Hacker News: ecthiender

New comment by ecthiender in "Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write"

ecthiender — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:02:34 +0000

Hmm, interesting. Are you speaking from experience for Haskell? I'm a Haskell developer since 2017, and have been using LLMs to write code (including Haskell) since 2024. In my experience, LLMs perform much better generating Haskell/Rust code over Python/Javascript.

New comment by ecthiender in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

ecthiender — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 07:43:23 +0000

If the author of the article is here, do try out org-mode. That is exactly what you need. It is designed to be a simple text file format, but tooling on top of it (simple editor plugins, mostly in emacs, but there are equivalent plugins in vim/neovim; I'm sure there must be something in today's kool-aid VSCode editors) make it so so much more powerful.

Org-mode has TODOs, Agendas, tables, nested/collapsible headings, mind-maps etc. You can also generate richly formatted PDFs/HTML/DOC files as well.

AutoWarp: Vulnerability in Azure Cloud allows access to all company accounts

ecthiender — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:43:09 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Yanir_/status/1500863874412724229

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30614889

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

CouchDB style conflict resolution with RxDB and Hasura

ecthiender — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:24:39 +0000

Article URL: https://hasura.io/blog/couchdb-style-conflict-resolution-rxdb-hasura/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005898

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Things I Hate About PostgreSQL

ecthiender — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 09:19:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/funnyu/10_things_i_hate_about_postgresql/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22777173

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A GraphQL client library without queries: Building a movie app with gqless

ecthiender — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:43:38 +0000

Article URL: https://hasura.io/blog/gqless-fetch-your-graphql-data-automagically/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22637422

Points: 24

# Comments: 7

Managing PostgreSQL Database Migrations via UI

ecthiender — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:56:35 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.hasura.io/building-a-ui-for-postgresql-database-migrations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22255639

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by ecthiender in "Keyhut POS: Free Point-of-Sale Software for DOS"

ecthiender — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:36:12 +0000

This comment has some good insights. Actually a lot of "business" software were like that in the 90s and early 00s. They were optimized for productivity of the user and not necessarily aesthetics of appearance or ease of use (well, trade-off). Even old version of excel etc. were designed like that. Unfortunately modern web software has such high importance on making it eye-candy.

New comment by ecthiender in "Keyhut POS: Free Point-of-Sale Software for DOS"

ecthiender — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:32:57 +0000

Maybe the commenter was just being sarcastic. But I agree it's hard to tell.

Clash: A modern, functional, hardware description language inspired from Haskell

ecthiender — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 10:32:23 +0000

Article URL: https://clash-lang.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20894467

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Lectures on type theory, category theory, proof theory [video]

ecthiender — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:53:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Ky8lYL8-Oh7awp0sqa82o7Ggt4AGhyf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20457881

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Digital passports, facial recognition, biometrics and other digital shenanigans

ecthiender — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:53:10 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/dergigi/status/1148572041416708097

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20402510

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ecthiender in "Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'"

ecthiender — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 11:52:39 +0000

I'm a programmer and geek myself, and heck, even toyed with the idea of having open-source alternative to GSuite. But reading the title I too thought it's an alternative to Google search. Reading your first para cleared it up though. Just a heads up.

New comment by ecthiender in "Switch from Medium to your own blog automatically in minutes"

ecthiender — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 05:15:44 +0000

But seems like that recently has changed. Now the paywall-ed articles are shown more to people[1]. So even authors with large number of followers don't get their articles shown to their followers.

> It is hard to get your blog noticed.

I think if you write good content, and post it on good programming communities like HN or Reddit, I don't think its that hard to get it noticed.

[1]: https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/we-just-moved-off-of-me...

Edit: formatting

New comment by ecthiender in "Password expiration is dead, long live passwords"

ecthiender — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 05:08:46 +0000

Surprisingly, the most important organizations (like banks and government departments who have critical data) who need to ditch this practice, embrace it like the holy grail.

New comment by ecthiender in "Google Cloud Is Down"

ecthiender — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 05:03:12 +0000

In India, I could access Youtube, Gmail (web) and Google cloud console and GKE and Compute Engine instances in south-east asia region.

Switch from Medium to your own blog automatically in minutes

ecthiender — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 20:14:44 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mathieudutour/medium-to-own-blog#medium-to-own-blog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077810

Points: 21

# Comments: 9

New comment by ecthiender in "Joe Armstrong has died"

ecthiender — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 19:40:07 +0000

This was really unexpected! I follow him on twitter and he was tweeting about FPGAs, which seems like, only few days back!

I am grieved.

Vue and GraphQL with Hasura – A free video course

ecthiender — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:32:41 +0000

Article URL: https://dev.to/hasurahq/vue-and-graphql-with-hasura-video-course-3mpp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19520427

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by ecthiender in "Browsers"

ecthiender — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:47:07 +0000

I think Microsoft just wants to give up on the browser market/share/innovation (for business reasons ofcourse ). They just needed to have a default browser installed on their system and hence just wants to rebrand chromium and drop it in their default installation.

If they really cared, they could have adopted Gecko/Spidermonkey atleast.