Hacker News: splix

New comment by splix in "New Apple TV 4K"

splix — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:38:36 +0000

I actually waited for it. My years old Apple TV died some time ago so I had a chance to use the Android TV that comes with the TV itself. And it's so terrible. I don't understand why even YouTube app is much better on Apple TV than the Android TV one

New comment by splix in "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"

splix — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:33:42 +0000

Right, and those features are deteriorating though it should be opposite as it becames more important now

New comment by splix in "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"

splix — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:42:04 +0000

I've been paying customer for 15+ years, I wish I can continue using them another 15 years, but the current trend is terrible.

They had the best IDE. Now they went all into AI, trying to compete on another people's field, and the cost of that is diminishing their main product. Do they really want to compete with Anthropic? Instead of that they could improve the other sides of IDE. Even with AI I have to review the code. Especially with AI. I need tools to check the diffs, I need to refactor it, I need to run it in different ways, see how it works, and so on. That's where IntelliJ could shine, not as AI tool.

New comment by splix in "M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years"

splix — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:16:01 +0000

Even the largest 100GB disk seems too small nowadays

New comment by splix in "JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal"

splix — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:52:57 +0000

Have just read above that it's possible. It's interesting actually. So I guess I'll do that once I buy a new mac. I have a maxed out pro, with i9 and so on, so throwing it await would be a shame

New comment by splix in "JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal"

splix — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:37:55 +0000

What I wanted to say that I don't like exactly that. The hardware is fine, but software is not.

New comment by splix in "JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal"

splix — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:31:25 +0000

Why? I can upgrade, that's not a problem. I'm just saying macOS works fine so far, almost all of the software works too. But I see increasing amount of announcements like this one suggesting that I'll have to replace hardware to get the latest versions. So I guess I will do that only to be able to use that software, not to get better performance.

New comment by splix in "JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal"

splix — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:20:01 +0000

I guess I'm the only one who is still on x64. I don't like I'm pushed to migrate only because the software wants that, otherwise the hardware works with no problem.

New comment by splix in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

splix — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:52:04 +0000

Exactly. The commit message is supposed to be for the future developer, not to generate changelog.

And the main case when that developer reads the commit message is when he doesn't understand _why_ that commit exists. Not what it changes, but what is the purpose of certain lines. So he runs "blame", sees commits, the original developers are not with the company anymore, the old JIRA may not exist too, and the only hint is the commit message.

https://dev.to/splix/the-why-behind-the-code-2bb1

New comment by splix in "Rari – Rust-powered React framework"

splix — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:17:37 +0000

That may sound strange, but it turns out I don't use WASM as well. Last time I touched this part was ~8 month ago, and WASM was just one of the experiments, and I forgot about this. Just remember it was hard to find a right approach initially, on how to execute JS without NodeJS environment. But with a right set of polyfills it works now.

Anyway, I see we have a bit different approaches on how to handle JS part, and I could get some ideas from that.

New comment by splix in "Rari – Rust-powered React framework"

splix — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:28:03 +0000

Nice project, thank you for working on it. I was trying to figure out the architecture, and I understand that it runs a Deno VM to execute JS on the backend?

I was working on something similar, but for JVM backends [1]. And it seems there are a lot to learn from your project. For example, I'm using GraalVM that executes JS on the server. But I have to compile JS to WebAssembly because otherwise it produces a lot integration issues on the backend. Do you do the same?

[1] https://github.com/emeraldpay/double-view

New comment by splix in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

splix — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:42:35 +0000

I'm curious why you can't legally pay in crypto? I heard a few times about companies paying in crypto to their remote workers. In fact I heard that a US company was paying in BTC withing the US, though I'm not sure I trust this particular story. I also see that Deel accepts USDC, and to my understanding they convert to local currency of the remote worker. Is that all illegal? Truly want to understand.

New comment by splix in "Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies"

splix — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:15:51 +0000

I had a bad Cloudflare experience. So, my card on file got no balance one day (my bad, I forgot to update to a new card), and they just turned off the services.

They somehow managed to charge partial amount (like 80% of the bill), but decided to turn off everything anyway, even the services that could be covered by those 80%. They turned off what they offer for free, and we were unable to change the setting, like instead of their CDN point traffic to an S3 bucket, etc.

When they do that they basically freeze your account. I mean you cannot provide a new card to pay the outstanding bill, or do anything at all actually. You're not welcomed here anymore. Locked out. That's is a terrible way to react to a payment failure after being a paying customer for a few years.

It was hard to reach the support, and it took multiple days until I found someone on Reddit who looked at our ticket and it eventually helped.

PS I had much worse experience with GCP after being a loyal customer of them for like 15 years, so Clouflare is good.

New comment by splix in "Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres"

splix — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:44:42 +0000

I think the author means all dbs that fit a single server. Because in distributed dbs you often want to spread the load evenly over multiple servers.

New comment by splix in "Shai Hulud launches second supply-chain attack"

splix — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:33:49 +0000

We made a script to avoid such situations. It checks the dependencies, just by parsing the package.json (or the lock file), checking the relevant time on npm registry, and returns error if it finds a too fresh package added.

We run it on CI for each commit/PR, and if a developer tries to commit a change that updates a JS dependency to a too recent it prevents the build from running, and so on. Basically we expect that a Supply Chain attacks on NPM would be noticed in a couple of week, and we enforce this time window to our code.

See https://github.com/emeraldpay/paranoid.js

New comment by splix in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"

splix — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:26:35 +0000

Ah, I had a similar situation with them. They also closed my personal account immediately after closing the business account. I was really surprised it works that way.

New comment by splix in "I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating"

splix — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:40:29 +0000

I mean the arrest. But as I just learned [1] he is being allowed to make periodic travels to Dubai since recently. So things got better for him now, but that's just since July 2025. Before that he was physically staying in France since August 2024, which I would call as "living" as it's the place where he spent most of his time.

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250619-france-soften...

New comment by splix in "I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating"

splix — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:06:23 +0000

I think for the past couple of years he lives in France. By force, so it's not very straight to recognize it as a free or not.

New comment by splix in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

splix — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:26:02 +0000

AFAIK the recommended way is to open a bank account through smaller banks (aka neobanks). They just send you a card to address specified and once you activated it you (first) get a bank account for payments and (second) can use it to prove address for others. Also, if you legally rent then you get the council tax documents, though it takes roughly a month for them to send. This is another proof of address. And the bills of course, but again it takes a month or so to receive the first letter.

So it's unclear how a digital ID solves anything in regarding the proof of address.

New comment by splix in "AI fabricates 21 out of 23 citations lawyer sanctioned reported to state bar [pdf]"

splix — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 12:54:23 +0000

I'm wondering how did you ask for the links?

It supposed to search for actual documents and then process them (extract content, summarize, giving you the links, and so on).