Hacker News: warpech

New comment by warpech in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

warpech — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:45:09 +0000

I got into improv theatre. There are groups in every city, at least here in the EU. It is both fun and developing creativity, alertness, etc.

New comment by warpech in "Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig"

warpech — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:46:46 +0000

Thanks! But I meant JS based virtual scrolling in web pages. E.g. dynamic data tables that only render the part of the table that fits in the viewport.

New comment by warpech in "Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig"

warpech — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:42:30 +0000

> So it's effectively a net+DOM+script-only browser with no style/layout/paint.

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> Definitely fun for me to watch as someone who is making a lightweight browser engine with a different set of trade-offs (net+DOM+style/layout/paint-only with no script)

Both projects (Lightpanda, DioxusLabs/blitz) sound very interesting to me. What do you think about rendering patterns that require both script+layout for rendering, e.g. virtual scrolling of large tables?

What would be a good pattern to make virtual scrolling work with Lightpanda or Blitz?

New comment by warpech in "Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop"

warpech — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:17:09 +0000

I love this. We need more experimenting with UX status quo. Especially with drag and drop, which, I think all many would agree, is one of the not ideal UX patterns espacialy with scrolling involved.

The research is never over. Good ideas, bad ideas, doesn't matter as long as they continue to inspire.

New comment by warpech in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

warpech — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:36:28 +0000

As a HyperFormula founder, thank you for the mention. I wonder what’s your opinion on our formula library

New comment by warpech in "Default styles for h1 elements are changing"

warpech — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:29:48 +0000

What surprised me that they roll it out to 50% of the beta channel users. So you might or might not see the change until they roll it out for all

New comment by warpech in "We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains"

warpech — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:06:11 +0000

Such a beautiful magazine design. Does anyone have recommendations for more skillfully designed online magazines, blogs, etc?

New comment by warpech in "A Commentary on the Sixth Edition of the Unix Operating System (1977)"

warpech — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:23:29 +0000

I was very curious how come there is a PDF from 1977. Apparently it is built from these source files: http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/index.php

A fork on GitHub: https://github.com/kanner/lions-book

New comment by warpech in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

warpech — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:35:32 +0000

Agree. If the author collects the IP address of the response, maybe countries can be mapped retrospectively.

Managing Angular

warpech — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:52:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mgechev.com/2024/08/25/managing-angular/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41403482

Points: 1

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New comment by warpech in "The Twelve Foundations for a Good Life"

warpech — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:18:19 +0000

and wear sunscreen

New comment by warpech in "Welcome to Ladybird"

warpech — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:51:43 +0000

Amazing news! It would be great to read how did it come to attract such great sponsorships. Was that actively searched for by Andreas?

New comment by warpech in "The story, as best I can remember, of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape [video]"

warpech — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 19:15:10 +0000

Can you expand what you mean by gopherapps?

New comment by warpech in "Engineering for Slow Internet"

warpech — Fri, 31 May 2024 20:27:35 +0000

I assume it was considered, but I don’t see it mentioned: Would it be a terrible idea to use a cloud computer and Remote Desktop/VNC to it? Your slow internet only needs to stream the compressed pixels to your thin client.

New comment by warpech in "Ask HN: Why do you all think that Htmx is such a recent development?"

warpech — Mon, 20 May 2024 19:23:19 +0000

Sure, the concept is not new at all, but it is distilled to a very usable form. A similar comment can be made about TailwindCSS.

New comment by warpech in "Rethinking Text Resizing on Web"

warpech — Mon, 20 May 2024 19:18:02 +0000

You are right. I edited my comment to remove the negative sentiment towards the advice itself. I also admire the craftsmanship there. Still, the dark patterns are just increasingly unbearable. Same can be said about many market leaders in other categories.

New comment by warpech in "Rethinking Text Resizing on Web"

warpech — Mon, 20 May 2024 19:07:40 +0000

I find the experience of Airbnb user hostile. The last time I checked, the app pushed irrelevant search results on me with no option of turning that off. Now they give advice on UX? The advice might be sound, but it comes from an authority in marketing, not UX

New comment by warpech in "NPM package is-even has over 140k weekly downloads"

warpech — Mon, 13 May 2024 07:02:57 +0000

Hopefully is-odd does not depend on is-even

New comment by warpech in "R3dfox: A fork of Firefox made specifically for Windows 7 and 8 compatibility"

warpech — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 22:04:42 +0000

I could read this

New comment by warpech in "How do computers calculate sine?"

warpech — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:30:33 +0000

This made me realize that trigonometric functions are not deterministic across different CPU architectures, OS, and programming languages (floating point precision aside).

E.g. I would assume that Math.sin(x) returns the same thing in NodeJS on Windows and Mac/M1, but it turns out it is necessarily so. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74074312/standard-math-f...