Hacker News: stringtoint

New comment by stringtoint in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

stringtoint — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:14:03 +0000

Love the depth of this post.

We were actually looking at it as well recently (we're using Drata). I was thinking "Cool, this looks like the next cool step forward". The claims didn't sound out of the world in my ears.

Every time an issue like this appears I wonder how many more undiscovered frauds are out there.

New comment by stringtoint in "Apple I Advertisement (1976)"

stringtoint — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:16:31 +0000

Funny, I had this problem yesterday when I tried to login to Apple Business Manager. Thought I had messed up but worked fine in incognito.

My 11 Favorite ESLint Rules

stringtoint — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:49:31 +0000

Article URL: https://ali-dev.medium.com/my-11-favorite-eslint-rules-1cfd66667b6f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46505487

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by stringtoint in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

stringtoint — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:54:10 +0000

Work related: The Culture Map - can strongly recommend! Non-work: the Alex Rider series. Both entertaining and serious when it needs to be without being super grim.

Making GitHub Actions Fast(er) & Cheaper with Dedicated Runners

stringtoint — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:08:44 +0000

Article URL: https://ali-dev.medium.com/making-github-ci-cd-fast-er-cheaper-with-dedicated-runners-55612586afd7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306250

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Using Cursor's Bugbot to Spot Issues Early in Pull Requests

stringtoint — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:29:55 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@ali-dev/using-cursor-bugbot-to-spot-issues-early-0cdc142fbaff

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295516

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Deployment ≠ Instant Worldwide Availability

stringtoint — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:54:08 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@ali-dev/deployment-instant-worldwide-availability-5cf00e5f290f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281265

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by stringtoint in "Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year"

stringtoint — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:36:35 +0000

Agreed. My 3 free apps, one with +100k downloads were also removed because of the EU ruling. Don't want my personal address and phone number to be more accessible to bad actors more than it already is. While I can somewhat follow the idea, the execution in practice has serious flaws.

New comment by stringtoint in "Render raises $80M in Series C financing"

stringtoint — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:02:20 +0000

Agreeing with your points, especially regarding Cloudflare! For the record: we did pass ISO 27001 and we use Render.

New comment by stringtoint in "Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties"

stringtoint — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:00:25 +0000

Where is the guy duck taped to the ceiling?

Reviewing My Past Infrastructure, Technology and Product Decisions

stringtoint — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:18:30 +0000

Article URL: https://ali-dev.medium.com/reviewing-my-past-infrastructure-technology-and-product-decisions-92f4853e5c1c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42056390

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by stringtoint in "Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file"

stringtoint — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 23:31:52 +0000

Nice! Reminds me of the time I was working on a browser extension to do this.

Interviewing Engineers as a Startup Founder

stringtoint — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 07:55:49 +0000

Article URL: https://ali-dev.medium.com/interviewing-engineers-as-a-startup-founder-258466758484

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39039169

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by stringtoint in "Ask HN: Does your microwave interfere with Bluetooth? Mine does"

stringtoint — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:38:33 +0000

My bluetooth headphones occasionally drop the connection for a moment when I'm standing to my microwave which is warming up food. 2.4GHz after all. Bluetooth and USB 3 don't play along that well either btw.

New comment by stringtoint in "The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)"

stringtoint — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:15:41 +0000

Plenty of developers paste arbitrary bash commands posted on sites like GitHub without thinking because they look "legit", I suppose. I see it similarly as you do: StackOverflow (and Copilot) can be helpful to start but it's.

Had an exchange like this some time ago:

Me: Hey, I'm reviewing your PR. Looks pretty fine to me. Except for this function which looks like it was copy-pasted from SO: I literally found the same function in an answer on SO (it was written in pure JS while we were using TS in our project).

Dev: Yes, everyone copies from SO.

Me: Well, in that case I hope you always copy the right thing. Because this code might run but it is not good enough (e.g. the variable names are inexpressive, it creates DOM elements without removing them after they are not needed anymore).

New comment by stringtoint in "Insomnia REST client now requires an account"

stringtoint — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:05:25 +0000

Curious to know what advantages Insomnia has/had over Postman beyond being MIT licensed.

Postman's initial startup time could be a bit faster but other than this I'm not missing much (yet). I used it for years occasionally before finally creating an account not so long to sync my requests across devices.

BTW: Jetbrains IDEs like WebStorm also have an integrated HTTP client.

New comment by stringtoint in "Google Podcasts is going away"

stringtoint — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:48:27 +0000

Oh no, I actually liked Google Podcasts for its simplicity. First Google Music, now Podcasts - hope they don't kill this Play Store thingy next /s

New comment by stringtoint in "Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller models"

stringtoint — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 21:11:15 +0000

You're correct, I confused it with LLAMA being more business-friendly (at least in theory) than some other models out there.

New comment by stringtoint in "Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller models"

stringtoint — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:36:01 +0000

Curious to know why this is the case? I haven't played around with LLAMA yet but I figured it being open-source would make it more trustworthy than models provided by OpenAI.

New comment by stringtoint in "Google Drops Software Support for Pixel 4a Just 3 Years After Its Release"

stringtoint — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 22:01:07 +0000

Unfortunate - I didn't know till today. I had been wondering why I hadn't receive an update for September yet.