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retropragma··on Gemini 4 Argon
they really ought to add ACP support. until then, it's a no go. i'm not going to use their TUI or their VSCode fork
retropragma··on Gemini 4 Argon
no Pareto frontier graph?
retropragma··on Show HN: Beautiful Markdown rendering in your terminal
Glow is the one i've been using. It's pretty nice, and you can customize the theme.
retropragma··on Show HN: NanoVector – A 120KB zero-dependency vector search engine in C and SIMD
can you add a Node.js binding?
retropragma··on SQLite as a Document Database (2020)
I created `kindstore` for exactly this (only supports Bun currently). I never promoted the project until this comment. Curious if anyone is intrigued?

https://github.com/alloc/kindstore

retropragma··on Solid 2.0 RC: The Big <Reveal>
Out of curiosity, I compared Solid 2 with Octane, the new JS renderer on the block.

https://gist.github.com/aleclarson/0f4266d63fd83c7a5ea551244...

retropragma··on Solid 2.0 RC: The Big <Reveal>
This might be more palatable: https://gist.github.com/aleclarson/da55bca36103d582a9720dd4a...
retropragma··on Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent
does your harness support ACP?
retropragma··on Devtools must be open source
That's why you only rebase when you actually need to in such cases. Another trick is to keep as few touch points into the original code as possible, preferring to keep most custom code in custom files.
retropragma··on TSRX – TypeScript Language Extension for Declarative UI
I'm in love with everything about this.

An oxfmt plugin would be appreciated!

retropragma··on TSRX – TypeScript Language Extension for Declarative UI
What is the point of stating your opinion if you're not going to explain why you believe that?
retropragma··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
Reminded me of RJSON: https://github.com/rome/tools/issues/13

In MAML, are comments preserved when reserializing?

retropragma··on Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories
If anyone's curious what the malware does: https://pastebin.com/raw/KiuwueMU

Looks like it's pilfering Solana wallets that don't belong to Russians.

retropragma··on Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories
likely a compromised github API token
retropragma··on Be wary of Bluesky
Someone could make a backup script wrapped in a GUI, but then people would have to see the "need" in order to start using it.

The bigger danger would be AT Protocol losing its biggest contributor. Unless another VC backed team appeared to fill their shoes, the protocol would stagnate and communities would slowly deteriorate. Hope is critical early on in a protocol's rise to prominence.

retropragma··on Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript
The lack of composability makes this a hard no for me
retropragma··on Doing the thing is doing the thing
Just don't mistake prototyping for doing the thing.

Good enough is a self limiting fallacy.

A prototype failing to attract fans doesn't prove a lack of a market for the job the prototype attempts to perform. It only proves the prototype, as it stands, lacks something.

Beware quitting early. All good builders do.

retropragma··on Altcha – Free, open-source Captcha alternative
I found Altcha just recently. I'm curious what people think of it. Are there caveats compared to Google Recaptcha or Cloudflare Turnstile? Please share your thoughts.
retropragma··on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
That's more of a flash-lite thing now, I believe
retropragma··on Normie.club – a daily web game where normies thrive
when I had this idea, I knew I had to make it. launched it back in November to family & friends.

10 new questions each day. predict the most popular answer. one miss and you're out. give it a try! do you actually understand the normies?

retropragma··on Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game
It's too easy to "cheat" by panning around until a word toggles in the list, effectively telling you which corner of the screen the word can be found in
retropragma··on Do not download the app, use the website
That doesn't sound right. Have you seen documentation on this?
retropragma··on I just want to code (2023)
Important to note that it's not a dichotomy as long as you're not an "extremist" of either side. Build for yourself and a big market. Take pride in competing at a high level. If you view "hustling" as an 'all work, no play' experience, you're engaged in absolutist thinking.
retropragma··on Yagri: You are gonna read it
Tangential: I was recently wishing that bitwise flags had better support in Postgres. For now, bools are just easier to work with
retropragma··on JSX over the Wire
Delegate your thinking to HN comments at your own peril
retropragma··on JSX over the Wire
The content isn't difficult. People are just lazy
retropragma··on You might not need WebSockets
If you use a proper framework, you don't have to manage the socket lifecycle and it doesn't complicate your server.
retropragma··on Levels of configuration languages
Every time I work with XML data, I hate it. Just use JSONC imo.
retropragma··on Levels of configuration languages
As a TypeScript developer, my answer is to use unconfig [1]. Support for JSON, JavaScript, or best of all, TypeScript.

Or wire up your own utility function with bundle-require [2], another favorite of mine, for loading TS or JS config files.

[1]: https://github.com/antfu-collective/unconfig [2]: https://github.com/egoist/bundle-require

retropragma··on ArkType: Ergonomic TS validator 100x faster than Zod
I find your last paragraph to be lacking. Would help if you elaborated more on the purported need for this "bridge" concept.
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