Hacker News: necessary

New comment by necessary in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

necessary — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:18:10 +0000

Here's an easy one: working downloads on mobile. Plex offline downloads are notoriously buggy.

New comment by necessary in "WFH is becoming a benefit again"

necessary — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:09:20 +0000

Couldn't you also go out to eat from home?

New comment by necessary in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

necessary — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:55:35 +0000

You can indeed see this behavior in action by tapping a letter and briefly swiping slightly to an adjacent letter. Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t see why the letter should be submitted on touch-up, since I’ve never intentionally tried to correct an individual letter between touch-down and touch-up.

New comment by necessary in "Linux is good now"

necessary — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:16:28 +0000

This is a big reason I’m excited for Steam Frame - high quality VR on the Linux desktop.

New comment by necessary in "Good system design"

necessary — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:14:11 +0000

Excellent article. In this vein, are there any books, articles, or other media that we can learn more of these sorts of principles from?

New comment by necessary in "Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning"

necessary — Sat, 31 May 2025 05:23:04 +0000

That’s quite impressive, care to share what does work for you?

New comment by necessary in "I started a little math club in Bangalore"

necessary — Sat, 31 May 2025 02:54:08 +0000

Thanks for posting these - these books look like exactly what I have been looking for recently! I'm someone who procrastinated and crammed my way through high school and undergrad level maths and then promptly forgot all of it once I finished schooling. I plan on working through them soon. Hopefully this isn't an annoying question, but do you still intend to publish a guide to statistics?

New comment by necessary in "On loyalty to Your Employer"

necessary — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:01:42 +0000

Why must employees put in 100% effort? Where does that expectation come from? I’d be surprised if most companies put in 100% effort to support each employee.

Isn’t it all about expectations in the end? The company expects you to meet some set of goals. Conversely, you expect the company to give you benefits and payment.

New comment by necessary in "Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo"

necessary — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:25:23 +0000

Can you illuminate the legitimate reasoning behind the OP then? If you have a claim that people have the wrong idea about Trump, then why not provide some of your own evidence?

New comment by necessary in "Tailscale is pretty useful"

necessary — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:37:43 +0000

What is the delivery mechanism?

New comment by necessary in "A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate"

necessary — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:03:01 +0000

The killer feature of uv for me is much faster uv pip install -r requirements.txt.

New comment by necessary in "Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO"

necessary — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:52:53 +0000

Then post a corrected example that proves your point?

New comment by necessary in "Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers"

necessary — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:47:05 +0000

Who exactly is hurt by the naming of this project?

New comment by necessary in "Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia"

necessary — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 19:11:28 +0000

Doesn’t that depend on the buyer? I can think of several products that I would only use if free, and would go without if it was $1, $5, or $10. E.g. todo list apps, time tracker apps, budgeting apps.

I think you can argue that, if you have enough demand at $10, that you’ll have enough at $0, but I don’t see how not having demand at $10 implies that you won’t have demand at $0, since usually making something cheaper can change buyer’s minds.

New comment by necessary in "Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia"

necessary — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 15:45:28 +0000

This is a good business perspective, but I don’t really see why this couldn’t be someone’s open source passion project. The comment wasn’t really implying that they needed a paid tool, just a tool that suits their needs and is lightweight. Plenty of the software I use on a daily basis is open source software where you could argue that the economics shouldn’t have been there.

New comment by necessary in "Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here"

necessary — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:32:57 +0000

I believe you can use Phoenix channels for this.

New comment by necessary in "Nutrient levels in retail grocery stores"

necessary — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:52:15 +0000

Any tips for a beginner to get started with some easy herbs?

New comment by necessary in "Rewrite it in Rails"

necessary — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:22:55 +0000

It seemed to me like a lot of the value of Rails came from all the batteries that are included - would you say it’s the same for Phoenix/Elixir?

New comment by necessary in "QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet"

necessary — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:25:31 +0000

Does QUIC do better with packet loss compared to TCP? TCP perceives packet loss as network congestion and so throughput over high bandwidth+high packet loss links suffers.

New comment by necessary in "I kind of like rebasing"

necessary — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 02:25:39 +0000

Git hosting platforms generally have controls that allow you to prohibit force pushes on protected branches (i.e. master)