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I have an old iPhone SE and I want to give you kudos that the animations run buttery smooth on this page. There are a lot of websites where just the ads will cause my phone to comp…

These are all very conservative back of the napkin calculations. Also, this isn't 1000 connections. It's 1000 customers, each of which can consume dozens of connections. My point h…

This is one of the killer Firefox features. I'm so happy to see it's getting added by default!

I went through this process when I was designing the sync server for Digital Carrot. In the end, I decided to just go with the simplest solution possible. In my case it's just a ba…

I had to double check that today isn’t April 1st

Buf is well established and maintains a lot of protobuf packages for many languages, including the YAML implementation for go.

This is incredible news! I’ve used protobuf in Python, Go, Kotlin and Dart and the Python implementation is totally unusable. I don’t know what black magic Google uses for the Pyth…

Using AI to inform architecture doesn’t seem so different from googling architecture in this case. Architectural patterns are mostly well understood and well documented these days …

All so that they can lose this accumulated knowledge during the next round of layoffs.

Good gravy... I hadn't even considered that. I assume end to end encryption would help mitigate this. Breaking E2E encryption would require a client side update that could be hard …

Is it legally possible to craft a privacy policy for an app that prevents a company from loosening it later on if the app is sold or if the owner of the app decides to try and mone…

I admit that vibe coding was kind of a clickbaity way to frame this, but I couldn't think of a better way to describe it. That might just underscore my ignorance in this domain. On…

Here’s another question. Has anyone been able to get an agent to produce reliable high quality code? My first experience with it was a year ago and the tests it produced were so ho…

I spoke with a recruiter a few weeks ago and was somewhat surprised that a requirement for the position was experience building software with LLMs. Has this become the new norm in …

I'm still trucking away on Digital Carrot ( https://www.digitalcarrot.app/ ) It's a cross platform productivity app that lets you block apps, websites and games until you reach a s…

There was a project at Ansible that aimed to address this kinda thing when I worked there. The idea was to write policy as code definitions that would prevent users (or AI) from ru…

I was thinking about ways for the app to receive webhooks, but being able to send webhooks is an even better idea! I'm going to start writing down some thoughts for creating generi…

How do home assistant sensors work? I've thought about adding a webhook capability. Would it be something like that?

I would also love to hear what kinds of plugins the HN Community would like to see. At the moment I'm thinking about the following: - Github: this would allow you to set goals base…

I'm working on something like this for Android. My goal is to build a system where plugins can selectively block parts of apps based on a set of rules. I can't promise that this wi…

At the moment pretty much everything automatically resets at midnight, including any timers. It's not an issue for me since I rarely stay up past midnight, but I did notice one pro…

I would LOVE to be able to open source this project at some point, but I also want to be able to make a living off of maintaining it. I've been reading up on some source available …