Hacker News: korm

New comment by korm in "The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy"

korm — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:08:46 +0000

It's interesting to see UK-based influencers all citing these weak studies (internet surveys) about how social media is not so bad for children, or bemoaning the huge loss for children whose access to educational videos will be cut.

While the financial motive is clear, they must all believe it to an extent, because social media made their careers and changed their lives.

The reality is that the vast majority of kids aren't interested in learning video editing or movie directing, they are mindlessly consuming AI-generated videos and similar content served to them. 30-second videos on random facts sprinkled here and there aren't education.

Not that I think this ban will help, but downplaying the harm to children is a bit too much coming from people with ties to these platforms, like the author of this article.

New comment by korm in "When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype"

korm — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:48:32 +0000

From an engineer working on this here on HN:

> ...while far off from feature parity with the most popular production browsers today...

What a way to phrase it!

You know, I found a bicycle in the trash. It doesn't work great yet, but I can walk it down a hill. While far off from the level of the most popular supercars today, I think we have made impressive progress going down the hill.

New comment by korm in "Cloudflare was down"

korm — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:50:50 +0000

Yep, every SLA I've ever seen only offers credit. The idea that providers are incentivized to fudge uptime % due to SLAs makes no sense to me. Reputation and marketing maybe, but not SLAs.

The compensation is peanuts. $137 off a $10,000 bill for 10 hours of downtime, or 98.68% uptime in a month, is well within the profit margins.

New comment by korm in "RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js"

korm — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:20:12 +0000

It's not a transitive dependency, it's just literally bundled into nextjs, I'm guessing to avoid issues with fragile builds.

New comment by korm in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

korm — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:58:55 +0000

Gitkraken is the best, and I can't believe anyone would voluntarily use Sourcetree over it.

I've used gitkraken for over 9 years and it's great for both newbies and pros.

It completely solves the problem with new or intermediate devs, who are not used to working in a sizable team, constantly needing hand-holding.

Lots of people resist adopting it at first, but not one has regretted it so far. It usually goes like this:

1. "No I won't use it, the terminal is better"

2. Mess up

3. Finally give gitkraken a serious try

4. Realize they didn't really know git

New comment by korm in "Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible"

korm — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:05:20 +0000

GitHub has both webhooks and an extensive API. What you are describing is entirely doable, nothing really requires GitHub Actions as far as I know.

Most people opt for it for convenience. There's a balance you can strike between all the yaml and shared actions, and running your own scripts.

New comment by korm in "Have I Been Pwned 2.0"

korm — Mon, 19 May 2025 22:38:20 +0000

They must have not asked enough Leetcode Hard questions in interviews.

New comment by korm in "Critical CSS"

korm — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:54:39 +0000

The mod_pagespeed filter "prioritize_critical_css" was released exactly 12 years ago in early May 2013. At least 3 more popular critical css tools were released the following year, integrating with Grunt, Gulp, and later Webpack.

New comment by korm in "Knowing CSS is mastery to front end development"

korm — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 09:59:27 +0000

It's a bit like the

tag. A codebase that's littered with stuff like "InlineStack" is harder to work with and parse because the resulting div soup still requires extra styling, which is now both markup and CSS.

New comment by korm in "Sunsetting Create React App"

korm — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:50:51 +0000

React was literally first created in ML out of the author's dislike of MVC, who preferred functional programming and immutability[0]. For a long time, react aspired for its future to be in ReasonML.

Hooks came as no surprise to anyone who paid attention, as the recommended way to write components since at least 2016 was in the stateless functional style whenever possible, and many of us used recompose[1] to simulate hooks long before their introduction.

[0] https://github.com/reactiflux/q-and-a/blob/master/jordan-wal...

[1] https://github.com/acdlite/recompose

New comment by korm in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

korm — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:40:37 +0000

> North Korea didn't fire a single missile

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_Korean_missile...

> Russia didn't invade Ukraine

Russia invaded in 2014 and the conflict stabilized (but didn't stop) in 2015.

In the meantime, the Syrian civil war was raging on.

Similarly, if we ignore all the events in the prelude to WW2, the world was a very peaceful place. According to Hoover, Roosevelt was a threat to world peace, not Hitler.

I'm not implying anything with the analogy, I'm only trying to illustrate that the world was not peaceful between 2016 and 2020, despite the president's efforts.

Perhaps if we had gotten 2 consecutive terms, it might have provided more long term stability.

New comment by korm in "Final two communications from MH370 support controlled descent scenario (2021)"

korm — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:51:36 +0000

The crew had 13 hours of oxygen supply for two pilots.

New comment by korm in "An experiment in UI density created with Svelte"

korm — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 08:22:41 +0000

If seeing how common `eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps` is any indication, people just don't bother with best practices. Not to mention the majority of people I interview or hire don't know anything about CSS performance, they learn on the job. They'll happily add 1000 box shadows in a view if it's in the design.

Also OP is looking to move an existing React UI to Svelte, why not try Preact first instead of an entire rewrite? Or even Inferno or million.dev? If they did and they're insufficient, I don't even believe the browser's DOM is the right technology for that UI then.

New comment by korm in "Aegis v3.0 – a free, secure and open source 2FA app for Android"

korm — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:10:33 +0000

Not only did your tool help me with Aegis & Keepass, but it introduced me to Go, so thank you 2x for it!

New comment by korm in "Aegis v3.0 – a free, secure and open source 2FA app for Android"

korm — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 21:35:56 +0000

Here's a utility to convert exported Aegis JSON to a Keepass 2 or KeepassXC database if anyone's interested https://github.com/GeKorm/atk (binaries in the releases page)

New comment by korm in "15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps"

korm — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:30:11 +0000

Search: "pizza", filters: 4.5+ star rating.

Result: Zoom out, show 10 places with ratings starting from 1.5, among them a nail shop and a government building. If I'm lucky, it will also show the 4.7 star pizza place 2 blocks away, for which I needed directions.

New comment by korm in "Retries – An interactive study of request retry methods"

korm — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 16:58:06 +0000

The client can track its own error rate to the service, but it would need information from a server to get the overall health of the service, which is what the author probably means. Furthermore the load balancer can add a Retry-After header to have more control over the client's retries.

New comment by korm in "Best Night Vision vs. Darkest Room [video]"

korm — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 12:23:00 +0000

It's confusingly presented in the video, but they already work in the near infrared, up to ~900nm. They're used with IR illuminators and lasers all the time.

There are tubes that work on a wider spectrum, like the Photonis 4G tubes from UV to IR 350-1100nm. But I found them dimmer than the L3Harris in the video.

New comment by korm in "Why Git Is Hard"

korm — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 10:15:39 +0000

Exactly, clicking on the commits I want to cherry-pick is way faster for example.

New comment by korm in "Why Git Is Hard"

korm — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 10:10:23 +0000

My comment is in agreement with yours! I'm just expanding on how absurd it is to struggle with merge because GP didn't know about a simple --abort, and how common it is even with senior devs.

And yeah I too find a mix of GUI and CLI works great.