Hacker News: argestes

New comment by argestes in "Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026"

argestes — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:31:49 +0000

I have many things dependent on Cloudflare. That makes me root for Cloudflare and I think I'm not the only one. Instead of finding better options we're getting stuck on an already failing HA solution. I wonder what caused this.

New comment by argestes in "TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875"

argestes — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:59:53 +0000

I wonder how racist it is

New comment by argestes in "Türkiye will not sell rare earth elements to the USA"

argestes — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:09:43 +0000

Yeah, I'm from Turkey and it's really annoying for me to use a keyboard shortcuts to select "Türkiye" from dropdowns using year old "T", "U", "R" keys. Now in some websites it's "Turkey" and in some websites it's "Türkiye" I need to switch keyboard layouts just to select my country name.

Even though, website doesn't let me use my actual name since my name has non ascii characters so I need to try many times.

New comment by argestes in "OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery"

argestes — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 22:21:32 +0000

I think you are making an excellent suggestion but students still can use ChatGPT before talking to ChatGPT to get highest grades.

New comment by argestes in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

argestes — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:14:17 +0000

What is the definition of self in this context? What makes a human have a self?

(I agree with you. I'm thinking the Ahamkara for the humans. I'm curious about your definition)

New comment by argestes in "Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats"

argestes — Sat, 24 May 2025 09:23:34 +0000

This is nice. I would love to be in a mailing list regarding updates

New comment by argestes in "Ask HN: Should I deploy my webapp"

argestes — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 07:22:36 +0000

My concern is I'm an Android dev. and I'm trying to use best practices because I don't know what can come up.

If prod goes down for a few days it's mostly OK since I have only one alpha user. But some idea of bad things™ might happen is holding me back from developing the app. I'm not feeling confident about my prod env if I find some customers.

> Where do you store your state on the server? I don't understand what you mean. I guess we're talking about the database. DB also is deployed as the part of the docker compose stack, volume bound to a local dir.

> What can kubernetes do that you can't do by hand assuming you are available to do it? Automating the process of deployments are easier than doing it by hand. Since code needs to be compiled I cannot use the old but gold ftp method. Even if I manage it, it's too much of a hassle. Instead I'm using Github Actions to build my image using Spring's container image builder magic. k8s would allow me to put all of my "stuff" to same place (a cluster)

Two of the servers costs in total 5 Euros now :D

Ask HN: Should I deploy my webapp

argestes — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 06:19:01 +0000

Hello, I'm a ~10 years Android developer. These days I'm looking into building my own applications with Spring and Kotlin. Firebase doesn't fix my problems of data integrity hence I've coded the backend of my app too (which is sad considering how promising Firebase was)

I'm trying to find a way to deploy my servers. Currently I'm running my production and staging servers as two Hetzner instances running docker-compose stacks. But I've heard it's not a good solution since docker-compose can't really create a development environment as a copy of production (I don't know why this is bad.)

I've looked into Kubernetes but if you're not paying to someone to manage it for you (for example DigitalOcean or Amazon EKS) it's incredibly complex. Also if you chose to use a cloud provider to manage it for you every load balancer adds another item to the bill. I'm running a 3 node cluster on DigitalOcean now but it's too complex to even deploy a container to it.

So what are your thought on how a lone developer should deploy their APIs to production and staging?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33702653

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by argestes in "Drastic DS Emulator Pulled from Google Play Store"

argestes — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 08:39:28 +0000

implicits

New comment by argestes in "LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised"

argestes — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:32:04 +0000

Now we know

New comment by argestes in "Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?"

argestes — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 08:46:34 +0000

"How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie

New comment by argestes in "Show HN: Personbook: Keep notes about your friends"

argestes — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:51:58 +0000

The app is still in early stage of the development so it's free for now

Show HN: Personbook: Keep notes about your friends

argestes — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:41:47 +0000

Article URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.birohcek.personbook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28349329

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by argestes in "1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland"

argestes — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:57:11 +0000

Isn't this regular old Pareto Distribution?

New comment by argestes in "Kotlin 1.4"

argestes — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 08:28:05 +0000

SAM conversions finally. I'm in tears!

New comment by argestes in "Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More"

argestes — Thu, 07 May 2020 09:57:55 +0000

You might be using their magical p2p network.

Ask HN: What is good circuit designer and emulator for me?

argestes — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 08:05:05 +0000

Hi, I'm planning to build a 8 bit CPU using TTL logic gates. I'm having difficulty finding a circuit designer and emulator. Emulation is critical for me since I need to debug before implementing the circuit to lower the costs because logic gates are really expensive in my accessible markets.

Logisim was promising before but I had hard time using it.

Are there any good circuit emulators for my use case? Thanks.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22565568

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by argestes in "How to GraphQL – A Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL"

argestes — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 07:11:54 +0000

Yeah you can do SQL with Hibernate too. It works but it's a nightmare

New comment by argestes in "Light Phone 2: A simple 4G phone with e-ink"

argestes — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:38:45 +0000

If you really want to control how your customers are allowed to use the thing you can put a limit like 3 or 4 apps maximum. For example I think this phone needs at least a way to read e-books but it's possibly not going to be implemented. IF there was an API I could write my own e-book reader for it.

New comment by argestes in "NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]"

argestes — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 10:51:52 +0000

What does poster on page 25 (No: 20, ID 6614809) mean and who is that guy?