Hacker News: madarco

New comment by madarco in "Staged publishing and new install-time controls for npm"

madarco — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:12:52 +0000

meanwhile pnpm 10.x by default won't donwload packages younger than a day

New comment by madarco in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

madarco — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:10:16 +0000

Actually, the old Kindle had physical buttons, which I find more ergonomic when reading in bed

New comment by madarco in "Show HN: Feudle – a daily puzzle game built with AI"

madarco — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:53:09 +0000

great idea! I've toyed too about a daily word challenge, and I've made Acro: daily word challenge: iOS https://apps.apple.com/br/app/acro-daily-word-challenge/id16... Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.madarco.ac...

New comment by madarco in "Russian family lived alone in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years (2013)"

madarco — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:25:18 +0000

I'm not sure... several parts of this story seem unbelievable to be honest.

New comment by madarco in "Local TypeScript Super SDK to Call 200 LLMs"

madarco — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:00:52 +0000

I think it's because the library calls directly the LLM AND saves any debug/trace info. While other tools let you use the standard (eg OpenAI) sdk and uses an https proxy to intercept the requests

New comment by madarco in "Show HN: A tool to analyze Hacker News sentiment on any term in seconds"

madarco — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:54:32 +0000

I literally spent more time looking at the UI than playing with the tool itself, I really love this skeuomorphism!

If you remove the dark-gray border from the buttons it's even better!

New comment by madarco in "GPT-4o"

madarco — Mon, 13 May 2024 22:36:16 +0000

Whisper, the STT model created by OpenAI can understand you whispering. You can try it with the ChatGPT mobile app to see it yourself

New comment by madarco in "Math problems with GPT-4o [video]"

madarco — Mon, 13 May 2024 21:38:48 +0000

On the contrary. Unless some AI armageddon happens, humans will be nurtured by AIs like in the movie Wall-E. Totally dependent by it, but a true utopia.

New comment by madarco in "Math problems with GPT-4o [video]"

madarco — Mon, 13 May 2024 21:36:54 +0000

oh god, of all the amazing problems to solve with this wonderful technology, you surely did pick the most useless. What's this obsession with interviews on HN? Hired a bunch of people in my career and 1 call was enough with a success ration of 98%

New comment by madarco in "RAG with PostgreSQL"

madarco — Sun, 12 May 2024 22:25:46 +0000

Nice demo but its lacks one feature to make it practical: splitting the input documents in chunks. Without it the embeddings will be too broad, and when retrieved the docs will consume a lot of input tokens, making the request slower/expensive

New comment by madarco in "RAG with PostgreSQL"

madarco — Sun, 12 May 2024 22:23:57 +0000

Sure, because this implementation won't work in practice. He's embedding the whole documents at once, without splitting, summarization, Q&A extraction etc.

New comment by madarco in ".ing TLD now generally available"

madarco — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 08:14:51 +0000

any way to get the list and prices of all the "premium" domains that are not registered but have a custom (high) price to register/renew?

New comment by madarco in "Product Hunt cleans house with layoffs impacting 60% of staff"

madarco — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 08:08:51 +0000

Actually in this case I don't think he's wrong. Even in Italy (highly regulated job market), Companies can restructure like this.

The only obligation is that if they need to hire a similar role in the next 1 year, they'll have to re-hire the former employees if still available.

New comment by madarco in "Show HN: Trigger.dev V2 – a Temporal alternative for TypeScript devs"

madarco — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 17:10:13 +0000

Well done for being completely open source!

I'll suggest this to my employer and we'll probably choose the managed solution, but having the freedom to choose is a great bonus!

New comment by madarco in "Bambu Lab A1 Mini"

madarco — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 21:39:07 +0000

copy on that! I often use the "print by object" feature, and it's super useful being able to print each object in a different color with no color changing

New comment by madarco in "Starlink quietly lost over $250M in burned satellites this summer"

madarco — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:41:32 +0000

no because there are not enough clients

New comment by madarco in "Ask HN: Best WFH Purchases?"

madarco — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 15:59:36 +0000

Totally agree on the fancy mics: even wireless hi-end bose headphones sucks.

Distance from mouth is the most important factor in voice quality, I've found that a cheap pair of headphones with buil-in stick mic sounded much better than a Yeti mic on the table.

It's quite easy to test yourself, but nobody does that: just record a test audio snippet using the OSX Notes app and listen to it yourself.

New comment by madarco in "TypeScript is surprisingly ok for compilers"

madarco — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:56:31 +0000

PS: swc and esbuild aren't good example, because most of the speed improvements comes from the fact that they are just stripping TS-specific syntaxes to generate JS code.

Also tsc is slow, sure, but only for the first run. Enabling `incremental` flag or using watch mode with `--transpile-only` usually brings compile time under 100ms, Making it practically indistinguishable from SWC or ESBuild.

New comment by madarco in "Ts-morph – programmatically manipulate TypeScript source code with TypeScript"

madarco — Fri, 19 May 2023 09:22:16 +0000

This can be easily solved by using https://github.com/cevek/ttypescript, which enables the use of transformers in tsc and allows them to be defined in the tsconfig.json file.

New comment by madarco in "Ts-morph – programmatically manipulate TypeScript source code with TypeScript"

madarco — Fri, 19 May 2023 09:20:29 +0000

Totally agree, Hygen (https://www.hygen.io/docs/quick-start) is great and the best part is that everyone in the team can easily customize the generators