Hacker News: kriz9

New comment by kriz9 in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

kriz9 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:34:49 +0000

This is pretty cool. How much does this weigh?

New comment by kriz9 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI)"

kriz9 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:25:22 +0000

I am working on https://spatialsheets.com Think geodata formulas + excel. Mostly for my own use just to quickly debug geodata. Used to heavily use geojson.io for it but it is not very good at handling large datasets and couldn't enrich data so I started working on this thing.

New comment by kriz9 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

kriz9 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:29:48 +0000

Games with anti cheat unfortunately are not supported.

New comment by kriz9 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

kriz9 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:17:50 +0000

As a long time windows user I have no regrets making the switch. If it wouldn't be for the games I would not touch windows at all.

New comment by kriz9 in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

kriz9 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:23:39 +0000

To run a $245 box, you'd need an entire team with Kubernetes experience — at least one Scrum Master included. Under $2M, I’d say it’s impossible.

New comment by kriz9 in "PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download"

kriz9 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:27:21 +0000

I feel like if you treat temporary variables as documentation they feel less icky. All these examples with the pipeline operator cause way more mental overhead than reading temporary variable names.

New comment by kriz9 in "Expressive Design: Google's UX Research"

kriz9 — Thu, 15 May 2025 19:25:59 +0000

This looks like some visual artist was given a task to design the UI. Visually interesting but completely disregards UI research and usability standards.

New comment by kriz9 in "Estonia to disconnect from the Russian-run electricity network on Saturday"

kriz9 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:04:33 +0000

Most of us are happy to suffer if it means not relying on Russia. This is the price of independence.

New comment by kriz9 in "What Is miniKanren?"

kriz9 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:54:21 +0000

What would be the benefit of having https for such site?

New comment by kriz9 in "JSON5 – JSON for Humans"

kriz9 — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 08:12:51 +0000

3. So when that dependency gets removed by npm uninstall how should that comment be handled? You know that in business we just would end up with a bunch of dead comments in the package.json - is that really a better alternative than just using Ctrl+f to find where the dependency is used?

New comment by kriz9 in "LG TVs Start Showing Ads on Screensavers"

kriz9 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:05:57 +0000

I do not remember the time it has ever crashed - and I am quite sensitive to software not working well. I can complain about the strange UI choices but not about the stability. Running this on latest Apple TV 4K

New comment by kriz9 in "LG TVs Start Showing Ads on Screensavers"

kriz9 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:31:57 +0000

Swiftfin https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swiftfin/id1604098728

New comment by kriz9 in "Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone"

kriz9 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:03:49 +0000

You need to type "scan d" for it to work. It's funny how both Windows and iOS manage to struggle with pretty basic search functionality.

New comment by kriz9 in "Ask HN: What is your go to performance optimization?"

kriz9 — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 17:30:14 +0000

If the workload does not benefit from cloud then I just run it locally because hardware is usually much cheaper and much faster than cloud.

New comment by kriz9 in "Intel Brings a Big Fork to a Server CPU Knife Fight"

kriz9 — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:48:36 +0000

Last I checked it is even worse if you need a fast NVMe. 120000 IOPS will cost like $7,800 on Google Cloud.

New comment by kriz9 in "How to install Windows 11 on a device that does not meet Windows 11 requirements"

kriz9 — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 17:51:29 +0000

Thanks for the idea. If it gets rid of these nag screens riddled with dark ui patterns after every update I am willing to try everything.

New comment by kriz9 in "Insta360's Ace Pro combines Leica engineering with computational photography"

kriz9 — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:34:31 +0000

I love my Gopro but the app/software experience is complete ad-ridden trash. Only reason I am looking for an alternative. Hopefully this is it.

New comment by kriz9 in "Pg_bm25: Elastic-Quality Full Text Search Inside Postgres"

kriz9 — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 16:03:25 +0000

Who is the competition besides Algolia? Last I checked most of the competition is either very expensive or very feature limited compared to Elastic/Solr.

New comment by kriz9 in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

kriz9 — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:40:16 +0000

They need to keep USB-C until they figure out another way to transfer large ProRes videos from the iPhone. Wifi is just too slow.

New comment by kriz9 in "Migrating Netflix to GraphQL"

kriz9 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:37:26 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. I guess the overhead does make sense at a certain scale. The unfortunate thing is that articles like this always end up inspiring some bored engineer/CTO to redesign everything so it is "webscale" like Netflix and blow the mid/small-sized companies' Christmas bonus on AWS bills.