Hacker News: udia

New comment by udia in "Rocknix is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices"

udia — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:30:34 +0000

Nice to see another alternative to the Linux gaming ecosystem. Bazzite also states handheld device support: https://bazzite.gg/

New comment by udia in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)"

udia — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:46:54 +0000

Location: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Case by case

Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, PHP, Elixir, Golang, React, Vue, Svelte, PyTorch, Kafka, GraphQL, MySQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB), Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Workflows, Azure, Cloudflare Workers, etc.

Résumé/CV: https://media.udia.ca/2025/06/2025-06-02%20Alexander%20Wong%...

Email: alex@udia.ca

Website: https://udia.ca

Experienced SWE with over 10 years of working experience. Looking for opportunities to own full-stack features, drive platform modernization, or bridge ML/AI systems with robust engineering. Open to staff+ level roles or senior IC with leadership responsibility.

New comment by udia in "World Emulation via Neural Network"

udia — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:51:25 +0000

Very nice work. Seems very similar to the Oasis Minecraft simulator.

https://oasis.decart.ai/

New comment by udia in "Google lays off its Python team"

udia — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:26:11 +0000

Where does the source indicate Python team layoff?

New comment by udia in "Why every microwave sucks these days"

udia — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 01:02:09 +0000

Instant Pot died primarily due to private equity greed, not because of Instant Pot reliability.

In 2017, Cornell Capital bought the company for a total $500M of which $300M was financed by debt. Then 4 years later in 2021, it refinanced and added on debt, bringing the total debt to $535M. $245M was immediately paid out to shareholders as a dividend. Cornell Capital got paid back all the cash it invested in the company's acquisition, and then some. In 2023 due to high interest rates the company was no longer able to service its debt, costing the company ~$50M a year, and the company had to file Chapter 11.

New comment by udia in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

udia — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 23:47:59 +0000

https://udia.ca

Rambling, personal notes, links to other more worthy pages

New comment by udia in "Ask HN: What is the most pleasant, uncomplicated full stack to start with?"

udia — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 03:05:50 +0000

Phoenix framework and Elixir get a lot of love here if you are willing to dive into functional programming languages.

New comment by udia in "How to sell tickets fairly"

udia — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 05:23:56 +0000

How would you measure/trade time? Other than with the approximation of using money.

New comment by udia in "Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment"

udia — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:35:35 +0000

Would it be possible to build a business that were completely public and transparent?

Every dollar that was spent would be published publically. All source code would be made free and permissive, open source. Users would always own their own data and could frictionlessly share with each other.

There would be no advertisements. All analytics would require explicit opt in and be visible to the general public.

The app would be localized to all languages, using heuristics and machine learning to perform the bulk of the translations, with human verification.

The app would be an attention focuser, calendar, general search, peer-to-peer connecting, encrypted, public monstrosity. It would be subtle and discrete, running just out of reach of direct human interaction.

u0.vc

New comment by udia in "Time.gif (2017)"

udia — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:15:41 +0000

https://hookrace.net/time.gif returning 503 for me now

New comment by udia in "The Internet Archive Book Images has deleted their Flickr account"

udia — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:01:06 +0000

I am surprised that the Internet Archive does not fully control the storage of their assets, or at least have some kind of contractual agreement with Flickr to prevent this from occurring.

New comment by udia in "API-0.core.keybaseapi.com has expired certificate"

udia — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 19:39:24 +0000

Observing network errors when attempting to send messages within Keybase.

New comment by udia in "Adafruit requires 2FA to prevent bots buying out Raspberry Pi"

udia — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 19:59:57 +0000

I agree, 2FA seems unrelated to stopping bots. It really seems like some form of rate limiting and captcha should have been used instead.

New comment by udia in "Ask HN: What book changed your life?"

udia — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:24:05 +0000

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - Marshall B. Rosenberg

New comment by udia in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

udia — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 01:08:44 +0000

The vast majority of NameCheap's employees are located in Ukraine https://www.namecheap.com/careers/

New comment by udia in "Google Search Is Dying"

udia — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:57:45 +0000

I don't see why Google does not trial offering a paid service where advertisements are stripped away from the search results. A new revenue model in addition to the existing ad supported approach where you pay for your search.

The Acceptable Ads Standard

udia — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 14:10:17 +0000

Article URL: https://acceptableads.com/standard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30245056

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by udia in "Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager"

udia — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:34:59 +0000

This was my strategy for some time, but I switched to using a proper password manager (Bitwarden). If your algorithm is discovered you're in as much trouble as if you used the same password across multiple sites.

New comment by udia in "hiccupFX.js"

udia — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 19:55:21 +0000

https://github.com/fanfare/hiccupfx/

New comment by udia in "Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All” (2007)"

udia — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 16:48:50 +0000

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8410868