Hacker News: arnath

New comment by arnath in "Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown"

arnath — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:21:13 +0000

Not illegal, not exactly voluntary either. Companies are caving to threats from the Trump administration

New comment by arnath in "CocoaPods trunk read-only plan"

arnath — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:58:37 +0000

Flutter has moved to Swift Package Manager, it’s just not enabled by default iirc

New comment by arnath in "Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry"

arnath — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:17:05 +0000

The thing is just a cute robot that you can interact with, ala Vector (https://anki.bot/products/vector-robot)

Show HN: Yet Another Todo App

arnath — Wed, 21 May 2025 16:54:21 +0000

I'm neurodivergent and struggle with todo apps; they help a lot but I've also never found one that quite fits my needs. So, I built my own that I released on the iOS App Store yesterday: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yet-another-todo-app/id6742057...

It's a little different from other apps in a few ways:

- It's offline first. It doesn't even make any network requests right now. It's possible I might add sync in the future but unlikely.

- It's built around your daily schedule, not making lists. The default view you see is of "Today".

- I worked really hard to make it wonderful to use. Like, things don't take 2 taps when they could take 1.

The app _does_ cost $2. If that's a problem for you, shoot me a DM and I will send you a promo code just to check it out. Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053444

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by arnath in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

arnath — Sun, 18 May 2025 21:37:31 +0000

I could be wrong, but I’ve always been under the impression that Obsidian charges a lot for sync because the app is amazing and free. Sync helps pay for that. But they’re also very helpful about providing other ways to sync your files to your phone. I use iCloud Drive (which I have anyway for other reasons).

New comment by arnath in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)"

arnath — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:22:14 +0000

A warning to those considering applying here: This month, I went through the full interview process with Sourcegraph - 6 interviews, including one with the CTO. I was asked for references, waited around for two weeks while they had a big company meeting, and then was told that I was a great engineer who passed all the interviews but they were pivoting and weren't going to hire me anyways. At a company with 50 engineers where multiple people during the interview process bragged to me about how much runway they had.

New comment by arnath in "Local CI. Sign off on your own work"

arnath — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 02:26:21 +0000

I’m deeply confused … what does this actually do? Mark your commit as having tests passed?

New comment by arnath in "Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust"

arnath — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:24:06 +0000

Random thing I’ve been wondering: is there a point in including TLS support in web servers any more? Isn’t it always better to run a reverse proxy and terminate HTTPs at the edge?

The CISOmusical

arnath — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:24:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cisomusical.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547910

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by arnath in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)"

arnath — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:59:22 +0000

I mean, they provide the service by stealing data from their users. I would argue that this is just as ethically fine as Youtube's entire business model.

New comment by arnath in "Show HN: I Built a Customer Feedback Tool"

arnath — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:49:21 +0000

My god there’s a lot of negativity here. Nice work! I’ve been looking for something like this for a very small test I’m running of a mobile app. It’s honestly surprising that there are so few offerings in this space

New comment by arnath in "In S3 simplicity is table stakes"

arnath — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:36:05 +0000

I found out last year that you can actually run a full SPA using S3 and a CDN. It’s kind of a nuts platform

New comment by arnath in "Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology"

arnath — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:23:56 +0000

This is really cool! I've always thought that one thing preventing major competitors to AWS/Azure/GCP is the lack of easy-to-use tooling for machine level monitoring like this. When I was at Microsoft, we built a tool like this that used Windows Firewall filters to track all the network traffic between our services and it was incredibly useful for debugging.

That said, as with anything from Meta, I approach this with a grain of salt and the fact that I can't tell what they stand to gain from this makes me suspicious.

New comment by arnath in "Show HN: Knowledge graph of restaurants and chefs, built using LLMs"

arnath — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:52:52 +0000

This is a super cool idea! I've sort of mused about an idea for general web search that's very similar to this concept, where you start with a set of trusted entities and then branch out from there, but choosing how you establish trust is really important. But this is a really clever application, well done!

New comment by arnath in "I shouldn't of made this. Another direnv alternative for no reason"

arnath — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 02:34:42 +0000

What’s the value prop here vs set -a/+a? That it’s more tolerant of weird variable values?

New comment by arnath in "One year after switching from Java to Go"

arnath — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:08:58 +0000

This comment is about a very minor part of what you said, but isn’t the whole point of a DI framework to write code you’d have written anyway to save you time?

New comment by arnath in "A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate"

arnath — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:40:34 +0000

I think the biggest praise I can give uv is that as a non Python dev, it makes Python a lot more accessible. The ecosystem can be really confusing to approach as an outsider. There’s like 5 different ways to create virtual environments. With uv, you don’t have to care about any of that. The venv and your Python install are just handled for you by ‘uv run’, which is magic.

Ask HN: Good Resume Consultant?

arnath — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:21:03 +0000

I'm getting a pretty low response rate to messages so I'm thinking I need to take another crack at my resume. Anybody have a resume consultant they've used and found useful? Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42963890

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Show HN: I downloaded Apple's jobs data because I hate their search UI

arnath — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:30:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vijayp.dev/blog/apple-jobs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943816

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by arnath in "Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS"

arnath — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:53:41 +0000

This is an interesting idea! Honestly I didn't even know Github had a per-user readme until you mentioned it