Hacker News: zaep

New comment by zaep in "Learn Harness Engineering"

zaep — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:55:17 +0000

Working in satellite simulation, where we end up with complex harnesses (cabling) and where I don't really know the nitty-gritty of how the sausage is made by the engineers creating them, I was really curious for a moment; but alas, it's an AI thing.

FWIW, my quick impression is that takes reasonable concepts and tries to formalize them into a framework; I can see potential benefits, I've certainly asked in a claude code session for it to have a look at pipeline so and so and figure out the issue, but I'm not really convinced by this at first glance either. Both setup-cost and token cost seem like downsides.

New comment by zaep in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

zaep — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:53:11 +0000

Nobody seems to have (yet) mentioned the most recent (rn) commit [1] dated 2099. I can't really figure out where the date came from, at the source noted in the commit I find no '2099', I can't see it being a joke, if it's a bug it's not obvious to me..

I'm sure I won't be the only one curious, please enlighten me.

[1]: <https://github.com/EnriqueLop/legalize-es/commit/424cbc96507...>

New comment by zaep in "Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can't interfere with it"

zaep — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:49:01 +0000

I think that's not viable. To make that work you'd have to keep up with the kernel for years, probably more than a decade, to reach some kind of critical mass and become influential enough to be capable of separating from it and driving decisions that run counter to it. That's not even to mention the loss it would be to have these capable teams (rust proponents for the kernel and extremely experienced maintainers and contributors who want nothing to do with it) working in parallel at best and in partial opposition at worst, when they could work together.

New comment by zaep in "Orbit by Mozilla"

zaep — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 16:07:05 +0000

There is a (to me very surprising) typo in the section 'Focus on what matters.' where the AI summary states "... 11 out off[sic] 100 products ..."

I don't think I've ever encountered a typo in any of the LLM output I've seen, seems like the exact sort of thing an LLM would be more or less perfect at. Am I wrong to take this as an indication that this text is actually written by a human as a concise marketing example?

New comment by zaep in "Tig: Text-Mode Interface for Git"

zaep — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:16:27 +0000

Another in the same vein is vim-fugitive by tpope [1]. I have never used magit, only a Neovim plugin claiming to resemble it, but I would assume fugitive is much the same (and quite wonderful from my experience).

[1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

New comment by zaep in "Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?"

zaep — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 19:26:11 +0000

oh sick, thanks for letting me know

New comment by zaep in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)"

zaep — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:59:22 +0000

    Location: Germany (Bremen / Hamburg)
    Remote: flexible (Europe/Berlin time ideally)
    Willing to relocate: likely not, perhaps within Germany especially back to Berlin
    Technologies: Rust, Go, C++, Linux, WASM, SBOM
    CV: https://hensel.dev/about/cv
    Email: see CV

I'm a software developer about to finish my MSc (CS) looking what interesting work might be out there.

New comment by zaep in "Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?"

zaep — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 18:21:49 +0000

I am very happy with Zola. Every SSG has its own shortcomings, for Zola I was initially bothered by lack of 'proper' footnotes and the insistence on having to have frontmatter, but I've yet to feel that I cannot do something really. The docs can be a touch confusing imo, but they're written with care.

New comment by zaep in "NTS (TeX reimplementation in Java from 2001) still compiles under Java 16"

zaep — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 06:56:09 +0000

I'm sure you're right in what you say, but this is not the reason modern acrobat is slow. I'm sure you could build a modern and accessible app that starts and loads the requested PDF snappily to show it, but acrobat will also (iirc) have some cloud integration now for storage and a bunch of the features they offer are gated behind some sort of subscription, the status of which I would guess is loaded on startup, probably along with a bunch of other stuff.

New comment by zaep in "The Scully Effect"

zaep — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:40:28 +0000

Can it possibly be true that 60+% (she writes "nearly two-thirds") of women in STEM have this character as an influence? I'm only barely aware of this media property and here in Europe I feel our Media is fairly "American" still, does this show have such a global reach? I found, for instance, that the X-Files movie only had 4.2% of its revenue internationally, so I think its not such a popular property outside the US. How would even 10% of chinese female STEM workers hear of this character?

I believe she is citing the PDF she links, where only an archived version is available right now. It seems to be a US-only study, although I don't see any explanation of where participants were from.

New comment by zaep in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

zaep — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:48:39 +0000

TLDR: https://github.com/ja-he/dayplan is a TUI calendar planning/time tracking tool I made.

Early in my University time I always felt most productive when sketching out my day in Google calendar, then keeping up with that plan and if necessary, adjusting it. For a long time I was envisioning something that would allow me to follow that workflow but without the browser window or telling Google my plans, ideally in the terminal, ideallyer something as nice to use as Vim.

When I sat down to learn Go I decided to make that my project and, although messy, it's become my longest-running (though sporadically developed) personal project.

Realistically, I wouldn't suggest anybody use this except to try it, but for myself it is really useful and a fun project to tinker with sometimes.

New comment by zaep in "Typst – Compose Papers Faster"

zaep — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 09:28:13 +0000

for anybody who is wondering, the typst web app is a smoother user experience, having had to use overleaf for some smaller projects only, ive found it slightly janky, sometimes, probably owed to how slow and strange latex compilation can be. I'm sure the typist web app lacks some cool project management features that overleaf may offer, since it's a more mature platform, but with how much nicer typst is compared to latex, I think any shortcomings the web app may have are offset by that. but for sufficiently technical people collaborating via git is imo nicer than any web app.

New comment by zaep in "Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better"

zaep — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 19:01:17 +0000

The TIL-framing is not integral to writing and publishing little snippets. You can always omit a framing and stick only to the information.

New comment by zaep in "Best Practices for Attribution"

zaep — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 06:32:23 +0000

> One condition of all CC licenses is attribution.

There's probably a distinction that I'm not aware of but this is not true for CC0 (as stated also in the FAQ for CC0 on this same website).

New comment by zaep in "Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines"

zaep — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:31:42 +0000

I'm working on an MIT-licensed time-tracking tool in my spare time and I'm hoping somebody (in a "this is not legal advice"-capacity at least) can enlighten me on licensing here:

If I am understanding the AGPL-3.0 correctly (and assuming that the format is also under the license), I could NOT add an "export to Markwhen" feature to my project without then being forced to convert it to AGPL-3.0. Is this correct?