dzonga

5 ms·

91.
by dzonga 2mo ago
> In a handful of cases the detainee's possession of a Casio watch or the wearing olive-drab clothing is cited as evidence that the detainee is an enemy combatant. No basis is given to explain why such evidence makes the detainee an
92.
by dzonga 2mo ago
to risk sounding like a madman - if you're a solo individual- serving b2b small businesses. then Sqlite works as well too. can run the whole thing on Cloudflare. running Postgres isn't difficult. but dealing with a VPS for low tra
93.
by dzonga 2mo ago
starling bank uk uses a similar kind of stack. both java based as revolut.
94.
by dzonga 2mo ago
what the author doesn't say - is being ambitious at what ? ambitious at making useless software ? useless hardware ? in tech we like to overwork on nonsense problems ie working on problems that change or are non permanent. literally if
95.
by dzonga 2mo ago
once Huawei was forbidden from using Android - that's when people ie western markets & the world at large should've shifted. look at HarmonyOS. in China - there's no google apps available on their 'android' vers
96.
by dzonga 2mo ago
people blame apple but this a result of the duopoly - we have in the mobile operating system market. I was once a iOS mobile dev before - most apps don't need to be native unless banking, maps, video games & maybe ride-hailing (bef
97.
by dzonga 2mo ago
scary shit is this is out there for people to read & learn. but the same thing keeps happening. top heavy organizations.
98.
by dzonga 2mo ago
kinda crazy how Microsoft just destroyed the Github goodwill. also crazy how the noisemakers about rails scaling for GitHub have gone quite all of a sudden i.e Github being on the main rails branch. anyways the future is decentralized - a d
99.
by dzonga 2mo ago
the last image - it's barely visible to human eyes
100.
by dzonga 2mo ago
they're tryna convince the populace who don't like to read with useless studies. get rid of medicare etc, then let it be handled on a city / state level. if some states wanna provide for public hospitals clinics - let them do
101.
by dzonga 2mo ago
sveltekit - the problem is they can't settle and not change the api frequently. every release is a breaking change.
102.
by dzonga 2mo ago
well done to the duckDB team - one of the features I'm waiting for is real time materialized views.
103.
by dzonga 2mo ago
a lot of people before llms were already subcontracting their thinking to fb, instagram. with boomers mostly exposed to an echo chamber that reinforced their beliefs on fb, then younger people on insta. to some people - if they didn't
104.
by dzonga 2mo ago
this is true I have noticed that in rural africa too vs any surburb like city in america.
105.
by dzonga 2mo ago
the credibility of using vercel data - means the journos were lazy. vercel is mostly used by the 'next.js' kids - so that ain't gonna paint the full picture. again vercel is just reselling aws services at high marked up price
106.
by dzonga 2mo ago
the software engineering profession seems to be one of the few professions that doesn't reward 20+ year professionals. with doctors, lawyers etc - your value goes up past 40. but in software engineering with ageism - your value "g
107.
by dzonga 2mo ago
nope - a.i companies to promote their platforms offer 'a.i' credits to startups usually worth 10ks, 100ks worth of credits in $ terms. so to a startup - you can trade your credits - then get actual cash. just like you would if tra
108.
by dzonga 2mo ago
yep - if these were only scanning books & end there then most people wouldn't have complaints. but nah they're destroying very rare, out of print books in the process. then after - when you ask their stochastic parrot some fri
109.
by dzonga 2mo ago
I also noticed the same thing & asked about it here [0]. seems lately HN hiring has been mostly filled with seekers instead of those hiring. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279790
110.
by dzonga 2mo ago
are there Chinese companies doing the same as Cerebras is doing ? having large scale wafers designed for inference ?
111.
by dzonga 2mo ago
Wordpress having a high number of vulnerabilities not surprising lol
112.
by dzonga 2mo ago
I will say one of my career regrets was kinda being dogmatic about boring tech instead of being pragmatic e.g with new tech there was a period around 2016-17s when people were building stuff with Node.js | Mongo. but it was risky tech thoug
113.
by dzonga 2mo ago
I feel like the corrupt Trump regime has accelerated this. what other people tend to forget - money is just an exchange mechanism - the real currency is energy. europe is already paying for Russian gas in rubble, china will soon exclusively
114.
by dzonga 2mo ago
glad life has no formula or one right answer. there's many paths to success.
115.
by dzonga 2mo ago
yeah the 'grok' way sounds less safe but it means less policing and having abstract arbiters of the truth
116.
Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?
17 points by dzonga 2mo ago|19 comments
117.
by dzonga 2mo ago
garmin watches are unbeatable for battery life - my Pixel 5 - would last close to a month. now it's close to 2 weeks since it's pretty old now :(. but Garmin software sucks. my next watch will be an Apple Watch.
118.
by dzonga 2mo ago
yep 100%. the SSE version is less headache and can easily scale.
119.
by dzonga 2mo ago
ruthless pragmatism.
120.
by dzonga 2mo ago
nah the world needs more software - it's just the delivery mechanism that's different. we are entering the world of smaller service firms (1 - 3 people) - where technical chops will even get paid more. the age of cookie-cutter app

More ›