Hacker News: eliseumds

New comment by eliseumds in "Unifi Travel Router"

eliseumds — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:21:30 +0000

I always travel with my GL.iNet GL-MT3000 (Beryl AX) and this is what I use it for:

- My wife and I travel with multiple devices (laptops, phones, Chromecast...) and when we get to a hotel/Airbnb, I simply connect my Beryl AX to their network (it deals with captive portals btw) and all of our devices automatically connect.

- I changed the `/etc/hosts` directly in the router, meaning I can test my local servers under custom domains easily on my other devices like phones/tablets without apps like SquidMan.

- I route specific domains through specific VPNs. Government websites, streaming websites, AWS services, etc.

- I can plug in a 4G USB modem into it and it can automatically fallback to it if the main connection drops.

- It has built-in Tailscale support.

New comment by eliseumds in "Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda"

eliseumds — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:22:09 +0000

Yeah I understand the frustration, I had issues setting up ESLint/Prettier years ago and spent a few hours getting the Biome configuration right. Also a monorepo with ~4000 TS/TSX files. If you ever feel like trying it again, make sure that you have "files.maxSize" and "files.ignoreUnknown" set. And be very careful with the "files.includes" list.

New comment by eliseumds in "Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda"

eliseumds — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:01:21 +0000

Idk, I'm having a good experience with Biome 2 in a large codebase. 4s to do a full-check including floating promises, undeclared and cyclic dependencies, and sorting imports. Our ESLint setup used to take almost a minute. The Biome team has been fixing bugs on a daily basis. Version 2.2.0 (released 3 days) ago addressed a common high-CPU-usage bug, try it out.

Edit: it's not 4s anymore, I just measured with the latest version and it takes ~900ms. Insane.

New comment by eliseumds in "Open models by OpenAI"

eliseumds — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:20:02 +0000

Getting lots of 502s from `https://api.gpt-oss.com/chatkit` at the moment.

New comment by eliseumds in "uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari"

eliseumds — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:37:02 +0000

Same, not available in Spain.

New comment by eliseumds in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

eliseumds — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:52:59 +0000

https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-type

New comment by eliseumds in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

eliseumds — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:28:01 +0000

I'm dealing with mime types and max file sizes for an uploader, and improving error messages. Instead of relying on the file name to detect the mime type, I'm using the file binary header instead to reject dodgy files (for ex a `sample.jpg` file that is actually a ZIP or EXE under the hood).

New comment by eliseumds in "Brazilian Electric "Suicide" Shower Heads [video]"

eliseumds — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:45:40 +0000

30yo Brazilian here. I nor anyone I know have heard of issues with electric shower headers. Electricity in Brazil is highly available and relatively cheap. I actually think they're amazing and I would pick it over any gas shower out there, they heat up pretty much instantly and some models even offer high precision temperature control of 1 degree Celsius.

New comment by eliseumds in "Who makes the most reliable new cars?"

eliseumds — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 23:53:58 +0000

A few months ago I ordered an Uber Black in Bangkok and the driver showed up in a C300 AMG. I know it's not a high-end model (~50k USD), but I was shocked at how cheap the entire car felt. The leather is worse than the one used in base VW models, the armrests are pathetically small, visibility is bad. I'd 100% prefer to be a passenger in a Corolla or Camry.

New comment by eliseumds in "Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling"

eliseumds — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 21:46:36 +0000

I should've typed "meat and soybeans". You're probably right about the destination of most of our soybeans.

New comment by eliseumds in "Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling"

eliseumds — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:22:16 +0000

I recently drove more than 1000 miles from Sao Paulo (Brazil) towards the south and many cities looked dry, completely covered with soybean plantations, and they're growing quickly [1]. Brazil basically exports a shitton of water in the form of meat. We have 36 million hectares dedicated to soybeans alone, that's Germany's total area. I wonder how long this is going to last.

[1] https://agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br/agencia-noticias/2012-...

New comment by eliseumds in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

eliseumds — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:10:14 +0000

So unimpressive. The demos were terrible. Who would actually use it the way it was presented?

New comment by eliseumds in "Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card interchange fee below 1%"

eliseumds — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:16:45 +0000

You're correct about Pix, it averages at 0.22% [1]. It's free for personal transactions and some card/POS machines have zeroed the fees when you scan a Pix QR code to pay at small shops. It's currently the most popular payment method in Brazil (credit card is second) [2]. It's slower than just tapping my Apple Watch to pay, but tap-to-pay with Pix is in development and I can't wait for it. Installments are also coming. Our Banco Central is really pushing it and the big banks are not liking it, at all. Good.

A nice side-effect of it all is that many credit cards are offering great rewards without any annual fee. I get year-round access to VIP lounges at any airport here, car/travel insurance AND cashback/miles for $0, it's a very different scenario from say 5 years ago.

[1] https://www.infomoney.com.br/minhas-financas/pix-e-mais-bara...

[2] https://febrabantech.febraban.org.br/temas/meios-de-pagament...

New comment by eliseumds in "How to quit cars"

eliseumds — Fri, 19 May 2023 10:27:13 +0000

I drove and walked all over SF a few months ago, and while I agree it’s feasible, the lack of bike lanes is disheartening, much worse dedicated ones. Your standards are so much lower, it looks like your tax money goes into a blackhole never to be seen again, and I’m saying that from a very corrupt third-world country.

New comment by eliseumds in "How to quit cars"

eliseumds — Thu, 18 May 2023 23:18:07 +0000

My car stays in my garage 80% of the week, I only use it when visiting other cities on the weekends. I chose a relatively dense Brazilian city and I do everything here by bike or on foot (about 6-8mi per day). People have started noticing that I'm looking healthier, fitter. It'd be very very hard to do the same in any American city other than New York, you people are trapped.

New comment by eliseumds in "People who use Notion to plan their whole lives"

eliseumds — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 01:08:31 +0000

There's sooo muuuch typing lag it's unusable for me, and I'm on a top-of-the-line MBP. I have already tried different browsers, disabling extensions and the Electron app.

New comment by eliseumds in "A $300k Salary Feels Like $100k in the Priciest US Cities"

eliseumds — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 01:23:13 +0000

Is this satire? You'd end up with 130-140k post-tax. Are you single? How much are you spending on rent, food and transportation? Genuinely curious. I know it's not an absurd amount of money in cities like San Francisco, it wasn't when I was living in Sydney, but broke?

New comment by eliseumds in "Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?"

eliseumds — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 16:54:07 +0000

Mostly Reddit or Twitter via Google.

New comment by eliseumds in "Friday night’s near-disaster at JFK airport"

eliseumds — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:54:09 +0000

The tweet has it as well, at 5s of the second attached video: https://twitter.com/xJonNYC/status/1614370783899303938/video...

New comment by eliseumds in "What if writing tests was a joyful experience?"

eliseumds — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:49:49 +0000

Oh, at first it seemed equivalent to Jest's inline snapshots [1], but it's going way deeper, nice.

[1] https://jestjs.io/docs/snapshot-testing#inline-snapshots