Hacker News: joshdavham

New comment by joshdavham in "New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings"

joshdavham — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 08:19:37 +0000

That's a good point.

Would you personally be in favor of HN being regulated though? I'm not sure if I would.

New comment by joshdavham in "New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings"

joshdavham — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:33:53 +0000

HN is social media and I think most people recognize that.

It's just that HN is a social media that respects your time and doesn't try to get you addicted. For example, HN has a very useful 'noprocrast' feature and one of the co-founders, pg, has openly worried about HN's addictiveness in the past [0].

So while HN is social media, I feel like it's qualitatively different than other platforms.

[0] https://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

New comment by joshdavham in "I'm just having fun"

joshdavham — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:20:42 +0000

What has been causing you stress? (If you don’t mind me asking?)

New comment by joshdavham in "Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025"

joshdavham — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:28:38 +0000

The top 3 programming books mentioned this year were

1. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 2. Clean Code 3. Crafting Interpreters

Also, it’s quite fascinating how often fiction books were recommended! I wouldn’t’ve expected that on HN.

New comment by joshdavham in "Show HN: RenderCV – Open-source CV/resume generator, YAML to PDF"

joshdavham — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:17:42 +0000

Favorited for next time I make a resume - thanks for making this! Hopefully I’ll never have to touch LaTeX ever again.

New comment by joshdavham in "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"

joshdavham — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:41:43 +0000

Thanks for this comment tick_tock :)

After reading this, I did some research and learned a lot. I never really considered that, by including many things under the same domain, that you're increasing your blast radius w.r.t security vulernabilites. Thanks for that

New comment by joshdavham in "Coursera to combine with Udemy"

joshdavham — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:04:46 +0000

Was also news to me!

New comment by joshdavham in "Coursera to combine with Udemy"

joshdavham — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:04:10 +0000

I get so much decision fatigue when choosing a course series on YouTube. On every technical topic, there are like 15 people making courses anywhere from 10 minutes to 10 hours.

New comment by joshdavham in "Coursera to combine with Udemy"

joshdavham — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:01:22 +0000

I recently bought a course on the Spring Boot from codewithmosh. Despite spring boot being a dry subject, it was probably the best intro backend course I’d ever taken!

New comment by joshdavham in "Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling"

joshdavham — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:30:23 +0000

Reminds me of the legendary flow chart "How to measure things like a Canadian": https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/18xbabx/...

New comment by joshdavham in "Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling"

joshdavham — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:24:48 +0000

> For example, the "Headingley Gaol" near Winnipeg.

Fellow Winnipeger here! I remember driving by that sign as a kid and being baffled by that word.

Component Party – Compare JavaScript Frameworks

joshdavham — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 03:47:02 +0000

Article URL: https://component-party.dev/?f=react-svelte5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260599

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by joshdavham in "Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components"

joshdavham — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:04:06 +0000

Haha don’t sweat it dude. Happens to literally everyone on HN.

New comment by joshdavham in "Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components"

joshdavham — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:37:56 +0000

I'm no javascript framework expert, but how vulnerable do people estimate other frameworks like Angular, Sveltekit and Nuxt to be to this sort of thing? Is React more disposed to be at risk? Is it just because there are more eyes on React due to its popularity?

New comment by joshdavham in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

joshdavham — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:44:45 +0000

I think on HN, people generally want the submission's title to match the page's title.

(I do agree it's clickbait-y though)

New comment by joshdavham in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

joshdavham — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:39:44 +0000

What people miss is that vibe coding actually is coding, except the code are your prompts and the LLM is the compiler.

The problem here is that human languages are terrible programming languages and LLMs are terrible compilers.

New comment by joshdavham in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

joshdavham — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 01:44:57 +0000

You've stated in a previous comment that non-US citizens can be denied entry to the United States if border officers request access to your phone and you decline to do so.

... but what about when non-US citizens leave the US?

For example, as a Canadian, if I'm down in the US and, on my way back up to Canada, a US border officer requests access to my phone and I decline... what happens then?

New comment by joshdavham in "30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript""

joshdavham — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:21:15 +0000

In 2015, when I started my CS degree, Java was still the first language we learned.

George Washington's Teeth

joshdavham — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:12:57 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_teeth

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46122705

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by joshdavham in "Ask YN: What CI do you use instead of GitHub Actions?"

joshdavham — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:21:49 +0000

Just FYI, the title of your post should be 'Ask HN: ', not 'Ask YN: '.