Hacker News: diazc

'Huge Breakthrough' in the Math of Imbalance

diazc — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:34:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/huge-breakthrough-in-the-math-of-imbalance-20260821/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583618

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by diazc in "Show HN: Fly By – retro biplane flying game"

diazc — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:32:24 +0000

Awesome!

An Ode to Inconsolation

diazc — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:11:01 +0000

Article URL: https://terminaltrove.com/blog/an-ode-to-inconsolation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973864

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by diazc in "Dive: A tool for exploring a Docker image, layer contents and more"

diazc — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:13:27 +0000

There’s other great TUI terminal tools like dive here [0], lazydocker and dry come to mind.

And some in the docker category as well:

[0] https://terminaltrove.com/

New comment by diazc in "Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal"

diazc — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:54:28 +0000

There are also other interesting collections of TUI terminal tools like harlequin here as well:

https://terminaltrove.com/

harlequin is also featured there as a tool of the week on that site.

New comment by diazc in "Terminal Trove – A collection of CLIs, TUIs and all things in the terminal"

diazc — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 21:14:59 +0000

I have been seeing recently a lot of TUI and CLIs on HN recently and stumbled across this site which shows more of them in one place.

Terminal Trove – A collection of CLIs, TUIs and all things in the terminal

diazc — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 21:02:20 +0000

Article URL: https://terminaltrove.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38605466

Points: 141

# Comments: 25

New comment by diazc in "All of Paul Graham's Essays in One PDF"

diazc — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:08:02 +0000

His works are public for everyone to see and copyright is evil, so this PDF is very welcome as it is also public.

They are also not charging for this, so I don't see a problem with this.

Ask HN: Alternative to Firebase FCM

diazc — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:30:47 +0000

This is the message I received from Firebase on FCM deprecation:

"We’re writing to let you know that starting June 20, 2024 the legacy Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) APIs will be discontinued.

What do you need to know?

On June 20, 2024, we’re reducing the number of Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy register APIs and legacy send APIs that provide similar functionality. This step will allow us to provide you with a more consistent experience and align with Google security standards to improve security, reliability and performance.

Because of these API decommissions, some already-deprecated SDKs and features will stop working after June 20, 2024.

Please consult the tables below to find which Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) APIs and corresponding services/SDKs/features will be discontinued and replaced with new alternatives.

This one is more relevant to me in the email

Discontinued Send API: Batch send API

Decommissioned service: Including multiple send requests in a single HTTP request to FCM known as Batch Send.

New alternative: Send messages via the HTTP v1 API, which has been optimized for fanout performance."

The deprecations are listed here:

https://firebase.google.com/support/faq#fcm-23-deprecation

I believe the topics solution they have isn't reliable for me as I have around 50,000 users on an application I work on and I send time sensitive notifications to them on a daily basis.

Is there an alternative to FCM that allows me to send to multiple devices at once almost instantly, perhaps like how WhatsApp or Twitter does their notifications?

Thanks.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36433699

Points: 22

# Comments: 11

Startups Are Already Using GPT-4 to Spend Less on Human Coders

diazc — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:54:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5xmp/startups-are-already-using-gpt-4-to-spend-less-on-human-coders

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246124

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by diazc in "Flurly has been shut down by Stripe"

diazc — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:01:21 +0000

What has MATCH got to do with crypto?

Do you have any evidence for this claim?

New comment by diazc in "Flurly has been shut down by Stripe"

diazc — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:06:11 +0000

> ...good luck trying to get your customers to use USDC instead of a credit card

It's already happening and Stripe, Coinbase, Stellar, Shopify, Woocommerce, and Moneygram are already using USDC in the real world.

New comment by diazc in "Flurly has been shut down by Stripe"

diazc — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 23:57:07 +0000

They can buy things? Shopify, Woocommerce has integrations for this, this isn't really an issue.

New comment by diazc in "Flurly has been shut down by Stripe"

diazc — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 23:43:19 +0000

What is wrong with accepting USDC?

Anyone can accept it, individuals, and even third parties.

New comment by diazc in "Flurly has been shut down by Stripe"

diazc — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 23:33:05 +0000

> What exactly do you think the alternative is?

crypto?

I was able to send the USDC stablecoin to a business accepting crypto with Coinbase Commerce just fine and transaction was very quick.

I can see that even Stripe is getting involved in crypto as well.

Nigeria bans ATM cash withdrawals over $225 a week to force use of CBDC

diazc — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 04:28:12 +0000

Article URL: https://cointelegraph.com/news/nigeria-bans-atm-cash-withdrawals-over-225-a-week-to-force-use-of-cbdc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33890625

Points: 172

# Comments: 141

Ask HN: How do you scale your service worldwide in 2021?

diazc — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 12:35:22 +0000

Hi HNers,

Built a service in the form of an app during the course of the pandemic for people to watch videos and receive news.

However since the pandemic, I had a huge surge of people signing up and straining my backend, leaving me frantically trying to keep the servers up and respond to customers at the same time.

It must have been hard 10 or 20 years ago to scale your backend/service to reach as many people as possible worldwide than it is today, but I still struggled with this.

I'm curious how would one do this when faced with a TON of customers as I had to face.

If you're curious of my stack: it's all on Heroku, Redis, Node & 2 Postgres servers.

Would also like to know what you would have done better as well.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26924433

Points: 9

# Comments: 5