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New comment by fregonics in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

fregonics — Fri, 30 May 2025 10:42:14 +0000

We all have those tasks in our applications that are not common enough to warrant a project (and another deploy) to make an admin panel, but also are painful to do, because they are tricky or time-consuming. So I'm working on an internal tools building platform to quickly wrangle some admin interface do automate them.

This is currently just a prototype I'm developing, but I'm honestly eager to receive some feedback, as I'm not completely sure about the direction.

https://github.com/luizgfranca/synthreon

New comment by fregonics in "Ask HN: Solo developer building a product? Show us your work and get feedback"

fregonics — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:10:44 +0000

I'm building a internal tools engine partially inspired by Interval (RIP).

It will be completely open source from the start and support many languages other than JS.

It is in the very early stage of development, but it would be nice to know if anyone other than me is interested, and if you have any tips on what bothered you in other similar tools or things you would want on it.

https://github.com/luizgfranca/platformlab

New comment by fregonics in "Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket"

fregonics — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:14:53 +0000

This. I used to be very skeptical of anything Blue Origin. But after the CEO change they appear to have changed their attitude for the better.

They are not on SpaceX level, but they are growing recently and I think this test, even with the many problems or things I didn't like (SpaceX spoiled us), it was positive.

New comment by fregonics in "Ask HN: Who has an interesting job?"

fregonics — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 23:45:00 +0000

You must hear this a lot, but.. do you have any tips on how to break into the field?

Currently I'm a backend engineer, but my initial interest to dive into development was operating systems and networking.

I recently have been improving my knowledge doing some systems related projects and trying to contribute a bit to open source, but getting a role working with that still seems so unreachable not having any formal experience...

New comment by fregonics in "Ask HN: Why do banking apps care about your phone OS"

fregonics — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:55:56 +0000

Security consultancy companies need to always point out something that needs to be changed, even though it is not really important to show themselves as useful.

And executives don't have enough tech knowledge to discern between security measures that are actually effective or not, so to avoid risks they just make their tech teams implement it because the consultancy said it should be done

Had a similar situation in my current job, and unfortunately it is not something worth picking a fight with senior leadership for.

Ironically most of these companies allow access from Web Browsers (which are completely controlled by the client).

New comment by fregonics in "A skeleton made from the bones of at least eight people thousands of years apart"

fregonics — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:23:23 +0000

I cant stop imagining the grin of an old roman historian troll doing this and imagining how confused it would make people in the future.

New comment by fregonics in "Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder"

fregonics — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:52:07 +0000

If I'm not wrong Firefox is already Rust. The language was even created inside Mozilla.

New comment by fregonics in "Ask HN: Create audio software akin to physics engines?"

fregonics — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:01:23 +0000

Could you indicate the tutorial on Box 2D physics you mentioned? I'm interested

New comment by fregonics in "Is the Future of Moore's Law in a Particle Accelerator?"

fregonics — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:28:38 +0000

Those are two different problems. And this is just research for now.

But to address leakage there are already the gate-all-around transistors [1], which are in semiconductor companies roadmaps [2].

[1] https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2022/what-is-a-gate-all...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16823/intel-accelerated-offen...

New comment by fregonics in "You'll regret using natural keys"

fregonics — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:29:47 +0000

True! For instance the example itself. "cus" is profanity in Portuguese. If you were to localize the application, this would be a factor.

New comment by fregonics in "This is a teenager"

fregonics — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:33:37 +0000

The person is indeed influenced by their environment, but the "adverse experiences" should factor in just that, environmental influences, not actions from the individuals.

I think environment influences can increase the likelihood of those adverse experiences, contact with violent behavior for instance can make a person more likely to be suspended, but a person may have been brought up in a normal family and still be violent and be suspended (i got to know such cases, and they're more common than you imagine), and even a person that had contact with this kind of situation may think that they do not want that for their life and use this as a motivator (also have seen such cases).

But the adverse experiences should focus not on the results, but the causes. What factors are we able to quantify that made this student be held back (uninterested parents? a personality disorder? ...) and how big is the influence of each of them in a person's destiny. Only looking at them we will be able to really learn something meaningful from what happened.

New comment by fregonics in "This is a teenager"

fregonics — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:57:17 +0000

The presentation argues that the adverse experiences cited are outside the individual's control, some of them are and they can have negative effects, i agree, like gun violence or uninterested parents, but others are questionable, like suspensions or being held back in school, which is (in most part) derived directly from the individual's actions.

Since the margins in some of the statistics are so small i wonder how would they look with the adverse experiences ignoring this 2 points.

For me it is obvious that a person who was held back in school and received suspensions will be less likely to be well off when they are older.

New comment by fregonics in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

fregonics — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:37:14 +0000

I'm building a windows-like Linux graphical admin tool to manage background services/daemons. I saw some people complaining that it didn't exist, and the subject interests me, so I decided to do it.

https://github.com/luizgfranca/sism

New comment by fregonics in "I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)"

fregonics — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 02:41:28 +0000

I worked with Delphi in the beginning of my career, and the only thing I find myself really missing is the runtime type information! It worked really well and sometimes I find myself missing it in other compiled languages.

But I heavily disagree with the author's positivity about Delphi in general.

The UI builder excels on wiring up small utilities, but when you are looking to build applications with more complex UIs, with custom components and/or devices with different screens, the complexity increases exponentially and the UI preview becomes just a small suggestion, I think only in the last release (10.5) in 2022 they addressed this.

The component system is clunky, and very prone to breaking. In my entire time working with it I never once had a completely functional development environment, because components installation never had the same result. To work in some parts of the project i had to just ignore the IDE and edit the text files directly. Also, Delphi updates required reinstalling everything, and solving the many problems that would arise, and then all dev environments would have to be reconfigured (and troubleshooted) manually.

Talking about editing, the IDE's performance is not very good, and the Intellisense is not asynchronous, the suggestions and error checking took their time to load, and the IDE becomes unresponsive while it processes, and sometimes windows would just kill the application because it was not responding. I had to turn it all off to be able to work. Oh.. And the bugs, the IDE had bugs just everywhere!

The above exposes a problem in the language itself, it did not have good asynchronous behavior, and I never understood it completely, the only way to make sure you would not block the main thread in some way was to spawn a new process to run background stuff.

The standard components are outdated, the WebView they used was Internet Explorer's one until the 10.4 release, in 2021, they just recently started to adopt WinUI, so you were stuck with 00's user experience, their JSON parser was not very standard (it didn't support the number type, for instance). And when I searched community components to implement things I usually found only something very outdated and unmaintained, or just didn't find anything.

I think essentially it had some quite good ideas in the beginning, but this is the important fact, it "had". Delphi stopped improving on itself, and is just trying to convince the same community of people who fell in love with it when it was still good and dedicated their entire careers to it that they are cool now, adding things that sound cool, while nothing important really improves.

New comment by fregonics in "Ask HN: What are some Git aliases you setup that save you time?"

fregonics — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:21:20 +0000

I have a similar one:

unstage = git restore --staged

New comment by fregonics in "Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?"

fregonics — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:32:06 +0000

> I started reading up on social skills

Could you recommend some of the resources you read to learn social skills? I'm currently fighting the same fight you did, and maybe it could help.

New comment by fregonics in "Ask HN: Best way to learn C++ in 2022"

fregonics — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:22:35 +0000

I agree that Rust is really good, and I plan learn it soon. But even if I agree that the language is dying, the majority of low level projects are still in C/C++, and will be for a loooong time. So to be effective in the close and even not so close future, and to understand the environment you are building over, knowing C++ is almost fundamental.

And also, it's important to learn C++ to understand what are the problems the new solutions solve, and how and when to use them in a more effective way.

New comment by fregonics in "What VS Code theme do you use?"

fregonics — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:13:28 +0000

I too like themes with less colors! Too much syntax highlighting usually takes my concentration. But I also don't like colored backgrounds, so my current favorites are:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pyxel.ru... (minimal option)

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=arzg.sem... (default)

The second, paired with colored brackets is awesome!

New comment by fregonics in "Ask HN: How to Get Addicted to Studying?"

fregonics — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:47:04 +0000

I don't even know if i laugh or if i cry on how i relate to this haha

New comment by fregonics in "Show HN: Let AI decide how attractive you are"

fregonics — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 13:12:51 +0000

Really interesting! But it appears to me that it has a racial bias. I compared me (I am kinda ugly) with a dark skinned colleague (people consider him very attractive), and i had a score ~25% higher than his.

With other pictures i seem to obtain similar results (even with the AI failing to recognize some black faces).

This was the only problem for me, but very fun site :)