Hacker News: gagik_co

New comment by gagik_co in "Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd"

gagik_co — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:32:04 +0000

Very amoosing. The cherry on top is that the backend is in Rust.

New comment by gagik_co in "Digg is gone again"

gagik_co — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:45:07 +0000

Is Reddit fighting the bot problem? They introduced a feature to hide post history which makes it hard to know whether you’re interacting with a spammy bot account. If anything they’re embracing it.

New comment by gagik_co in "Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?"

gagik_co — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:13:22 +0000

I’m also a “text myself” kind of person. I’m using my own chat-based notes app called tetrify, which is now adopting the Matrix protocol for sync.

New comment by gagik_co in "Ask HN: Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development?"

gagik_co — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:10:40 +0000

Flutter developer experience is top notch. The best place you can see this is by comparing the experience of upgrading React Native vs upgrading Flutter. Flutter Web with WASM is also very cool. If you’re using a bespoke design for your app and don’t care about looking native, it’s overall a more predictable way to manage cross platform development.

That said, React Native has many great third party libraries whereas Flutter is dominated by a lot of low quality solutions.

New comment by gagik_co in "YayText"

gagik_co — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:19:50 +0000

“You may click to consent to our and our 824 partners’ processing as described above.”

it’s a quirky text transformation website, how did we reach this point?

New comment by gagik_co in "Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union"

gagik_co — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:11:37 +0000

Many European labor laws came to existence thanks to their workers movements, which were primarily driven by, ehm, unions.

New comment by gagik_co in "Show HN: SyncKit – Offline-first sync engine (Rust/WASM and TypeScript)"

gagik_co — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:35:47 +0000

This is impressive! After Realm depreciation I have been trying many different offline sync options, they are especially few on Dart… Dart-Rust binding generator is pretty great though so it’s nice this is in Rust. Will keep an eye on this.

New comment by gagik_co in "TSA to charge $18 fee for travelers without Real ID or passport"

gagik_co — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 06:20:50 +0000

Schengen thing should be working like this but more and more I have been asked for ID/passport, usually by the airline before boarding or local police acting as border guards after arrival.

New comment by gagik_co in "The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting"

gagik_co — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 06:15:27 +0000

The new built-in translation in Firefox works pretty well! I never need to fallback to others, although forcing it to translate has weird UX.

New comment by gagik_co in "SwirlDB: Modular-first, CRDT-based embedded database"

gagik_co — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:06:08 +0000

Yep just Synapse with more liberal rate limits and no federation.

New comment by gagik_co in "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web"

gagik_co — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:22:25 +0000

Yeah I have thought about more user friendly Violentmonkeh before. This sort of thing just needs to be open source and non-profit, there isn’t even much upkeep to it. At what point will the investors want some form of return?

This is built from the system that created enshittifcation in the first place; a cleaner web is definitely not going to come from a startup.

New comment by gagik_co in "SwirlDB: Modular-first, CRDT-based embedded database"

gagik_co — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:01:15 +0000

My app is for chat-based notes[1] and I have been wanting E2E local-first sync on it for a while. Switched from Realm to SQLite after it was deprecated but never found a good non-niche DB SDK for it on Flutter. Tried to handroll sync + AES-GCM encryption with Supabase Realtime and it kind of worked but I knew managing encryption was going to be hell and also wanted collaboration features. Matrix was built for chat, and at some point I read someone call it basically a graph sync engine & potentially supporting general texting with other clients also seemed like a cool bonus.

That said, adopting it (even partially) was/is a big mess, there's a thousand corner cases with key exchange, etc. so it's really a big commitment, especially if there's no existing user-friendly SDK for it.

I'm not using yjs (yet), just going to more basic event sourcing that is essentially last-write wins but that's a direction I want to explore in the future.

[1] https://tetrify.com/

New comment by gagik_co in "SwirlDB: Modular-first, CRDT-based embedded database"

gagik_co — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 14:54:49 +0000

Zero-trust syncing of notes data. Honestly an overkill for the purpose but more of an ideological and educational goal.

New comment by gagik_co in "SwirlDB: Modular-first, CRDT-based embedded database"

gagik_co — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:54:17 +0000

This could be exactly what I need, AES GCM field-level encryption support is a godsend. Unfortunately seems like it’s planned and not ready. If I hadn’t just finished rolling out a sync feature built around the Matrix protocol, I would have loved to properly try this out.

New comment by gagik_co in "Smithsonian Open Access"

gagik_co — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:04:04 +0000

I wanted to give it benefit of the doubt but the same poster has an identical AI “Interesting point about X” comment in a different thread. This checks out.

New comment by gagik_co in "Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy?"

gagik_co — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:31:51 +0000

Right now it's prime time for a bunch of "European" tech (which still very much depend on a ton of non-EU infrastructure and code) to start shilling for their "EU alternatives". It's like the new local buzzword after AI.

I started self-hosting and adopting Matrix for my app recently and most of these raised concerns seem manipulative at best. Thanks for all the work with the project!

New comment by gagik_co in "Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy?"

gagik_co — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:13:28 +0000

Any open source project can be made unsafe intentionally or unintentionally, with or without people noticing, is there anything unique to this risk with Matrix?

New comment by gagik_co in "The Offline Club"

gagik_co — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 22:24:49 +0000

I’m sure in a nice community cafe you could just ask them to hold onto your phone if you really wanted to. This is one of those Silicon Valley things where everything needs to be commodified with some nice branding and an app offering a solution to a problem solvable with “talk to other humans”.

I thought this was a timeleft kind of deal about pairing for dinner with strangers but it’s barely even that.

New comment by gagik_co in "Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost"

gagik_co — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:08:31 +0000

Agree! I finally set up my own NodeBB forum for my app support and I'm very excited to move in this direction. It was a nicer experience than expected.

New comment by gagik_co in "Timescale Is Now TigerData"

gagik_co — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:12:45 +0000

The original tiger bit could have originated from some of founders’ affiliations with Princeton too.