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Re:Web Graphics Done Right on Monday October 07, 2019 @10:39AM (#21181368)
These guys (https://evilmartians.com/) sure understands a thing or two about images and image compression. I have used their imgproxy[1] (Golang image resizer) for a long time and it has been solid from the very beginning.

[1] https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy

Re:DigitalOcean block storage is down on Monday September 30, 2019 @09:50PM (#21121279)
Last night I was testing DO managed Kubernetes cluster with persistent volume claim and the volume took 15 minutes to reattach after the pod is rescheduled to another host. I thought it was just some weird hiccup and went to bed.

The incident report indicated the problem started 4 hours ago (around 9pm GMT) but I was having problem around 4pm. It's definitely not a 2-hour incident.

The TL (he is on HN) said Code Push won't come anytime soon: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/14330#issuecomment...
Re:O2 'to seek millions' in damages over data outage on Monday December 10, 2018 @01:03AM (#18645583)
Vietnam's second largest mobile network operator Mobifone was affected for 3 hours[1]. Now we know 3: UK, Japan and Vietnam. I'm sure it's possible track down the other 8.

[1] (link in Vietnamese) https://congnghe.tuoitre.vn/ericsson-xin-loi-ve-su-co-sap-nh...

Re:The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @11:55PM (#18615534)
The problem is right here, it's just gonna end up with 5 different apps.

Related xkcd https://xkcd.com/927/

Re:What's in a Docker image? on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:53PM (#18548906)
Your blog posts are interesting, thank you for that. I have questions though: Since you are using both Terraform and Packer from HashiCorp, do you happen to use Nomad too? If you do, what is your experience with it? Can you compare Nomad vs. Kubernetes?
Re:Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:29PM (#18049069)
Just yesterday I built an Android app to cast audio-only (ogg format) from YouTube to Chromecast. Had to do it because:

1. Baby needs her white noise to sleep

2. No other sites have those "8 hours womb sounds" as good as YouTube

3. The YouTube app refuses to cast to Google Home mini

Came across ydls[1] which uses youtube-dl and ffmpeg to download then transcode media on-the-fly. It's not very effective but works great! We no longer have to turn on the TV in our baby room. Check out the source code[2] if you are also a new parent.

1: https://github.com/wader/ydls

2: https://github.com/daohoangson/android-ydls

Re:Javascript: call functions without using parentheses on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @12:00PM (#18025154)
> Infact, apart from SQORN, I’ve never seen this syntax used elsewhere.

https://www.styled-components.com maybe?

Re:Quiet for Android – TCP over sound on Saturday February 10, 2018 @09:10AM (#16347324)
Our team worked on a similar idea and the test phone speakers died pretty fast, probably 2 out of 3 within a month. The cause may be (1) we over-stressed them too much (2) they were cheap Samsung phones and (3) we used frequency around 20kHz to avoid annoying human users (this library seems to operate at 17+kHz at most). Our conclusion at the time was consumer speakers and microphones are not good enough. Would love to hear whether Quiet has the same issue.
Re:VLC 3.0 release on Saturday February 10, 2018 @08:53AM (#16347273)
I think their node app has issues with Little Snitch on my laptop.
Re:VLC 3.0 release on Saturday February 10, 2018 @08:48AM (#16347261)
I was running 1.9.6, after an auto update to 1.10.something subtitles stopped working on Chromecast. I looked around and found a thread[1] with many people reporting the issue with many versions of Plex. One guy said he reverted to have it working again so I tried that and... it worked! I haven't updated Plex since then. Good to know that you have subtitles working with the latest version, maybe I will update when I get home, fingers crossed!

[1]https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/288806/plex-losing-subtitl...

Re:VLC 3.0 release on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:53AM (#16341733)
I have been jumping between Videostream, Plex and VLC nightly in the last few months. They seem to play all kind of video files but subtitles remain to be a hard problem. VLC simply doesn't support it (or I didn't figure out how to enable subtitles). Videostream is buggy. Plex works with a specific version only (had to downgrade to get back subtitles)... The search continues I guess.
How safe is this in comparison to running WordPress in a container with all uploads go to S3 for example? WordPress provides ready to use Docker images which should be fairly easy to upgrade. Sure, it's not for the novice users...
What did you mean saying "tea in the middle"? I'm quite sure we Vietnamese only use "chè" or "trà", both variants are basically "cha" I think.
Imagine some day a hacker will be able to mimics speech with the next version of Tacotron 2[1] then use it over the next version of Face2Face... Scary future ahead.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16014047

Re:Show HN: Enlight – Learn to code by building projects on Sunday December 10, 2017 @10:30PM (#15894947)
I subscribed via MailChimp and got a link to go back to http://enlight.ml but a MacKeeper ad popped up. I tried again in incognito and it showed some other generic ads. Probably a bug?
Re:Cloudflare data still in Bing caches on Friday February 24, 2017 @10:44PM (#13729917)
This incident affects Full SSL sites too.
I relocated to HCMC 2 years ago from Hanoi. Many of my friends have also decided to move southward, especially those studied abroad. It's quite an obvious choice because HCMC economy is way more dynamic than Hanoi with lots of interesting jobs and higher pay. HCMC also has good food, lots of places to hang out, everything is generally cheap. Last but not least, the weather is much better than the capital.

I have a company with a few (local) friends. We build contents solution for web and mobile.

Re:Google Play Music – free, ad-supported radio on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:08PM (#9769311)
Very nice app but I uninstalled after awhile because I want to get rid of Adobe Flash Player. It (the Adobe software, not Radiant Player) kept asking me to update itself...
Re:Scaling Secret: Real-Time Chat on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @11:41PM (#9543323)
I have come across Slanger[1] while researching for a good websocket server and it worked well for us. It's basically an open source version of Pusher backend. You may be interested in their code.

[1] https://github.com/stevegraham/slanger

Re:End-to-End Encryption Plugin for Yahoo Mail on Monday March 16, 2015 @01:48AM (#9210048)
They provided an update last December[1] and stated that two rewards have been given. The same update is also interesting because it mentioned the migration from Google Code to Github (three months ago!). The blog post talked about Yahoo! contribution to the project too...

[1] http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/an-update-t...

Re:Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @02:11PM (#9146574)
Nice idea and beautiful execution. One question though: If I detach and move between tabs in Chrome / Safari by keyboard shortcut, the note does not recognize the change of tab. Is this because I'm using 10.9 or is it a bug?

And you have a typo at http://www.ghostnoteapp.com/appsuggestions/ ("mailingist").

Re:Google Vietnam Compromised? on Monday February 23, 2015 @01:07AM (#9092845)
Either VNNIC was hacked or someone got Google credentials... I hope it is the later.
Re:Google Vietnam Compromised? on Monday February 23, 2015 @12:46AM (#9092774)
Using Viettel ADSL with Google DNS and I can confirm this. Google Chrome detected the issue and didn't load at all (http://imgur.com/qoXPj9R). Going through http is fine.

Page source: http://pastebin.com/rHttdwiy

Re:Show HN: Artful for Mac on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @04:18PM (#8725826)
I'm using this app Kuvva and it works pretty well. What is the difference from yours? Your app does look much better though.
Re:GitHub Student Developer Pack on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @04:42PM (#8423897)
I have just redeemed the code in my DO account and it worked on the first attempt. I think they have fixed the issue. To any students out there: try first before reaching out to support, they are busy men/women.
Re:New Google Sheets: faster, more powerful, and works offline on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @10:30PM (#6892631)
I really appreciate the performance boost. We have a quite complicated sheet before and adding 20 more rows at a time is annoying. Yes I know there are ways to add 20+ but the default low limit shows how slow it is. With this new system, Google is confident enough to allow user to add 1000 rows at a time (default value). Scrolling seems to be very smooth too. Overall a great upgrade!
Re:Introducing Instagram for Windows Phone on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @03:21PM (#6770867)
Some mobile app does that on purpose because people tend to make typo when the password is masked. I think it is not a very bad practice considering you entered it a few times already. People who want your password can look at your fingers to guess it anyway.

It's worth noting that I'm not related in anyway to Instagram. I also haven't downloaded the app, yet. I was speaking in common sense.

Re:SteamMachines on Thursday September 26, 2013 @06:09AM (#6449802)
I have kernel panic with this driver unfortunately. Wired XBox 360 with iMac 2011 and MacBook Pro 2012. Not sure what caused the issue... Because of it, I installed Windows via BootCamp and play all games over there, a bit inconvenient.
Re:Vietnam Internet restrictions come into effect on Sunday September 01, 2013 @05:28PM (#6312235)
It's interesting to see a new HN account created 4 hours ago with such a "dangerous" username. Especially in a post about censorship in Vietnam. Well played.

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