Hacker News: splix

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).

New comment by splix in "Show HN: Blueprint: Fast, Nunjucks-like templating engine for Java 8 and beyond"

splix — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:57:37 +0000

Also, for SPA with SSR take a look at Double View https://github.com/emeraldpay/double-view

It's a React renderer that works on Java backend by using GraalVM, and then the same JS template continues to work in browser.

New comment by splix in "Fintech dystopia"

splix — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:22:41 +0000

In the world where the non-questionable financial organizations decide who can access them or not, based on the place they were born at. I.e., the current world.

New comment by splix in "The U.K. closed a tax loophole for the global rich, now they're fleeing"

splix — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:23:36 +0000

In the times of AI it's really easy to verify the question above. I had literally just copied it to the chat and made a research (also asked to cite and manually verified the links).

So it says there are 57 billionaires in UK with total worth of £182 billion. Non-billionaire wealth is £10.13 trillion, btw, so it's definitively not 50%. UK population is 68.3 million people. So everyone gets their £11,311 and that's it.

UPDATE there are £772.8 billions if you include non-UK citizens, but happen to live here. If you seize their money as well that will give you the total of £11K

New comment by splix in "The day someone created 184 billion Bitcoin (2020)"

splix — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:53:50 +0000

That's different because in Bitcoin's case there was a clear violation of the specification, of how it supposed to work. So the bug was fixed to make the software working as it intended to be. If there were two node implementations then one would just stop to work until fixed.

In Ethereum's case there were no violation of any specification. In fact there were no bug in the blockchain itself. Just someone took founder's money, they didn't like it and so they decided to get them back. And note that after that, there were bugs in the nodes code that were breaking the spec (which you should compare to the bitcoin's bug), but because of multiple node implementations only some of the nodes stopped and so we don't care about those issues.

New comment by splix in "Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need?"

splix — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:03:41 +0000

I think you're referring to the Winston Churchill's "on Land Monopoly".

I don't remember exact details and may miss something, but the work is very short so please check it. In short, he described, I believe, a real situation when a major of people in a town got extra extra money because a toll on the bridge to the fabric was eliminated. But in a short time the town's rental cost grew up by exactly this amount.

New comment by splix in "Show HN: Localize React apps without rewriting code"

splix — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 19:26:40 +0000

I'm trying to understand if it works with an Electron (or Tauri) app on desktop? Cannot find any mention on the website. And how it works with apps that are not bases on React Router or anything similar, so it cannot learn all the possible screens.

New comment by splix in "EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027"

splix — Mon, 05 May 2025 13:20:44 +0000

Or anything that the government don't like. Like donation to an opposition, journalists, etc. That's why authoritarian governments are first to fight the financial privacy / independence.

New comment by splix in "EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027"

splix — Mon, 05 May 2025 12:42:09 +0000

As someone who have been living in a couple of countries under a temporal residence I can say it's not that simple. In many cases the temporal residence is simply not accepted, or not in the list of standard docs, etc. Private companies don't really care about all those non standard cases, and they ask either for a passport of the country or a permanent residence at least.

So legally yes, you can pass a KYC, but in practice you're an edge case no one cares about

New comment by splix in "Why does Britain feel so poor?"

splix — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 20:51:53 +0000

I'm sure they do it at the first place. It seems to be p.2 here, but it even less acceptable by many, as it's just "greedy people multiplying their wealth." Speaking of "fixing outside world," I'm not sure why it's the better than paying to a tradesman?