Hacker News: nakovet

New comment by nakovet in "New iPad mini"

nakovet — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:22:05 +0000

Last iPad Mini I bought in 2015 was 32gb for $379CAD, one today 11 years later is $949CAD for 128gb, 2.5x over 10 years, I know there is different tech, inflation and times are different but I always though the mini as the budget option, now with this recent releases Apple is just going for: it's expensive because that's the only way we can keep growing....

New comment by nakovet in "GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100"

nakovet — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:03:21 +0000

This is one of the many cases for LLMs that I ask for the intermediate work, e.g. a script that generates random numbers, instead of asking to do the work itself.

I attempted to scrape a one page grid with 800 items and also ended up asking for the Javascript look with document query selector instead of the result as I was hitting all sort of limits, context, or the LLM would do the wrong capture, print it out and get worse responses on next prompt.

New comment by nakovet in "Show HN: Bunqueue – Job queue for Bun using SQLite instead of Redis"

nakovet — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:16:26 +0000

Thank you for your detailed reply! Appreciated it

New comment by nakovet in "Show HN: Bunqueue – Job queue for Bun using SQLite instead of Redis"

nakovet — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:57:11 +0000

We are using a service that abstracts redis from us and requires to be treated like a critical dependency, think RDS, Aurora, Postgres, if they are down the whole site is down. Every job push is a call to this service. Upgrading the service = downtime.

For us this is resulted in a big weak point on our architecture because when the service reboots both job pushing and job pulling stops, with the pushing being on the API side bringing the API down. With containers we could have multiple of them running at the same time, but the shared reading/writing of the abstract Redis locks itself.

We are considering BullMQ, because the architecture is sane: * job push: API writes to Redis * job pull: Worker reads from Redis then writes the completion.

How do you see this issue for Bunqueue? What happens when it goes down for 5 minutes, can the jobs be enqueued? Can you run multiple instances of it, failover?

Our throughput (jobs/sec) is small we do have 100k+ scheduled jobs anywhere from minutes to months from now.

New comment by nakovet in "Make any TypeScript function durable"

nakovet — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:17:10 +0000

It's on the landing page, there is not even a standalone mode yet, so you can't use it with node.js you need to use with Next.js. All to say, it's just early alpha preview, I would wait the project to mature before considering using it anywhere.

New comment by nakovet in "How I build software quickly"

nakovet — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:38:27 +0000

> Forget Celery

How do you do background job processing without Celery? Every app/website I ever developed required some sort of background job processing, for Python I use Celery, Rails I use Sidekiq, Node.js I use Faktory. One of the biggest drawbacks (at least until a while ago) was that setting this up had to be a hacky webhook call to your own app that allowed up to N seconds request/response.

New comment by nakovet in "Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly"

nakovet — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:33:15 +0000

Minor thing with the website but the download button is not entirely clickable, if you don't click on the text you don't get to download it, due to the div > a and the anchor being just the text, consider styling the anchor to have the padding so the whole thing is clickable. :)

New comment by nakovet in "Show HN: Typeform was too expensive so I built my own forms"

nakovet — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:10:59 +0000

What kind of setup did you have that Typeform was costly? We are on the $299/month plan coming from $99/month, and if you run a money making business of Typeform, this cost should be negligible compared to all other costs of running a business.

New comment by nakovet in "PostgreSQL Best Practices"

nakovet — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:49:44 +0000

The access control portion is not clear to me: `current_user_organization_id()` where is this reading from? We tried using `set_config` https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-admin.html and it was incredibly slow, it was not designed for how we were using which was included connection pooling and each query ran a difference "current_user_id" set_config.

New comment by nakovet in "Tailwind CSS v4.0"

nakovet — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:23:12 +0000

I love tailwind, used in 3 projects in the past 4 years, it’s intuitive, well documented, simple. I don’t miss the days of emotion and styled components where I would have to think of a name for every styled div in the project, with tailwind a container is just a div and a few classes nothing else. Less bike shedding discussion, less brain cycles spent naming things, less time wasted in reviews.

New comment by nakovet in "Lessons from my first exit"

nakovet — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:16:35 +0000

If you are maximizing income, go work for the company that pays you the most. If you consider other things then it's not that simple: * control on which project you work on * choose your cooworkers * choose your office location * return to office policies * choose process and bureaucracies It's about how many degrees of freedom you want.

New comment by nakovet in "Review: The fastest of the M4 MacBook Pros might be the least interesting one"

nakovet — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:14:59 +0000

It’s expensive and it’s good that other options are available, it’s not insanely expensive though, the people that need the upgrade often make 6 figure salaries and can afford the upgrade although they might not like the idea of paying it, I personally hate it but I know when I buy the machine will last me at least 5 years, which is good enough for me.

New comment by nakovet in "Review: The fastest of the M4 MacBook Pros might be the least interesting one"

nakovet — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:12:54 +0000

I find the cinebench benchmarks meh, every YouTuber and every publisher uses it, few YouTubers do more of a practical test which is quite more useful. I would like to see a comparison with older models as most people that have an m3 are not considering an upgrade.

New comment by nakovet in "2M users but no money in the bank"

nakovet — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 23:10:29 +0000

I've completed Exercism courses and they are great.

One thing that was obvious to me is that if you want to focus on a specific topic the $15/month subscription is too cheap, you can pay, take the course, cancel because you are done with the course, all within the month.

The other thing that is challenging is that the majority of programmer is either too cheap or "too broke", $15 USD is a meaningful amount of money in other countries with weaker currency, and in countries with strong currency I've met people paying thousands for a university diploma, doing a well paid internship that "could not afford exercism". That's though, I hope I never have to build a business for software developers.

All of that shared experience comes from 3-4 years ago, so prices, models might have changed since that, but if they go under it's sad, their UI and their UX was so clean, fun, interactive, pleasant, etc, it was a joy to study using their material.

New comment by nakovet in "Launch HN: Circleback (YC W24) – Tooling to make meetings more efficient"

nakovet — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 20:31:44 +0000

Kudos on launching it, I will be trying in a few meetings to see if it goes well, so far I am finding the UI unresponsive, I click and it marks an action item as completed (optimistic update) then it reverts back to unchecked (failed). I asked the assistant what Synergy meant and it just hanged. I liked the use of a fake meeting as an introduction to the product and the action items as an onboarding checklist, I like that you launched with a delete my account as well, most startups take a long time before implementing the exit path.

New comment by nakovet in "Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle"

nakovet — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 01:05:01 +0000

I’ve been playing every day it’s relaxing, quick, fun. I added to my Home Screen so I don’t lose it.

New comment by nakovet in "Fly.io has GPUs now"

nakovet — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:21:17 +0000

About Fly but not about the GPU announcement, I wish they had a S3 replacement, they suggest a GNU Affero project that is a dealbreaker for any business, needing to leave Fly to store user assets was a dealbreaker for us to use Fly on our next project, sad cause I love the simplicity, the value for money, the built in VPN.

New comment by nakovet in "Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)"

nakovet — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 01:39:37 +0000

I would downvote because the person is being reductive, in such a way that you can destroy most joy in life.

New comment by nakovet in "Don't upload your PWA to the app stores"

nakovet — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 03:00:39 +0000

Everything is an ad these days, check any new content similar to this blogpost, YouTube videos, etc. That said, the article is brief, direct, deliver good points then wraps up with an ad.

RingCentral acquire Hopin virtual events products

nakovet — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:00:12 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/02/hopin-ringcentral/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971819

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