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Show HN: Cj – jc rewritten in Rust, 230 parsers, 10x faster

zhongwei2049 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:40:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zhongweili/cj

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634719

Points: 4

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New comment by zhongwei2049 in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

zhongwei2049 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:30:31 +0000

Been using this trick for a while. It's wild that this isn't exposed in System Settings somewhere. macOS basically treats third-party menu bar apps as second-class citizens and then acts surprised when users are confused.

New comment by zhongwei2049 in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

zhongwei2049 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:29:45 +0000

Classic pattern. The board gets populated by people whose main skill is board politics, and they use governance tools to push out the people who actually build the thing. Seen this happen in multiple open source foundations.

New comment by zhongwei2049 in "C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell"

zhongwei2049 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:18:00 +0000

The shell.c ouroboros is really cool. Being able to bootstrap trust through an entirely different language family (shell → C → shell) adds genuine value to the trusting-trust problem beyond just technical novelty.

New comment by zhongwei2049 in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

zhongwei2049 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:17:31 +0000

I have the same setup (M4 Pro, 24GB). The e4b model is surprisingly snappy for quick tasks. The full 26B is usable but not great — loading time alone is enough to break your flow.

Re: subscriptions vs local — I use both. Cloud for the heavy stuff, local for when I'm iterating fast and don't want to deal with rate limits or network hiccups.