Hacker News: chungleong

Show HN: Creating a website with client-side SQLite as back end (Zig and WASM)

chungleong — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:23:04 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/chung-leong/zigar/wiki/Creating-website-backed-by-a-client-side-database

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497961

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by chungleong in "Show HN: Pb2zig – Pixel Bender to Zig Translator"

chungleong — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:30:53 +0000

IIRC, it was discontinued around the time Adobe switched to a subscription model. Allowing end users to add new functionalities to their programs just didn't make business sense.

Show HN: Pb2zig – Pixel Bender to Zig Translator

chungleong — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 03:20:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/chung-leong/pb2zig

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38008772

Points: 15

# Comments: 6

New comment by chungleong in "SVB collapse: Peter Thiel’s role scrutinized as spark of bank run"

chungleong — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 21:18:22 +0000

Blaming one man for the rottened culture of an entire industry. The people who made the decision to withdraw money from SVB are supposed to be sophisticated. They're certainly well compensated. Yet they acted like bunch of illiterate peasants. The whole episode really demonstrated the disappearance of critical thinking from the American tech industry. This primitive monkey-see monkey-do mindset has come to dominate just about every aspect of it.

Show HN: React components for playing ANSI animations

chungleong — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 19:21:00 +0000

Article URL: https://chung-leong.github.io/react-ansi-animation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713351

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chungleong in "Show HN: Chrome extension for adding footnotes to print-outs of web articles"

chungleong — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 22:35:56 +0000

Conradish is a tool designed for teachers of foreign languages. It lets you quickly take a online news article and add definitions of words with the help of Google Translate. A good way to help students build vocabulary, I think. The extension can be used in other educational situations too, where a teacher might want to add notes and perhaps questions to an article about a current event.

Show HN: Chrome extension for adding footnotes to print-outs of web articles

chungleong — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 22:27:45 +0000

Article URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/conradish/pghjgimhknohffcjlgbhjcdmgdhfhfmk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29423669

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by chungleong in "Show HN: Module for conditionally skipping Mocha tests"

chungleong — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:24:05 +0000

Something I created for my own use because many of my unit tests rely on external resources. I would get rate-limited all the time when I use watch. Or they would fail because I forget to provide an access token through an env variable. A clean way to bypass certain test would be helpful, I thought. Hope this is useful to other devs. Comments definitely welcomed.

Show HN: Module for conditionally skipping Mocha tests

chungleong — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:10:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/chung-leong/mocha-skip-if

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25248566

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by chungleong in "Ask HN: What's the cheapest way to receive bank SMS oversea?"

chungleong — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 21:16:23 +0000

I've tried Skype already. It doesn't work. 75 bucks down the drain.

Ask HN: What's the cheapest way to receive bank SMS oversea?

chungleong — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 18:55:38 +0000

I'm an American living in Europe. Right now, I'm unable to manage my American bank account as most operations require a 2FA code, which would get sent to a dead number. I'm heading stateside next week and I'm pondering how I can rectify this situation. Buying a cheapy prepaid plan (e.g. Red Pocket) is one option. I'm worried though that might not work. First, the bank might refuse to send the code to a phone not tied to an SSN. Second, the phone might not get the messages across the ocean due to lack of roaming.

Anyone has experience?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20889717

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

Ask HN: How do instructions on opening the Soyuz capsule survive reentry?

chungleong — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 15:15:18 +0000

I saw a Soyuz reentry vehicle today at the cosmonaut museum in Zhytomyr. At the bottom of the capsule there're instructions in both Russian and English for opening it. That makes sense since the thing could land far beyond the designated landing zone. What I don't get is how the text could survive reentry since it's printed where the heat shield is.

Here's a picture: https://ibb.co/RgfZfPR

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20730647

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by chungleong in "Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011)"

chungleong — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:33:53 +0000

Sort of off topic. I still remember this project we inherited from DLI ages ago. Folks there were having difficulty with storing UTF-8 strings in JavaScript. Whenever a character gets truncated (due to db length limit), Netscape would complain and die. Someone apparently discovered that you wouldn't get the error if the broken UTF-8 text was in a JavaScript comment. So every text string in the program was a function that parses its own source code for a comment. It was a hilarious hack.

New comment by chungleong in "Newspapers don’t need a special law to help compete with Google and Facebook"

chungleong — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 06:59:29 +0000

Because people value the convenience of Google's integrated services. Market fragmentation is unnatural in the software world. Generally, the winner takes all in a given category. If we break up Google, one part of it will end up vanquishing the other parts.

New comment by chungleong in "Newspapers don’t need a special law to help compete with Google and Facebook"

chungleong — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 02:51:12 +0000

As it's often said, the mission of journalists is to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Making people feel uncomfortable is of course a lousy way of staying competitive.

New comment by chungleong in "Newspapers don’t need a special law to help compete with Google and Facebook"

chungleong — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:13:16 +0000

Given that Google and Facebook are natural monopolies, what newspapers are demanding seem fair to me. The law just levels the play field. The alternative--breaking up these Internet giants--isn't in the public's interest and probably won't work.

New comment by chungleong in "Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters"

chungleong — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:04:39 +0000

I don't know how you can export "mainlanders are locusts" to the rest of China.

New comment by chungleong in "Lyft Takes over Ford GoBike"

chungleong — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:52:24 +0000

I think ideology plays a larger role than profit. Many people in the American financial world are Randian extremists. They like various "sharing" services because they operate outside regulatory frameworks.

New comment by chungleong in "‘I believed I didn't have the right kind of brain for science’"

chungleong — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:34:24 +0000

Her father is a television screenwriter. From what I've heard, test prep services in Hollywood can work miracles.

New comment by chungleong in "Traffic-busting $100B Bay Area tax plan taking shape"

chungleong — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 06:37:57 +0000

One key benefit that self-driving brings is the eliminating the need for curb-side parking. Your car can drop you off and go park itself in a hole somewhere. That opens up space for many more bike lanes where light motorized vehicles like Segways can also operate.

A lot of positive development can occur with the right regulations. That's what governments should focus on. As we've seen though with the fiasco that's the taxi market in US cities, public officials aren't too keen on doing their job proper.