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Re:Rocknix is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices
on Monday June 23, 2025 @10:30AM (#44356173)
Nice to see another alternative to the Linux gaming ecosystem. Bazzite also states handheld device support: https://bazzite.gg/
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)
on Monday June 02, 2025 @01:46PM (#44161295)
Location: Edmonton, AB, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Case by case
Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, PHP, Elixir, Golang, React, Vue, Svelte, PyTorch, Kafka, GraphQL, MySQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB), Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Workflows, Azure, Cloudflare Workers, etc.
Résumé/CV: https://media.udia.ca/2025/06/2025-06-02%20Alexander%20Wong%...
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://udia.ca
Experienced SWE with over 10 years of working experience. Looking for opportunities to own full-stack features, drive platform modernization, or bridge ML/AI systems with robust engineering. Open to staff+ level roles or senior IC with leadership responsibility.
Re:World Emulation via DNN
on Friday April 25, 2025 @08:51PM (#43799933)
Very nice work. Seems very similar to the Oasis Minecraft simulator.
Re:Google lays off its Python team
on Saturday April 27, 2024 @01:26PM (#40181750)
Where does the source indicate Python team layoff?
Re:Why every microwave sucks these days, and the death of instant pot
on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @09:02PM (#38020428)
Instant Pot died primarily due to private equity greed, not because of Instant Pot reliability.
In 2017, Cornell Capital bought the company for a total $500M of which $300M was financed by debt. Then 4 years later in 2021, it refinanced and added on debt, bringing the total debt to $535M. $245M was immediately paid out to shareholders as a dividend. Cornell Capital got paid back all the cash it invested in the company's acquisition, and then some. In 2023 due to high interest rates the company was no longer able to service its debt, costing the company ~$50M a year, and the company had to file Chapter 11.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @07:47PM (#36593948)
https://udia.ca
Rambling, personal notes, links to other more worthy pages
Re:Ask HN: What is the most pleasant, uncomplicated full stack to star...
on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:05PM (#34799537)
Phoenix framework and Elixir get a lot of love here if you are willing to dive into functional programming languages.
Re:How to Sell Tickets Fairly
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:23AM (#33667226)
How would you measure/trade time? Other than with the approximation of using money.
Would it be possible to build a business that were completely public and transparent?
Every dollar that was spent would be published publically. All source code would be made free and permissive, open source. Users would always own their own data and could frictionlessly share with each other.
There would be no advertisements. All analytics would require explicit opt in and be visible to the general public.
The app would be localized to all languages, using heuristics and machine learning to perform the bulk of the translations, with human verification.
The app would be an attention focuser, calendar, general search, peer-to-peer connecting, encrypted, public monstrosity. It would be subtle and discrete, running just out of reach of direct human interaction.
u0.vc
Re:Git as a janky twitter replacement
on Sunday November 06, 2022 @01:22AM (#33489758)
I like it because there's also a sufficient barrier to entry (e.g. Trump won't be git anything-ing soon)
https://hookrace.net/time.gif returning 503 for me now
Re:The Internet Archive Book Images has deleted their Flickr account
on Monday April 04, 2022 @11:01AM (#30907444)
I am surprised that the Internet Archive does not fully control the storage of their assets, or at least have some kind of contractual agreement with Flickr to prevent this from occurring.
Re:API-0.core.keybaseapi.com has expired certificate
on Friday March 25, 2022 @03:39PM (#30806294)
Observing network errors when attempting to send messages within Keybase.
Re:Adafruit requires 2FA to prevent bots buying out Raspberry Pi
on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @03:59PM (#30770746)
I agree, 2FA seems unrelated to stopping bots. It really seems like some form of rate limiting and captcha should have been used instead.
Re:Ask HN: What book changed your life?
on Saturday March 19, 2022 @01:24PM (#30735633)
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - Marshall B. Rosenberg
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
on Monday February 28, 2022 @08:08PM (#30507767)
The vast majority of NameCheap's employees are located in Ukraine
https://www.namecheap.com/careers/
Re:Google Search Is Dying
on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:57PM (#30353362)
I don't see why Google does not trial offering a paid service where advertisements are stripped away from the search results. A new revenue model in addition to the existing ad supported approach where you pay for your search.
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @07:34AM (#29992796)
This was my strategy for some time, but I switched to using a proper password manager (Bitwarden). If your algorithm is discovered you're in as much trouble as if you used the same password across multiple sites.
Re:hiccupFX.js
on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:55PM (#29949600)
Re:Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All” (2007)
on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:48AM (#29487062)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8410868
Re:Web Streams at the Edge
on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:34AM (#29393208)
Nice to have a new offering for edge compute/streams! It would be useful to see how this compares with the different edge compute alternatives (particularly Cloudflare Workers/Durable Objects) in terms of TCP Connection Time, Time To First Byte, Time To Last Byte, etc.
Re:Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang...
on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:51AM (#28062455)
Good to see another open source git development platform. I am currently using sourcehut and am very happy with it.
Re:Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science...
on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:01PM (#28051521)
This is really cool but there are a few usability issues. I suggest to overly html DOM ontop of the canvas rather than having users enter form details within the experience as the only method of signing up.
Other users who are trying to stand up can stand between my camera and the form itself, making it such that I can't see what the form is trying to ask me or what I am typing.
Re:Ask HN: Do you self-host your database?
on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @08:49AM (#27675070)
+1 for Supabase. Currently playing with Phoenix Framework and using Supabase's postgresql offering. Just needed to enable Session pooling and the CITEXT extension, but otherwise it all worked fine. Very price competitive with many of the other DBaaS.
Re:Cwtch: Decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging pro...
on Saturday June 26, 2021 @01:55PM (#27644185)
How does this compare with something like Matrix, which also does decentralized encrypted communications?
https://matrix.org/
Re:Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
on Saturday June 12, 2021 @12:36PM (#27485567)
I wrote a small Python script that will SSH into my remarkable paper tablet, copy all of the raw files to my desktop, and then convert the binaries to pdf.
I use this tool on a daily basis to offline backup my handwritten notes.
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:20PM (#25931761)
I have had a lot of success with this course (Web Accessibility, by Google): https://www.udacity.com/course/web-accessibility--ud891
> In this course you’ll get hands-on experience making web applications accessible. You’ll understand when and why users need accessibility. Then you’ll dive into the "how": making a page work properly with screen readers, and managing input focus (e.g. the highlight you see when tabbing through a form.) You’ll understand what "semantics" and "semantic markup" mean for web pages and add ARIA markup to enable navigating the interface with a range of assistive devices. Finally, you’ll learn styling techniques that help users with partial vision navigate your pages easily and reliably.
Re:Google Poly is shutting down
on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:18AM (#25277824)
Make the source code publicly available under a permissive open source license so the community can run the software.
Scrape/generate a read-only archive of the site and host the static files for the next ~2 years before finally dropping the domain.
Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:09AM (#25227650)
NoScript would be up there for me, or else Bitwarden.