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polyaniline··on Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
Props to you. I've been writing Rust for around 7 years now and I couldn't QA 1000s of lines per day.
polyaniline··on Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
How do you know it's high quality?
polyaniline··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
In what sense is it native if it uses Tauri?
polyaniline··on Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig
What memory safety?
polyaniline··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
A comment from a post in the simulator:

> The article consistently refers to DHRUV64 as a "microprocessor". This is technically incorrect. It is a microprocessor, not a microprocessor. The distinction matters; a microprocessor is the entire chip, while a microprocessor is a specific component. Basic terminology should be accurate.

polyaniline··on How the U.S. National Science Foundation enabled Software-Defined Networking
What was the problem?
polyaniline··on Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker
I get an "EmptyToken" error if I leave keys like AXIOM_TOKEN empty. I'm sure I can remove the requirements in code, but it's just that this wasn't expected from reading the project description.

Anyway, thanks for your work and good luck!

polyaniline··on Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker
I just tried to build on Linux and it keeps panicking because it requires dozen(s) of API keys. I was not expecting that from local first software.
polyaniline··on Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps
Check out Lawnchair.
polyaniline··on Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps
As far as I'm concerned, I run LineageOS, which doesn't come with everything I need OTOB, so I use app suites like Fossify, Simple Mobile Tools and other great work. Others may just want alternatives to pre-installed or standard apps that are more private and tuneable (eg. I maintained a fork of KDE Connect until they switched to Material 3 colors, and still do for VLC) because they're open source.
polyaniline··on Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'?
It is
polyaniline··on Programming on 34 Keys (2022)
I have a really similar setup to yours. NixOS, Niri, Draculad. I think being forced to use something like Windows 11 with something like VSCode would be very frustrating long term. Mostly the looming knowledge of we can do better, we have done better.
polyaniline··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
Asking it explicitly once (not necessarily every new prompt in context) to keep output minimal and strive to do nothing more than it is told works for me.
polyaniline··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
Sorry for going out of subject but I had to ask - how did Apple take you from waiter to developer?
polyaniline··on Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally
Hindi is spoken by only around 40% of the total population, and is very regional. Using Hindi as a catch all for Indian users alienates around 800M people. English makes much more sense.
polyaniline··on Servo's progress in 2024
Hasn't Servo been around much longer than Ladybird? Has it stagnated?
polyaniline··on Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally
And don't wrote in Hindi for INR
polyaniline··on Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text
Helix is on Windows, right?,
polyaniline··on Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text
That's unexpected. I've used it for over a year and haven't had a single crash. I've used it for data files millions of lines long, and often open the same file in buffers side by side too. Could you share the issue you opened?
polyaniline··on If GPUs Are So Good, Why Do We Still Use CPUs at All?
The only time a CPU "discovers" parallelism is in
polyaniline··on Refactoring in C++: Top Techniques and Best Practices
I haven't worked on a large C++ codebase yet, but with Rust my refactoring technique has been 1. Roughly model the data flow on paper so you don't have to fight the borrow checker or make design changes later. 2. Make the obvious changes related to the refactor. 3. Listen to Rustc and Clippy. 4. Everything usually works with surprisingly few issues.
polyaniline··on Borgo Programming Language
If it skipped the GC wouldn't it just be Rust?
polyaniline··on Writing an OS in Rust
I don't think that's something to be pedantic about. Even so, cranelift exists.
polyaniline··on Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter
There's too much infrastructure on top of the render engine to replicate. Flutter is backed by Google and has a fairly large ecosystem of community packages.

See Freya - which uses Skia - the render engine Flutter used until a while back.

polyaniline··on Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter
How does this compare to rinf?