Hacker News: filipn

New comment by filipn in "Programming Isn't Special"

filipn — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:17:48 +0000

We're in the late stages of capitalism, at a point where everyone is scrambling to extract some wealth, before everything comes crumbling down. No one is even remotely thinking about art of the craft now, or programmer happiness or whatever, and you're branded a loser if you think about that stuff.

New comment by filipn in "A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over"

filipn — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:58:10 +0000

I don't know, one thing going for him is he's actively learning by doing. A lot of people appears to have mentally checked out and just press the "Solve this ticket" button and never learn anything new now. Programming skills might still be valuable down the line, he's betting on that I suppose.

New comment by filipn in "NPM's release cooldown is security theater"

filipn — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:09:05 +0000

I don't agree with this take, there are a bunch of security companies that are screening new versions of packages looking for vulnerabilities, so waiting a bit before upgrading to the lastest package is miles better than immediately upgrading.

New comment by filipn in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

filipn — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:26:46 +0000

The physical limitations work with you, not against you. Have you ever read a book? The physical limitations is the blank paper, you need to be creative enough with the words you need to express for your vision to come to life.

New comment by filipn in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

filipn — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:52:53 +0000

You're comparing a gpu to a human brain?

Meredith Whittaker on the power of AI and the toxic surveillance business model

filipn — Mon, 27 May 2024 10:00:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/die-rede-der-zukunftspreistraegerin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40489289

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Stop Using Static Credentials

filipn — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 22:29:19 +0000

Article URL: https://filipnikolovski.com/posts/stop-using-static-credentials/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33663404

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by filipn in "I don’t believe in sprints"

filipn — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 12:20:08 +0000

Sprints are a good tool to transform bad teams into better teams. No amount of process and tools is going to convert a good team into being a great one.

Great teams do not need additional processes to deliver value and they usually are more of an obstacle. Clear goals and a vision are much more important, as well as having an environment where the decision makers are the one implementing the solution.

Some thoughts on microservices

filipn — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 13:59:45 +0000

Article URL: https://filipnikolovski.com/posts/thoughts-on-microservices/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29379926

Points: 146

# Comments: 134

eBPF Is Awesome

filipn — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 22:24:55 +0000

Article URL: https://filipnikolovski.com/posts/ebpf/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25490138

Points: 268

# Comments: 44

New comment by filipn in "Google Analytics Opt Out"

filipn — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:54:55 +0000

You can set your router with a firewall NAT rule to capture all DNS requests and redirect them to use Pi-Hole. Your tv will think it talks to 8.8.8.8 when in reality it will talk to your server.

eBPF Is Awesome

filipn — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 15:04:06 +0000

Article URL: https://filipnikolovski.com/posts/ebpf/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25170084

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Correlating Logs

filipn — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 17:43:51 +0000

Article URL: https://filipnikolovski.com/posts/correlating-logs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24653929

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Bazel Performance in a CI Environment

filipn — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 09:28:56 +0000

Article URL: https://filipnikolovski.com/posts/bazel-performance-in-a-ci-environment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351448

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by filipn in "European communications startup Infobip raises $200M for over $1B valuation"

filipn — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:40:28 +0000

Twilio[1] and MessageBird[2] come to my mind as competitors. They both are a "Voice & SMS" communications platform and I guess the innovative part is that they provide an easy way of connecting companies to their customers via multiple channels.

[1] https://www.twilio.com/ [2] https://messagebird.com/en/

New comment by filipn in "Systems Design for Advanced Beginners"

filipn — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 07:11:45 +0000

Yes, I think the second diagram that you showed is the preferred way of doing things, since using or "dogfooding" the client libraries will ensure they are always tested and correct, plus you'll get immediate feedback from the other developers who work on the apps as well.

New comment by filipn in "New Microsoft Edge"

filipn — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:05:57 +0000

There is an explicit section for privacy on the page as I can see, there is even a dedicated page to it: https://microsoftedgewelcome.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy

Also they wrote a privacy whitepaper for Edge as well: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whit...

New comment by filipn in "CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video]"

filipn — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:03:29 +0000

Oh man, I was just about to recommend this book, you beat me to it. I am currently reading it, and I cannot recommend it enough. If you're interested in distributed systems and learning about database fundamentals, it really is a must read.

New comment by filipn in "RediSearch – Redis Powered Search Engine"

filipn — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 07:44:59 +0000

You can read about their licenses here: https://redislabs.com/legal/licenses/

  Redis Modules created by Redis Labs (e.g. RediSearch, RedisGraph, RedisJSON, RedisML, RedisBloom) are licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSAL).

Here is their RSAL license: https://redislabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/redis-sourc...

New comment by filipn in "Excalidraw whiteboard – easily sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn feel"

filipn — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:13:59 +0000

  - Preventing me from switching to it: once a tool (ie. pencil) is used for a stroke, it reverts back to mouse cursor (I'd rather have it stay as pencil and hit 1 for it to switch to a cursor)

There is a little lock icon next to the drawing tools which enables you to lock a tool, so it won't revert back.