Hacker News: HungSu

New comment by HungSu in "Ember.js 7.0"

HungSu — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:18:25 +0000

I'm glad to see Ember is still in development. There are a lot of good architectural decisions in there that I miss when I'm in React, and there's a lot that casual React developers could learn from it and other opinionated frameworks. It was sad to see that Ember was held back by obsolete design choices for so long (Vite took years!! And AMD modules are only being deprecated now in this release)

New comment by HungSu in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

HungSu — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:07:26 +0000

I'm observing recurring patterns in Tailwind-only users: they learn a lot of non-transferable and bad habits, especially when the codebase scales up:

- Engineers never learn to properly use developer tools to debug CSS

- Components get gigantic bloated piles of classes that are not human readable

- Those gigantic piles of classes get logic in them, that often would have been easier to write as a CSS selector. Tailwind developers learn to write a JS ternary operator with a string of classes instead of ever learning how CSS selectors work

- Those ternary operators get too complicated. The engineers write object maps of Tailwind classes, or export consts of strings of Tailwind classes to use later. Those object keys and const names are what the CSS class names could have been if they just used CSS. They literally re-invent CSS classes, but worse.

- Tailwind classes can't be migrated. You can migrate CSS to Sass to CSS modules to Emotion CSS to etc mostly just by copying them over, because all of those are CSS (with some quirks). Tailwind classes are non-transferable

The happiest medium I've found was in an organisation of around 200 UI engineers: scoped CSS so that engineers can work with autonomy without colliding with other engineers, plus Tailwind for quick band-aid fixes.

New comment by HungSu in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

HungSu — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:59:55 +0000

I don't know you either, but I feel weirdly and unexpectedly connected to your message too. I'm 4 months into a layoff, still hunting. Appreciate your message!

New comment by HungSu in "The Fall of Roam (2022)"

HungSu — Mon, 19 May 2025 02:11:34 +0000

The author began to realise the truth: that the quality of his writing is very low on average. Then he moved away from that realisation to the thought that Roam or some other kind of automation could somehow save him.

Perhaps what he needs is for the tool to automatically ask him "Is it okay to delete this note from 60 days ago?" That should be long enough for him to lose any attachment to what he wrote and a lot of the time he should say yes, and delete the crap.

New comment by HungSu in "Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website"

HungSu — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:10:25 +0000

You might like Zen Browser https://zen-browser.app/

New comment by HungSu in "Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox"

HungSu — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 23:49:58 +0000

What is WOMM?

New comment by HungSu in "Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?"

HungSu — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 05:08:34 +0000

Scaniverse sounds great! Have you compared it to other scanning apps like Polycam?

New comment by HungSu in "Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds"

HungSu — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 01:43:50 +0000

Could you elaborate here?

New comment by HungSu in "Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop"

HungSu — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:12:25 +0000

From that doc:

> Taildrop is currently limited to sending files between your own personal devices. You cannot send files to devices owned by other users even on the same Tailscale network.

New comment by HungSu in "Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years"

HungSu — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:01:09 +0000

ServeTheHome just published an article about powerline networking

TLDR: It's still bad.

https://www.servethehome.com/over-a-decade-later-powerline-a...

New comment by HungSu in "Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration"

HungSu — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:58:28 +0000

You asked for "web design inspiration" but you sound like you're asking for UI design, which is a different skill. For that I recommend Mobbin:

https://mobbin.com/

New comment by HungSu in "Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration"

HungSu — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 20:44:35 +0000

I find godly.website a helpful resource, but I also agree too many of these are design studios and are of no interest to me. Even if you set the filter to web UI, it tends to showcase the sales page and not the UI.

Mobbin is probably more useful to most people:

https://mobbin.com/browse/ios/apps

New comment by HungSu in "Ask HN: What low energy software do you use?"

HungSu — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:59:24 +0000

Either I suppose, but looks like this thread didn't get any traction !

Ask HN: What low energy software do you use?

HungSu — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:12:30 +0000

With the rise of software that is CPU/GPU/RAM/disk expensive, I wonder what low energy software is still useful and in use today?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36665872

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by HungSu in "Twitter now requires an account to view tweets"

HungSu — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:46:15 +0000

A lot of comments suggesting federation as the solution to centralisation. I believe this is a false dichotomy.

I think Write Once, Publish Everywhere (including both centralised and federated) is much better.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

New comment by HungSu in "Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software"

HungSu — Tue, 23 May 2023 23:48:38 +0000

I tried this Kanban plugin and ultimately ditched it. I do think it's superior to the other Obsidian plugin, CardBoard (which has some advantages too, namely that it works great with the tasks already in your Obsidian vault) but I ditched Obsidian Kanban because there was no way for me to just view one card. This is a crucial feature for me - while I'm working I do not want to look at the whole board. I want to focus on just the card I'm working on.

New comment by HungSu in "Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?"

HungSu — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 11:55:08 +0000

How interesting! Any more details on the brand, or model? Any photos?

New comment by HungSu in "Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?"

HungSu — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:51:38 +0000

You seem to be interested in the Slow News Movement! I keep a list of online slow news magazines (including Quanta) here:

https://hung.su/slow-news-movement/

Some magazines that no one has mentioned:

https://worksinprogress.co/

https://pudding.cool/

https://knowablemagazine.org/

Let me write, I mean, think about it

HungSu — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 02:16:10 +0000

Article URL: https://critter.blog/2023/01/04/let-me-write-i-mean-think-about-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34305920

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by HungSu in "How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games"

HungSu — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 23:28:05 +0000

Some of my most memorable conversations with my friends in the last couple of years has been talking about games. I've spoken at length about how Witcher 3's writing mirrors real relationships, how Cyberpunk's quests and endings have impact that wouldn't be possible in any other medium, how Return of the Obra Dinn gave a totally new experience that also made me rethink how I learn, and surely many other conversations I've forgotten.