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cherry.gethopp.app 5mo ago

Cherry, A firewall against AI-generated PRs

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www.gethopp.app 6mo ago

I hate WebKit: A (non) love letter from a Tauri developer

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blog.alexoglou.com 8mo ago

Video at scale: The hard problem Spotify solves

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support.mozilla.org 8mo ago

Firefox shipped proper profile manager

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www.shopify.com 9mo ago

From Docs to Deploy: The Shopify Assistant That Codes with You

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haasn.dev 9mo ago

Falsehoods programmers believe about [video](2016)

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github.com 10mo ago

Show HN: We built an open-source alternative to expensive pair programming apps

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blog.alexoglou.com 1y ago

What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate

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blog.alexoglou.com 1y ago

Is Aging a PPDA-Complete Problem? That Means We'll Never "Solve" Aging

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github.com 1y ago

Show HN: a Rust Crate for the Modern macOS SMAppService API

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gethopp.app 1y ago

We Chose Tauri over Electron for Our Performance-Critical Desktop App

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gethopp.app 1y ago

Lessons learned building a sub-100ms remote control app with Rust and LiveKit

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Do AI-generated images ruin technical posts for anyone else?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Zed Beta – And it's fast (and I don't care)

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gist.github.com 4y ago

Slack notification removal for Chrome to reclaim your attention span

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Why Facebook don't tap the display advertising

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blog.alexoglou.com 5y ago

Create Postcode map from OpenStreetMap data

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: A Sci-Hub alternative for Medium Posts?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: For SaaS founders, how do you implement Drip Campaigns

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

How English non-native speakers produce good copies for websites

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visualeyes.design 6y ago

Design Assistant right inside your favourite design tool

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

NoAuth – Easy Authentication with Privacy

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uxdesign.cc 7y ago

AI will enable predictive design in creatives

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IFF this holds true, this is going to be the biggest biohacking supplement of the next decade for sure.

Making this bold assumption as I don’t see yet a valid way to remove plastic from the modern supply chains. It’s embedded in every aspect of our lives so this will be huge if it holds true.

Hey Hackers,

We are building Cherry, a tool designd to solve the "spam crisis" currently hitting open-source maintainers.

With the rise of LLMs and agents, the volume of low-quality, automated PRs is making it impossible to find the good contributions.

How we want Cherry to work: - Connects to your repo: We monitor incoming PRs. - Whitelists the good bots: Dependabot, Linear agent etc., get a pass. - Verifies the humans: We intercept new/unknown contributors and ask them to verify their intent and understanding of the code before the PR alerts the maintainers. - Silences the rest: Low-effort scripts and drive-by spam get filtered out.

We are trying to walk the line between stopping spam and remaining open to new developers. It’s a hard problem.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on how to solve this without discouraging legitimate junior developers. What kind of heuristics do you currently use manually that we could automate?

I’ve been working on Hopp (a low-latency screen sharing app) using Tauri, which means relying on WebKit on macOS. While I loved the idea of a lighter binary compared to Electron, the journey has been full of headaches.

From SVG shadow bugs and weird audio glitching to WebKitGTK lacking WebRTC support on Linux, I wrote up a retrospective on the specific technical hurdles we faced. We are now looking at moving our heavy-duty windows to a native Rust implementation to bypass browser limitations entirely.

Being honest, that was one of the main deal breakers. Profile management, so we do not have work tabs spilling over into our personal space.

It was indeed long supported, but not a smooth experience. Have anyone tried the new profile management out?

[dead] 9 months ago

Not sure if Hacktoberfest will be the same again

In this pipeline, aren't alternative approaches like turbopuffer efficient?

Meaning no much pruning in the space, but utilizing Object storage for long term retention, and cache-hit staying in nvme?

Curious how it compares as companies like Linear and Cursor are using it but not sure if it would help in this case.

Before starting Hopp and searching for alternatives, one of the things I really liked was Zed's paradigm around collaboration, with its Collab panel and Channels.

The streaming quality was also quite good with Zed. VSCode and JetBrains pairing features were a pain, as you needed to share a URL. The experience in general was not optimal. Not something you want to do multiple times a day.

With Zed, the only drawback was that the scope is always IDE (view mode also for whole screen). But from my experience, pairing is more than your IDE. It's terminal, debugging your unnecessarily complex AWS setup, fiddling with Grafana dashboards, etc.

I think eventually all OSS projects/repos will suffer with this.

My bet is that git hosting providers like GitHub etc. should start providing features to allow us for better signal/noise ratio

I think the title is stating this: "Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale"

That means for moderate cases you do not even have to care about this. 99% of PostgreSQL instances out there are not big "scale".

As a sr. engineer is your responsibility to make a decision if you will build for "scale" from day zero or ignore this as you are mindful that this will not affect you until a certain point.

Start with: “How do you spend most of your time?” Not “What do you do?” It opens people up beyond job titles.

This is something that feels alien in SF people. A fundamental difference for example from Greece and people living in SF is this.

- Greek opening question: "Which city are you from?" - SF opening question: "Which company do you work for?"

It was really enjoyable to read. And I also do not read a lot of fiction, with my last book being the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series.

My verdict is that Project Hail Mary was way much more engaging in terms of story-telling. The concepts were cool, and tbh I look forward for the movie and see if the adaptation will be nice

Long story short, I didn't want to make that analysis/distinction because it would miss the point.

They excel in their respective areas based on the architectural decisions they've made for the use cases they wanted to optimize for.

PlanetScale, with their latest Metal introduction, optimized for super low latency (they act like they've reinvented the wheel, lol), but they clearly have something in mind going in this direction.

Neon offers many managed features for serverless PostgreSQL that were missing in the market, like instant branching, and with auto-scaling, you may perform better with variable workloads. From their perspective, they wanted to serve other use cases.

There's no reason to always compare apples to oranges, and no reason to hate one another when everyone is pushing the managed database industry forward.