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I use OMZ because it lets me rely on popular defaults instead of bike shedding and rolling my own. Its main advantage is convention over configuration. For instance, I just have to…

The problem I have with coding on Termux is that it's not a full Linux environment, and a lot of tools will fail to compile because there's some dependency that doesn't exist. That…

This could be debatable if browsers had any UI at all to display XML. It's incomprehensible that if you open the open web solution for subscribing to web content (RSS) you're greet…

My experience with a Pixel 6: + Doesn't have the same compatibility issues Termux has, so I can install things like bun.js and npm packages with native bindings (e.g. database conn…

This looks really neat. I've definitely thought of "Duolingo for X" project ideas that I only wish I had the time to actually develop.

In the post he mentions that he was already getting bored before Ukraine, and that war actually kept him going a bit further

Like others in the comments, I've also been happily using Harmonic after having tried almost every other HN app. I've got a strong preference for open source apps, so this is the b…

Do you believe the amount of time developers have spent building hello worlds is a waste because those are useless applications? Should go without saying, but the interesting thing…

Relying on hacks for production code is usually a red flag/code smell that indicates there was probably a better alternative. `string & {}` definitely feels like one of those hacks…

I like to focus on the main business element. If it's a SaaS for sharing videos with comments, for instance, I'd take a longer look at the video and comment models, their relations…

I remember reading this book in my teenage years and being moved by its story. I still think about it, and it's one I'd definitely recommend. I wonder how it got to the top of hn a…

This looks amazing! But if it's streaming copyrighted material, how will it survive legal action?

That's not how coinbase operates. You have a "Buy " button, and you expect to get that coin without fail, every time. If a new token launches, you should be able to buy it without …

> I don't want DuckDuckGo to filter/sensor based on "politics of the day". I don't mind them tagging results. Agreed on both. Maybe it should have been done sooner, to avoid lookin…

I honestly fail to understand how downranking state-run propaganda that promotes a dictatorship's lies is considered to be a bad thing in a service that is all about providing usef…

As someone said in another reply, setting these team expectations is important so that the developer won't assume the reviewer will do the heavy testing, and the reviewer assumes t…

This should be something agreed within a team, so that review standards are consistent across team members. In my previous team, the reviewer was the main responsible for the code …

This is it. If you let the machines do their thing unsupervised, you're creating an optimisation game someone is going to win. I honestly believe the only way for a search engine t…

Its competitors DNAnexus and Seven Bridges seem to be US based, or at least report having offices there. But Lifebit is recruiting internationally, and even has a US office now too…

My son (now 4yo) was diagnosed with two rare diseases, due to a mutation in a collagen production gene, and at first it wasn't clear if he was ever going to walk at all. His life w…

Been thinking about this for a while. If worker pay isn't keeping up but company profits and equity are, this means that people are overvaluing being a worker and undervaluing bein…

ETH2 was years in the making, with multiple delays and not fully migrated yet precisely because of how unsafe standard PoS is. Vitalik and co spent years researching the best mitig…

Maybe I didn't word it right, but I wasn't calling bitcoin's method reliant on centralised authorities, just asking if there were more methods out there that weren't as well. Bitco…

Changing consensus rules requires coordinating a fork. This requires coordinating developers, miners and node operators. That may fly in pseudo decentralised chains where the commu…