Hacker News: nullzzz

New comment by nullzzz in "Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results"

nullzzz — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:35:22 +0000

This would be interesting, if I was into building coffee shop sites and todo apps from scratch. For the HN crowd tho, I’d say these are toy examples. No offense!

New comment by nullzzz in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

nullzzz — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:42:36 +0000

I don’t think I mentioned USA nor took a side.

New comment by nullzzz in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

nullzzz — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:48:35 +0000

Well done!

I don’t quite agree with making fun of the situation that’s deadly serious to many innocent people. Yet I’m sure the intentions of the author were good.

Hoping for peace.

New comment by nullzzz in "Show HN: LazyPromise = Observable – Signals"

nullzzz — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 20:10:27 +0000

Interesting stuff!

The two separate failure channels turn me off. Is this practical or does it introduce unwanted complexity in most cases?

Also wondering what are the Signals that are mentioned.

New comment by nullzzz in "Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern"

nullzzz — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:03:01 +0000

Requires Medium account to read. Sorry, not going for it.

New comment by nullzzz in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

nullzzz — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:17:54 +0000

It’s indeed a reasonably usable tool. Gets very slow with large canvases though, so don’t put everything into a single canvas.

New comment by nullzzz in "How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table"

nullzzz — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:39:15 +0000

I can recommend this architecture. So much easier to maintain and understand than using an extra service. The implementation here I didn’t go into much detail, but you can surely roll your own if this doesn’t cut it for you, or use a library like pgboss.

New comment by nullzzz in "How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)"

nullzzz — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:27:58 +0000

This is really disgusting. Chickens are feeling animals as well.

New comment by nullzzz in "What if we treated Postgres like SQLite?"

nullzzz — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:24:04 +0000

I agree. Having read my comment I must apologize as it came out too dismissive. Keep pondering, dude :)

New comment by nullzzz in "What if we treated Postgres like SQLite?"

nullzzz — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:54:23 +0000

This is IMO best done running pg in a container using docker-compose or similar

New comment by nullzzz in "What if we treated Postgres like SQLite?"

nullzzz — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:53:13 +0000

No it’s not ”pg functionality”. It’s close to SQL standard compliance but not close to what Postgres has to offer. Also, single transaction writing at a time, in-process etc.

New comment by nullzzz in "What if we treated Postgres like SQLite?"

nullzzz — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:52:22 +0000

TLDR: a dude ponders if postgres could be used instead of sqlite. Close to zero useful information, no learnings from serious production use.

New comment by nullzzz in "The quest to find and save the Vasa (2019)"

nullzzz — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:35:13 +0000

Lovely article! Just visited the Vasa museum last weekend. It is a marvel and an obvious must-see for anyone visiting Stockholm Sweden.

New comment by nullzzz in "Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user"

nullzzz — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:19:15 +0000

Sure, but doing anything at a grand scale is expensive - realtime collab is no exception IMO, not that we already have things like Y.js. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not playing Cloudflare’s efforts down, just saying that particular claim is false.

New comment by nullzzz in "Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user"

nullzzz — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 19:32:09 +0000

I think it’s an exaggeration to say ”Building experiences with real-time components was previously only accessible to multi-billion dollar companies”. For instance my hobby project ourboard.io provides realtime collaboration and it costs like 20$ to host with current moderate load of users. It utilizes Y.js for collab text editing. Y.js is dedinitely a great tech and has a low entry barrier.

New comment by nullzzz in "Javalin – a simple web framework for Java and Kotlin"

nullzzz — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:12:01 +0000

The aforementioned are huge detractors for me to be honest. I find a no-magic, code-only solution like Javalin (and Express etc) far more intuitive.

New comment by nullzzz in "LoaderShip – CSS-Only Loaders"

nullzzz — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 09:42:25 +0000

Looks great. Who’s behind this tho? Could not find anything on the authors.

New comment by nullzzz in "Classes vs. structs in .NET: how not to teach about performance"

nullzzz — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 19:09:28 +0000

To me the point seems that the benchmark is so misguided and missed the obvious error in the usage on LINQ that the results are not relevant. You should not take perf advice from the authors of that course.

New comment by nullzzz in "Show HN: SiteGPT – Create ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your website content"

nullzzz — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 06:55:54 +0000

Interesting concept! The pricing is very aggressive though, if you have a substantial amount of content. Also, per-page pricing makes no sense - should be more like per-character.

New comment by nullzzz in "Browser based racing competition where the car is driven with JavaScript"

nullzzz — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 11:41:26 +0000

One of the authors here. Hope you have fun playing. Also, AmA :)