Hacker News: wicharek

New comment by wicharek in "Zed 1.0"

wicharek — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:33:30 +0000

I want to love Zed. I really do. I like how fast and performant it is. Few UI things are a nightmare, though:

1. Zed insists on opening files in the active panel AND Terminal opens in a panel -> I constantly open files over my terminal. Arghh.

2. On macOS, when I open another workspace (e.g. by drag and dropping to the app in the dock but also from CLI), it opens in one of the existing windows in a sort of workspace-level tab (?). I want a window per workspace. No way to configure that (or it is so unclear that I could never find it).

Bonus: I want code in a light scheme and terminal in a dark scheme. It is stupid, but my eyes just start hurting otherwise. I created a custom color scheme for that and it sort of works, BUT Zed seem to do some additional post-processing to colors based on the scheme-wide light/dark setting, so I cannot get the colors quite right. If I set scheme to "light" – terminal colors are a bit off. If I set to "dark" – code editor is off, cannot get it fixed with scheme level overrides.

New comment by wicharek in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

wicharek — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:50:09 +0000

In my experience it is very easy and pretty cheap to start a LLC in Poland.

New comment by wicharek in "Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes"

wicharek — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:22:24 +0000

Lots of negativity in the comments. I however see no issue. I have been using digital boarding passes forever and have no idea why would I want a paper one ever.

New comment by wicharek in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

wicharek — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:15:25 +0000

Yes, because line 3 would implicitly be: const int * p

New comment by wicharek in "As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling"

wicharek — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:12:10 +0000

This remark implies that the warring parties are somehow equally responsible. I do not know where the OP is (Sudan?) and know nothing about what’s going on there. But Ukraine situation is crystal clear - there is the victim and the aggressor. Representing them as as equally guilty of war is at best misleading.

New comment by wicharek in "Russia arrests, dismantles REvil hacking group at U.S. request"

wicharek — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 15:30:07 +0000

"it had seized including 426 million roubles, $600,000, 500,000 euros, computer equipment and 20 luxury cars"

Ah yes, FSB are always happy to do that.

New comment by wicharek in "Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is ‘Almost Certain,' Cyber Expert Says"

wicharek — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 15:35:31 +0000

The person is said to be an "expert is cyber security", however, his arguments go way beyond his area of expertise. In fact they barely touch cyber security at all. He might end up being right of course (like anyone else). But at the moment his reasoning is a mere speculation of a person, who is maybe marginally better informed than an average commentator on the matter.

New comment by wicharek in "M1 MacBook Screen Crack Investigation"

wicharek — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 10:00:50 +0000

I have quite the opposite experience. Owned a bunch of Apple hardware in a past decade, including for my 20-30 people company. Never experienced a defect. Things only ever broke because of major physical impact (and more often than not survived even pretty serious hits) or worn down after years of usage (mostly batteries died, though in some cases I’d subjectively expect them to last more than they did - especially in some iPhones).

New comment by wicharek in "Ask HN: How did web development become so bizarrely complex?"

wicharek — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 17:03:41 +0000

Because no “static” site is really static these days?

New comment by wicharek in "Ask HN: Why Download a Downloader to Download an app?"

wicharek — Sat, 01 May 2021 20:11:46 +0000

Well that probably made sense in times of IE5, but modern browsers can’t be worse than wget -c ...