Hacker News: franz899

New comment by franz899 in "Ruby for Good"

franz899 — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:42:53 +0000

They did it for speed, and Go was the language with the closest syntax to migrate to.

Apple Manufacturing Academy

franz899 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:03:40 +0000

Article URL: https://manufacturingacademy.msu.edu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196902

Points: 2

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New comment by franz899 in "Fast Minimalist Writing Tool"

franz899 — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 09:03:55 +0000

I use https://ia.net/writer. It does the job and supports templates for quick export to HTML or PDF.

New comment by franz899 in "WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM"

franz899 — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 12:23:32 +0000

WebAssembly's purpose was never to replace JavaScript but only to speed up certain parts of a website/app.

New comment by franz899 in "25 Gbit/sec residential FTTH in Switzerland [German]"

franz899 — Thu, 27 May 2021 11:35:50 +0000

I don't think we were ever "fine" with 56k, but I think we reached a good speed with 1Gb/s. It will be more than enough for most households until everything we do will scale up in resolution.

New comment by franz899 in "Saying Good Bye to Hey.com"

franz899 — Thu, 20 May 2021 08:31:19 +0000

I didn't renew mine either. My two main reasons are the mess they caused a few weeks ago and how bad the search is. HEY has a great feature that lets you merge multiple threads under one name, but they do not have a higher weight over any other email subject or body. I've found myself lost in a long list of non-relevant emails when searching for a merge thread name, having to scroll email after email; how can they not give a higher weight to a custom string that I chose? All of this on a less than one-year-old archive, I don't know how this system can work overtime.

New comment by franz899 in "Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?"

franz899 — Sat, 16 May 2020 09:04:26 +0000

Thank you, it looks good

I've added this code to fix the reply textarea colour:

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Playdate Programming

franz899 — Sat, 02 May 2020 07:19:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/608372277

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23050012

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by franz899 in "Ask HN: How do you process payments?"

franz899 — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:54:54 +0000

Stripe's Payment Intent API

All done via serverless functions, for both initialisation and confirmation(via Stripe's webhooks).

New comment by franz899 in "How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods (2015) [pdf]"

franz899 — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:57:59 +0000

I recommend "Practical TLA+" too; it introduces TLA+ in a more approachable way than other resources.

Link to the book: https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484238288

London has some of the slowest broadband speeds in the UK. Why?

franz899 — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 21:49:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-broadband-speeds-london-slow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18983431

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by franz899 in "Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)"

franz899 — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:47:36 +0000

Sharing an article from an amp page when talking about Google manipulating search results is quite the touch.