Hacker News: modarts

New comment by modarts in "jQuery 4"

modarts — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:41:11 +0000

Don’t let all of the old heads glazing jquery in this thread confuse you - they’re just nostalgic. There’s no reason to even think of using jquery in 2026

New comment by modarts in "Parallel AI agents are a game changer"

modarts — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:02:31 +0000

It still amuses me how literally people took Kapathy's famous tweet around vibe coding https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

If people were to actually read beyond the first sentence, it would become clear very quickly that this was meant to be tongue in cheek.

New comment by modarts in "Bosses Are Finding Ways to Pay Workers Less"

modarts — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 04:46:06 +0000

Who's "we"?

Software engineers? The ones who proudly refuse to unionize?

New comment by modarts in "Tetris is capable of universal computation"

modarts — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:17:49 +0000

A sprawling read on the topic https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden...

New comment by modarts in "WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking via Tailscale"

modarts — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:30:39 +0000

https://matrix.org/

New comment by modarts in "What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?"

modarts — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 10:17:00 +0000

A hiring freeze is typically a freeze on new job reqs (candidates already interviewing wouldn't be exposed to this)

New comment by modarts in "Show HN: Stormah, cloud notes stored in your own Git repo"

modarts — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 17:21:05 +0000

This is frankly, useless. What is the problem being solved here?

New comment by modarts in "Launch HN: HyperLinq (YC S21) – Desktop trading terminal"

modarts — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 04:17:10 +0000

This is an unacceptably bad launch post.

New comment by modarts in "Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query"

modarts — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 05:52:44 +0000

Looks like someone took this tweet literally https://twitter.com/davecheney/status/1296033304756404225

New comment by modarts in "Server-Side Tagging in Google Tag Manager"

modarts — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 01:17:36 +0000

> Many of the benefits and concerns are tackled in their respective chapters. Even so, I want to emphasize that Server-side tagging has the potential to overturn the current dynamic of data collection and governance for an organization. You own and have full control over the server-side environment. You have access to tools and methods to thoroughly vet and validate the traffic between network sources and your advertising and analytics endpoints.

Not quite sure what's so revolutionary about this -- isn't this what Segment and other similar products have been offering for the better part of a decade?

New comment by modarts in "Show HN: Koyeb – Simple serverless processing workflows, on any cloud"

modarts — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 23:31:48 +0000

By declaring dependencies in code (usually with annotations or decorators)

New comment by modarts in "Show HN: 33 line React"

modarts — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 13:47:09 +0000

https://cycle.js.org/

New comment by modarts in "Iced, a cross-platform GUI library for Rust"

modarts — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 12:12:11 +0000

> Simple views are easy enough to handle, but these functional style guis don't tend to deal with complex views very well.

Citation needed

New comment by modarts in "How Netflix uses Druid for realtime insights"

modarts — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 05:57:48 +0000

Can confirm clickhouse is generally faster across most typical workloads

New comment by modarts in "Clojure: A Lisp that wants to spread"

modarts — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 04:48:29 +0000

spec

New comment by modarts in "Microservices has been misunderstood in how they scale"

modarts — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 04:27:17 +0000

Why is this voted so high?

New comment by modarts in "Mozilla lays off 70"

modarts — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 08:20:42 +0000

That’s terrible, really sorry that happened to you. The good news is that you have an extraordinarily rare and valuable skill set as a compiler eng

New comment by modarts in "Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees"

modarts — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:24:51 +0000

Well, here’s another one - this is easily one of the most useful cli tools that I’ve installed in a very long time. This is amazing work!

New comment by modarts in "Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – Automated, Retroactive Alternative to Segment"

modarts — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:35:02 +0000

How do you prevent collecting PII/passwords/other sensitive data to avoid situations like Mixpanel's Autotrack fiasco? https://mixpanel.com/blog/2018/02/05/update-autotrack-data-c...

New comment by modarts in "Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – Automated, Retroactive Alternative to Segment"

modarts — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 23:27:44 +0000

Similar question to the grandparent - wondering how you go about maintaining a relatively large catalog of integrations with limited resources (I worked at an integration platform as a service company and remember maintenance of those to be the most resource intensive part of the product)