Hacker News: hntiz

New comment by hntiz in "Reddit RSS feeds recent rate limiting and solution"

hntiz — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:19:28 +0000

That explains quite a bit. I thought to myself that I've got less mail than usual today, and assumed one of my local cron jobs had failed. But now I noticed it's the Reddit feeds gone quiet.

New comment by hntiz in "Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

hntiz — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:41:01 +0000

Just one minor piece of feedback that's unlikely to be a priority. I cannot fully navigate when browsing in a terminal browser (chawan in my case, haven't tried with w3m or lynx). For example the "h" keymap for going home does not work.

That said though, one of my pet peeves around browsing Github Web from the terminal was having to click "skip to content" just to get the body. So you definitely delivered there (after having read your design post). Good luck with the rest of the year.

New comment by hntiz in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

hntiz — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:22:36 +0000

> a compelling reason to use a ubiquitous framework is that the ubiquity means folks intuitively know how to interact with your product

Not that I disagree with you, but I'll also offer a tradeoff.

When people expect to pick up your app intuitively, it can also just mean them using the app absent-mindedly, which can mean them skipping the manual and jumping straight to trying to tie up the support lines. Whereas if your ui asks for a user's full focus up front, yes there are downsides to that but they're also more engaged.

New comment by hntiz in "Dopamine Fracking"

hntiz — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:30:07 +0000

I couldn't fully relate to the article because the finish comes across as hurried and too convenient. I went through the same process of giving up the things listed, and my life didn't suddenly become easier.

There was an awkward period where I free'd up my time from giving up the same habits and, frankly, did not know what to do with my free time.

I think the two-word analogy explained itself, and if the author had saved some energy not re-explaining it then there would be enough word count left to take the subject more seriously than the rushed ending.

New comment by hntiz in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

hntiz — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:34:03 +0000

I think, just from a purely build-step point of view, it's been evident that tools like Vite, Bun, etc. have achieved all they meaningfully can. If I was the creator of these tools, I've move on too. Good luck and thanks for everything.

New comment by hntiz in "The day my ping took countermeasures"

hntiz — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:55:40 +0000

Hunt for Red October was the very first thing I thought of when seeing the title on here. Nice reconstruction of ping.

New comment by hntiz in "It is time to build a new internet"

hntiz — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:43:28 +0000

This was my first thought when reading the title. I've spent the last month using chawan browser, which has a Gemini layer. And it's generally just a lot of fun to mix old web 1.0 layers with a new one.

New comment by hntiz in "The Boring Internet"

hntiz — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:37:27 +0000

I thought it was a cool essay because I've been using Gemini (the one mentioned in the article, not Google) in my terminal browser lately. And it has been a lot of fun!

But yes the whole "re-explain by negation" writing style does come across as AI-generated.

New comment by hntiz in "UK Fuel Price Intelligence"

hntiz — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:50:01 +0000

I've had this stubborn idea in my head, for a long time, that the petrol station up on Knight's Hill in South London is placed at the absolute nexus of London traffic to collect the best petrol rates across the entire city at any given time.

But yet to explore how I'd validate this idea. Your site helps remind me to have a dig at it.