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The majority of the program has been redesigned and rewritten since the initial post 50 days ago, so I thought it would be alright to make another one. The Show HN rules say that '…

Hello! My name is Brett. For the past couple years I've been teaching myself how to program and engineer software, with a focus on C++ and Linux. Lately, I've been interested in le…

This looks neat, I'll give it a go later today. One of the features I use Ranger for is to visually select multiple music files and then open them with mpv to play. Would that be s…

> I thought you were only talking about the click to expand the tree. That makes sense. It would have been an interesting stat to compare, but the metrics only come from resource r…

It's all server-side rendered. I've been considering open sourcing the site, but there's some cleaning up to be done first.

> Do you mean that your metrics showed that few people were expanding the tree, so you made it expanded by default? Correct, after it became expanded by default, the hit rate for p…

> When I'm working with a GitHub project, I commonly want to load up the page and navigate to some files. If not, it's usually not much scrolling to get down to the README. The sol…

It works best with any plain ASCII text. What I've been doing is taking PDF's and using `pdftotext` and `iconv` to convert documents into plain text. I'll add more information on t…

I'd be stoked if you did, It would be interesting to see how the program would look in Rust.

That's a good idea, thanks! I'll make an updated video of it and add a link to it in the README.md.

This blog post from last week has two videos of it in action. The first one demos some of the features, while the second reads a bit of a book uninterrupted for 2 minutes. https://…

For the past month, I've been working on this terminal text reader project for fun. It started out as a project to learn more about how to structure and implement a text-based user…

Hello there! For a weekend project, I wanted to write a program that would use the C++ HTTP client library I've been working on recently. I was curious to put it to the test in a r…

Hello HN! About a year ago, I wanted to build a personal website in C++ to host projects and blog posts. I experimented with multiple C++ web libraries and went through several com…

Hello HN! I've noticed lately that I tend to jump into the comment section on hacker news and reddit before reading the associated article. To prevent this, I wrote ireadit, a brow…