Hacker News: xvilka

New comment by xvilka in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

xvilka — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:50:11 +0000

Zellij still can't hide/show the status bar on the fly[1] and doesn't support windows preview in the windows list mode. Just these two (and many more) things are enough to stop me from migrating from tmux.

[1] https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/issues/694

New comment by xvilka in "Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived"

xvilka — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:33:16 +0000

Will this mean the end to NeoVim, whose main (one of) selling point is the tree-sitter out of the box? I hope not, as I am the long time user and supporter of the project.

New comment by xvilka in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

xvilka — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:24:25 +0000

More importantly, it also reduces CPU and memory load.

New comment by xvilka in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

xvilka — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:23:41 +0000

Nowadays we have Unicode characters and better colors though.

New comment by xvilka in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

xvilka — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:21:01 +0000

Missing Ratatui[1] support.

[1] https://ratatui.rs/

New comment by xvilka in "Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"

xvilka — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:55:51 +0000

At this point it's probably better investing time and money into RustPython[1][2].

[1] https://rustpython.github.io/

[2] https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython

New comment by xvilka in "TeX Live 2026 is available for download now"

xvilka — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:51:23 +0000

Interesting, thanks. Looks quite promising.

New comment by xvilka in "TeX Live 2026 is available for download now"

xvilka — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:20:42 +0000

Typst lacks PGF/TikZ alternative.

New comment by xvilka in "TeX Live 2026 is available for download now"

xvilka — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:09:33 +0000

I wonder what's the status of LaTeX 3[1][2]. Also, it would be nice to have an automation in the style of Tectonic[3][4] (which looks like a dead project itself) out of the box.

[1] https://www.latex-project.org/latex3/

[2] https://github.com/latex3/latex3

[3] http://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/

[4] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/

New comment by xvilka in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

xvilka — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:33:48 +0000

> Can you imagine human potential if it was somehow applied to crop harvesting efficiency, new medicines, etc?

If these sectors offered competitive salaries - sure, talent would flock to them. As a former chemist, I struggled to find a job that didn't pay scraps, no matter the industry - from big pharma to advanced materials. Eventually, I just gave up and went into the IT, which is 3x-10x better paid (at the very least).

New comment by xvilka in "Transmission of epigenetic alterations across generations in mammals"

xvilka — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:50:00 +0000

Nature will find a way to mitigate this, at least long-term. The price will not be small though.

The Document Foundation: Open Letter to Apache OpenOffice

xvilka — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:52:16 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110607

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by xvilka in "LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in"

xvilka — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:49:09 +0000

Another big issue is that Apache Software Foundation should admit that the OpenOffice is dead and just redirect the site to the LibreOffice instead. Currently, they just damage the open source by allowing downloading effectively abandonware that doesn't represent the quality of the open source office software: people download OpenOffice, find many problems (that long gone in LibreOffice), decide that open source office is bad, and go to the proprietary alternatives.

New comment by xvilka in "LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in"

xvilka — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:43:33 +0000

It's not really open[1].

[1] https://fsfe.org/activities/msooxml/msooxml.en.html

New comment by xvilka in "LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in"

xvilka — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:38:10 +0000

The only clean solution would be to force ISO to admit their mistake (or malicious intent) and rescind the "Open" Office XML format for good.

New comment by xvilka in "LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in"

xvilka — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:51:52 +0000

LibreOffice constantly works on improving the import of the DOC/DOCX/XLS/XLSX/etc formats, thus if something doesn't work for you, it's better to file a bug in their bugtracker[1].

[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=gui...

New comment by xvilka in "Lean 4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI"

xvilka — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:45:25 +0000

Lean is a great idea, especially the 4th version, a huge level up from the 3rd one, but its core still deficient[1] in some particular scenarious (see an interesting discussion[2] in the Rock (formerly Coq) issue tracker). Not sure if it might hinder the automation with the AI.

[1] https://artagnon.com/logic/leancoq

[2] https://github.com/rocq-prover/rocq/issues/10871

New comment by xvilka in "Keep Android Open"

xvilka — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:27:58 +0000

A good opportunity to donate[1] to the GrapheneOS[2].

[1] https://grapheneos.org/donate

[2] https://grapheneos.org/

New comment by xvilka in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

xvilka — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:13:44 +0000

Codeberg would make a better choice if we speak about EU source code forges. And Forgejo instead of Gitea, which is nowadays controversial project.

New comment by xvilka in "Terminals should generate the 256-color palette"

xvilka — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:00:28 +0000

As a text interface lover and someone who dived deep into terminal quirks, I do think you have a valid point. We need to design a text interface without all the legacy cruft, better suited for modern needs (including colors), and better mixed-mode output and interaction, something similar to what we have with Jupyter, for example (without the Web/JS/Python baggage though). It would require rebuilding whole ecosystem from scratch though, thus unlikely to happen any time soon.