Hacker News: ishandotpage

New comment by ishandotpage in "Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS"

ishandotpage — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 16:16:59 +0000

A lot of apps belonging to Indian banks will simply refuse to open if you have developer options or USB debugging enabled. Fun!

New comment by ishandotpage in "Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed"

ishandotpage — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 18:01:10 +0000

Have you actually tried using the open-source self hostable version of trigger? It seems to only exist in order to check a "we're open source yay" box.

It's missing lots of features like sleeping on waits, warm starts etc.

New comment by ishandotpage in "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past"

ishandotpage — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:12:07 +0000

I have had a particularly poor experience with Cloudflare Billing support, where an unexplained invoice was raised, silently? failed, and R2 access was immediately cut off, support was unhelpful in being able to explain anything AND took weeks to reply, and I had to move off R2 posthaste as it brought down production.

I will not be trusting Cloudflare with anything production critical.

A Historical Reference of React Criticism

ishandotpage — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:45:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zachleat.com/web/react-criticism/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037199

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Drama and Dysfunction of Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Pro

ishandotpage — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:48:13 +0000

Article URL: https://bazhkio88.substack.com/p/field-notes-from-the-ai-village-the

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012543

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ishandotpage in "Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies"

ishandotpage — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:04:01 +0000

I am going through a very similar issue with Cloudflare right now, and billing support is almost of no help.

New comment by ishandotpage in "Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English"

ishandotpage — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:34:45 +0000

I think you may enjoy [Nushell](https://www.nushell.sh)

New comment by ishandotpage in "Go ahead, self-host Postgres"

ishandotpage — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:28:37 +0000

`pglite` is a WASM version of postgres. I use it in one of my side projects for providing a postgres DB running in the user's browser.

For most purposes, it works perfectly fine, but with two main caveats:

1. It is single user, single connection (i.e. no MVCC) 2. It doesn't support all postgres extensions (particularly postGIS), though it does support pgvector

https://github.com/supabase-community/pg-gateway is something that may be used to use pglite for prototyping I guess, but I haven't used this.

What I Learned Using Neon Postgres for a Week of Live Traffic

ishandotpage — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:49:26 +0000

Article URL: https://ishan.page/blog/dbms-neon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211812

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ishandotpage in "Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)"

ishandotpage — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:10:39 +0000

I agree with you that this question is unanswerable verbatim. It sorta reminds me of how Agile came up the "Definition of Done"

System maintainers / stakeholders themselves need to come up with a "Definition of Working"

Since distributed systems are basically in some state of failure/degradation almost all of the time, it is useless to try to say that "the system is working when there are no errors anywhere".

Some sort of threshold needs to be arrived at where we can say "it's working".

What that threshold looks like is going to vary from project to project.

Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)

ishandotpage — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:22:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46175891

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by ishandotpage in "I'm an IIT Madras Student. But to Some, I'm Diluting the Brand"

ishandotpage — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:10:31 +0000

Heyo, thank you for your kind comment, I did recognise the student id but I wasn't sure if you wanted me to reach out or not, but I will do that now!

I'm an IIT Madras Student. But to Some, I'm Diluting the Brand

ishandotpage — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:00:13 +0000

Article URL: https://ishan.page/blog/jeeification/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45777170

Points: 10

# Comments: 4

New comment by ishandotpage in "Show HN: BoGO – Generate Go back end services directly from SQL files"

ishandotpage — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:58:19 +0000

Very cool, reminds me of both [sqlc](https://sqlc.dev) and [oapi-codegen](https://github.com/oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen)

I'm not a fan of the enterprisey hexagonal-style code this generates, but I can understand where this might be useful for someone who does follow that.

A question regarding evolution: it's rare that schemas stay constant. I'm not sure if this tool will lend itself well when the time comes to, say, add another table, though I might be misunderstanding here.

New comment by ishandotpage in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"

ishandotpage — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 04:39:22 +0000

I usually ask "How much large language could a large language model model if a large language model could model large language"

Not one has given me the correct answer yet.

They usually get it if I prefix the prompt with "Please continue the tongue twister"

Can our words mean whatever we want them to mean? (2021)

ishandotpage — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:02:41 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/secl-news-events/2021/06/10/can-our-words-mean-whatever-we-want-them-to-mean/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971013

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

What It's Like to Perform the Last Rites for an Organ Donor

ishandotpage — Sun, 26 May 2024 11:09:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/23/although-she-was-dead-i-felt-as-if-she-was-my-friend-what-its-like-to-perform-the-last-rites-for-an-organ-donor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481244

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ishandotpage in "Bangladesh built a tech park for 100k workers. Now it's a ghost town"

ishandotpage — Thu, 02 May 2024 09:03:21 +0000

I used to work in Salt Lake, it's a really weird place. Very jarring with all the glass buildings that heat up the place, and horrible connectivity to the main city (in terms of public transport).

Databases: How they work, and a brief history (2019)

ishandotpage — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:50:03 +0000

Article URL: https://seldo.com/posts/databases_how_they_work_and_a_brief_history

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40091753

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ishandotpage in "Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab"

ishandotpage — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:08:32 +0000

Hey, this is pretty cool! I used to love iGoogle back in the day. Great job!