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Re:Things that apparently cause cancer on Friday October 02, 2026 @09:50PM (#49940661)
I thought the papers author's nearly ten year employment at `Petrofac` is interesting and probably warrents a mention.

> Petrofac designs, builds, manages and maintains oil, gas, refining, petrochemicals and renewable energy infrastructure.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/profile/yazan-alwadi/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yazan-alwadi-ab1b112b/

Access blocked: Growth can only be used within its organisation
Somewhat ironically the link to your results table is broken
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I wouldn't limit yourself to describing it as a game server daemon. It's effectively a IAAS / PAAS platform if you switch to a plugin model for those games. Well done.

Can you add a License to the repo please?

Re:Building a CI/CD Pipeline Runner from Scratch in Python on Friday November 14, 2025 @04:55PM (#45932636)
I like the iterative approach that you took with the post and codebase. It really takes the reader on a journey with you and helps understand the decision points and process of software development, it's so important compared to just showing a final polished solution, after all, we're all trying to replicate the software development process, not the product.
Re:Show HN: I built an online productivity tools website on Monday October 13, 2025 @06:19AM (#45566738)
I can barely see the site behind the hugely intrusive adverts on the page. Maybe 30% of the screen real estate is visible on mobile. I don't know how this is usable much less productive.
Significant lag just scrolling the homepage. Tried the alert component and the whole page just goes blank. Gave up. Sorry but this is really vibe coded junk.
Re:Turritopsis Dohrnii on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @10:07PM (#43979979)
It's a good quality show, my kid can now read and is looking up plot lines from the show in his science and nature books and really enjoys the idea that so much of the show is actually true to life
Have you had a look at snakemake or nextflow?
Re:Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# on Thursday November 14, 2024 @08:58PM (#42143285)
Do you remember how snappy it was! im using an i9 with 32gb on win11 right now and there is noticable lag opening paint and notepad, typically 2 seconds.
Re:Show HN: I've Built an Accounting System on Thursday September 19, 2024 @01:32AM (#41588838)
Some big claims in that readme for a project with no tests :)

Lots of C# repo's here demonstrating unit/integration/acceptance testing within dockerised containers if you need some examples https://github.com/PeterKneale?tab=repositories

Re:Show HN: Publish websites from your markdown notes. on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:05PM (#40374823)
Good stuff - Nice simple product

Would be nice to have theme support where you could either choose a palette or upload a custom css :)

Re:Show HN: Publish websites from your markdown notes. on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:02PM (#40374810)
> Has GFM support. I had to google this, GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec
Re:Show HN: Publish websites from your markdown notes. on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:00PM (#40374802)
Odd capitalisation contact Us

No hyper link? @singhuler on Twitter

Re:Show HN: Publish websites from your markdown notes. on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @10:59PM (#40374788)
Cut and paste typo: ##### 4 pound sign creates a smaller Heading.
Re:Show HN: Publish websites from your markdown notes. on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @10:57PM (#40374779)
The link to `Community Study Center Notes Shared with Students on Relentless.` doesnt appear to work. I was curious what you used for the mathematics markup
Re:Show HN: I built a 100% free startup idea generator on Thursday May 02, 2024 @03:35PM (#40240528)
Clearly this just a marketing tool to push the Saas template but it's a good idea for a bit of cheap engagement. Well done.

I bet this already exists but I don't want to verify that.

>> PooPeer — Poop Comparison Community A mobile app that allows users to compare their bowel movements with others, providing insights into digestive health and identifying potential issues

I agree that bugs aren't as well specified as the example. But a specification for a new feature certainly can be.

I'm going to give it a try on my side project and see if it can at least provide a hint or some guidance on the development of small new features in an existing well structured project.

Re:Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week on Friday March 29, 2024 @08:30PM (#39870589)
They could at least foster some goodwill by releasing the source
Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @01:32AM (#39824536)
The utillity of a file being human readable cant be overstated.

File formats like CSV will outlast religion.

I just wanted to say well done. I wish other eco systems were this open, hackable and understandable.
No, it does not.
They do when you control the link shortener
They are useful for links that need to outlive the infrastructure they are hosted on. Think about them as a layer of abstraction. Ie. Links in paper published to a journal like nature. It might be valid for 10 years but the links embedded in it will rot quickly as organisations change cms's, domains names change. Organisations merge and disappear.

Also places where the cost to change the url is expensive, bus shelter adverts etc.

If you had the time and inclination you could even seed their account with mock stat's. I.e. when the link shortened is accessed, correctly log all of the metrics to their account so they have solid metrics indicating its working, but fail the actual consumer requests
Re:Testcontainers on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @09:17PM (#39533102)
Why not use docker compose, bring up your infra in one container, your application in a second and your tests access it the application from a third.
Re:Testcontainers on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @09:16PM (#39533099)
This looks to be like just language specific bindings over the docker compose syntax. You're right that docker compose handles all of the situations they describe.
Re:Webhooks suck, but here are alternatives on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @02:14PM (#39458148)
Yes, I felt the same, I thought I was unaware of some fundamental flaw of webhooks.

I feel webooks have lasted because they are the simplest thing that gets the job done. They only rely upon open standards like http, they are secured via tls, have well understood failure scenarios.

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