Hacker News: frant1c

A few servers and a load balancer (2023)

frant1c — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 01:55:51 +0000

Article URL: https://shayy.org/posts/a-few-servers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39949359

Points: 2

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Arc browser's ambiguous user alignment

frant1c — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:07:51 +0000

Article URL: http://zhayitong.com/2024/02/01/arc-alignment.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39234420

Points: 3

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New comment by frant1c in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)"

frant1c — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:56:37 +0000

Secta Labs | Founding Frontend Engineer | Remote (US only) | Full Time | https://secta.ai/

Our first product offers authentic, high-quality AI-generated photos, akin to a fancy studio portrait, for those without the budget or time.

We dive deeply into hard ML problems to deliver simple and delightful UX. Bootstrapped & profitable.

Our frontend stack: TypeScript, React, NextJS, tRPC, Prisma, Inngest, Tailwind. Looking for senior frontend engineers obsessed with attention to detail to lead new parts of our growing apps suite. More details & apply https://secta.ai/careers/ed4206a0-0bf5-4a2e-b37f-fd8aaf2ab26...

Send me the things you've built and proud of to { alexk plus hn at secta dot ai }

AI or Not – detect AI-generated photos using AI

frant1c — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 23:45:03 +0000

Article URL: https://tolkunov.dev/posts/ai-or-not/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38873825

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Many people make it through 100 Days of Code tutorial

frant1c — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 23:19:00 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1732714720451330558

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38563145

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A Change in SF's Tech Fauna

frant1c — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:10:50 +0000

Article URL: http://zhayitong.com/2023/10/22/sf-fauna.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37988572

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by frant1c in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

frant1c — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:00:21 +0000

https://frantic.im/

I’ve been coding for 20 years now, sharing insights I’ve learned about software engineering, product design, side projects, productivity.

JavaScript Gom Jabbar

frant1c — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:09:13 +0000

Article URL: https://frantic.im/javascript-gom-jabbar/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36526007

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by frant1c in "Show HN: Inngest – Developer platform for background jobs and workflows"

frant1c — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:45:55 +0000

We've been using Inngest at Secta.ai for the last ~6 months, happy to answer any questions!

DX is great! Writing the jobs feels very natural, much much simpler than Temporal. The development server is neat and makes debugging jobs very easy. TypeScript SDK is idiomatic, the types are properly inferred & propagated throughout the whole app.

The nice thing about writing step functions for Inngest vs regular "async worker queues" is that we can express logic, e.g. "if X than wait for event Y", with a layer of caching/retries on top.

For Sale: A Promise to Remove Invisible Gas

frant1c — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 02:23:34 +0000

Article URL: https://jamie-wong.com/post/carbon-dioxide-removal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36320625

Points: 1

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Facebook uses React Native on desktop

frant1c — Fri, 19 May 2023 05:03:49 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2023/05/17/messenger-desktop-faster-and-smaller-by-moving-to-react-native-from-electron/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35997977

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by frant1c in "Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?"

frant1c — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:52:36 +0000

CTF-like puzzles for hackers https://hacker.gifts/

Show HN: Digital Puzzles for Programmers

frant1c — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 21:16:58 +0000

I built a service that generates digital puzzles. It's like an escape room: you get a clue that leads you to another clue, and at the end of the chain you get to a prize (secret message).

It's very similar to CTFs, but less focused on security aspects.

Here's an example of a puzzle: https://imgur.com/a/FrB6uPM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34238191

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise

frant1c — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:40:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nathanlippi.com/blog/digital-dojo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30402020

Points: 272

# Comments: 264

New comment by frant1c in "Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development"

frant1c — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:14:04 +0000

I'm an engineer at replit and I've been using this to find and fix a bunch of nasty bugs. I love the sense of confidence this gives me. When I have the recording captured — I know for sure I can get to the root cause of the problem.

Replay also makes it easier to jump into a new codebase, I can see how things work.

New comment by frant1c in "Programming Idioms"

frant1c — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 00:06:26 +0000

TIL many programming languages have built-in support for complex types (e.g. 2i in Ruby, 2j in Python) https://programming-idioms.org/idiom/77/complex-number

New comment by frant1c in "Todo apps are meant for robots"

frant1c — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 05:54:08 +0000

I think https://momentum.earth/ gets a few things right (no affiliation)

Todo apps are meant for robots

frant1c — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 20:48:05 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.frantic.im/all/todo-apps-are-meant-for-robots/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28029809

Points: 272

# Comments: 201

New comment by frant1c in "We Still Don’t Get Things Done"

frant1c — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 20:47:00 +0000

I think this article was very good. It captured the same though process I went through: from trying different apps, to trying to build my own, to realizing it’s all about human condition after all.

I do think, however, that software for TODO lists sucks, and should support humans better https://blog.frantic.im/all/todo-apps-are-meant-for-robots/

Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser

frant1c — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:31:29 +0000

Article URL: https://stopa.io/post/279

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424496

Points: 184

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