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adoxyzon Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

Added the navigator share API so the sharing experience should be much better now :)

adoxyzon Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

Thank you for the feedback. Absolutely agree that curation of interesting and unique products will be key to making it be useful. :)

adoxyzon Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

Thank you Seth. Will reduce the threshold to swipe up/down.

adoxyzon Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

https://stufftheywant.com

Project Description: A product discovery app that features highly curated lists of products via guides and an endless tiktok-esque feed to discover new and exciting products. The idea came from my wife always having trouble finding me gifts for special occasions like birthdays and currently searching "gifts for men" always suggests shot glasses, knives, or beard kits, which are things I don't want haha.

What do you want to be tested: Live data is not in the app yet (there's about 50 test products for now), trying to nail the experience first since it's a PWA and testing on various devices is hard. If you sign up, your data will likely be deleted by morning time as we're not even alpha yet. Just really curious to see if it works well on a variety of real world devices and also validate if it's something people would use.

Contact Info: contact@ado.xyz (if you want to chat about the app, collab, etc.)

adoxyzon Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned

Laying people off reduces one of the biggest costs to an organization, thus making it more profitable (even if in the short term), thus the stock price rises. Stocks are always forward looking and investors believe that by cutting down costs and re-focusing will make amazon worth more in the future.

adoxyzon Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports

I was one of the first people to get FSD Beta access and have given it a try every single time they pushed an update, and honestly, it's unusable and dangerous.

The car just does not behave like a regular driver in any capacity. It's a neat trick to show when there is nobody on the road, but besides that, I have lost all faith in FSD ever coming out in any meaningful way. I only paid $2k for FSD ($7k total w/ Enhanced Autopilot), but even that is too much for what FSD actually is.

adoxyzon Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850

I'm not sure that's the case. I assumed the author bought the domain initially for $850, thinking that at renewal it would go down to $12/yr, like most .com, .net, .org, etc. do, but was surprised to find out that the .dev premium domains charge the higher fee every year.

I doubt forum.dev would have ever been $12/yr. Most single word .dev domains are marked as premium and vary from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars annually. I know because I had speak.dev at one point and it was $350/yr and renewal was $350/yr as well.

Now if by some chance they initially paid $12/yr for it and now it's $850, then that is not ok and means that any .dev domain is at risk of dynamic pricing, which I feel like would kill the whole TLD forever for me.

adoxyzon Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850

I believe Google is pretty transparent if you use Google Domains. For example if it's a premium domain it'll have the price per year, and a different price per year if it changes. Quick example:

trouble.dev is $180/yr... meaning it's going to be $180 each year to renew

trouble.art is $10,764 for the first year, and then $36/yr for renewals.

There's plenty of non-premium .dev domains that are $12/yr.

I do agree that charging premiums every year is a shitty move, but I don't think they're being overtly shady about it.

adoxyzon Alameda took 1B hit in mobileCoin trade to prop up FTX

The whole premise of crypto is that it's unregulated, so yes it should 100% be assumed that you're probably going to get swindled.

There was a story about how Sequoia (or a different VC) gave FTX millions while SBF was playing games during the call with them. I mean, if nothing else, if you can't expect the tiniest ounce of professionalism from a company you're investing in, I find it hard to feel bad for you when you're scammed out of that investment.

adoxyzon BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

My brother went to Lambda school 2019-2020. Would not recommend. They had recent grads that had just completed Lambda the previous year teaching the new students and most of them had just a vague grasp on the content matter. So many inaccuracies and bad practices taught. The only good thing about it was that it was structured and you were coding each day for 5-8hrs so if you weren't the most self-motivated person, you were held accountable. But again, a lot of it was taught badly or inaccurately, so unless you spent a lot of time doing outside research on your own, you weren't learning much. If you do have self-motivation, you don't need Lambda or BloomTech. After graduation, there was no follow up of any kind. So overall, pretty disappointing.

adoxyzon Comparing Google and ChatGPT

No different than most Google results these days that are just SEO optimized spam that is often times flat out wrong.

adoxyzon Crypto’s Final Price Could Be Zero

gold is a physical asset used in a [lot of stuff](https://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml).

adoxyzon Crypto’s Final Price Could Be Zero

Considering most/all? crypto is backed by literally nothing, it makes sense.

The fact that so many people bought into the hype will continue to amaze me for the rest of my life.

adoxyzon Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

I would hope so.

adoxyzon Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account

He made an unsolicited offer, the board didn't even want him to buy it and explored a bunch of options to prevent a hostile takeover, so he kept pushing, then they said fine, and then the market turned, and then he started walking it back trying to find any reason to back out, but eventually couldn't. This was 100% a self-inflicted wound.

adoxyzon The world is run by people no smarter than you

I think it's also a difference in opportunity. When you have money/capital/connections, you can be wrong, and wrong often, and take risks.

When you're living paycheck to paycheck, you can make an occasional mistake and be fine, but you're likely to be much more risk-averse.

It's easy to make movements when the outcome could only benefit you.

adoxyzon Starlink Sets High-Speed Data Cap at 1TB per Month, Lowers Advertised Speeds

Yeah and it's a total scam. When I moved into my new house, I called up Cox to see if I could get Fiber installed. They said, "Wow your area is the first in the region to get 2GBPS for $150/mo". I was excited and asked if there would be a data cap, and the rep said yeah 1TB/mo. So I could use up all the allotment in an hour or so I asked, and he said "yup, or you can pay an extra $75 to get unlimited bandwidth". No Thanks.

Got CenturyLink Quantum Fiber, 1GBPS at my house for a flat rate of $65.00/mo and no data caps.

adoxyzon Is Turbopack really 10x faster than Vite?

Caching is a universally difficult problem to solve, but point taken. The majority of my NextJS sites have been deployed to Vercel, but a few have also been hosted on AWS and DigitalOcean. When it comes to incremental regeneration, I didn't use it if the page needed to be 100% up to date for every user, even when on Vercel.

As for the forking it comment, that's exactly the point. Vercel is investing heavily into NextJS, spending millions of dollars on hiring full time developers to work solely on it, and they give NextJS away for free. So having the best Next experience on the platform that they own and control and can fine tune makes sense to me. Nobody is forcing you to use NextJS or any other library.

adoxyzon Is Turbopack really 10x faster than Vite?

What is the trick? They provide an easy way to disable telemetry and multiple ways to do it. It's up to your team to follow your organizations processes. If you don't want telemetry enabled, tell them to disable it and have checks in place to make sure it's disabled.

adoxyzon Is Turbopack really 10x faster than Vite?

I'm sorry I don't see how they're tricking people or relying on them do it wrong... seems like you're really reaching there.

adoxyzon Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

Literally from the second paragraph from Wikipedia: "Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors. The company's name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. In February 2004, via a $6.5 million investment, Elon Musk became the largest shareholder of the company."

How does Wikipedia disagree?

adoxyzon Robinhood cuts losses after transaction revenue drops

Stock market has been in a slump all year, crypto down huge. Close to 100k layoffs in tech (according to layoffs.fyi). I think people got other things on their mind than trading stocks/crypto.

adoxyzon Is Turbopack really 10x faster than Vite?

To disable Telemetry simply run `npx next telemetry status` or set

``` NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 ```

in your .env file. I mean it couldn't be any easier.

adoxyzon Is Turbopack really 10x faster than Vite?

Can you give examples of times NextJS was changed to solely benefit Vercel?

NextJS is an open-source framework under the MIT license, so if Vercel ever did anything to compromise NextJS, it could just be forked, but to my knowledge and experience with NextJS, they've provided and continue to provide an awesome framework/ecosystem around React.

adoxyzon Remix web framework aquired by Shopify

Congrats to the Remix team.

I'm not entirely sure how you acquire a web framework or what the end-goal is, but I'm sure smarter people than I have the done maths.

adoxyzon Next.js 13

Awesome release. As an early adopter of Next.js and seeing it evolve over the years, it's been one of the most consistent frameworks that continues to get better and "just works".

Is it perfect. No. But it's very close for most of my use cases.

adoxyzon Cloud costs are in a bubble

Editing a screenshot to push a narrative is pretty easy. I'm no longer with MongoDB, although still a big fan of the product, but I'm more curious as to how you could rack up a $2,500 bill just trying the product out, especially the serverless offering, coupled that with the guy being a "twitter investor", so that kicked off my BS detector.

MongoDB Atlas runs on the big 3 clouds, and of course you're going to pay more for a fully managed service, as opposed to hosting it yourself directly on the big 3, but racking up $2,500 in serverless compute charges in 24 hours seems very very hard to do, and especially by accident.

adoxyzon Cloud costs are in a bubble

That makes it even more sus. Can you describe your workload? Unless you were doing something extremely heavy-duty for a long time, I just don't see this being at all factual.

adoxyzon Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

Didn't Oct 1 fall on a Saturday? Where web traffic to hacker news is typically much lower.

adoxyzon Google Adsense/Admob blocks you for life if you use it before you're 18

Came to say this. This person knows even less than actual Google support (which may or may not exist in the first place).

Google not having real human support is unbelievable.