Hacker News: vldx

New comment by vldx in "AirPods Max 2"

vldx — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:31:17 +0000

Bowers & Wilkins PX8 S2 can be included also as top tier general + audiophile sound quality (‘musical’) + premium build and materials.

New comment by vldx in "Layoffs at Block"

vldx — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:29:52 +0000

Pacific Bell

New comment by vldx in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

vldx — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:27:24 +0000

I did as well; funny though, I see uptick in its usage along the board.

New comment by vldx in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

vldx — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 07:32:05 +0000

The reactivity model fits well in real-time applications; perhaps SolidJS is better alternative in this context, though.

New comment by vldx in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

vldx — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:55:34 +0000

GP didn’t, but I’ve found the tips that you’ve shared helpful, so thank you for taking the time.

New comment by vldx in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

vldx — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:23:53 +0000

Perhaps Istanbul would be more accessible (and safe) for Europeans in terms of megacity experience?

New comment by vldx in "Social anxiety isn't about being liked"

vldx — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 05:56:47 +0000

If you’re open about it, maybe you can take a look into Phenibut — it’s somewhere between alcohol and lightweight MDMA in terms of disinhibition effects. It can help tremendously in the context of aiding progressive exposure. Do you own research, though: it can get into slippery slope fairly quickly.

New comment by vldx in "Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself"

vldx — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 05:19:16 +0000

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

Hotels in Europe to sue Booking.com over 'abusive' practices

vldx — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:34:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/07/thousands-of-hotels-in-europe-to-sue-booking-com-over-abusive-practices

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44835839

Points: 11

# Comments: 4

New comment by vldx in "Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026"

vldx — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:25:56 +0000

> Bulgaria pegging to the DM in 1997 meant anchoring to a much harder currency than what the euro has become.

Look, it seems you have beef with Bulgaria adopting the euro based on your other comments, but matter of fact is that many people remember the hyperinflation and the Videnov winter — especially older people that were queuing for bread with all of their lifetime savings disappearing overnight. Hence, the board staying almost 30 years. What’s scary for many is that the board in its current form is just a law that can be removed with simple majority, e.g. the current stable state could be made obsolete in a matter of a weekend — with devastating consequences for the economy. Adopting the euro means tighter integration with EU only and it’s mostly irrevocable … sadly for Russia and its proxies over here.

We hired this guy a week ago. Fired this morning. He did interviews incredibly

vldx — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:01:16 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Altimor/status/1940432517586374670

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44447528

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by vldx in "Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it"

vldx — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:47:21 +0000

Wait, what? You’ve been junior developer in 2014? Your articles were tons of help for me back then. Just wanted to say kudos and thank you :)

New comment by vldx in "BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time"

vldx — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:15:52 +0000

It depends. BMW has history in introducing similar innovative models, e.g. BMW Isetta from 1955.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isetta

New comment by vldx in "Leaving Neovim for Zed"

vldx — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:27:02 +0000

I agree. Honestly, I’m proficient with vim/emacs, but I’ve been using JetBrains for ~13 years and don’t want to sound boastful, but I’m pretty sure I’ll run circles around non-trivial amount of vim users in terms of productivity/efficiency/raw text editing. The amount of time I’ve put in customizing my workflow is stupid. The false dichotomy that if you use IDE you must be point-clicking around menus is often repeated. I guess … know your tool of choice inside-out is what’s more important.

New comment by vldx in "San Francisco now at 35% office vacancy rate, highest ever recorded: data"

vldx — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 06:59:52 +0000

You'll be most probably fine even in the sketchy neighborhoods in Sofia, e.g.

https://youtu.be/2qmpfsW-J34?si=wR7FyFv8ocnVCJLC

The car accidents problem is real, though ... there's the half-serous saying that accidents of this type are our form of mass-shootings.

New comment by vldx in "Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request"

vldx — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 16:46:39 +0000

RARBG was not accessible from within Bulgaria. Most people haven’t even heard of it.

New comment by vldx in "How to reduce stress and overcome anxiety as a software developer"

vldx — Wed, 03 May 2023 06:10:41 +0000

OTOH, this is how you grow. Every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence. If you haven't yet, the following book by Gerry Weinberg may resonate with you, as it has lots of insight in this context -- "Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach".

> "It identifies which leadership skills are most effective in a technical environment and why technical people have characteristic trouble in making the transition to a leadership role. For anyone who is a leader, hopes to be one, or would like to avoid being one."

New comment by vldx in "Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B"

vldx — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 12:41:33 +0000

I was heavy user of Fireworks back in the day. Looking back — it had enormous influence over where I’m now today. I still can’t get over what Adobe did to it. It’s like Microsoft or some other behemoth buying JetBrains and then slowly killing it in favor of its own IDEs.

New comment by vldx in "Average new car transaction price hits a record $48,043"

vldx — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 05:56:56 +0000

> Conversely I doubt that Asta would be considered road worthy anywhere in the EU. Actually I think EU countries like Bulgaria and Romania would benefit from some of these super-cheap vehicles.

Bulgaria and Romania are EU countries — that is, under the same regulations that Germany has. Even if Asta was road worthy there, people from lower GDP EU countries would still prefer continue buying high-mileage, but somewhat well-maintained vehicles from Germany.

New comment by vldx in "Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash"

vldx — Thu, 05 May 2022 20:38:30 +0000

I’m very curious what may be the root cause of this.