:47 +0000

Also: UTF-8 Playground: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app

Procrustes

vishnuharidas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:40:57 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460315

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by vishnuharidas in "Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)"

vishnuharidas — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:36:54 +0000

Okay, I am NEVER letting an agent make payment autonomously. If there's a payment that has to be made, tell me, I will do that myself.

New comment by vishnuharidas in "OpenSUSE Kalpa"

vishnuharidas — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:32:39 +0000

A screenshot is the bare minimum for such things.

New comment by vishnuharidas in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

vishnuharidas — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:43:20 +0000

Nothing can't be first-class as long as it is not *directly* replacing the existing first-class citizens.

If Wasm modules can be loaded like this:

...and if Wasm could access the DOM like this:

    import dom, json, re, html, urllib.parse
    from datetime import datetime
    
    params = urllib.parse.urlencode({"category": "news", "limit": 10})
    data = json.loads(await (await fetch(f"https://api.example.com/data?{params}")).string())
    container = js.document.getElementById("app")
    container.innerHTML = "".join(f"..." for i in data["items"])

...then developers would have jumped in right away.

New comment by vishnuharidas in "U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth"

vishnuharidas — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:30:10 +0000

“RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW”: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app/237C

You Must Review AI-Generated Code

vishnuharidas — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:33:01 +0000

Article URL: https://iamvishnu.com/posts/you-must-review-ai-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263748

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by vishnuharidas in "Building a new Flash"

vishnuharidas — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:18:19 +0000

There were many study materials that were made in Flash that came back alive with the help of Ruffle. Here's my fav list: https://astro.unl.edu/animationsLinks.html

Degoogling

vishnuharidas — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:08:41 +0000

Article URL: https://iamvishnu.com/posts/degoogling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47210664

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Degoogling

vishnuharidas — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:09:26 +0000

Article URL: https://iamvishnu.com/posts/degoogling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105951

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Must update 2-step-verification Email separately in Bitwarden

vishnuharidas — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:05:42 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/vishnuhx/status/2022054294674190410

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995151

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Fictional Codebase for a Todo App in 2027

vishnuharidas — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:14:48 +0000

Article URL: https://iamvishnu.com/posts/todo-app-in-2027

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976814

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Writing a To-Do App in 2027

vishnuharidas — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:02:55 +0000

Article URL: https://iamvishnu.com/posts/todo-app-in-2027

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965985

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by vishnuharidas in "Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners"

vishnuharidas — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:43:32 +0000

A screenshot is the bare minimum for things like this.

New comment by vishnuharidas in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

vishnuharidas — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:35:08 +0000

https://iamvishnu.com - my personal website/blog running on April⋅SSG, a simple SSG I made for this.

New comment by vishnuharidas in "Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)"

vishnuharidas — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:00:51 +0000

I mistakenly mixed up the abbreviations - it is "Right Hand Traffic"/RHT (which is "Left Hand Driving"/LHD).

Like you said, I enjoy LHD more where I can use my right hand for everything like radio/AC/GPS etc. and most of them work with muscle memory without even taking eyes off the road. Doing the same with my left hand while driving in India (LHT/RHD) is very tough.