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Re:Deno Desktop on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:31AM (#48626518)
Their comparison page shows some savings, but not in every case (~40 MB / ~150 MB) https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/comparison/
Re:Ruby for Good on Sunday May 24, 2026 @01:42PM (#48259381)
They did it for speed, and Go was the language with the closest syntax to migrate to.
Re:Fast Minimalist Writing Tool on Friday December 30, 2022 @04:03AM (#34183301)
I use https://ia.net/writer. It does the job and supports templates for quick export to HTML or PDF.
Re:WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:23AM (#27832251)
WebAssembly's purpose was never to replace JavaScript but only to speed up certain parts of a website/app.
Re:25 Gbit/sec residential FTTH in Switzerland [German] on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:35AM (#27301764)
I don't think we were ever "fine" with 56k, but I think we reached a good speed with 1Gb/s. It will be more than enough for most households until everything we do will scale up in resolution.
Re:Saying Good Bye to Hey.com on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:31AM (#27218780)
I didn't renew mine either. My two main reasons are the mess they caused a few weeks ago and how bad the search is. HEY has a great feature that lets you merge multiple threads under one name, but they do not have a higher weight over any other email subject or body. I've found myself lost in a long list of non-relevant emails when searching for a merge thread name, having to scroll email after email; how can they not give a higher weight to a custom string that I chose? All of this on a less than one-year-old archive, I don't know how this system can work overtime.
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:04AM (#23201755)
Thank you, it looks good

I've added this code to fix the reply textarea colour:

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Re:Ask HN: How do you process payments? on Thursday January 30, 2020 @09:54AM (#22191660)
Stripe's Payment Intent API

All done via serverless functions, for both initialisation and confirmation(via Stripe's webhooks).

Re:How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods (2015) [pdf] on Monday January 20, 2020 @04:57AM (#22097734)
I recommend "Practical TLA+" too; it introduces TLA+ in a more approachable way than other resources.

Link to the book: https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484238288

Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:47AM (#15817166)
Sharing an article from an amp page when talking about Google manipulating search results is quite the touch.