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I guess it is time ... (sigh)

> I am biased towards Perl

This entire article reeks of bias of someone who hasn’t looked at Java since Java 8.

> Gemini AI baked into every layer of the operating system.

This itself is a dealbreaker (and probably a recipe for some litigations in future).

This is fantastic. I’ve been building an Excel-like but columnar spreadsheet app using DuckDB and had to reinvent the “client” through classic HTTP layer.

Refactoring is not cheap when you take into account the cost of not breaking things.

Or Terminal is already a full featured web browser?

https://hyper.is/

I've been working on Mesaphore, an Excel-like spreadsheet app[0] backed by a Parquet-based file format. The premise is when Excel starts off as the starting point, then over time becomes a data exchange format between systems, and eventually becomes a bottleneck for the system. You still want to provide your users something Excel-like but also want to address the limits of Excel[1].

Majority of code (almost 70%) is generated by Gemini Pro and is extremely ugly. Due to a recent eye injury, I've not been able to code as much as I want, so I'm delegating many things to Gemini. Eventually, as my health improves, I plan to rewrite the entire thing.

[0]: https://codeberg.org/naiyer/mesaphore

[1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/excel-specificati...

All this is great and fantastic until you hit Excel’s row limit.

I’d love see Tangled succeed because it strikes a good balance of UX and features. Sadly, there’s no clear pricing story around managed solution. They are also VC funded so they can follow the “journey of VC backed org” anytime.

I’ve used FS Notes [1] in the past.

[1]: https://fsnot.es

In a similar vein, we also have Scratch [1]

[1]: https://github.com/erictli/scratch

Here is the $60 checkout page for upto 10 activations https://account.brave.com/?intent=checkout&product=origin

I read this as "Stop using this product" toggle every time a company does this without consent. It has done a good amount of mental and financial improvements to me.

That's header alignment marker. If it's on right, the header cell is aligned to right.

Just wanted to appreciate the open-source work by Xata. I’ve been eyeing pgroll [1] for schema migrations after Liquibase license shenanigans (the only barrier for me is json-based migration instead of sql-based migrations)

[1] https://github.com/xataio/pgroll

The best windows debloating tool is Linux. It brings down the memory usage significantly.

If removing Windows annoyances is what you need then Chris Titus’ winutil is fine and does what you need.

> some web UIs nowadays are so bad and the app so good that I'm not sure this always holds true.

This is by design to force you install the app. Most of these days, I just treat it as a signal to neither use the app nor the website.

> I also prefer using various SaaS solutions to handle authentication and user registration rather than rebuilding it all myself with Spring Boot Security.

I'm confused. Spring Security does provide you ways to create your own auth layer. However, you can use your existing identity provider or any external provider (there are starters for many providers).

Modern Java is pretty succinct and expressive and I enjoy working with it. Like any long-lived project, Java has its quirks and baggage but you can let go of that baggage if you want. The ecosystem is evolving nicely with new features and it is quite pleasant to work with these days. I’m looking forward to migrate apps at work to 26.

I’m a very prolific reader who primarily reads ePubs and occasionally printed books (mainly because I’m running out of space to keep books at home). One thing that I’ve noticed in modern prints is the subpar spines. I’ve books from 90s with their spine intact and going through continuous reads vs recent buys that come apart and require a rebinding on just few reads.

Indeed. I’m also quite lost but it caught the eye of an acquaintance. Hopefully, we’ll have a discussion over tea about it.

To me, knitting seems to be such an intimate art where a person pours their skill and heart. When I wrap myself in the sweater that my grandmother knit for me in a city far away from home, I feel her presence and love in the patterns woven in the fabric, wondering what she’d have been thinking while knitting. “I was thinking about the latest mischief of our naughty goats and this boy frolicking along with them.” She’d answer whenever someone asked.

Programming and automating this takes away all that intimacy out of that art but I guess it is inevitable for the “engineering” minds. Maybe there’s a wonder to it just by exploring the possibilities, albeit through machines.

PDF: https://arnika.org/en/publications/download/2128_f40ae4eb2e6...

At some level people are already doing this through LLMs. But large orgs are extremely risk averse to do such things. There’s a reason why we have “security audits” and “compliance certifications”. It’s not like organizations are not capable of securing or standardizing their systems, just they do want to point fingers to somebody when legal proceedings happens.

Yes, The Architects books were pretty great but they had very classic soap opera kind of vibe than hardcore science fiction. I did enjoy them nonetheless.

I’d recommend Pixel but they have terrible battery life and they heat up pretty easily. On the other hand, they have support for Graphene OS, long software support and very nice cameras. Samsung and Xiaomi are absolutely worst choices when it comes to software; they are filled to brim with bloatware and worse, blatant spyware. The only way to use them is to immediately install a clean alternative OS, such as LineageOS.

Indeed, I stumbled upon it this weekend while searching for something completely unrelated. Thought this was neat stuff to share on HN.

Nice, thanks for the link. Somehow, this weekend I’ve gone into the rabbit hole of mycelium packaging, a completely new and interesting topic for me. Need to check this out before my fascination wears off.

I’ve been using something similar for years with Nushell.

git branch | lines | where ($it !~ '^*') | each {|br| git branch -D ($br | str trim)} | str trim

To my dismay, the trajectory of Show HN posts looks eerily familiar. ProductHunt followed a similar course (albeit with much more acceleration) and now is just a feed of slop. The signal to noise ratio became so meaningless that I lost all interest. I fear this happening to HN. Any attempt to slow this down is welcome.

I wonder how will this review system work. Perhaps, a Show HN is hidden by default and visible to only experienced HN users who provide enough positive reviews for it to become visible to everyone else. Although, this does sound like gatekeeping to me and may starve many deserving Show HN before they get enough attention.

I came to the same conclusion a while ago. You can get a lot of mileage by tweaking EQ. For me almost all headphones felt flat until I tried a bunch of studio monitors. They are not portable but I’ve been using a cheap AKG K72 pair at home and it has been great. Your experience may vary but do try a bunch of options, as suggested by parent.