Hacker News: qabqabaca

New comment by qabqabaca in "GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in"

qabqabaca — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:44:25 +0000

I don’t see how that relates to my comment

New comment by qabqabaca in "GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in"

qabqabaca — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:50:30 +0000

> people will get fed up and register an account, and github can brag about how many new users they brought in

This makes no sense. The number of people who use GitHub code search but don’t already have a GitHub account is surely negligible

New comment by qabqabaca in "Nue.js: Rethinking Reactivity"

qabqabaca — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 10:22:56 +0000

Do people generally say React is “just JavaScript”? I’ve seen it said about Svelte, never React.

In any case, why market your framework with an equally poor comparison?

New comment by qabqabaca in "Nue.js: Rethinking Reactivity"

qabqabaca — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 08:50:18 +0000

NueJS: “It’s just HTML!”

The HTML:

New comment by qabqabaca in "Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor"

qabqabaca — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:05:54 +0000

He’s not complaining about it missing the features he wants, he’s complaining about it missing features of the products it’s presenting itself as an alternative to

New comment by qabqabaca in "Ask HN: How much of unlimited PTO do you use?"

qabqabaca — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 08:49:29 +0000

Peak HN is using an overly smart-sounding word like "orthogonal" instead of the clearly more appropriate "independent"

New comment by qabqabaca in "The technology behind GitHub’s new code search"

qabqabaca — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 18:59:14 +0000

Sourcegraph[1] does this better and has done for a couple of years now. I use it for this reason all the time.

[1] https://sourcegraph.com

New comment by qabqabaca in "“The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 Web3”"

qabqabaca — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 13:08:46 +0000

As far as consumer interest goes, the problem with Web3 is it sells the means rather than the end. Nobody cares if your Twitter/Substack/Spotify Web3 alternative is decentralised or you own your own data on the platform. To win it has to be immediately useful and/or better than alternatives.

Content generation AI is so obviously useful to the majority of people and it does not require an understanding of how it works in order to be impressed by it.

New comment by qabqabaca in "What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me"

qabqabaca — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:36:28 +0000

Chris Dixon has no business on this list. He is A16z's chief crypto shill on Twitter and blocks anyone who even remotely questions crypto/web3/blockchain.

To say he is more interested in decentralized technology than money is laughable given his complete inability to engage in any sort of healthy discussion about it. He is bad for the space.

New comment by qabqabaca in "I decided to stop working on Mighty"

qabqabaca — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 10:26:24 +0000

The way PG talks about these companies on Twitter makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Mighty https://twitter.com/search?q=mighty%20(from%3Apaulg)&src=typ...

Mighty so obviously had no idea who its customer was. Can't afford good hardware to run CPU/GPU-intensive browser apps? Why not spend $420 a year on a browser. Is it for enterprise or consumer? Who knows. He spoke of it like a once in a generation company [1] and the fact they spent 3.5 years working a product that never even launched goes against what I thought his philosophy was.

Replit - https://twitter.com/search?q=replit%20(from%3Apaulg)&src=typ...

Replit I feel suffers from the same problem and, possibly not coincidentally, PG talks about it the same way. Is it an IDE? Hosting platform? Education platform? How have they not found PMF after raising $100M over 8 years [2]? I feel like every time I see someone talk about the company on Twitter it's about them launching some brand new feature in a new area. On that, I also only ever see the same few people on Twitter chatting about it and have never encountered Replit in the wild. It's almost always Codepen, Codesandbox, JS Fiddle or Stackblitz.

It makes me seriously question PG's opinions on individual companies as his bias is so clear and it makes him appear so naive.

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1561473124389888000

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/replit/company_finan...

New comment by qabqabaca in "Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?"

qabqabaca — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 19:39:32 +0000

Nobody uses email to discover new email addresses, outreach is direct. Discoverability is a massive part of social media platforms and is hindered by the isolated pod structure that Mastodon supports

New comment by qabqabaca in "Why to not use JWT (2021)"

qabqabaca — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:23:24 +0000

> This made it difficult to work with separate hosts (www.my.app vs. api.my.app).

This is still possible with session cookies if you use wildcard origin cookies i.e. *.my.app

New comment by qabqabaca in "React I love you, but you're bringing me down"

qabqabaca — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 21:53:00 +0000

He was recently hired by Vercel to work on it full time so I wouldn't be too concerned about the future of Svelte

New comment by qabqabaca in "I tracked everything I read on the internet for a year"

qabqabaca — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:00:41 +0000

This sounds like a great idea. Do you have any system for tagging or sorting them? Other than date of course

New comment by qabqabaca in "Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU"

qabqabaca — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 09:23:41 +0000

Commenting for visibility, thanks for this

New comment by qabqabaca in "Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon"

qabqabaca — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 17:48:50 +0000

On your deployment page[0], it says you can deploy the entire thing to Vercel or Netlify and pass in the postgres connection string to the frontend directly. Am I understanding this correctly? Is the connection string for the database readable from the front end?

[0]https://docs.openship.org/deployment

New comment by qabqabaca in "Google blocks Truth Social from the Play Store"

qabqabaca — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:40:03 +0000

This is a good observation. It's also probably not coincidence that any "free speech" (i.e. zero content moderation) platforms inevitably end up full of racists/homophobes/xenophobes etc

New comment by qabqabaca in "Google blocks Truth Social from the Play Store"

qabqabaca — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:37:29 +0000

That's exactly my point. How can something like 4chan still exist online? There have been multiple mass-shooters bred there. It also used to be known for extremely questionable adult content. Why do Trumps preferred platforms get taken down but not this?

New comment by qabqabaca in "Google blocks Truth Social from the Play Store"

qabqabaca — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:17:28 +0000

Is the issue here that all republican/right-wing biased platforms and influencers encourage hate-speech? Or simply that the platforms with the ability to block access to these services have a liberal bias and it suits their agenda better?

I am not right-wing nor am I even American, but at this stage I'm of the opinion that these bans are coordinated attacks. Watching Trump get banned from every social platform within two or three days for inciting an insurrection offline left a bad taste in my mouth. A similar thing has just happened to Andrew Tate. It also happens all the time with right-wing subreddits.

Why are right-wing communities not allowed to flourish online like left-leaning ones?

New comment by qabqabaca in "Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday"

qabqabaca — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:42:34 +0000

> Working hours are relative

Sorry but for me this doesn't cut it when you have staff and availability zones in every continent on the planet. It isn't some mom and pop shop in one town. It shouldn't be much to ask a company of Google's size and breadth to consider your local timezone for urgent communications.