Hacker News: fiiv

Show HN: Cache Horse: An HTTP cache/batch service

fiiv — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:57:55 +0000

Hi, I'm fiiv, and I'm the creator of Cache Horse. I built it because I wanted an easy plug-n-play solution to caching and simplifying HTTP requests - in particular, on frontend. First, I was fetching data like daily weather, historic currency exchange numbers, air quality readings - and many of those APIs have quota limits. And second, since I was already caching them, I thought it would be useful to batch them together - so I built that feature in.

I would love to hear your feedback and thoughts on the project. Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43983987

Points: 5

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New comment by fiiv in "Ask HN: People with new Macs / computers with GPU's, do you run LLM's locally?"

fiiv — Fri, 09 May 2025 05:10:36 +0000

I do this. Ollama makes it very easy - just pull the model you want. The great thing is the ability to test them in the same tasks, there's a huge difference in comparable models.

You can set it up in your editor of choice - I use Zed, and it's just listed as one of the providers you can choose.

In terms of performance - it works decently well.

Ask HN: What are your favourite/essential privacy tools for the browser?

fiiv — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 23:34:51 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29534831

Points: 3

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New comment by fiiv in "Hackers Are Spamming Businesses’ Receipt Printers with ‘Antiwork’ Manifestos"

fiiv — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 04:54:08 +0000

Or it could be mostly people fed up with working under shitty conditions.

New comment by fiiv in "Skeleton: Responsive CSS Boilerplate"

fiiv — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 17:13:02 +0000

I remember trying out Skeleton many years ago. Skeleton's Github repo has not seen an update since 2014. A fork of it can be seen here:

https://skeleton-framework.github.io/

https://github.com/skeleton-framework/skeleton-framework

But it too has not seen any activity in several years.

New comment by fiiv in "Ask HN: HTTPS://Typesense.org/ Broken SSL?"

fiiv — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 16:59:00 +0000

Seems to be working for me (firefox, safari, chromium). The SSL cert appears to be valid, expire next year and be issued by Amazon.

It could be a block by your country, ISP or possibly if you're using a VPN it might be affecting it as well.

New comment by fiiv in "Show HN: I made a Gravatar-like service for favicons"

fiiv — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:17:08 +0000

Yes indeed! I'm not surprised there's some difference. One thing I learned doing this is that there's a lot of choices to make when selecting the best icon.

For example, some sites have SVG icons, which are usually superior in both file size and in scalability (compared to raster formats), but if using them in a mobile app in React Native, it would require an additional step to integrate SVG images.

New comment by fiiv in "Show HN: I made a Gravatar-like service for favicons"

fiiv — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:31:05 +0000

Whoa, I hadn't thought of a sprite sheet, but that's a great idea actually. It shouldn't be too hard to generate one of these. How many favicons in one sheet are you thinking?

New comment by fiiv in "Show HN: I made a Gravatar-like service for favicons"

fiiv — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:36:21 +0000

Hi HN,

I was working on an app, and in it, we wanted to render an icon for links from meeting invites. This turned out to be quite a pain!

I found other things that could return icon data, but alas they were all JSON APIs. I didn't relish the idea of fetching an endpoint for each and every website icon I needed to load (and write glue code to render the best icon out of the bunch).

You'd think favicons are as simple as loading "example.com/favicon.ico" but there's a lot of subtleties to it.

First, favicon.ico's are often really low res – there's often higher res icons available via tags in the HTML or through the manifest file.

Second, what if the hostname is unreachable or if there is no favicon at all?

And third, no one wants to parse a whole HTML page just to get one little icon!

So that's why I made Icon Horse – it automatically parses the site's HTML to determine the best possible resolution icon. And if no icon is available, it serves a decent fallback, so you never end up with a broken image. And finally, it's dead-simple to use. You simply use the hostname like so:

https://icon.horse/icon/ycombinator.com

Anyway, hope you also get some use out of it. I'm around if anyone has any questions :)

Show HN: I made a Gravatar-like service for favicons

fiiv — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:27:43 +0000

Article URL: https://icon.horse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28369261

Points: 12

# Comments: 7

New comment by fiiv in "FREELANCE FALCON: I made the easiest way to generate a freelance agreement"

fiiv — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 16:40:06 +0000

This is awesome, going to give it a try!

Show HN: A playable bingo card for being stuck in meeting hell

fiiv — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 07:03:58 +0000

Article URL: https://meetinghellbingo.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27536893

Points: 2

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New comment by fiiv in "Deno 1.9"

fiiv — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 04:15:48 +0000

They're kind of different things. Graal is an attempt to create a polyglot environment. For example, using Python and Javascript in the same environment. For example you might be working on an application where the web server managed by the web team is written in Node and your data scientist team uses Python scripts to deal with the data, but they need to run in the same environment. Graal lets you re-use that environment for both.

Node and Deno are dedicated runtimes to run Javascript using the V8 engine. Both provide a standard library of additional functionality to make them worthwhile beyond just browser code.

New comment by fiiv in "Apple changes Crimea map when viewed from Russia"

fiiv — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 06:51:59 +0000

> Tech companies (Google, Apple) don't custom-tailor their maps because they want to. They do it because the states use leverage to force them into it. And the states do it to promote the idea that the disputed territory is theirs.

So what? Google wants people to use their map software. By showing variations of the map depending on what the official stance of the regional government is, they are ensuring that their map software is available in that region and fits the context of that country.

There is a Russian narrative for Crimea being theirs. There is a Ukrainian narrative for Crimea being theirs. It's not Google's place to decide between them, it's their place to create a map people can find things on.

It does not matter what you, I or Sundar Pichai believe is the truth of whom Crimea should belong to. Their product is a map and it's available in Russia, Ukraine and Crimea. In fact, by presenting all the credible alternatives in this case (for Russia's side, they currently administrate the region and for Ukraine's, it was very recently their territory), they are being apolitical about it.

Free course to learn to build an MVP with Node.js and no frameworks

fiiv — Fri, 10 May 2019 12:34:23 +0000

Article URL: https://frameworkless.js.org/course

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19877085

Points: 1

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New comment by fiiv in "Show HN: Free rameworkless JavaScript tutorial course building a real app"

fiiv — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 08:37:39 +0000

I'm fiiv, the dude making this. Would love to hear your feedback and if I'm doing the right thing here or not ;)

PS. uh oh, missed the "f" in frameworkless in the title.

Show HN: Free rameworkless JavaScript tutorial course building a real app

fiiv — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 08:37:11 +0000

Article URL: https://frameworkless.js.org?ref=hackernews

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19755695

Points: 3

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The worst kind of spam is not the Nigerian princes and V1AGRA ads

fiiv — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 03:42:23 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.blogsend.io/2019-04-16/why-i-do-not-share-your-emails

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19754665

Points: 1

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New comment by fiiv in "Ask HN: Why are the cloud providers misrepresenting blockchain technology?"

fiiv — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 05:24:16 +0000

"Blockchain" is like "cloud" as a term – it is ambiguous. It means different things to different people. Not everyone understands what a blockchain is – a lot of people probably have about as much understanding of it as they do cloud. I guarantee a lot of people who even give talks and consult on blockchain tech don't know what Byzantine fault tolerance is.

New comment by fiiv in "Iran Cryptocurrency Launch Imminent"

fiiv — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 08:09:30 +0000

I think the interesting factor here is not political at all. It does not matter if you agree with the sanctions or not. The fact is that clearly Iran sees blockchain tech as a way to circumvent US sanctions on conventional financial networks.

If they were smart they wouldn't just launch their own though. There are plenty of crypto-currencies already out there, and if they need to find a backdoor into sanctioned markets, then using one of those makes more sense. Otherwise, this is going to go the way of the Venezuelan Petro – aka essentially an exit scam as far as we can see at this moment.