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New comment by dsego in "Show HN: Elevators"

dsego — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:01:23 +0000

One time our neighbor forgot her phone and activated the stop in the small elevator just as the doors were closing and it started going down. It stopped but already moved down and got stuck between floors. We were inside with our small child and it was not pleasant. Luckily, after resetting the switch and pressing some buttons, the elevator continued on its way.

New comment by dsego in "Show HN: Elevators"

dsego — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:30:02 +0000

I do that sometimes, but it's a tight fit and I might leave dirt marks.

New comment by dsego in "Show HN: Elevators"

dsego — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:23:24 +0000

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New comment by dsego in "Show HN: Elevators"

dsego — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:51:06 +0000

In my residential building we have two elevators, a big one and a small one, the small one can fit 3-4 people if they squeeze together, it can't fit a bicycle. And of course, they don't work independently, so if the small one is already on your floor the big one won't stop there, so if I have my bicycle with me, I need to send the small one to a higher floor first, and since people are using the lifts constantly, sometimes I need to wait for a while and repeat the same process. There were times where the small car came several times before I managed to stop the large one.

New comment by dsego in "Show HN: Elevators"

dsego — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:46:26 +0000

In some elevators there is a stop lever for emergencies, but I found out it cleared all the selected floors as well. So in my building if I've made a mistake or a kid selected all the floors, I can just flip the stop toggle and reset everything.

New comment by dsego in "Show HN: Elevators"

dsego — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:40:49 +0000

Yes, same here, in croatia people believe that you need to press the opposite direction to "summon" the elevator, if the elevator is on lower floor they will press the "up" arrow to bring it up to their floor. And then of course when the doors open they will ask "going up or down?", which is ridiculous. When I point out that the ground floor only has the "up" button they just ignore it (hard to unlearn ingrained beliefs).

New comment by dsego in "Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others"

dsego — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:06:44 +0000

A grade 4 glioma doesn't even give you a fighting chance, there is only survival from months to maybe over a year.

New comment by dsego in "Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others"

dsego — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:43:40 +0000

F* cancer. On my mother's side, her mom and sister died of breast cancer, her other sister caught it early, her brother died of cancer (throat or lung, not sure). She removed her breast 20 years ago at almost 50, went through chemo and radiotherapy, she was a survivor, cured. Just a month ago got headaches and turns out new brain tumor. Neurosurgeons removed it, but against all odds nothing to do with the old cancer, not a metastasis, but a new primary wildtype glial grade 4 tumor. It's just not fair.

Blick Video Editor

dsego — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:52:04 +0000

Article URL: https://blickeditor.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103554

Points: 18

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New comment by dsego in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

dsego — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:52:01 +0000

I think I understand now, even the partial required submitting everything to the server, which can be skipped if you can have interactivity without unnecessary requests.

New comment by dsego in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

dsego — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:28:02 +0000

I think HTMX lacks a sensible way to do composition and reuse on the component level, something that react/vue/solid do extremely well. Since you are basically mostly swapping html content, it gets tricky if you want to reuse partials.

New comment by dsego in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

dsego — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:21:28 +0000

Why not? You can have server side routing that returns the page and then react then takes over and hydrates a small part within the page or the complete page. A similar approach is used for the islands architecture, and you can even combine different frontend frameworks for maximum flexibility, e.g. developer preference. You can decide to load your frontend libraries lazily or as shared scripts so they are cached and only take up some bandwidth on initial load (a couple of kB minified and zipped).

New comment by dsego in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

dsego — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:12:22 +0000

You can always make the server-side render partials based on a request header.

https://github.com/dsego/ssr-playground/blob/main/src/server...

New comment by dsego in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

dsego — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:10:47 +0000

Do you have any social accounts? By the username I'm guessing we're from the same country or region.

New comment by dsego in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

dsego — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:47:14 +0000

It's not just what they output, it's also what they omit. I've unfortunately seen this when doing research on medical issues, and it gives you a false sense of having an understanding. It never warned me to watch out for symptoms that weren't specifically discussed in the context, or that some symptoms could be a different underlying condition.

SwiftUI After 7 Years: A Story of Mediocrity [video]

dsego — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:50:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XaHHFOZeJg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989740

Points: 4

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New comment by dsego in "Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database"

dsego — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:07:20 +0000

People can come and cut down trees, use the land for their cattle, raise crops or just start building something. If you don't challenge it and they get away with it for a while, they could even gain use of the land legally.

New comment by dsego in "Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database"

dsego — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:04:03 +0000

The public public land record in Croatia is notorious for being outdated and poorly maintained. Basically, the last time it was properly maintained was during Austria-Hungary a century ago, or at least that's the popular opinion. Right now we have the cadastre and the land registry and they do not always align. And for your example of unofficial agreements, the land my father and his brothers inherited is still in my grandfather's name, he died over 20 years ago, now my parents are aging, and there is just a verbal agreement on how the property is divided.

New comment by dsego in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

dsego — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:43:22 +0000

I remember copy/pasting scripts in dreamweaver to make leaves or snow fall on the webpage.

New comment by dsego in "The human-in-the-loop is tired"

dsego — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:27:56 +0000

Yes, and now they don't have to agree, they ask an LLM, and we get half baked plans and quarterly goals and are left to figure it out ourselves. So the stakeholders have some ideas, some half assed designs get put together by an LLM, stories are generated by an LLM, technical details are filled in by an LLM, the implementation and code review are LLM. I can already notice the lack of critical thinking and scrutiny in the whole process, we're offloading all thinking and just creating these artifacts, designs, documentation, code, to what purpose I'm not sure. I'm having trouble even keeping up with everything going on. Of course, plans are more likely to change at any minute and we'll just rewrite everything on a whim.