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aayushdutt··on Jellyfin 12.0
Nice, looks like this is using the Jellyfin protocol. Does anyone know what the motivation to create this was and what is the differentiator here?
aayushdutt··on Jellyfin 12.0
Their AI policy (https://jellyfin.org/posts/state-of-the-fin-2026-05-24/#llma...)

> AI use isn't completely forbidden in pull requests/code submissions, however you must understand HOW it does what it does, and any posts to a pull request/issue should be written by the user. You cannot function as a go-between between your AI and our questions/comments, just copy-pasting whatever the AI tells you

One of the more sensible ones.

aayushdutt··on A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
After reading a quarter of the article I started wondering, is this what non coders feel when vibe coding software?
aayushdutt··on Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events
Can you share the data, the view can be improved a lot, it's not really capturing the essence.
aayushdutt··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
I love how this aged so fast lol, did you see what Linus Torvalds said?

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1uy2kq0/linu...

aayushdutt··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
The blog post looks a bit distasteful if I'm honest. I was expecting a technical writeup explaining why it was/wasn't a good fit for zig.

> He gets to live out his productivity fantasy fever dream, he's probably already super wealthy. He has minor tech celebrity status.

Looks like a backhanded personal comment? This didn't need to be in the article.

> It's almost like the marketing department of a trillion dollar company has a lot of money riding on this article.

> The post claims they were fuzzing their Zig code, while during our calls the whole Bun team told us that they were not fuzzing anything. This appears to be an outright fabrication.

Smells like a lot of bias coming in. The fuzzing part was not a fabrication.

> sufficient to catch bugs in 1 million lines of unreviewed slop?

I don't understand how even today software engineers are calling LLM written code slop? It's objectively much better than what most of the engineers write, and it's not stopping to get better. If you still believe this, try out any frontier model on any work that you are currently doing, that should change your mind. There still are like 1% of cases where LLMs are not that good, but even there almost all of the time the issue is in the engineer's steering, not the LLM.

> There's a dichotomy being presented here where you have to either choose a "style guide" or a programming language feature in order to avoid bugs.

He says this, but doesn't give the steps to solve this?

> we all felt at ZSF that Bun was a net liability. > "It Tastes Like It's Not My Problem Anymore" > influx of tasteless AI enthusists into Zig communities

This may be the stance that encouraged Bun to leave.

aayushdutt··on Grok 4.5
Anthropic is already profitable, economics is no longer an issue as they have found PMF in enterprise software market. You might need to update your views.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mind-blowing-growth-is-about-to-...

aayushdutt··on I am building a cloud
Wondering what runtime is the infra under the hood. Firecracker? Traditional VM? Docker Containers?
aayushdutt··on I am building a cloud
This looks nice, when did you launch this? Do you have validation / paying users?
aayushdutt··on WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
Really looking forward to a Jellyfin client on PS5
aayushdutt··on AI can code, but it can't build software
It's just the frontier getting pushed slowly but surely. The headline missed the keyword `yet`.
aayushdutt··on How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi
What do you mean by USB hard drive enclosures? Are you limiting the RAID (8 bay) throughput by a single USB line?! That's like towing a ferrari with a bicycle.
aayushdutt··on Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise
So tor with 2 hops?
aayushdutt··on Show HN: ExpenseOwl – Simple, self-hosted expense tracker
I have been using Spliit (https://github.com/spliit-app/spliit). We've added over 5k transactions on it and don't have any complaints so far.
aayushdutt··on Notepad Tab
https://github.com/aayushdutt/notepad

This reminds me of a trivial browser notepad I hacked together a while back. Have been using this and has been indispensable - quickly open and jot down some notes. Has syntax highlighting and saves the notes to the browser db.

aayushdutt··on Big Companies vs. Startups (2015)
Paste this in the browser console to make it readable:

$('body').style = `background: rgb(33, 33, 33); width: 57vw; margin: auto; line-height: 1.5; font-family: sans-serif; color: #f1f1f1; font-size: 18px;`

aayushdutt··on Show HN: Unofficial YouTube Wrapped 2023, see top creators and watching habits
It mentions that the data is processed locally. I checked the network requests, it does save some data. It included the top channels, num videos watched, and a bit of watching habits. Would be great to have something like this open-source which is completely browser based.
aayushdutt··on Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner
I have been using Jellyfin on docker with h/w transcoding. Had no problems, running smoothly.
aayushdutt··on Some notes on local-first development
I think that means you can do CRUD operations >60 times a second. An example could be a multiplayer game running at 60 fps (like agar-dot-io).
aayushdutt··on How We Made MuseScore 4 [video]
Musescrore 4 is nominated for UX Design Awards, add in your vote if you love the redesign.

https://ux-design-awards.com/winners/2023-2-musescore-4

aayushdutt··on Unpopular Opinion: Don’t Use a Raspberry Pi for That
Why am I getting a cloudflare error? Visiting from India via Chrome. Msg: I got an error when visiting set-inform.com/2021/08/24/unpopular-opinion-dont-use-a-raspberry-pi-for-that/. Error code: 1020 Country: IN Data center: fra08 Timestamp: 2023-03-22 13:33:46 UTC