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bhasion The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

Love small caps. Rarely used and encountered, I really enjoy seeing them in the wild.

The key on the top right corner of the keyboard being the poweroff button instead of the Delete key gets an instant NACK from me.

bhasion Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

I don't see anyone mentioning Betterbird here. I use that instead of Thunderbird. But it really baffles me that even in Betterbird, the ability to star an email exist but not a way to show all the starred emails.

bhasion Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw

Crazy to read about the Solana AI agent transferring $450K to some random person on Twitter. What was even more shocking was the nonchalant tone in which all of this was detailed in the post.

bhasion Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions

Seems similar to Gas Town

bhasion List of individual trees

I've been to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine forest in Inyo County, CA where the Methuselah tree lives. Though I didn't get to see that specific tree because the sun was fast setting and I wasn't prepared to hike around in darkness, I had a pretty amazing experience being the presence of 4000- and 5000-year old trees.

bhasion Ask HN: Share your personal website

Personal website and blog: https://gurudas.dev

bhasion AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago

“Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.”

- Mario Puzo, The Godfather

bhasion PBS News Hour West to go dark after ASU discontinues contract

Wow, this is great. It's like Hacker News/Old Reddit for news.

bhasion My first contribution to Linux

Well written! Enjoyed the detailed report.

bhasion Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming to Playstation 5 on December 8th

So excited for this!

bhasion Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

A similar project is CodeCrafters' Build Your Own Git: https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/git/overview

bhasion Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers

The title was misleading because the author wrote a userspace Rust driver and not a Linux kernel driver in C.

bhasion The new Gödel Prize winner tastes great and is less filling

Eshan's Bachelor's thesis advisor from IIT Kanpur, Prof Manindra Agrawal, also won the Gödel prize in 2006. Wow.

bhasion LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo

I wasn't referring to knowledge of the Paninian sutras or pratyayas, to be clear, when I said "the basics".

For this story, you don't need to know the pratyayas but you do need to know the tenses, the ktva-lyap forms, etc to fully understand what is going on. With only an incomplete knowledge of those aspects, one can sort of intuit the overall meaning but eventually would find that they had the wrong idea altogether when reading the corresponding translation in a language they know.

bhasion LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo

In my experience of having learnt Sanskrit via what I now realize is the comprehensive input method (thank you for introducing that term to me via your comments on this thread), I absolutely think that the "basics" - enough to recognize the seven (eight if you count the sambodhana) vibhaktis (declensions) and the simple past, present, future and the subjunctive tenses - are required in order to get past the huge roadblock of parsing a word.

Once parsed, I can look up the meaning of the word on ashtadhyayi.com or elsewhere, but not before.

bhasion LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo

The Valmiki Ramayanam is a much more accessible document than the Gita to learn Sanskrit from as an advanced learner after completing the basics. There's the aspect of a story that unfolds progressively which is nice and engaging, as opposed to the deep metaphysical stuff in the Gita.

The first section of the Ramayanam is the Sankshepa Ramayanam, or, the Ramayanam in summary. This gives the outline of the whole story which then is expounded in detail in the subsequent sections.

bhasion Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

After getting frustrated by the game not accepting my responses to the obvious clues repeatedly I resorted to clicking on each person and selecting both Innocent and Criminal.

- "My only innocent neighbor is to the left of Harold"

- "Barb and I have one innocent neighbor in common"

- Implies Gary is a criminal

But the game won't let me.

bhasion Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python

What other models are there? Would love to learn about them.

bhasion Intentionally Making Close Friends (2021)

I have a childhood friend that I went to school with for all of my school days. Ever since school days, we find the same obscure things funny and always end up in splits whenever we talk. To this day, I don't have this with any other friend.

We had a few years' gap of not really being in touch during undergrad but that changed as we had a few months' overlap at post-grad university. It was easier to meet after that and we did keep in touch, but I felt that he was holding back somewhat and not really being free with his thoughts, letting the conversation flag at times.

So at a friend's wedding a couple of years ago, I opened up to him and plainly told him that it's a shame we don't talk as we used to as we both are clearly on the same wavelength when it comes to shared interests and sense of humour. And this worked - our degree of friendship has increased an order of magnitude since before that time. I would have lost a great friend to the vagaries of life had I not taken that step to become vulnerable for an instant then.

bhasion 20 years of Git

You are not alone. Coming from Gerrit myself, I hate that GitHub does not allow for commenting on the commit message itself. Neither does Gitlab.

Also, in a PR, I find that people just switch to Files Changed, disregarding the sequence of the commits involved.

This intentional de-emphasis of the importance of commit messages and the individual commits leads to lower quality of the git history of the codebase.

bhasion History of Maths for Beginners

What does multi brick/bathroom variety mean?

bhasion Git without a forge

I did not know about git bundle, thank you.

bhasion Start a computer club in the place that you live (2023)

Have faced "feigned surprise" from coworkers in my career and can confirm that it is very damaging for self-esteem. Remarkable that this is so widespread that it found a place in the list as one of just four rules of behaviour to avoid.

bhasion The Joy of Nand2Tetris

I've been following the website and the course material provided therein: https://www.nand2tetris.org/course I did not sign up for the course on Coursera because I was able to make progress just fine with the free material on the website and I did not want to pay Coursera to get their certificates of completion.

The first 6 projects do not require purchasing the textbook as the relevant chapters are provided along with the project material. The next projects do not have the textbook chapters provided, so I bought the textbook.

I'm currently working on Project 8. I've been blogging about my progress here, if you want to take a look: https://gurudas.dev/tag/nand2tetris/

bhasion Vim after Bram: a core maintainer on how they've kept it going

https://lwn.net/Articles/1002342/

LWN coverage of what I'm guessing is the same talk.

bhasion Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel

Could you please post more details on the reprimand you refer to?

bhasion Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)

Just realized that architects had to actually draw their designs before computers. This is obviously true, but I haven't had to think about this until now.

bhasion Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog

Great advice!

bhasion The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019)

Great to see a story about the USS Midway. It is currently decommissioned and permanently docked in San Diego as a museum for the public. I've been there - on the very landing strip seen in the photos. Really humbled to have visited such a key part of US history.