Hacker News: davide_v

New comment by davide_v in "Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs"

davide_v — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 15:03:16 +0000

Nice, I was looking for something like this. I tried it on Ubuntu but after clicking Capture requests > Launch Chrome, nothing happens.

New comment by davide_v in "Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI"

davide_v — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:46:39 +0000

It seems very nice, I tried japanese because I'm studying it, but it got difficult too quickly. In particular japanese needs furigana absolutely (the hiragana over kanji) or romaji (options to be activated/deactivated).

New comment by davide_v in "Today we are launching our new Twitter API access tiers"

davide_v — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:50:54 +0000

Crazy nosense change. $100 is damn high and 10K tweets a month is damn low. Even if you were willing to pay, the amount of tweets is so low that it's in fact totally useless.

New comment by davide_v in "Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?"

davide_v — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:24:51 +0000

It depends on the MVP, but I'd (still?) use the MEAN stack with the latest Angular and Node. Expecially because I made a boilerplate [1] that allows me to start any project faster.

[1] https://github.com/DavideViolante/Angular-Full-Stack

New comment by davide_v in "Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?"

davide_v — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:35:23 +0000

Yes I mean failure of the cron script itself. If the EC2 goes down entirely there are other alerts you can set up on AWS, such as Cloudwatch or similar.

New comment by davide_v in "Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?"

davide_v — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:35:16 +0000

I'm still using the old way: "crontab -e" inside the same EC2 where I run the app. In case of failure I automatically send an email to me. This is the easiest scenario in case you already have an EC2 for some other things that is already running. Instead, from scratch (no EC2), I'd probably use Lambda.

New comment by davide_v in "A self-updating list of the most current useragents"

davide_v — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 11:07:57 +0000

Thank you for this, I always struggled to find an up to date list of UA.

If you don't mind, I made a simple Node.js wrapper of this API and released as a NPM package, you can find it here: https://github.com/DavideViolante/useragents-me-api/

New comment by davide_v in "Extremely Linear Git History"

davide_v — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:16:27 +0000

I thought I was a very tidy person, then I saw this.

New comment by davide_v in "Automattic open to hiring ex-Twitter individuals or even entire teams"

davide_v — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:40:59 +0000

That's smart move imho. Usually engineers and other people that worked at Twitter went through a very strict hiring process. So hiring them is equal (usually) to hiring very skilled and smart people.

New comment by davide_v in "AWS and Blockchain"

davide_v — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:32:57 +0000

In Italy a famous news website is using blockchain since 2020 to, I quote literally: "help readers check source of news", "strengthen bonds of trust between its organization and its readers and customers", "trace the history and source of each news item."

News (EN): https://www.ansa.it/english/news/science_tecnology/2020/04/0...

Example of news in the blockchain: https://blockchain.check.ansa.it/landing/b150aff9f028f7339f0...

The first time I saw it I was quite surprised. I'd like to hear opinions about it here. Eg: it's blockchain stricly necessary here?

New comment by davide_v in "I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information"

davide_v — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 09:07:16 +0000

This reminds me about Black Mirror's White Christmas episode where they create a digital clone inside a white "cookie" and then they use it for receiving tasks such as making toasts. This project is very similar actually. I found very interesting the part where you can track your food and automatically calculate the calories every day without writing anything anywhere.

New comment by davide_v in "Falcon Heavy Launch [video]"

davide_v — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:34:09 +0000

The boosters landing will always give me goosebumps.

New comment by davide_v in "Pokemon Card Animation"

davide_v — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:39:06 +0000

AMAZING.

New comment by davide_v in "Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at?"

davide_v — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:14:04 +0000

You are good at what you love.

New comment by davide_v in "Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?"

davide_v — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:49:00 +0000

I got in 2016 the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air for about ~750$ and I'm still using it today (Ubuntu 20). The design is the most similar to Mac design, but with more ports (:D). When I bought it, the other option I considered was Dell XPS, and I see it's mentioned many times in the comments.

New comment by davide_v in "Complete Introduction to Particles in Japanese"

davide_v — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 11:08:14 +0000

I'm currently in a 6 months streak on Duolingo japanese and this article is actually very useful to understand the difference between ha, ga and he, that I think are the most tricky. In fact the ga explanation is the longest hehe :p Keep it going, the website is super well made and fast (what's the tech behind?).

New comment by davide_v in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

davide_v — Tue, 17 May 2022 16:08:36 +0000

Absolutely agree, but I think we are in the smaller size of the pie. I had for many years a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (4.3' 124mm), super small phone that I loved, then I switched to a Xiaomi Redmi 4 Pro (5.0' 141mm), reasonably small but bigger then S4 and still usable with one hand without risks. Then I switched to a Xiaomi Mi 9T for the huge body-display ratio and I always feel it's too big (6.39' 156mm) and sometimes I need 2 hands, and I've pretty big hands... Nowdays you can't find any good android phone around ~140mm in size, that I think is the perfect size.

New comment by davide_v in "Show HN: Veganize any recipe site with EatKind Chrome extension"

davide_v — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:24:51 +0000

Oh now I see. I was trying the "cheese burger" from the examples and the results were just Google with no option to veganize. I'd remove that example imho. The cheesecake example is what I was expecting in general. Thanks, keep up the good work.

New comment by davide_v in "Show HN: Veganize any recipe site with EatKind Chrome extension"

davide_v — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 09:35:54 +0000

I expected to start from a recipe and then have the veganized recipe. How it works now is a Google search, so I have to find another recipe, if there is. I would skip the Google part and start from a recipe URL and have as a result that specific recipe veganized (ingredients replacement). It would also prevent people from leaving the website.

New comment by davide_v in "Show HN: Veganize any recipe site with EatKind Chrome extension"

davide_v — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:40:44 +0000

Based on the title I was thinking the product was different. The "veganize" term is misleading here imho. I was expecting that, given a recipe, you replace non-vegan ingredients with vegan ingredients and so being able to cook that recipe, somehow. Actually it would be a very nice product...