Hacker News: luis_cho

New comment by luis_cho in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

luis_cho — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:46:42 +0000

I am about to test this one http://docs.getmoto.org/en/latest/index.html

New comment by luis_cho in "So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink"

luis_cho — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:11:44 +0000

And most of their carbon dioxide production is due to “developed countries” consumption

New comment by luis_cho in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

luis_cho — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:28:35 +0000

Electronic debit card was invented in…. Denmark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dankort

New comment by luis_cho in "US threatens EU digital services market access"

luis_cho — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:42:00 +0000

Since when Accenture is European? It’s this because these companies are not Palantir?

New comment by luis_cho in "US threatens EU digital services market access"

luis_cho — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:39:06 +0000

If American companies don’t respect Europe regulation it’s time to Europe invest in dedicated software competing with office 365, social networks, even android/apple/windows os.

New comment by luis_cho in "Use the Saw, Fear the Saw"

luis_cho — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:56:24 +0000

This reminds me o sharp knifes argument. In programming you may want to provide tools that can shoot you in the foot, if the alternative is not as powerful. here is a conversation with DHH about it [0]. For instance, you may consider dynamic languages if the alternative is too much type gymnastics.

The first time I've seen the argument was in the prag-prog magazine that sadly is not active anymore.

[0] VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vagyIcmIGOQ&t=8396

New comment by luis_cho in "Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS"

luis_cho — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:18:47 +0000

Couldn’t we try to rely more in other topologies other than client server. I see technologies like wireguard and Tailscale could reduce the dependence on data centers now that we have considerable compute on our homes.

New comment by luis_cho in "Derek Sivers's database and web apps"

luis_cho — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:21:18 +0000

I was working in ASP.NET when projects like Backbone.js, Knockout, and Angular started to pop up. They were trying to address issues on mainstream tech at that moment (compilation times vs. hot reload, avoid full-page reloads). There was a lot of criticism around the use of JavaScript in the server back then.

Now I see the opposite. Web standards can solve the full reload page problem, so it's time to rethink if we still need to manage state in the client, with all the complexity that this involves.

The biggest issue for me it’s the division between backend and Frontend roles. I like to do both, but lately I’m doing backend. It changes a lot how we do things, refinements are mostly to create contracts between the Frontend and backend tasks, we’re they should focus on business use cases.

New comment by luis_cho in "Vaclav Smil on why there will be no energy transition"

luis_cho — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:18:15 +0000

> Europe and US have decreased fossil fuel consumption a bit We did not decreased fossil consumption we externalised the fossil consumption to developed countries production.

Developed countries use a lot of fossil fuels but most of that is to promote the lifestyle of developed countries.

Oxfam estimates that 1% of the richest people emit double the carbon emission of the half the poorest of humanity

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-ric...

New comment by luis_cho in "Social anxiety isn't about being liked"

luis_cho — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 07:17:26 +0000

I once worked at a place where we all called each other “NERD.” One time a person outside the IT circle turned to us in the cafeteria and shouted, “What's up, NERDS?” There was complete silence in the room. I guess only a nerd can call another nerd a nerd.

New comment by luis_cho in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

luis_cho — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:50:11 +0000

Meta is the second last company I trust to put an wearable on my face.

New comment by luis_cho in "Ollee Watch: Turn your classic Casio watch into a smartwatch"

luis_cho — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:42:18 +0000

This casio model offers a step counter and pairs with the phone. You can for instance find your phone with the watch https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.ABL-100WE-1A/

New comment by luis_cho in "Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy"

luis_cho — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:41:25 +0000

Fir a long time, I don’t think full self driving makes economic sense. Would this hurt car sells at long term?

New comment by luis_cho in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

luis_cho — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 06:36:27 +0000

There is this post about a experiment on google where they reduced the page weight and the traffic went up instead of down. That was because it open the site to countries with low internet bandwidth https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

New comment by luis_cho in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

luis_cho — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 06:24:39 +0000

The author states that MPA are not a solution for everything. Sure google maps don’t fit the MPA model but I’ve seen a lot of projects that would be much better using current browser features instead of react.

New comment by luis_cho in "Japan Post launches 'digital address' system"

luis_cho — Thu, 29 May 2025 07:06:45 +0000

For me the privacy part of site not knowing we’re I live would be great.

I could also black list entities from delivering spam.

New comment by luis_cho in "Open source payments and billing infrastructure"

luis_cho — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:29:55 +0000

Mixing payments gateways and vibe coding. What can go wrong?

New comment by luis_cho in "Show HN: We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls"

luis_cho — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:58:18 +0000

One time set-up: 1- Plug Pila in :D

New comment by luis_cho in "Kronotop: Redis-compatible, transactional document store backed by FoundationDB"

luis_cho — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:04:00 +0000

Even inside Java, projects like quarkus don’t receive fast adoption because Spring is the “professional” way to work. Spring developer experience is awful, I miss hot reload.

New comment by luis_cho in "File over App: A Philosophy for Digital Longevity"

luis_cho — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:25:38 +0000

Take a look at .http files. They are a file based alternative to postman. I don’t think it has the assertion feature.