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New comment by danielhep in "The Future of Email"

danielhep — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:02:44 +0000

fair. I use the webapp on desktop

New comment by danielhep in "The Future of Email"

danielhep — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:49:25 +0000

Almost every email is going to or coming from US servers anyway. Better to treat email as insecure and use something else for more secure communication.

New comment by danielhep in "The Future of Email"

danielhep — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:11:06 +0000

For me it was search. The proton apps are the only way to access email on mobile, and on them and on their webapp the search barely functioned, even with full text search downloaded. The only way to reliably search my email was with Proton Mail Bridge on desktop, but for some reason it continuously was using CPU on my laptop and of course didn’t work on mobile. If they made a server version that I could put in a docker container on my server it would probably solve most of my problems with Proton, because then I could access it from the Mail app on my phone over IMAP.

New comment by danielhep in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

danielhep — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:45:53 +0000

I don’t think that’s really true of driving, pedestrians and cyclists are at a much higher risk of getting killed by a driver than a driver themself. There are huge negative externalities to driving

New comment by danielhep in "The Future of Email"

danielhep — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:22:07 +0000

I love fastmail, I switched from Proton a couple years ago after deciding the trade offs to have encrypted email were not worth it, since even if I fully trust Proton, most emails come from or go to AWS, Outlook, or Gmail anyway. I have been extremely happy with the service. Fairly priced, very fast even with a huge inbox, and they don’t add unnecessary features or bloat. I thought I would use my OS’s mail apps but the fastmail app and website are so good I just use that.

New comment by danielhep in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

danielhep — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:49:40 +0000

I did the same except switched to fastmail. I love it, it’s such a great service.

New comment by danielhep in "Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer"

danielhep — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:04:44 +0000

Sorry, I meant ridership per capita. In Seattle about 15% of people commute via transit (and I believe it’s the fastest increasing in the country), but LA is 6% and flat.

Seattle’s geography is conducive to transit, because there are many bridges where all traffic is constricted. That means point to point trips by car are often taking a similar route to buses. It also restricted the city’s ability to sprawl (although even suburban Bellevue is above LA at 8%).

The standard of service for nearly every bus line that operates in Seattle is 15 minutes frequency, even on weekends. Many lines operate every 10, and the new G Line that opened last year in fully dedicated bus lanes runs every 6!

New comment by danielhep in "Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer"

danielhep — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:10:38 +0000

Interesting! How long ago was that? Seattle has higher transit ridership than both those cities and is rapidly expanding its transit system. I believe we are still leading the pack in transit ridership growth yoy. Maybe you were here before it got good? I’ve only lived here 5 years.

New comment by danielhep in "Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer"

danielhep — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:51:14 +0000

Depends on the city. In LA, yes it’s very hard to live without a car. I live in Seattle and I live car free as well as many of my friends. It’s not that we can’t afford it, we’ve just built our lives around transit and biking and the city is pretty good for it. Then of course there’s NYC, which is likely better than most European cities for transit. But you’re right that the average here is far far worse when it comes to transit and living car free or car lite.

New comment by danielhep in "TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components"

danielhep — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:53:26 +0000

Even if you split up the bundle you will still need multiple round trips to the server to fetch the data.

New comment by danielhep in "TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components"

danielhep — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:52:49 +0000

I mean the state from the client, like cookies and URL params. You can get access to that in SSR through the framework specific APIs like getServerSideProps in Next, but it’s not a great solution.

New comment by danielhep in "TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components"

danielhep — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:34:31 +0000

SSR is different and does not provide the same performance of RSCs. With SSR you get the advantage of an initially rendered page, but you don’t have access to data or state. So you are just rendering placeholders until it hydrates and the client can request the data.

RSCs allow you to render the initial page with the content loaded right away.

That said, I am not sure about Tanstack’s implementation. Need to spend more time reading about this.

Here’s a nice post explaining why RSCs do what SSR cannot: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/server-components/

New comment by danielhep in "TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components"

danielhep — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:25:57 +0000

Without RSC you have to wait for the user to download the application bundle before the request for content can even be sent to the server. So that means that the db queries and stuff are not even initiated until the client has the bundle and runs it, vs with RSC that stuff is all launched the moment the first request comes in from the user.

New comment by danielhep in "Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties"

danielhep — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:08:57 +0000

Transit lines in many countries do support themselves by increasing productivity and tax revenue near the stations. It is not as direct as in Japan, where the train company itself captures the value created by its stations, but it’s effectively the same thing. Most places in the world with effective public transit systems are more like LA than Japan in how they are funded and operated.

New comment by danielhep in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

danielhep — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:25:50 +0000

This problem, along with general annoyances at Proton’s lack of focus on a good email experience pushed me over the edge to move to Fastmail. I’m so much happier. Proton Mail Bridge would often pin one core of my laptop CPU, draining my battery, and it was still slow to sync new email. With Fastmail, incoming mail is so fast that the verification codes are already there before I can alt tab over.

New comment by danielhep in "Skip is now free and open source"

danielhep — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:52:20 +0000

How is Skip’s support for building apps with maps or other more complex UIs? Can I build map overlays that work cross platform?

New comment by danielhep in "Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?"

danielhep — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:16:39 +0000

I got a Garmin watch after being frustrated with the tech company watches lasting only hours on a charge. I charge this watch once a week and it does everything I realistically want from a smart watch: - shows notifications - tracks workouts - silent alarm clock - home assistant shortcuts

New comment by danielhep in "GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over"

danielhep — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:41:16 +0000

I work on an open source server project that is deployed in many different contexts and with many different clients and front ends. GraphQL has allowed us to not feel bad about adding extra properties and object to the response, because if a particular client doesn’t want them, they don’t request them and don’t get them. It has allowed us to be much more flexible with adding features that only few people will use.

New comment by danielhep in "Orion 1.0"

danielhep — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:33:47 +0000

I want to be able to sync Orion with Firefox. I use non Apple operating systems on some computers, and I would love to have Orion sync with Firefox on them.

New comment by danielhep in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"

danielhep — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:10:54 +0000

I have all my self hosted services set up with authentication through SSO now. Does this support that?