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NikxDa··on Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive?
The Top 81% calculation in the game is not as good as it may sound. Top 100% means you are at the bottom. You can confirm this by just losing immediately, which will place you in the Top 9X%.
NikxDa··on New MacBook Air Fixes This Decades-Long Design Oversight
> The keyboard change is typical of Apple's meticulous attention to detail, even if it took more than a quarter-century to implement.

I thought this paragraph was absolutely hilarious. Especially if they had such meticulous attention to detail, it wouldn't have taken decades. The article is a joke.

NikxDa··on 70% of new NPM packages in last 6 months were spam
> Contrary to what npm states, this package actually depends on one of our aforementioned spam packages. This is a by-product of how npm handles and displays dependencies to users on its website.

For me personally, this is the biggest surprise and takeaway here. By simply having a key inside package.json's dependencies reference an existing NPM package, the NPM website links it up and counts it as a dependency, regardless of the actual value that the package references (which can be a URL to an entirely different package!). I think this puts an additional strain on an already fragile dependency ecosystem, and is quite avoidable with some checks and a little bit of UI work on NPM's side.

NikxDa··on Olympic surfing comes to a 'poisoned' paradise
No paywall: https://archive.is/NyEQo
NikxDa··on This Month in Ladybird: July 2024
It is a reply to this tweet:

> Could show the “Select your search engine for autocomplete or press enter” in the dropdown initially!

NikxDa··on Kino: Pro Video Camera
Halide is 2.99 a month, or 12.49 a year, and has been a subscription model since 2020. Sure, you have a one-time purchase option, but it is $70. I believe people who bought before the subscription got one year free, but things like widgets aren't supported. So unfortunately, that is likely the same fate for Kino.

This post introduces the subscriptions: https://medium.com/halide/introducing-halide-mkii-30f9f2bcea...

NikxDa··on Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
„people call“ - who calls it that? You, the author? A broad community? This feels like YouTube style clickbait
NikxDa··on Now I can just print that video
Same with recipes, where the author frequently feels the need to reiterate their grand-grand-grandparents life history in 10 paragraphs before getting to the ingredients and step-by-step instructions. It's sad to see what SEO has become, really...
NikxDa··on I Hate NestJS
I wonder what the alternatives are. I've searched for a framework that is a middle ground between bare-bones Express and NestJS. Something that I can throw a Zod validator at and it handles the validation for me by default, yet lets me structure my code a bit more functional and less opinionated than NestJS.
NikxDa··on Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS
Arguably, this is the worst of both worlds. In a React world, you'd have a <Button variant="primary"> component for this.

By using @apply excessively, now you have to deal with class names and the resulting messy conflicts, and yet you still can't/don't write plain CSS and harness its full power.

@apply is one of Tailwind's worst features, imo.

NikxDa··on Ask HN: Has meetup.org been replaced by anything?
I find this question really interesting because to me, the use case appears very clear, and the idea itself should be appealing to a wide variety of audiences, yet there is no popular solution.

I'd love to see more activity in this area. Through digitalization, we're missing out on a lot of human interaction. Meeting up with like-minded people through social gatherings is a great way to get it back.

NikxDa··on React Sees a dip in NPM downloads this week
I noticed the same for Nest.js yesterday. I think NPM might have changed the way the calculate their stats (maybe excluding automated installs or similar)? Or it might just be a glitch. I'm sure somebody will know details and clarify.
NikxDa··on 1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for over a year
I am happy to report that after my post on here a developer has reached out, and the issue is indeed fixed for me in the latest nightly build of 1Password. Seems like this issue can finally be wrapped up :)
NikxDa··on The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X
Just to be clear here, the law you are referencing has been stopped and isn't passed yet. Mentioning it as if it were a fact is misleading, in my opinion.
NikxDa··on 1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for over a year
Hey HN!

Glad to have this reach the frontpage as 1Pass support has been unhelpful with this for months, so I‘m hoping to get some attention to this issue via this route.

My previous comment has already been quoted here, so I won‘t reiterate, but this issue is generally easy-to-fix, yet can have a huge impact if not working.

Very annoyed with 1Password’s product direction and support on this. Their customer focus has been off for a while in my eyes, sadly.

NikxDa··on 1Password for Mac has had broken date formats for over 1.5 years now
Old community post about this topic: https://1password.community/discussion/129388/date-format-do...

Not this is > 1 year old.

NikxDa··on 1Password for Mac has had broken date formats for over 1.5 years now
Thanks!
NikxDa··on 1Password for Mac has had broken date formats for over 1.5 years now
Yup it was indeed deleted. Criticism not that welcome it seems... Also no information provided to me at all.
NikxDa··on 1Password for Mac has had broken date formats for over 1.5 years now
Ever since 1Password released version 8, the whole application seems to have become a dumpster fire. Apart from it frequently crashing, this issue is so stupid it's hard to believe: 1Password disregards any system settings for dates and shows them in MM/DD/YYYY formats – even on machines with DD/MM/YYYY setup. This used to work, so is an easy thing to miss – yet even after countless reports and an email conversation, 1Password keep ignoring it. Personally, I had to chase an airline for weeks because I entered the passport dates in the wrong order.
NikxDa··on Kagi raises $670k
Looks like they significantly missed their goal. From Kagi's investment round invitation email:

- SAFE note round with a valuation cap of $40MM (pre-money)

- 249 investors maximum

- We are looking to raise around $2MM from our users in this way ($5MM max)

- Minimum investment amount per investor is $5,000, and maximum is $500,000.

So the $670k they now raised are only about a third of what they were aiming for.

NikxDa··on GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations
The GitHub Status shows 14 incidents affecting Git Operations this year alone [1]. That's quite a lot, considering it's only May. I wonder if the outages were always this frequent and just get more publicity on here now, or whether there was a significant increase in outages fairly recently.

[1] https://www.githubstatus.com/history

NikxDa··on U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Department activities
U.S. airspace is pretty wild those last couple of days. Is this "normal" day-to-day activity that previously just never got any attention, or is something rather odd about the amount of these kinds of things in the past few days?
NikxDa··on Show HN: Names
"popo" (German word for butt) makes a closed rectangle that's _almost_ a square
NikxDa··on Google Outage in Europe
Couldn‘t have phrased it any better.
NikxDa··on [dead]
I can't tell whether this is supposed to be sneaky self-promotion or a real question, but I'll answer it nonetheless:

- MacBooks have camera indicators - they can be bypassed, but give a sense of security to most people

- A hard-plastic cover is likely just as cheap but has no limited lifespan

- A hard-plastic cover is, by the looks of it, easier to use

- Some people just don't care

- Finally, your website says that 50 people ordered today. Unless that's a marketing scam, it sounds like people _are_ buying your product.

NikxDa··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)
Seeking: Fall 2021 Internship (pursuing a B.Sc. of CS)

Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript (ES6, React, Vue), Node.js, HTML/CSS, PHP, C#, Swift (some experience with Python, Rust & Ruby)

Resume/CV: https://github.com/nikxda, https://stackoverflow.com/users/4459695/nikxda, please contact me for more details!

Email: nikxda@pm.me

NikxDa··on Show HN: This website moves your mouse cursor
If you open the developer tools, there is a link to a video in the DOM tree that explains how it works.
NikxDa··on K-9 Mail is looking for funding
While I really enjoy Hey, I think a $99 per year price tag is insane. You‘ll likely use your email for tens of years to come, so that‘s multiple thousands of dollars for a software that doesn‘t need to change. Running a mailserver isn‘t expensive, either. It could as well be an email client with a one-time payment, in my opinion. Would I pay $99 once and use it with my existing providers? Sure! Would I pay yearly and switch all my emails so that I am basically trapped inside a subscription? No...
NikxDa··on A Kid, a Minor Bike Accident and a $19,000 Medical Bill
This must be the freedom thing they keep celebrating!
NikxDa··on Application trust is hard, but Apple does it well
This is exactly my point of view on this. I've seen people complain about Apple on HN about this in all the other posts, but to be fair, this is actually a really good thing.

It protects users, and it works well 99.9% of the time (actually, I am not aware of a previous outage of this system). So, why bother? It's been like this for a while, it is actually very useful to the vast majority of users, and Apple being Apple, even if they collected data, it wouldn't be up for sale like it would on a Google machine.

All the people saying they need to look for alternatives now that they found out that Apple is sending information about applications to its servers will need to think about this post. It's not like Apple is doing this to track users.

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