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New comment by stefanos82 in "How come LinkedIn uses 3.5 GB of RAM?"

stefanos82 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:48:48 +0000

They are illegally collecting a number of data from your computer with background processes and there was a data leak from them a few days ago where they demonstrate with their hack what LinkedIn actually collects from its users.

Just watch this video [1] which explains the whole situation in great detail and you will understand.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_CHzm7vwA

New comment by stefanos82 in "LinkedIn uses 65GB of RAM with 7 tabs opened"

stefanos82 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:05:23 +0000

Before I deleted my account in November, I have reported to them a very severe form of memory leak that was caused by ad blocker(s).

When you disabled your ad blocker, things became normal...but the background services they run via websockets was just insane lol.

As soon as you re-enabled your ad blocker, the same original memory usage returned.

Another memory leakage can be found via their message app; the more characters you type after a while, the more memory it would devour! I just couldn't continue my discussion with an HR during discussion about arranging an interview; we had to switch to email as it led both of us to extreme frustration!

It just not worth the effort anymore...not to mention the HR scammers that compete between them who's going to get your info or what other data they can extract from you.

Just delete your account; it's not worth it anymore...whatever Microsoft touches, it kills it in no time.

New comment by stefanos82 in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

stefanos82 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:14:14 +0000

Serious question: let's say I host my code on this platform which is proprietary and is for my various clients. Who can guarantee me that AI won't replicate it to competitors who decide to create something similar to my product?

New comment by stefanos82 in "Is it still worth learning to code?"

stefanos82 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:30:29 +0000

Professionally? I would avoid it. Personally? For hobby, 100% I would, but at my own pace.

New comment by stefanos82 in "Searches for Learn Python up 150%"

stefanos82 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:58:47 +0000

Coincidentally, that time range you just shared, I've noticed more and more Twitch streamers that deal with fintech and cryptos started automating their crypto trading with bots written in Python and AI / ML models, which they started right before Christmas holidays, between late November early December.

I guess they had plenty of time to do such things and some viewers of theirs got inspired and decided to teach themselves Python because it looks easy.

New comment by stefanos82 in "Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai"

stefanos82 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:19:51 +0000

Why am I having a feeling that one of their reasons was so they can trademark "iQ", to match the iSomething "franchise", so to speak?

New comment by stefanos82 in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

stefanos82 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:15:17 +0000

I hope they've got rewarded astro...nomically well lol!

My apologies friends, I could not resist!

Congrats Astro team!

New comment by stefanos82 in "Write once, run anywhere: The promise C couldn't keep"

stefanos82 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:19:38 +0000

Cosmopolitan C library would like to have a word with you then https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

New comment by stefanos82 in "Why is Apache still popular even as Nginx has proven its mettle on performance?"

stefanos82 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:08:33 +0000

The only logical explanation I can think of based on my personal experience is that shared hosting services offer Apache web server by default so they can host WordPress websites which by the way, based on w3techs.com, 43.1% of all websites are WordPress.

You may ask why Apache then? Well, because when a user modify some settings via dashboard, they change in .htaccess which does not expect a web server restart or super user permissions like you need with NGINX, for example.

Now you know why WordPress websites are getting hacked easier than other CMS-es...because they can apply changes in .htaccess on the fly, whereas with other web servers, you need root permissions, thus the extra layer of security.

New comment by stefanos82 in "We chose OCaml to write Stategraph"

stefanos82 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:34:46 +0000

Does TypeScript emit machine code? OCaml gives you this option, if you need it.

New comment by stefanos82 in "The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund"

stefanos82 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:18:56 +0000

If you go to the main page and scroll down a bit, you will see the big names having their logos hosted there...

New comment by stefanos82 in "Ask HN: What are you using for blogging?"

stefanos82 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:21:51 +0000

I have tried to follow Hugo's development but lost track with its constant evolution and addition of features I do not need...therefore for now I follow a simpler path: I keep my data in markdown files and I plan to switch to asciidoctor for good; it's quite old, it's battle-tested, and offers me many options to produce various forms of output; be it HTML, PDF, ePub, etc...

If O'Reilly trusts it to produce its ebooks, then I'm sure it worthy of my time and effort!

New comment by stefanos82 in "Ask HN: Who else thinks they should add GOTO statements to Python?"

stefanos82 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:55:02 +0000

There is an April Fools' joke [1] that demonstrate this and I cannot tell it's readable or not...I personally find it confusing in Python, but not in C's case which can make things clearer, if you use it wisely and in moderation!

[1] https://entrian.com/goto/

New comment by stefanos82 in "SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it"

stefanos82 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:56:15 +0000

When hctree [1] becomes stable in SQLite, it will be the only database I will be using lol!

I presume the `hc` part in project's code name should be High Concurrency.

[1] https://sqlite.org/hctree/doc/hctree/doc/hctree/index.html

New comment by stefanos82 in "We Deleted Tokio from Our Payment System and Cut Cloud Costs by $127,000"

stefanos82 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:26:46 +0000

The first thing I thought when I read this weird article was "wait...do they use their database synchronously in an asynchronous environment or am I missing something here?".

Most of us have been bitten by this naive mistake and I'm sure we have learned our lesson.

New comment by stefanos82 in "The Joy of Rediscovering Perl"

stefanos82 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:34:37 +0000

Interesting project! The real question is, how fast does it compile, let's say 10K articles, assuming we have a large website?

New comment by stefanos82 in "Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable"

stefanos82 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:56:44 +0000

As a GNU / Linux Debian user, I personally use many different PDF readers for eccentric reasons lol!

My preference by far is qpdfview, but I also use Okular (KDE), Evince, its fork for MATE desktop environment, Atril, and of course xpdf!

New comment by stefanos82 in "Photowand – Turn selfies into professional photos with AI"

stefanos82 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:14:19 +0000

Pieter Levels has already done this and it's scary!

See this link https://photoai.com/ and this link https://interiorai.com/

New comment by stefanos82 in "Professional Job Seeker might be my only full-time role ever"

stefanos82 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:24:50 +0000

> the process feels broken.

Yes and no; what do I mean with that...yes, it looks like the system it's fundamentally broken and at the same time, no it's not because it has always been this way, thus the expected output.

The problem with it right now is that history repeat itself, as the current market symptoms are the same (more or less) as those back in 2000 when dot com bubble was about to burst!

They were asking for unrealistic stuff and you could tell from the amount of money poured in the tech industry that something was completely off, which eventually confirmed everyone's suspicion.

I have been looking for a job myself for a while now and let me tell you, it's a complete mad chaos out there, especially with the AI frenzy everyone and their mother is talking about.

Hold on tight, don't stop and keep on looking for anything, until the storm calms down.

Good luck!

New comment by stefanos82 in "Ask HN: How do you say “I don’t know, but I’ll get back to you” confidently?"

stefanos82 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:22:20 +0000

Tell them that you are slow thinker and you need your time to think thoroughly so you can come back with answers.

If they don't believe you, tell them Derek Sivers, the CD Baby creator is also a slow thinker https://sive.rs/slow