Hacker News: bapak

New comment by bapak in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"

bapak — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 01:23:43 +0000

What in the world?? Surely there must be something more than "generate a HTML page with 500 elements". Any edge cloud hosting lets you do that for free.

New comment by bapak in "Claude Code on the web"

bapak — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:10:21 +0000

Please take a look at the percentage of paying Android users. It just does not compare. It's useless to count 2 billion users in third world countries who never have and never will pay anything in-app.

New comment by bapak in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

bapak — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:44:58 +0000

It happened a murder of times.

New comment by bapak in "United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet"

bapak — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:00:09 +0000

Wouldn't the 737 Air have a lower chance of hitting debris head on?

New comment by bapak in "When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it"

bapak — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 06:01:37 +0000

I had my first digital camera in 2003 and my first videocall-capable phone in 2004 (Nec e313). I was a kid

New comment by bapak in "Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash"

bapak — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:03:47 +0000

I do use both, but cash has a price to me (no free withdrawals in my country)

New comment by bapak in "A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)"

bapak — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 03:58:37 +0000

The HTML-only web has been dead for years. Documents may be safe, but publishing websites that work without JS is war with no winners.

New comment by bapak in "Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash"

bapak — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 03:51:50 +0000

Kinda funny, I use my credit card for daily transactions because I know it's never declined. On the other hand, I might not have enough cash on me at all times.

New comment by bapak in "Apple M5 chip"

bapak — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:40:59 +0000

Marketing companies don't sell their own stuff, they sell others' stuff.

New comment by bapak in "Claude Haiku 4.5"

bapak — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:19:16 +0000

> Ain't nobody got time to pick models and compare features

Then don't? Seems like a weird thing to complain about.

I just use whatever's available. I like Claude for coding and ChatGPT for generic tasks, that's the extent of my "pick and compare"

New comment by bapak in "Apple M5 chip"

bapak — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:27:17 +0000

Check all the comparisons on their website. They're not comparing their products to the previous gen, they're comparing them to years-old system.

They could sell you a downgrade and still stay 2x M1 Pro performance (it was 4x from last year)

Apple is a marketing company made to sell stuff.

New comment by bapak in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

bapak — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:39:11 +0000

Does not apply.

Cambodia is just a proxy, a land where the Chinese gangs act with impunity. Earned with slave work, money is laundered in casinos and no Cambodian is seeing a cent of it.

Might as well say "nearly unfathomable amount of money in Congo" because that's just how disconnected the money is to the country.

New comment by bapak in "How Kyoto, Japan Became the Loveliest Tourist-Trap"

bapak — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 06:00:32 +0000

That's what you get when people travel to that one point they saw on Instagram. People crossing the world to take that exact photo a million people before them took.

New comment by bapak in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

bapak — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 05:16:04 +0000

It's incredible to me that they killed the whole tool instead of making a JS/Canvas port. Even without "full flash websites", there's still need for vectorial animations on the web.

New comment by bapak in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

bapak — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 05:13:35 +0000

Gah. Fireworks and Dreamweaver were my "web designer" jumpstart. Ps and Ai had nothing on Fireworks

New comment by bapak in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

bapak — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 05:10:53 +0000

Whoever took the decision to kill Vine was an absolute moron, even without hindsight. It was square videos, how hard could it have been to shove an ads banner above it and call it a day? Incredible

New comment by bapak in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

bapak — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 05:08:55 +0000

Arc and its free Arc Mini companion. iOS. Been using it since Facebook eclipsed Moves app. A decade later, it's still not as good as Moves.

New comment by bapak in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

bapak — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 05:06:13 +0000

Yahoo Pipes was what internet should have been. We're so many decades into computing and that kind of inter-tool linking has only barely been matched by unix pipes.

New comment by bapak in "Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year"

bapak — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 03:14:18 +0000

There's inherently nothing wrong with face recognition, I love being able to search my own photos on my iPhone. If you could keep it private, you totally would too.

New comment by bapak in "Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year"

bapak — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 03:11:02 +0000

It's in their job description, they're most likely very proud of how their words can swindle the majority. They're greasy and they love it.