Hacker News: zaruvi

New comment by zaruvi in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

zaruvi — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:58:41 +0000

Haha, I always guess whether or not there will be an LTSC comment before checking the comments. These days it's always there, even early after posting.

New comment by zaruvi in "HUD proposes rule that would force noncitizens from public housing"

zaruvi — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:10:03 +0000

oh wow, it's real. I'm not that active on hn, but is this a normal thing here?

New comment by zaruvi in "State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?"

zaruvi — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:18:06 +0000

Linux Mint would be a very decent distribution to start with. I've also heard good things about Fedora, but never used it myself.

New comment by zaruvi in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

zaruvi — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:40:18 +0000

Regardless, at least a few of my colleagues using Windows have reported issues with the new start menu. It seems very slow, and sometimes you have to close & reopen it for content to appear.

New comment by zaruvi in "Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe [video]"

zaruvi — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:17:07 +0000

I'm already so annoyed by the SUV craze that flew over from the US. Cars are already getting bigger, with no apparent benefit besides status (as marketed by the industry).

Am I the only one who thinks these vehicles look silly on top of all the added danger?

New comment by zaruvi in "This Month in Ladybird – October 2025"

zaruvi — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:35:57 +0000

>We’ve continued to make solid progress on WPT this month. There has been a significant increase in passing subtests, with 111,431 new passing subtests bringing our total to 1,964,649. The majority of this increase comes from a large update to the test suite itself, with 100,751 subtests being added - mainly due to the Wasm core tests being updated to Wasm 3.0.

They fixed ~10k tests, but indeed this month is a bit of an exception as there were lots of new tests added.

New comment by zaruvi in "The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop"

zaruvi — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:16:44 +0000

It costs 1,100eur for the cheapest model where I'm at. Not prohibitively expensive, but I would never pay it for a machine that does not properly run Linux. I'm sure it is good hardware compared to similarly priced laptops though.

New comment by zaruvi in "Getting syntax highlighting wrong"

zaruvi — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:55:43 +0000

I would add that no highlighting would be applied to this mistyped word as it would not be recognised as a variable or a keyword. This may depend on the way syntax highlighting is handled. A common solution like treesitter would sus out that no variable with the name retunr exists, probably causing the mythical base colour to be applied, heh. That is arguably a big highlight in a colourscheme that rarely uses its base colour.

New comment by zaruvi in "Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable"

zaruvi — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:43:30 +0000

Yeah, it works perfectly fine for me on hyprland.

New comment by zaruvi in "Pixnapping Attack"

zaruvi — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:15:31 +0000

Don't extra security measures in authenticator apps provide protection against this? I need to enter a pin/fingerprint in order to access my codes. And the code of an entry is hidden and only temporarily shown after being tapped.

New comment by zaruvi in "Ruby Central Is Not Behaving in Good Faith, and I've Got Receipts"

zaruvi — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:44:54 +0000

Knife crime statistics seem to suggest otherwise. It is nice, until it is not.

New comment by zaruvi in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

zaruvi — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:33:23 +0000

Yep, but admittedly the vertical tab UX is not the greatest. You either have them always be visible with an option to toggle by clicking the sidebar icon (no keyboard shortcut option afaik), or minimised as icons that expand on hover with an awfully annoying animation.

Looking at Zen, I really don't understand how Mozilla fail to capitalise on their browser, and build up a similar experimental project based on Firefox like it. It seems that many of these small QoL improvements could make a big difference. They have such a huge budget, and they waste it on inane things. Their fancy search deal with Google has made them complacent, and neglect one of the few things that ever had any real worth. Curious to see how it develops with the recent Google ruling. And to be fair, it does seem like Firefox development has picked up a bit lately—maybe even due to Zen's competition, who knows.

New comment by zaruvi in "Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux"

zaruvi — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 01:37:04 +0000

These days you can choose between different UIs, some of which will have the "ribbon" style. I do agree though that it feels a bit dated if you're used to MS' office, but you get used to it quite quickly.

New comment by zaruvi in "Emacs: The macOS Bug"

zaruvi — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:32:34 +0000

Regarding your last sentence, I don't know the answer. If you really want to find out I would make an educated guess that it is one of the more feature-rich modern terminal applications (like kitty, wezterm, alacritty, ghostty)

New comment by zaruvi in "Emacs: The macOS Bug"

zaruvi — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:25:51 +0000

There is fennel which compiles into lua. I know there are some people who use fennel almost exclusively, and have some sort of system set up that watches and auto-compiles and sources. I only ever used emac as a basic text editor in the terminal (years ago), so I can't say if this will be sufficient compared to the "real" experience in emacs. Just letting you know in case it is helpful.

edit: I forgot to mention the most important thing, I am talking about using neovim

New comment by zaruvi in "Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware"

zaruvi — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:30:08 +0000

Can you elaborate why you think this?

Personally I've been running Arch on my work machine for a few years now with very few issues. I'm not even very consistent with updates, and probably run them about once every 3 weeks on average. I have only had to manually intervene on a handful of occasions.

I like it a lot because everything is always up-to-date. I don't face any issues with unsupported versions for tools like I have with Debian in the past. The rolling release model also saves me the pain of doing a "hard" OS upgrade, which often come with issues.

New comment by zaruvi in "Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua"

zaruvi — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:32:09 +0000

This looks interesting. At one point I wanted to use a third party library using luarocks, but I gave up because it wasn't immediately working/straight-forward. It may have been a skill issue though...

New comment by zaruvi in "GIMP 3.0"

zaruvi — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:41:39 +0000

I thought I'd never see the day! At long last, I'll be able to use non-destructive editing.

Hopefully they'll adopt a more sane release strategy going forward.

New comment by zaruvi in "Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp"

zaruvi — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 17:28:03 +0000

As a user of a Firefox-based browser, YouTube's performance really is hit or miss. Sometimes it's ok, other times it's barely useable.

These days I simply queue up videos in mpv. It is much lighter on the resources, and also provides a nice cache that makes seeking through videos a breeze. I can open a link straight in mpv using a very nice system[1]. Once I have an mpv instance open I simply drag links on top of it to enqueue them. (shift+drag if you haven't set the following option in your config: drag-and-drop=append)

It works so well I find myself doing it for other online sources of videos too (e.g. Twitter/X, local TV websites, ...)

[1]: https://github.com/Baldomo/open-in-mpv

New comment by zaruvi in "Ask HN: Would you fund Mozilla to become independent of Google?"

zaruvi — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 11:35:00 +0000

I would only donate for firefox specifically, when given the promise that it would be spent on development. Never to Mozilla with all the weird stuff they fund and work on.