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New comment by neeleshs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"

neeleshs — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:46:15 +0000

Syncari | Remote (US only) | Full-time | Director, Solutions Engineering

We are an all-in-one modern data integration, management, workflow and analytics platform.

VC funded, small team. Hiring for Director, Solutions Engineering team, to run our onboarding, implementation including PS and support functions.

Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4276895381/

Comp: $175k base + bonus + equity + 95% healthcare contribution (medical+dental+vision and some life insurance)

We don't sponsor visas at the moment

New comment by neeleshs in "How I use LLMs as a staff engineer"

neeleshs — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:49:53 +0000

I use LLM to generate complete solutions to small technical problems. "Write an input stream implementation that skips lines based on a regex".

Hard for an IDE auto complete to do this.

New comment by neeleshs in "Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes"

neeleshs — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:06:58 +0000

Or a tapestry! (I have one in our dining room)

New comment by neeleshs in "Moving on from React, a year later"

neeleshs — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:40:53 +0000

I see. HTMX and others target the browser, which is primarily an HTML renderer. So there is nothing inherently bad about page transfers. That's what hypermedia is about.

React et al try to create a different paradigm on top of this. And that makes it like building a desktop UI AND a server app

To me, this is not in anyway better than building something for the browser - pages and html.

New comment by neeleshs in "Moving on from React, a year later"

neeleshs — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 06:40:46 +0000

Can you say more about what didn't work with HTMX? What parts make terrible DX?

I also think HTMX is meant mostly for backend developers to be more productive in frontend.

New comment by neeleshs in "Moving on from React, a year later"

neeleshs — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 06:22:24 +0000

Even with react, we have found that having a separate API layer was more ergonomic.

Maybe with graphql it is different

New comment by neeleshs in "YC X25, the spring 2025 batch"

neeleshs — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:39:58 +0000

B25 for Bloom would've been nicer

New comment by neeleshs in "So you want to build your own data center"

neeleshs — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 02:35:48 +0000

Yep. BQ,GKE, and at a metalevel the simpler project structure -all have been great. I cannot still fully understand the org hierarchy that AWS has yet.

New comment by neeleshs in "So you want to build your own data center"

neeleshs — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 01:51:22 +0000

I'm probably an outlier here. My experience with GCP support has been nothing but stellar, like I described in another comment down below

New comment by neeleshs in "So you want to build your own data center"

neeleshs — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 01:49:43 +0000

I've had similar experiences with Google as well. Reaching out with new services, hours with some of their technical people, invites to meetups, free credits, an extremely pleasing and responsive account manager. We spend a few hundred thousand dollars a year with them. The actual software is top notch. Most haven't been just turn it on and forget it.

Datastar: The Hypermedia Framework

neeleshs — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:43:19 +0000

Article URL: https://data-star.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42667483

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by neeleshs in "The Future of Htmx"

neeleshs — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 05:15:02 +0000

Do you do this in raw react, or use some third party carousel library? If so, maybe something like that can be used with HTMX as well?

But your larger point stands, HTMX is probably not a great fit for highly interactive webapps, even though you can push it pretty far

New comment by neeleshs in "Rails for everything"

neeleshs — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:15:10 +0000

More often than not, forms are the database model. They very frequently evolve together. The entire data transfer object to model copy back and forth is unnecessary most of the time

New comment by neeleshs in "Rails for everything"

neeleshs — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 02:18:55 +0000

Spring boot has form validations pretty much out of the box, via validation annotations.

New comment by neeleshs in "I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps"

neeleshs — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:31:34 +0000

I have had a similar experience with their API. Very verbose json structure, lack of stable row IDs, inconsistent data types. And being a spreadsheet, it also has to have styling/formatting details, complicating it even more.

New comment by neeleshs in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

neeleshs — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:00:44 +0000

The newer version of Java has much better syntax.

New comment by neeleshs in "React 19"

neeleshs — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:24:45 +0000

Interestingly I did something similar with Claude, asking it to generate tailwind/HTML components instead. And copy/pasting them as Thymeleaf fragments for a java/springboot + htmx project.

New comment by neeleshs in "React 19"

neeleshs — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:21:50 +0000

Then something like DaisyUI/HyperUI + HTMX? And depending on the backend you can do components (eg: For Django there is django-cotton and others that help).

New comment by neeleshs in "Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies"

neeleshs — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:32:03 +0000

95%! Isn't that too bitter? One square of 72% works best for me, 85% is pushing it.

New comment by neeleshs in "Htmy – Async, pure-Python rendering engine"

neeleshs — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:12:21 +0000

You might want to look at django-cotton for components