Hacker News: grounder

New comment by grounder in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

grounder — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:21:03 +0000

Same for me. I had to quarantine my FireTV box with its own rules on my network to stop it from using all of my XFinity bandwidth for the month just doing nothing but maybe an hour of actual usage per day.

New comment by grounder in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

grounder — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:22:18 +0000

Now we're the product whether we pay for something or not.

New comment by grounder in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

grounder — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 03:34:45 +0000

There's a whole video of the Apple team doing it. Absolutely bonkers. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-introduces-a-de...

New comment by grounder in "Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?"

grounder — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:52:32 +0000

WeasyPrint works really well for me. It can support all of the languages and fonts I need. I run it on AWS Lambda and in Docker as a web service.

I previously used WKHTMLTOPDF, but it hasn't been supported for years and doesn't support the latest CSS, etc. It does support JS if you need it, but I'd probably look at headless Chromium or another solution for JS if needed.

Edit: Previous post with some good discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26578826

New comment by grounder in "Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)"

grounder — Tue, 20 May 2025 01:50:44 +0000

What are MuskMap and TrumpMap (I'm kind of afraid to ask), and can you link to more info about how they used your database?

New comment by grounder in "How NASA Is Using Graph Technology and LLMs to Build a People Knowledge Graph"

grounder — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:32:35 +0000

Check out SurrealDB. It might be exactly what you're looking for. https://surrealdb.com/

New comment by grounder in "Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale"

grounder — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:51:14 +0000

Do the terms of use on the websites you scraped allow scraping/copying their data?

New comment by grounder in "Fauna Service Winding Down"

grounder — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:18:21 +0000

Hopefully a new company will form to pick up the open source pieces and go from there. I wonder if Fauna tried to find a buyer - it seems like they have some valuable software but weren't able to make it work. Shutting down in 2.5 months is pretty aggressive. Good luck to the former customers.

I was expecting the migration guide to recommend some other options. I don't know of other BaaS document databases like Fauna. I guess Mongo, CouchDB, Couchbase, and traditional Postgres would be the first open source options to look for. DocumentDB for closed source but offered by a big cloud vendor (AWS). If you want to roll the dice again, then maybe SurrealDB or RavenDB.

New comment by grounder in "SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale"

grounder — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:38:25 +0000

I understand the two tables in your chat example, I think. I'm wondering how you get the rest of the user profile data (name, for example). Is that table in a totally different SQLite database? If so, can you join on that, or do you need to query it separately? Thanks!

New comment by grounder in "SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale"

grounder — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:12:45 +0000

In your chat channel example, you have a table for messages, and a table for participants. How do you join the participants in this chat channel database with whichever database the participants are actually defined in, so the application would be able to show participant details (name, avatar, etc.)?

New comment by grounder in "2025 Hiring Pause"

grounder — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:07:22 +0000

We might need to know the FTE values to understand what this means. Are staff positions full-time FTE? Are faculty positions full-time, tenure positions? Have they added part-time staff, adjunct faculty, etc.?

New comment by grounder in "Five years of React Native at Shopify"

grounder — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:36:14 +0000

I'll look this up later tonight. Is Hotwire using the same approach as Capacitor / Ionic?

New comment by grounder in "I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back"

grounder — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:31:11 +0000

Are vertical tabs now in the main release of Firefox? I've been on Nightly for the vertical tabs and I love it. Fully agree - container tabs are awesome too.

New comment by grounder in "Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported"

grounder — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:54:58 +0000

Try Firefox Nightly for the native sidebar vertical tabs. That and native tab containers make Firefox work really well for me.

New comment by grounder in "Rama on Clojure's terms, and the magic of continuation-passing style"

grounder — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:46:24 +0000

Do you have an estimate of when you'll be out of private beta and available? Can you share any more about pricing or what you consider to be a "small-scale application". Thanks!

New comment by grounder in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""

grounder — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:03:41 +0000

Brave browser should probably not be trusted. They violated basic trust by redirecting URLs to their own affiliate links for those URLs. That is pretty bad. https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...

New comment by grounder in "Manifest v2 is now removed from Chrome canary"

grounder — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:50:33 +0000

I don't know much about Arc. But Arc users could give Firefox "Nightly" a try to preview new features coming up. It has vertical tabs and you can "pin" a few tabs at the top. Nightly also has containers already built-in, so you can have multiple accounts open for the same site in different container tabs.

New comment by grounder in "Nixiesearch: Running Lucene over S3, and why we're building a new search engine"

grounder — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:36:59 +0000

Quickwit indicates it is for immutable data and not to be used for mutable data. Is that the case in your experience?

New comment by grounder in "Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase"

grounder — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 02:35:33 +0000

Looks interesting. Does it support things like the device camera?

New comment by grounder in "Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine"

grounder — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:27:26 +0000

Can you provide more info about this?