HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

vijaybritto

882 karma · joined August 23, 2017

submissionscomments
vijaybritto··on Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS
Bless your heart but the world is full of evil people, my friend.
vijaybritto··on Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS
If the carrier is compromised an attacker could destroy millions of phones and cause humongous economic losses no?
vijaybritto··on Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
I would like to half agree to this.

Saying "Performance is not complicated" is not wrong. People and the systems set up for an application make it complicated. Its harder to check and verify.

I work in UI performance and the biggest thing slowing me down is always people

vijaybritto··on Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI
I am cursed that I always have to work on legacy products that were built many years ago and didnt consider these things.

I hope we eventually get a good/simple language/framework that can compile to native code. Even react native for mac/windows is good enough now.

vijaybritto··on Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI
Im not sure if people are getting the biggest problem in electron desktop apps.

Its RAM usage not the disk!!

Why are they all making the same thing in different ways?! I have never worked on an electron app where the executable size was an impediment to the business. Its always the RAM/CPU usage. If we are going to work on the same webviews like electron and others, how will this make any difference?

vijaybritto··on Vite 8.0 Is Out
This is for tooling.

Node.js has been extraordinarily useful for building build tools. We're outgrowing it's capacity and rightfully moving to a compiled language. Also faster tooling is essential for establishing a high quality feedback loop for AI agents

vijaybritto··on Vite 8.0 Is Out
It's not a good piece of software. Breaks in many places
vijaybritto··on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
My dad if he was alive would have shouted "I told you so"
vijaybritto··on Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
What would make this super easy to adopt?

A simple page which shows what native components are available with/without the need for polyfills for a given browserslist config

vijaybritto··on AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo
The diagrams generated are arbitrary and make no sense. This needs improvements
vijaybritto··on Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought
This is beautiful!
vijaybritto··on Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought
My shower is theory is that there are infinite universes getting created all the time and we can never know about it because we're restricted in this universe. I love having these talks with my daughter.
vijaybritto··on Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs
Congratulations on the launch!

Have you considered any sort of templating like htm or JSX? Because it's a bit harder to read and I believe to work in a team it would be much simpler if there was a template syntax.

vijaybritto··on Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights
Yeah and it has no effect because its done by companies not countries. This is gonna continue for a long time. Its an incredible time to be a middle man
vijaybritto··on Hypertext TV
This is just beautiful artistry. I absolutely love it! Only thing missing is the click/clack sounds on those buttons
vijaybritto··on The case of the critical section that let multiple threads enter a block of code
I have a naive question here.

Could this have been avoided if they had used Rust? Or is this a bug that can happen even in Rust code too?

vijaybritto··on The case of the critical section that let multiple threads enter a block of code
Yet they've had astounding success and is the most widely used operating system. Maybe usability and ease of access are far more important than beautiful design
vijaybritto··on Crabtime: Zig’s Comptime in Rust
Now that I'm older I agree with you, but I would have been furious hearing this ten years ago :)
vijaybritto··on The Frontend Treadmill
Go for web components. It's guaranteed to last 30 years
vijaybritto··on What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish
Works fine on Brave
vijaybritto··on Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
There begins the downfall. Any great product who jumps on a hype train always ends up crashing
vijaybritto··on Beavers finish seven-year dam project in two days saving – $1M
Beaver dams are like step dams. The bad ones people talk about are the huge dams which alter the environment drastically often creating artificial lakes.

Beaver dams on the other hand slow down water flow to some extent and alter the direction of water flow slightly. These smaller natural dams are so good for little species to thrive.

vijaybritto··on I still like Sublime Text
Have y'all considered something like vscode's extension experience in sublime. The current one is not really intuitive or easier to setup
vijaybritto··on I still like Sublime Text
possibly restarting the System
vijaybritto··on I still like Sublime Text in 2025
They are a company and they are still good. They changed their licensing model for v4 onwards. I have been using it for most of my note keeping and lite code editing tasks and its excellent as always. I think they can still get back to the old hype if they choose to use typescript for their plugin system. A lot of vscode plugins can be ported that way I hope
vijaybritto··on Hologram: A full-stack isomorphic Elixir web framework
Oh that's super interesting. But won't that be a super heavy wasm binary?
vijaybritto··on Hologram: A full-stack isomorphic Elixir web framework
I really like the idea and it aligns with my thinking. Its missing some basic docs though
vijaybritto··on Elon Musk could be China's pick to buy TikTok, report says
Okay this is crossing a line and gives too much power to one person.

He already got Twitter and made Trump the president. With TikTok I have no idea what he's gonna do

vijaybritto··on India's food shortage filled American libraries
So if they digitally scan the books and publish on the internet for free then there wouldn't be any knowledge gap. These purpose of a library is fulfilled after that in my opinion
vijaybritto··on Oracle files notice of appearance for JavaScript trademark [pdf]
This is an incredible suggestion!
Page 1 of 21Next →