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Re:Don't Wordle on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:38AM (#49435956)
The ads, the banners. Immediate exit.
This would be interesting, if I was into building coffee shop sites and todo apps from scratch. For the HN crowd tho, I’d say these are toy examples. No offense!
Re:Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning? on Sunday March 22, 2026 @08:42AM (#47476935)
I don’t think I mentioned USA nor took a side.
Re:Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning? on Sunday March 22, 2026 @07:48AM (#47476537)
Well done!

I don’t quite agree with making fun of the situation that’s deadly serious to many innocent people. Yet I’m sure the intentions of the author were good.

Hoping for peace.

Re:Show HN: LazyPromise = Observable – Signals on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @03:10PM (#46378797)
Interesting stuff!

The two separate failure channels turn me off. Is this practical or does it introduce unwanted complexity in most cases?

Also wondering what are the Signals that are mentioned.

Re:Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern on Sunday December 07, 2025 @11:03AM (#46182673)
Requires Medium account to read. Sorry, not going for it.
Re:Penpot: The Open-Source Figma on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:17AM (#46066284)
It’s indeed a reasonably usable tool. Gets very slow with large canvases though, so don’t put everything into a single canvas.
Re:How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table on Friday November 21, 2025 @04:39PM (#46009291)
I can recommend this architecture. So much easier to maintain and understand than using an extra service. The implementation here I didn’t go into much detail, but you can surely roll your own if this doesn’t cut it for you, or use a library like pgboss.
Re:How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? on Saturday October 11, 2025 @07:27AM (#45548277)
This is really disgusting. Chickens are feeling animals as well.
Re:What if we treated Postgres like SQLite? on Monday September 22, 2025 @02:24PM (#45337462)
I agree. Having read my comment I must apologize as it came out too dismissive. Keep pondering, dude :)
Re:What if we treated Postgres like SQLite? on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:54PM (#45336185)
This is IMO best done running pg in a container using docker-compose or similar
Re:What if we treated Postgres like SQLite? on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:53PM (#45336160)
No it’s not ”pg functionality”. It’s close to SQL standard compliance but not close to what Postgres has to offer. Also, single transaction writing at a time, in-process etc.
Re:What if we treated Postgres like SQLite? on Monday September 22, 2025 @11:52AM (#45335185)
TLDR: a dude ponders if postgres could be used instead of sqlite. Close to zero useful information, no learnings from serious production use.
Re:The quest to find and save the Vasa on Monday March 03, 2025 @12:35PM (#43244383)
Lovely article! Just visited the Vasa museum last weekend. It is a marvel and an obvious must-see for anyone visiting Stockholm Sweden.
Sure, but doing anything at a grand scale is expensive - realtime collab is no exception IMO, not that we already have things like Y.js. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not playing Cloudflare’s efforts down, just saying that particular claim is false.
I think it’s an exaggeration to say ”Building experiences with real-time components was previously only accessible to multi-billion dollar companies”. For instance my hobby project ourboard.io provides realtime collaboration and it costs like 20$ to host with current moderate load of users. It utilizes Y.js for collab text editing. Y.js is dedinitely a great tech and has a low entry barrier.
Re:Javalin – a simple web framework for Java and Kotlin on Sunday February 11, 2024 @04:12PM (#39338746)
The aforementioned are huge detractors for me to be honest. I find a no-magic, code-only solution like Javalin (and Express etc) far more intuitive.
Re:LoaderShip – CSS-Only Loaders on Friday January 19, 2024 @04:42AM (#39053512)
Looks great. Who’s behind this tho? Could not find anything on the authors.
To me the point seems that the benchmark is so misguided and missed the obvious error in the usage on LINQ that the results are not relevant. You should not take perf advice from the authors of that course.
Interesting concept! The pricing is very aggressive though, if you have a substantial amount of content. Also, per-page pricing makes no sense - should be more like per-character.
One of the authors here. Hope you have fun playing. Also, AmA :)

Show HN: Race Condition 2023 – AI racing coding challenge in the browser

https://race-condition.reaktor.com/

I and my colleagues built this racing game where you write JavaScript code in your browser to race on a Unity WebGL based race track.We'll actually invite the top 5 racers in Finland to run the same code on our actual (admittedly rather kludgy) physical cars, which my colleague built from RC cars and Raspberry Pis.I think the game is super fun. I hope you enjoy it as well!

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Re:Setting the Bozo Bit on Apple on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:55PM (#34372215)
So true. iTunes was great back 10 years ago or so but today it’s just awful. Just like so much other Apple software. They’ve got huge issues, I’d guess with developer retention and culture.
This came really handy, as I was in need for a way to run sandboxed user code in a coding game!

Another cool thing with WebWorkers is that the code is run in a separate thread and allows you to terminate it if it runs into an infinite loop, for instance.

Re:Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do? on Monday October 31, 2022 @12:46PM (#33408510)
Post author here. I agree!

Did not mean to imply that Dockerizing applications is a bad thing - actually even pointed out that "it's not so hard". Just wanted to point out that writing one takes some effort and therefore Fly.io is not a drop-in replacement for Heroku.

Container based deployment is a great thing to have and definitely a skill worth learning.

Re:Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do? on Monday October 31, 2022 @12:43PM (#33408438)
Post author here. We are of course using paid dynos for any business applications. Free tier only makes sense for hobby projects and quick experiments. There's no free lunch in the long run.
Re:Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do? on Monday October 31, 2022 @12:39PM (#33408365)
Post author here. The article is about alternatives for running your hobby projects. I agree that it doesn't make sense to run, or expect to be able to run, your business applications on free tier. We will keep on using Heroku's great services from now on as well.
2022 one should not start a new project with Cypress. Playwright is simply so much better.
Re:Help Heroku's free tier is ending on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:44AM (#33022283)
To me the free tier has seemed like a gateway drug; you try Heroku (or Fly.io etc) for your hobby projects first and after you've gained some confidence you will apply the same in more serious projects. From now on the hobby projects will be deployed elsewhere.

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