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Nickolai Leschov gh: nickolai

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/listic; my proof: https://keybase.io/listic/sigs/BfY38Sbck1eYRAOZZCfzYTQpVFB3DXW3GNLbx0WHMbU ]

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listic··on I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times
> I believe there is a fork of bun from 1.3 that a different community is maintaining.

There is Buz effort to do this which might be worked at, behind the scenes: https://github.com/jazzzooo/buz

(I'm looking forward to looking into Zig)

listic··on Y Combinator Early Access Network
Being about 'AI' is mandatory now, I guess?
listic··on I ♥ RSS – A directory of people who love RSS
Why not for small tech and individuals?

Is there a law or something? :)

listic··on Don't Take the Black Pill [video]
Oh. It's the essence of the common meaning of it, right?
listic··on Don't Take the Black Pill [video]
I expected the link [1] to be to the explaination of what "black pilled" means, but only because I already read and remember xkcd 1053.
listic··on Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds
> modern Zig

Do they mean more modern than the latest tagged release, 0.16.0, released April 14, 2026?

listic··on AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
Do yo have links handy for AI-assisted engineering going positively? The case I have on my mind of it going negatively is this recent Ford case [1] It's not that I believe it couldn't go positively, of course.

[1] Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrkd41n2v9o

listic··on Elixir-lang.org has a new design
I guess it is still legal?
listic··on Elixir-lang.org has a new design
I heard from a fan of Erlang that Elixir was made by people who don't really understand Erlang who reworked it/BEAM to be in the style of Ruby; that made it popular even though it's an abomination. What do you think?
listic··on Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds
> until mothers no longer are forced to have “the talk” when their daughters get their first mobile phone

I fail do imagine what kind of world is he implying.

listic··on GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents
Thanks for sharing your insight.

Mind if I ask you for a few vibe coding tips? I failed to solve you gh puzzle in the profile though.

listic··on Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships
> This is a neat idea that has been tried about 300 times over

Could you share the top 3 attempts that tried it and are better at it? I only know that things like this should exist, but didn't look any further into this class of things, yet.

My idea of what to look into is some kind of CRM for my personal contacts.

listic··on What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?
Interestingly, I (in my 20s back then) also asked the question in the early 2000's.

I had a CS background.

listic··on Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
Could you please explain exactly why you think no one you know uses Mastodon? I'm trying to figure it out. I, personally am hesitant to use it first and foremost because Mastodon (and many of its lesser known alternatives) is a variant of micro-blogging (I'm appalled how extending character limit beyond 500 apparently counts as a feature in Fediverse!)
listic··on Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
What do you mean by 'the fediverse that missed the Twitter alternative'? I thought Mastodon is the Twitter alternative. Sorry; I didn't het it.
listic··on Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
I can see some Fossil Gen 6's on eBay in the US. (I only learned about AsteroidOS today and I'm not in the US)
listic··on Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering
Doesn't install on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS due to dependecy problems. Filed a bug: https://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite/issues/6
listic··on Telegram introduced AI Summaries. I filed bug report for them
Er, do you think that's a poor choice?

What's done is done; but I was pissed and am not a native English speaker, so I asked LLM to reword what I wanted to say in a polite and proper way, so that as many people as possible could support it.

Is it ok?

listic··on Telegram introduced AI Summaries. I filed bug report for them
On January, 3, 2026, Telegram messenger, which I use a lot, introduced AI Summaries [1] for all posts after January, 3, 2026 with no way to switch them off; neither for the readers nor for channel admins.

I find it unacceptable and filed a bug report about that (marking that as an issue; not feature request, which in my view it is), requesting for this feature to be opt-in.

[1] https://telegram.org/blog/new-design-ai-summaries

listic··on YouTube Playlist Downloader
I, on the other hand, turned off YouTube recomendations with UnDistracted. Maybe I'm missing out; who knows.
listic··on Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free
build-your-own-x*, a popular compilation of "well-written, step-by-step guides for re-creating our favorite technologies from scratch", contains some.

* https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

listic··on GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
How easy is it to become their (Cerebras) paying customer? Last time I looked, they seemed to be in closed beta or something.
listic··on Read Something Wonderful
Apparently, yes. Apparently, they present a curated set of texts.
listic··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
I am all ready to believe that with LLMs it's not worth it trying to be too coherent: I did successfully use LLMs to make sense of what incoherent-sounding people say. (in text)
listic··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
Thanks for the advice! Could you please share how did you enable voice transcription for your setup and what it actually is?
listic··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
For the one disinclined to get into closed source, proprietary tools, what is the next best thing to try?

I heard of Cline and Aider, but didn't try anything.

listic··on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop
I doubt there will ever be a market for a device with this specific (or many other kinds of other specific) set of requirements, especially if one insists on that 'last bit of polish'. Short of fully developed molecular nanotechnology or similar, allowing economic manufacturing of bespoke hardware in single copies, which is another world from the one we live in, I don't see such wishes come true, so the author (and others like him) will have to settle for something else.
listic··on Autism's confusing cousins
> If you think you (or a loved one) may have a psychological condition, go to a psychologist and get a screening. The diagnosis isn't the important part. The value is in the 20-something pages of detailed analysis by a professional.

Throughout my entire interaction with psychiatry (years, on and off) I never figured this is a thing. Go figure.

listic··on Framework Sponsors CachyOS
Funny thing, taking into account the state of affairs in the country: CachyOS mirror for Russia is https://archlinux.gay

(I am Russian; left the country in 2022)

listic··on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
Sometimes, they return.

Recently, I read a post by an online musician friend that someone made a tip of 5 rubles with a banknote in Armenia - too low a sum to bother exchanging it in a foreign country. I was perplexed [1] because I don't recall ever [2] seeing such banknote - the lowest I remember seeing was 10 - and found that yes, it was introduced in 1998, discontinued and withdrawn from circulation in 2001 due to inflation and apparently reintroduced (maybe briefly?) in December 2022/January 2023.

I don't know why.

[1] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/in-post-soviet-russia-when-...

[2] I am Russian; born in 1977 and left the country in December, 2022.

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