Hacker News: endigma

New comment by endigma in "Denmark sees US as potential security concern"

endigma — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:30:06 +0000

Kinda ironic coming from the country that keeps trying to get chat control passed in the EU.

New comment by endigma in "A Web Framework for Zig"

endigma — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:30:04 +0000

This site makes a big point of using the term "RESTful" repeatedly, but it seems to be JSON-based by default?

I don't know why modern web frameworks insist on continuing to misuse or misapply the term despite a fairly large amount of messaging recently about how exactly this term is misapplied, and the resurgence of frameworks and tools that do correctly apply it, e.g. HTMX, Datastar, Alpine AJAX.

Otherwise, this looks cool. I'd encourage you to un-roll-your-own docs and use something like Starlight or Docusaurus so you can have usable search and versioned docs.

New comment by endigma in "You don't want to hire "the best engineers""

endigma — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:53:06 +0000

What’s with the pivot away from the purely speed based testing? I recall getting the ick when I saw it as your primary metric for engineer goodness not too long ago and I don’t see any mention of it anymore on your site. Have you pivoted to something more sane?

New comment by endigma in "Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you"

endigma — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:29:08 +0000

ETA on international calls availability? Will there be another announcement, email blast, etc? UK, Canada, Australia or EU to start?

New comment by endigma in "File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface"

endigma — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:44:13 +0000

Nope, just the installer, win11

New comment by endigma in "File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface"

endigma — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:12:56 +0000

Rather poetically, this C software in 2025 segfaults on launch. I would file a GitHub issue if this was open source, but alas, nope.

New comment by endigma in "SRCL: Open-source React project to build web apps with terminal aesthetics"

endigma — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:39:22 +0000

You should make it draw from a palette of colors, like an actual terminal does, and easy to customize. Base16 would likely be enough given the web has opacity and a bunch of other ways to slightly modify colors. I'd also like to see how much of this doesn't need to be React™, even if your application is entirely React. Maybe splitting the CSS and the component logic?

New comment by endigma in "Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers"

endigma — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:39:04 +0000

Don’t click into posts just to comment empty ragebait dude, actually grim if this is your passtime

New comment by endigma in "Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users"

endigma — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:47:18 +0000

This thread is crazy, it reads like 2 people arguing but there are actually zero repeat commenters, like some sort of debate conga line

New comment by endigma in "Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230"

endigma — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:15:14 +0000

Using this tool requires disabling SIP, so not "easily bypassed" at least from a malware perspective.

New comment by endigma in "Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its games can't be taken away"

endigma — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:53:47 +0000

This title is super weighted, Valve makes it quite clear that users do in fact own a thing, a license for a product on Steam. This is fundamental to games with online DRM.

New comment by endigma in "Pagoda: Rapid, easy full-stack web development starter kit in Go"

endigma — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:23 +0000

Ent heavily uses joins and does support multi field indices, you should read up on the docs. You can show the queries it’s running using a debug client.

It’s not a Graph DB under the hood and uses any normal relational db quite normally beneath the DX

New comment by endigma in "Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website"

endigma — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:07:40 +0000

Also, firebase? seriously? this is a company with like, low level software engineers on payroll, and they are using a CRUD backend in a box. cost effective I guess? I wouldn't even have firebase on the long list for a backend if I were architecting something like this. Especially when feature-parity competitors like Supabase just wrap a normal DBMS and auth model.

New comment by endigma in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)"

endigma — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:20:40 +0000

  Location: Oxford, UK
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Docker, Linux
  Résumé/CV: https://endigma.dev
  Email: happy.year4363@fastmail.com

I'm a self taught software engineer who has built products for startups from whiteboard to production. I'm looking for roles where I can learn new things and build cool products. I thrive in builder roles where I am given the ability to fully own large projects.

New comment by endigma in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)"

endigma — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 18:22:44 +0000

How can I apply?

New comment by endigma in "Factorio – Statistics improvements, Linux adventures"

endigma — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:31:25 +0000

I don't think they are planning to do this; they are at least maintaining support for whatever MacOS (Metal?) and the Nintendo Switch use in addition to Wayland, which suggests to me they are dropping X11 as a hard dependency not as a usable backend.

New comment by endigma in "Ask HN: How to change jobs with almost no interviewing experience?"

endigma — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 11:50:00 +0000

Only way to get interview experience is to do a lot of interviews.

New comment by endigma in "I Put 4M Suns in a Black Hole over New York [video]"

endigma — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

I don’t know what you’re trying to prove here.

This is totally different tech and a totally different video.

It’s pretty easy to create photorealistic work in blender when you have high resolution textures and photogrammetry of what you’re reproducing, I’d challenge you to find similar textures of planets or every building in New York City.

The video authors focus seems to be mostly on the shaders and volumetrics used for the large scale “simulations” not on making insanely high fidelity assets for the speaker or etc.

It’s also worth noting that the most jenky thing by far in this video is the animations/facial simulations which are not even consistently solved in billion dollar productions yet, let alone one guy

New comment by endigma in "Show HN: Astro App"

endigma — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:41:35 +0000

I also added a bit about accessible text contrast

New comment by endigma in "Show HN: Astro App"

endigma — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:35:40 +0000

Should disambiguate from https://astro.build/ and various other name collissions in your title somehow, maybe "Astro App | Explore the Night Sky" ?

Also the "Identifiers" section and some other things have extremely low contrast text, 2.35:1 instead of the recommended 4.5:1 for body-size text. You can check on issues like this using the accessibility tab in Firefox or Lighthouse in Chrome.