Hacker News: ericls

New comment by ericls in "Success may not matter if you aren't doing what you love"

ericls — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:19:32 +0000

But when it's tangled with emotional/personal stuff such as love. It gets really messy.

New comment by ericls in "Success may not matter if you aren't doing what you love"

ericls — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:08:40 +0000

Success is not a defined term.

New comment by ericls in "DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems"

ericls — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:46:53 +0000

lol, why not just createa law and state that "people must be happy, environment must be good, everyone must get along with everyone, also no wars".

Law doesn't work like this.

This is not law, this is impersonating God, or a bad prompt to LLM I guess.

The Contract in Every API Call

ericls — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:38:29 +0000

Article URL: https://shenli.dev/2026/03/26/hidden-contract-in-every-api-call.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544963

Points: 2

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New comment by ericls in "The valve at the end of the world"

ericls — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 14:26:05 +0000

Okay, go tell {your wife, your children, your parents, etc}, and say: “I love you, but there’s a part of of you that I just can’t accept and want to change.” Will they think you still love them? Do you think you can love them that way?

Your love to them should be a source of power to accept all of them. Your love to life should empower you to embrace death.

New comment by ericls in "The valve at the end of the world"

ericls — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 14:25:08 +0000

Your love to them should be a source of power to accept all of them. Your love to life should empower you to embrace death.

New comment by ericls in "The valve at the end of the world"

ericls — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:42:55 +0000

I think the idea of “death is part of life” is more than just “it is what it is”. It means when you say you love life, you want to live, it’s is implied that you also love death, and want to die. Otherwise you don’t really love life and you don’t really want to live.

New comment by ericls in "Ask HN: Are job referrals worthless now?"

ericls — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 03:01:35 +0000

If people just go for the best people in the world then one man will marry all the women in the world

New comment by ericls in "Dockerize a React app"

ericls — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:59:14 +0000

Might be easier to just run nginx container and mount the frontend app as a volume.

New comment by ericls in "Flappy Bird implemented in TypeScript types"

ericls — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:19:25 +0000

what's a rundown

New comment by ericls in "Stark-DB: SQLite-backed, change-tracking database available over HTTP"

ericls — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 02:36:04 +0000

I'd only fallback to "changes" when I don't know the "intentions".

New comment by ericls in "Show HN: REST Alternative to GraphQL and tRPC"

ericls — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:48:13 +0000

GraphQL is RESTful. Just treat GraphQL Result as the resource..

New comment by ericls in "Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner"

ericls — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:47:18 +0000

I'm not against them punishing people who violated the policies, but this doesn't look like a good solution to that problem.

New comment by ericls in "On writing (or not)"

ericls — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 23:56:08 +0000

Writing is memory dump for me. I do it to free memory

New comment by ericls in "Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)"

ericls — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 23:53:42 +0000

At least I got guido right…

New comment by ericls in "A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense"

ericls — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:58:00 +0000

I think KPI on itself is fine, it's basically the goal of the game you are playing, defining it clearly should help. However, it never make sense to to have multiple KPIs, everything should be derived from a single KPI.

This actually give KPI some weight, because it literally defines what you do. Whenever you define you KPI, you'd think, "okay, is this all that I'm doing now?". And whenever you change your KPI, you'd be thinking, "okay, should I abandon the last game I played and play a new one?".

New comment by ericls in "Ask vs. Guess Culture"

ericls — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 03:34:20 +0000

Trust sounds good but is based not knowing.

New comment by ericls in "The Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression"

ericls — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 22:56:03 +0000

The smaple page preloads all the files before playing... Which wastes lots of bandwidth.

New comment by ericls in "Histoire: A new way to write stories, powered by Vite"

ericls — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 22:43:19 +0000

Why do I need to care about what tool it is powered by?

New comment by ericls in "A world where people pay for software"

ericls — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:30:05 +0000

By "people" are you excluding organizations such as governments, corporations etc?