Hacker News: zackkrida

New comment by zackkrida in "Telegram Serverless"

zackkrida — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:38:23 +0000

language, structure. look how much negation there is. the construction "no A, no B, no, C" is used several times.

or another example, the following sentence:

"handlers/ is flat — no subdirectories"

who writes like this? you'd just write "handlers/ is a flat folder" or similar.

New comment by zackkrida in "[dead]"

zackkrida — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:39:18 +0000

the identical rhythm and structure of these low-effort AI slop posts is so distracting that it makes me unable to evaluate their substance.

even the best high school plagiarists know that you're meant to rewrite the sentences you've stolen. why can't these slop authors be bothered to do that with all the time they're proportedly saving by using AI in the first place?

Create a Free Website With W3Schools Spaces

zackkrida — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:31:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.w3schools.com/spaces/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28456680

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zackkrida in "Apple is now an antifragile company"

zackkrida — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:32:12 +0000

exactly. if anti-fragility is only achieved through robustness, what is the point of the distinction?

New comment by zackkrida in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)"

zackkrida — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 18:56:42 +0000

Openverse at Automattic | Remote | Data & Infrastructure Engineers | Full-time | https://automattic.com/work-with-us/

Openverse (previously Creative Commons Search) is a search engine that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone. We currently index over 500 million Creative Commons licensed images and intend to add audio and video support. The project joined WordPress.org this year and continues to grow in users and the number of indexed items. All of our code is open source and we welcome community contribution.

We are currently hiring for two roles:

* A Data Engineer to help us discover and ingest new openly-licensed media at scale | https://automattic.com/work-with-us/job/data-engineer-openve... | Python, Apache Airflow, Apache Spark * An Infrastructure Engineer to help manage and optimize our AWS deployment | https://automattic.com/work-with-us/job/infrastructure-engin... | AWS, Terraform, Docker

Come work on open source codebases that ensure access to openly licensed media for the entire web. At the very least, check out our developer community and learn more here: https://make.wordpress.org/openverse/

New comment by zackkrida in "Why I Work on Ads"

zackkrida — Thu, 06 May 2021 17:35:59 +0000

Most people I know work on ads...to get paid. I feel like the author is really working hard to justify his work to himself and falling far short of the bar.

New comment by zackkrida in "Don't make customers hunt for the Sign In button on your website"

zackkrida — Mon, 03 May 2021 14:24:02 +0000

Totally agree with the diagnosis of the problem but not the solution. I don't think switching the color is good UX—if I know the top of the page has a big green button', I'm not going to expect that button to have conditional behavior.

New comment by zackkrida in "Lambda School lays off 65 employees"

zackkrida — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 23:27:58 +0000

Calling a downsizing a “right-sizing” is so infantalizing and condescending

New comment by zackkrida in "Why we switched from Webpack to Vite"

zackkrida — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:25:12 +0000

A similar tool in this space is Jason Miller's (@developit) WMR:

https://github.com/preactjs/wmr

New comment by zackkrida in "Next.js 10.2"

zackkrida — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 16:33:17 +0000

that command just sets an environment variable `NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1`, I wouldn't necessarily consider it system level magic.

New comment by zackkrida in "Show HN: Compare news from the political left and right"

zackkrida — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 23:43:19 +0000

I think this is great podcast episode on how political views aren’t really as newly polarized or extreme as people think:

https://m.soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-112-how-pol...

New comment by zackkrida in "Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images"

zackkrida — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 15:13:53 +0000

Does anyone know what happened to the original ~200k images with CC0 licenses on Unsplash, and how they can be found?

For context: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/22/unsplash/

"Following the switch to the new Unsplash-branded license, there is no marking of works that were previously shared in the public domain using CC0. The Unsplash API restricts/obscures the full CC0 collection, which we believe to be about 200,000 images, but it isn’t possible to access the complete archive. In order to ensure that the commons is maintained, we hope that Unsplash will either a) properly mark all the works shared using CC0 and/or b) make available a full archive of the CC0 works so they can be shared on a platform that supports open licensing and public domain tools. Previous platforms that have gone under or abandoned open license tools have shared their CC archives for this purpose. We hope Unsplash will follow the same path."

New comment by zackkrida in "Don’t use environment variables for configuration"

zackkrida — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:09:32 +0000

there's an astonishingly silly GitHub issue thread linked in the comments of the post: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/issues/1482

New comment by zackkrida in "Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser"

zackkrida — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:37:16 +0000

This is great; nice work. The only feature I see missing is the ability to edit the resulting JSON file. This would also allow users to base their theme off of existing themes, which would be my primary use case for something like this.

Often I love a theme except for one or two small details, and it'd be nice to edit them in this tool.

New comment by zackkrida in "Show HN: Dumbdown – A dumb alternative to Markdown"

zackkrida — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:44:04 +0000

how do I have a link in a paragraph?

New comment by zackkrida in "Next.js 10"

zackkrida — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:08:35 +0000

this seems to have less to do with Next.js and is more of a design decision. Each card has a native anchor tag inside, and when you tab through these links the card is ignored and the links are focused. The card itself is a 'fake' js link, that redirects when clicked.

i personally would've made the entire card an anchor link, but either approach is possible in Next.js

New comment by zackkrida in "Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?"

zackkrida — Sun, 17 May 2020 03:59:46 +0000

This is nice!

New comment by zackkrida in "Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?"

zackkrida — Sat, 16 May 2020 03:07:44 +0000

I have some styles I use. Screenshots:

https://imgur.com/a/WZAaJST

I don't love when dark modes skew blue, so tried to keep it neutral with blacks and greys

``` @media (prefers-color-scheme:dark) { body { background-color: #2a2b2e; } #hnmain { background-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); }

  a:link, .hnmore a:link, a:visited, td, .c00, .c00 a:link {
    color: #e8eaed;
  }
  .subtext, .comhead a:link, .subtext a:visited, span.subtext a:link, .subtext a:visited {
    color: #9aa0a6;
  }

} ```

New comment by zackkrida in "Remastering Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with Machine Learning"

zackkrida — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:13:33 +0000

You may find the original blog post from the creator here:

https://captrobau.blogspot.com/2019/03/remastering-star-trek...

New comment by zackkrida in "CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns”"

zackkrida — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 03:27:15 +0000

@adamwathan thoughts on so-called 'silent' extends in scss, ie, the whole '%class-name' thing? Could that work as a sufficient substitute for the LESS class mixins?