Hacker News: navs

New comment by navs in "Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code"

navs — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:05:18 +0000

I worked on something similar but with a more naive text matching approach that's saved me many many times so far. https://github.com/sirmews/claude-hook-advisor

Yours is so much more involved. Keen to dig into it.

Rampant online abuse and deepfakes targeting women on Substack

navs — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:15:10 +0000

Article URL: https://lettersfromafeminist.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-substack-team

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166382

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

36 months and the Australia social media ban (2024)

navs — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:45:51 +0000

Article URL: https://bleepitybloopity.com/posts/social-media-ban/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223559

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Snowflake and Databricks Lost the Plot

navs — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:05:20 +0000

Article URL: https://datatrenches.boyanbalevengineering.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46120003

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: When is it ok to drop support for a platform?

navs — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:23:04 +0000

I recently started a role in a startup focused on building an audience specific social media product. There's a lot to do here and we have a native Android app, a native iOS app, as well as a rather heavy Rails stack. There's also a heavy reliance on third party services that are just costing us way too much and if we want to run lean, I need to replace them or get rid of them entirely.

There's a good portion of the community that loves us, but there's growing frustration with the bugs. Frankly, I understand. No shade to the previous team, but I feel like the priorities were not well balanced.

With an engineering team of one, minimal resources and still pre-revenue, I don't want this product to die. But being realistic, there is absolutely no way that I can build for both iOS and Android. Using AI tools I've been able to do a heck of a lot with just a few days a week. But something has to give.

I'm curious about those who have been in this position, and have had to drop support for a platform. Android gets the most users, but has the most bugs. iOS is just easier for me to develop for while still providing room for resolving the other architecture problems.

What did you do? What would you have done different? Are there examples of startups that have done this and done it right (both PR and engineering)?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921453

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

ResonaGraph: Distributed graph database that can teleport data over the Internet

navs — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:26:51 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@sschepis/i-built-a-database-that-teleports-data-instead-of-transmitting-it-518bb34986f7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626257

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by navs in "It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead"

navs — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:46:02 +0000

I lost my dad the same way in Fiji. At the time I chalked it up to it being Fiji, long considered a third world country. I guess it could have happened anywhere.

New comment by navs in "Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig"

navs — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 03:20:02 +0000

Have implemented Statsig in two companies as alternatives to LaunchDarkly and loved it both times. Going to be interesting how their other big customer deals with this purchase i.e. Anthropic

Daniel Stenberg of Curl on how and why he does it

navs — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:52:16 +0000

Article URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/13/how-i-do-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548957

Points: 20

# Comments: 1

Being a Warrior at Thoughtful AI: A Manifesto for Excellence

navs — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:29:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thoughtful.ai/blog/being-a-warrior-at-thoughtful-ai-a-manifesto-for-excellence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44263903

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by navs in "Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games"

navs — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:49:00 +0000

Not related to the library at all, but I'm curious how that canvas video recorder works in the playground. Love to implement something similar.

New comment by navs in "Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API"

navs — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:59:33 +0000

I can but the raw data is very noisy. I'm still working my way through it. I'll likely share this in a blog series or via Deepnote/Hex.tech

New comment by navs in "Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API"

navs — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:06:45 +0000

This is amazing. I've been measuring my mental wellbeing through different data points. Currently manually importing my apple health data into a Jupyter notebook and measuring against my journal sentiment, finances and whatever I can gain access to. This would be another interesting data point.

New comment by navs in "Show HN: Appwrite Sites – the open-source vercel alternative"

navs — Wed, 21 May 2025 20:26:18 +0000

This is the most overly positive and least critical HN submission I've ever seen

New comment by navs in "The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing"

navs — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:03:02 +0000

> started to notice the trend of Graphic Designers over-reaching from their place as html jockeys, and running whole dynamic websites using some abomination called PHP.

Your point is they shouldn't?

The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing

navs — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:33:38 +0000

Article URL: https://metacast.app/blog/engineering/postmortem-llm-bots-image-optimization

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687431

Points: 112

# Comments: 119

New comment by navs in "Show HN: Codemcp – Claude Code for Claude Pro subscribers – ditch API bills"

navs — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:49:58 +0000

I accidentally realized I could do this with their official filesystem server and it works ok. Certainly haven't felt the need to use Claude code or cline since.

New comment by navs in "Orbit by Mozilla"

navs — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 02:09:29 +0000

Looks like it's just around the corner. See previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42499693

New comment by navs in "More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market"

navs — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:02:08 +0000

100% I did that at first and got greedy and impatient. Serves me right.

New comment by navs in "More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market"

navs — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:30:21 +0000

I lost my life savings chasing the dopamine hit and can relate to this. I'm in my mid 30s and suffering from career burnout. I know I can't afford a home when I can barely work full-time so I figured I'd trade. I was up, and up and up!

Then I was down, then up, then down.

One morning I woke up and I was so down, I sold out of fear.

Now I'm left with so little I might as well be starting from scratch.

This feels like gambling and here I thought I was smarter than those people that lost in casinos.