Hacker News: monlockandkey

New comment by monlockandkey in "Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass"

monlockandkey — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:07:14 +0000

Nice job! It would be helpful when using public transportation to see the names of places overlaid on the map.

New comment by monlockandkey in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

monlockandkey — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:32:15 +0000

Any practical tips for hardened security when programming? Don't want to be exposed to npm/pip/cargo installing password/browser cookie stealers. What worries me is the little to no isolation between the dev environment and the rest of the OS for day to day use.

New comment by monlockandkey in "Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads"

monlockandkey — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 17:30:13 +0000

How did were the apps able to collect geolocation even though location services were disabled?

New comment by monlockandkey in "Astral – "We're building a new static type checker for Python""

monlockandkey — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:26:17 +0000

That sounds plausible. Vercel equivalent for the Python ecosystem. UV deploy

New comment by monlockandkey in ""We're building a new static type checker for Python""

monlockandkey — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:36:56 +0000

They just need to add a task runner feature (already being worked on) and the one tool to rule them all would be complete. Package manager, linter, formatter, type checker, task runner. Am I missing something? Maybe a build tool?

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/5903

New comment by monlockandkey in "How we centralized and structured error handling in Golang"

monlockandkey — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 10:19:05 +0000

Asserts are only available in debug compile mode.

New comment by monlockandkey in "AmpereOne: Cores Are the New MHz"

monlockandkey — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:22:27 +0000

$15,000 CPU is better than a $5000 CPU?

You can do all the benchmarks you want, but if you don't factor in price, then of course the more expensive product (in general) is going to be better.

It is the same thing with the Snapdragon Elite and Mediatek Dimensity 9400. The SDE is the faster processor and more expensive.

New comment by monlockandkey in "Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license"

monlockandkey — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:22:24 +0000

People do not seem to understand that these chips are in different price brackets, even between Qualcomm and Mediatek. That is why there is a discrepancy in performance.

Would not be fair to compare a $20 toaster to a $50 toaster and say that the $20 toaster is slower.

New comment by monlockandkey in "Code that helped end Apartheid"

monlockandkey — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:33:50 +0000

Nelson Mandela would have a good idea on what situation is apartheid.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/nelson-mandelas-support-f...

New comment by monlockandkey in "Rust needs a web framework"

monlockandkey — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 08:28:03 +0000

No harm if all these requirements are met by some framework to cater to the Rust community.

In my opinion you should for 99% of cases use Golang for your web backend. Any other languages there are tradeoffs you are making.

Go:

- very easy to learn and grok Go code

- static typing

- fast compilation

- single binary (easier deployment)

- strong standard library

- large library ecosystem

- go routines for concurrency

- highly performant

Maybe Java,Kotlin and C# but they are still an order of magnitude more complex and resource heavy than Go.

New comment by monlockandkey in "Show HN: Learn Blender shortcuts with lots of tiny videos"

monlockandkey — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 14:47:07 +0000

Good concept!

The important thing to know when learning hotkeys is how to perform the same action using application UI.

Otherwise the keyboard becomes an obscure medium for discovering application functionality

New comment by monlockandkey in "Ask HN: User communities that aren't Discord?"

monlockandkey — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:06:26 +0000

Flarum is a really nice open source forum

https://flarum.org/

New comment by monlockandkey in "Caddy 2.8"

monlockandkey — Thu, 30 May 2024 12:04:27 +0000

I would love to have a version of Caddy written in Rust. I believe that this is going to happen some point in the future. Nginx has the best performance but not a good UX compared to caddy. Rewriting to Rust or C++ will make it the ultimate reverse proxy.

New comment by monlockandkey in "Sora: Creating video from text"

monlockandkey — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:16:56 +0000

Shove all the tech you mentioned into a VR headset and it is literally game over for humans

New comment by monlockandkey in "Becoming a dungeon master for an interview"

monlockandkey — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 21:38:05 +0000

Leetcode started around 2015

New comment by monlockandkey in "SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake"

monlockandkey — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:03:14 +0000

What would be the best S3 like storage software with user based access and limits that I can locally host?

New comment by monlockandkey in "Python 3.13 Gets a JIT"

monlockandkey — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:47:17 +0000

This is what you are looking for. Python on the GraalVM

https://github.com/oracle/graalpython

New comment by monlockandkey in "Was Javascript really made in 10 days?"

monlockandkey — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 19:30:17 +0000

The solution to the poor standard library in my opinion is for someone like NPM to step up and provide the defacto language library. It will help in reducing the sheer volume of JavaScript dependencies to only one library.

New comment by monlockandkey in "Midjourney v6"

monlockandkey — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 15:17:11 +0000

It is genius. As a "startup", for free you are getting community, traffic, marketing and terabytes of free image hosting.

Plus think of it this way, websites fight tooth and nail to stay relevant to the user. You win that fight if they "install" your app. Joining their Discord server means you have installed their application to one of the most frequented messaging apps. If this was a website, you would have forgotten about it after couple uses. At least when it is in your discord server dock, it is visible to the user and in their mind.

New comment by monlockandkey in "I Love Ruby"

monlockandkey — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:23:34 +0000

The most challenging part of reading code is the WHY. But is easier said then done when it comes to documenting code with this in mind. Happy medium is to make sure the author peppers in enough context of why something is like this.