Hacker News: warpech

New comment by warpech in "I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music"

warpech — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:48:43 +0000

That's incredible! I was thinking about such a project but a quick research didn't show any suitable square-shape LCD monitors. I am glad that turned out to me not true.

I will be happy to participate in the Kickstarter campaign

WDYT about adding something more to the screen than record sleeves, e.g., lyrics display?

New comment by warpech in "Firefox Containers Preview"

warpech — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:33:17 +0000

What are the cool setups with proxies?

New comment by warpech in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

warpech — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:19:56 +0000

I have a recurring daily task of closing all browser tabs and a weekly task of rebooting my Mac.

Tracking this as a task helps my digital hygiene, and at the same prevents me from doing it more often than needed.

New comment by warpech in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

warpech — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:13:32 +0000

Totally! The feeling of using AI to create something not fully productive is similar to the "just one more turn..." effect when playing a Civilization game. Even when you realize it's a waste, it's hard to stop, because the next dopamine hit is just around the corner.

New comment by warpech in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

warpech — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:47:23 +0000

Tailnet and Magic DNS make it easy to bring other people or devices to your network, including simple authentication mechanisms to know who is who

New comment by warpech in "Show HN: Y – A malleable coding-agent desktop app built with Electron"

warpech — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:15:59 +0000

Cool!

Your readme mentions Modify. What’s that?

Does this use some generative UI?

New comment by warpech in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

warpech — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:26:35 +0000

(As a non-native speaker) I didn’t notice that, I love this post and even shared it with my team

New comment by warpech in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

warpech — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:03:43 +0000

Yes, it seemed from another word at the time. Now is table stakes. Thanks for showing the way!

New comment by warpech in "HTML is a native image format, hear me out"

warpech — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:09:43 +0000

What wrong with inlining base64 in regular .html if you want it all in one file?

Plus zipping that one file is you insist on a smaller file size

New comment by warpech in "Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS"

warpech — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:31:53 +0000

Thanks for a good word! Founder of HyperFormula here. HF will go AGPL soon, too

New comment by warpech in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

warpech — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:33:20 +0000

I see Bun’s Rust rewrite (esp the style how it was done) as a form of massive internet trolling for PR reasons. By making a bigger fuss about it, we’re feeding the troll

New comment by warpech in "Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port"

warpech — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:14:55 +0000

My programming career literally started in a dumpster in the ’90s, when I found a Turbo Vision book someone had thrown away. I picked it up and immediately fell in love with the bluish TUIs that anyone could make.

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.

> ---

> 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