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New comment by munawwar in "Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button"

munawwar — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:25:59 +0000

BTW preact + hooks + router (preact-iso) is 10 kb. It's a good starting point.

And SVG icons should use svg `` tag and shouldn't be counted in code size.

New comment by munawwar in "Show HN: Cross platform binary to launch native binary using Cosmopolitan Libc"

munawwar — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 10:48:25 +0000

Yes. In the case mentioned binaries written in Go (goaws). I can add all the goaws binaries into my git repo, and have a single cross platform entry point devs can call without figuring out which one is for their OS.

Show HN: Cross platform binary to launch native binary using Cosmopolitan Libc

munawwar — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 18:53:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Munawwar/launcher

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356198

Points: 8

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New comment by munawwar in "How to Escape a Container"

munawwar — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 06:47:03 +0000

AWS lambda and fly.io uses firecracker VMs internally. So I think it can replace containers to some extent.

Show HN: Preact Multi-Page Website Starter Template – Esbuild and Express

munawwar — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 16:43:45 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Munawwar/preact-mpa-starter-template

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34898312

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by munawwar in "New UUID Formats"

munawwar — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:08:20 +0000

I took a shot at the math behind this at https://www.codepasta.com/databases/2020/09/10/shorter-uniqu...

Using the equation listed in the article I couldn't generate a collision so far. Yet, I still check (in code) for id collision, and pick new id, just to be 100% sure.

New comment by munawwar in "Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’"

munawwar — Mon, 02 May 2022 07:27:49 +0000

It does, but at the most inconvenient time always :D

New comment by munawwar in "Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’"

munawwar — Sun, 01 May 2022 16:39:24 +0000

Its battery lasts for several weeks. So I never realize it's battery hitting close to zero. And unluckily its hit bottom several times at the beginning of a work day. It wouldn't have hurt if they made the thing useable while plugged in.

New comment by munawwar in "Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?"

munawwar — Sun, 01 May 2022 07:59:00 +0000

planetscale (if I need rdbms) or firestore or dynamodb (if I need just document). I checked latency of planetscale and dynamodb from frankfurt,paris,singapore from DO/linode/scaleway to db in same region; these are low latency (mostly single digit).

For single server, I'd just use sqlite.

New comment by munawwar in "Ask HN: How do you accept your place in the world?"

munawwar — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:32:31 +0000

There is always places people can contribute. Look at some terrible softwares.. medical, insurance, 3pl logistics etc.. they don't need extraordinary brilliance to improve.. just UX, better systems, process and lots of area to cover.

If you can improve one industry a bit more than it is today, isn't that a sufficient place in the world?

New comment by munawwar in "Science is needed to find how sars-cov2 reached humans"

munawwar — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 18:57:25 +0000

Was it linked to this one? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...

New comment by munawwar in "Matrix has become the messaging app of choice for top-secret communications"

munawwar — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:07:31 +0000

Wonder what people here think of signal. I find it more user friendly than matrix. Any info about it's security vs matrix?

New comment by munawwar in "Show HN: The simplest React state manager now at stable release"

munawwar — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:34:19 +0000

The simplicity goes away when supporting SSR. You have to depend on multiple stores (one per request) being injected "from the top" (e.g via Context Provider).

This is my take on the problem -> https://github.com/Munawwar/react-global-states/tree/ssr

New comment by munawwar in "Ask HN: Interesting problems to solve for Shopify merchants?"

munawwar — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 21:07:11 +0000

There are so many other real problems

- starting out, not knowing what carriers available in your target area and their real performance/SLA, until you try them out. This info is critical to do business.

- for merchants with lots of products the photo sessions + touch up takes a lot of time. Any way that can speed up the process would be helpful.

- large catalogs can't manage their SEO without some automation. Shopify doesn't give this out of the box. There are apps in this space though thankfully.

- merchendizers managing large catalogs can make many mistakes when adding product to website. There's got to be a customizable "checker" that could check if mandatory fields are filled, spell check etc.

- let's say you want to slash a collection's price by 10% for a sale. This can't be done easily without manually changing each product. (coupons not a solution, as price has to reflect on ad channels). Any way to do bulk actions like these faster?

- lots of customers enter in wrong email or phone number or don't respond.. is there a way to add optional OTP entry step after order placement?

- shopify (and most themes) don't give customers ability to request and manage returns. Their option is contacting customer support.

I guess you get where I am going with this.. look at the operational issues businesses face, there are opportunities there.

New comment by munawwar in "The architecture behind a one-person tech startup"

munawwar — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 19:03:43 +0000

Hetzner, Scaleway..

New comment by munawwar in "Actually Portable Executables"

munawwar — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 19:48:12 +0000

So it's like a compatibly layer like wine except built into the binary. Does this bloat the binary as well?

New comment by munawwar in "Losing faith in UX"

munawwar — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 12:08:23 +0000

lol similar to the blog, I just got tricked into a prime membership. I'd swear that I didn't click the button in their full screen "upsell" page in the middle of the checkout process.. but yet money gone and only half refund. Their customer contact details is hidden so deep, that it took me 10 minutes to find out. Finally contacted them and got the remaining amount as store credit. Experiences like these puts me further of amazon. Now think about the definition of good UX.

New comment by munawwar in "Rollerball Pens of 2021"

munawwar — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 21:09:45 +0000

no one in here tried uniball laknock?

0.7 and 1.0 gives nice writing experience. doesn't spread ink around or to underneath paper. ink doesn't jam (once? in last 5 years..) doesn't get damaged on light/few falls (on heavier falls the retractable action could get damaged).

overall lasts long for the price tag (the one I am using now is close to 1 year old, still writing well)

New comment by munawwar in "Geometrize: Turn Images into Geometric Primitives"

munawwar — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:30:49 +0000

I tried this recently:

https://gist.github.com/Munawwar/6ac51e33e901d89750ee61319d0...

The challenge is making it look pretty and at same time have a small svg output and at the same time not taking forever to generate (it's perf gets exponentialy slow). Took some time to tweak it to the settings I used.

It looks nicer than blurhash.. however blurhash is way smaller and might be more practical alternative

New comment by munawwar in "Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust grounds"

munawwar — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 20:06:41 +0000

If there is enough incentive, OSS devs would create some libraries with common interface across stores.. but there is no incentive, as android's main store is google's.