Hacker News: vlaaad

New comment by vlaaad in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

vlaaad — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:17:14 +0000

This is great. I wanted to prototype some couch co-op games and be able to play them on my Switch 2.

New comment by vlaaad in "Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026"

vlaaad — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:52:55 +0000

I try to understand what's the criterion, and inferred novelty since the other Nobel prizes seem to be awarded for some novel contributions. As I said, just trying to understand significance.

New comment by vlaaad in "Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026"

vlaaad — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:45:18 +0000

Never heard of her before, can someone explain the significance? I see that Autobiography of Red is praised for blending different things like translation/novel in verse/essays together, but that doesn't sound like something new? I've read Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of Khazars before, seems like it fits the same description?

New comment by vlaaad in "Show HN: .cmd, cross-platform build tool manager and task launcher you check in"

vlaaad — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:14:26 +0000

I made this tool because whenever I want to do a new project, there is always this awkward step of picking required tooling that has to be installed on the system. I don't want to manage it, and I don't want to keep my local env in sync with CI configuration.

There are many package managers that fill this niche already, like mise and asdf, but they have the same downside: they are a separate installation step you need to do on CI or your machine to work with the project. I wanted something small that you check in and then simply use anywhere, so I built it.

.cmd works in any shell, be it Linux, macOS, or even Windows! And it's designed to be a cross-platform tool downloader and launcher, acting as an entry point to your project's CLI tasks. TBH, I think it's crazy something like this didn't exist before...

Show HN: .cmd, cross-platform build tool manager and task launcher you check in

vlaaad — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:13:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dotcmdhq/dotcmd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966789

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Show HN: .cmd, cross-platform build tool manager and task launcher you check in

vlaaad — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:50:45 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942483

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by vlaaad in "Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext"

vlaaad — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:30:03 +0000

It's curl | tar, not curl | sh

New comment by vlaaad in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

vlaaad — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:42:37 +0000

I work on 2 things that are the same thing: 1. ghosttyfx — libghostty terminal for JavaFX (https://github.com/vlaaad/ghosttyfx/) 2. trying to integrate ghosttyfx into the Defold editor (https://defold.com/)

Turns out integrating into a bigger IDE is much harder than just implementing a JavaFX view using libghostty...

New comment by vlaaad in "JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)"

vlaaad — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:38:38 +0000

Yes, what's the point of JsonObject at all? Why JsonString when there is String? Why JsonArray when there is List? JDK only needs a function to convert from JSON format to the normal data structures it already has and back.

New comment by vlaaad in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

vlaaad — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:56:11 +0000

Did we read the same Anthropic and Andrew Kelly's posts? Anthropic is not in the programming language market; their post about rewriting Bun in Rust is full of technical details that led to improving the end product for their users. Zig's response is a sour opinion piece full of personal attacks.

For context, I'm using Codex and have no interest in either Zig or Rust, so just observing this drama from the sidelines.

GhosttyFX – JavaFX terminal powered by libghostty

vlaaad — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:54:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vlaaad/ghosttyfx/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880806

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by vlaaad in "two strangers. one call. no names"

vlaaad — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:37:33 +0000

LMAO I'm not using it. No, I don't allow microphone access.

Show HN: I mage GhosttyFX, a JavaFX terminal view that uses libghostty

vlaaad — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:34:00 +0000

The implementation uses jextract-generated bindings, so it can be considered a light-weight wrapper around libghostty and a rendering layer that uses JavaFX. Works on Windows too (unlike Ghostty :P)

And for Clojurists that use Cljfx, I also made https://github.com/cljfx/ghosttyfx — a wrapper that exposes GhosttyFX as a reactive view.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120136

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by vlaaad in "Show HN: I mage GhosttyFX, a JavaFX terminal view that uses libghostty"

vlaaad — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:41:08 +0000

The implementation uses jextract-generated bindings, so it can be considered a light-weight wrapper around libghostty and a rendering layer that uses JavaFX. Works on Windows too (unlike Ghostty :P)

Show HN: I mage GhosttyFX, a JavaFX terminal view that uses libghostty

vlaaad — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:22:54 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vlaaad/ghosttyfx/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106694

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by vlaaad in "Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)"

vlaaad — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:19:14 +0000

Yeah, I really enjoyed Crafting Interpreters, wholeheartedly recommend!

New comment by vlaaad in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

vlaaad — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:51:38 +0000

More like /r/cars bans all discussion of electric cars.

New comment by vlaaad in "OpenAI demand sinks on secondary market as Anthropic runs hot"

vlaaad — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:08:05 +0000

So a buy order for $122000M, and a sell order for $600M is presented as bad news for OpenAI?

New comment by vlaaad in "Good CTE, Bad CTE"

vlaaad — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:43:18 +0000

Use the term, never define the term, classic.

CTE stands for Common Table Expressions in SQL. They are temporary result sets defined within a single query using the WITH clause, acting like named subqueries to improve readability and structure.

New comment by vlaaad in "Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens"

vlaaad — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:36:17 +0000

My AGENTS.md is usually `be concise` — it saves on the input tokens as well, and leads by example.