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New comment by davidhariri in "Ask HN: If you exercise, do you notice any mental benefits?"

davidhariri — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:26:00 +0000

Definitely!

New comment by davidhariri in "Digs: iOS app that syncs your Discogs collection and lets you browse it offline"

davidhariri — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:27:41 +0000

It’s a fair assumption. The React part is more about copying JSX and other React concepts (declarative UI etc) but it all boils down to native binaries. The toolchain is also pretty nice. It does hot reloading so you don’t have to recompile the app while building locally. The downside is you get less for free compared to SwiftUI. But SwiftUI also has many footguns and bugs. No free lunch!

New comment by davidhariri in "Digs: iOS app that syncs your Discogs collection and lets you browse it offline"

davidhariri — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:22:49 +0000

Lovely! Thank you

New comment by davidhariri in "Cloudflare crawl endpoint"

davidhariri — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:46:22 +0000

Came here to write this. I am getting much better results from Firecrawl (not affiliated with them, just a happy customer).

New comment by davidhariri in "An Update on Heroku"

davidhariri — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:55:17 +0000

Railway is the spiritual successor. Fly is great too. I highly recommend both.

New comment by davidhariri in "Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone"

davidhariri — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:13:12 +0000

I bought and tried to use the MP02 as a daily driver. Quite different from where Punkt is heading now. The industrial design is gorgeous, but the software was pretty bad (laggy, unintuitive navigation - Android on such a low powered chip was a bad choice). I can guess why, but it baffles me they didn't jump on the growing demand for dumbphones. If they had just released an MP03 with identical form factor but improved battery life, latency and screen improvements, I would have bought one in a heartbeat.

New comment by davidhariri in "Please just try HTMX"

davidhariri — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:50:35 +0000

HTMX is a great choice for an app that only needs forms, validation and partial template rendering, though CSS view transitions are making partials less relevant for server side web applications.

For things with heavy interaction (drag and drop, chat etc.), I find the code to make it work with HTMX is just too clumsy to work with as a mental model.

New comment by davidhariri in "Project Euler"

davidhariri — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:25:47 +0000

I learned so much from this site- including that so much education comes from being prompted to ask the right questions.

New comment by davidhariri in "How I made macOS faster to use"

davidhariri — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:25:22 +0000

Not an ad! This is what I use.

How I made macOS faster to use

davidhariri — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:10:08 +0000

Article URL: https://dhariri.com/2025/fast-macos.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45636994

Points: 1

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New comment by davidhariri in "Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says"

davidhariri — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:42:02 +0000

Success rate depends on many factors (risk of failure, your value to the business, complexity of the ask), but it's definitely on average much higher than 5% (I sell this technology and look at the results many times a day).

> Companies need to stop looking at customer support as an expense, but rather as an opportunity to build trust and strengthen your business relationship.

This is bang on. But unfortunately many companies have top down mandates to drive costs down (without backstops for LTV retention) and they look at top line growth as separate from OpEx. It's weird and broken, but it's a side effect of the common organizational structure of most enterprises. There are companies that do not look at themselves divisionally as CX, Sales, Product, Marketing etc. and the ones I can think of do have very high NPS (apple comes to mind).

Protoweb - Bringing Back The Information Super Highway

davidhariri — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 03:17:56 +0000

Article URL: https://protoweb.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44781839

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by davidhariri in "I Tried Windows Gaming on a Mac and It's Amazing"

davidhariri — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 01:22:02 +0000

I tried to follow many different tutorials on getting Diablo IV set up using CrossOver but never could get past Blizzards automatic patches that break it.