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alexdumitru··on iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models
Pixel 8 Pro was my only pixel and I've been very disappointed about it.
alexdumitru··on iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models
I used to buy Samsung from S1 to S21, then I got a pixel and now the Oppo Find X9 Pro and wow, I forget to charge it. I've had days when I go to sleep with almost 80% battery. The pixel lasted me half day
alexdumitru··on Ask HN: Are there any books that changed your life during college or school?
I have just watched the All quiet on Western front (2022) movie and it's really moving.
alexdumitru··on Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
I built and launched corona.help in January 2020. Almost nobody expected a pandemic, but somehow I thought it was possible and decided to centralize all Covid cases. Just 2 months later it had over 5 million users daily. Eventually Google and other huge companies started doing the same thing and users tanked.
alexdumitru··on USB 4 version 2 promises 80 Gbps speeds over existing cables
I'd go straight for sha512 naming, to make sure there won't be any naming collisions.
alexdumitru··on EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service
Thousands? In Romania you can get 10G for just a bit over $10. 1G is $8 and 500M is $6.
alexdumitru··on Trump’s Truth Social Is Banning Users Who Post About Jan. 6 Hearings
Its the first company I've shorted without any doubts.
alexdumitru··on OVHcloud fire: SBG2 data center had no extinguisher, no power cut-out
I have multiple servers at Hetzner with 10 drives each.
alexdumitru··on Why does Google use location for language rather than browser settings?
And they're wrong. I'm in Romania, but I use everything in English. Google is mostly in English, but sometimes decides to switch back to Romanian. Pretty decent , right? Until it decides to switch to Hungarian or German for whatever reason, two languages I have nothing do to with.
alexdumitru··on Five dead as Romanian MIG disappears, and helicopter sent to find it crashes
We bought them before we joined NATO.
alexdumitru··on I hate password rules
I signed up on coinmarkercap and used bitwarden to set a 16 words passphrase as my password. Every time I log in I'm asked to change it because it's unsafe.
alexdumitru··on Android Apps on Windows 11
They are some of the worst games for sure. Pay to win and the "whales" spend tens of thousands to make sure they do.
alexdumitru··on Facebook-owned sites were down
Something's wrong with your app. It's not working at all, while Harmonic works perfectly.
alexdumitru··on Facebook-owned sites were down
Vodafone is down in Romania too.
alexdumitru··on Google Cloud Networking reporting issues
You're right, I'm using 8.8.8.8.
alexdumitru··on Vuiet, Music Player for Emacs
When I saw the name "Vuiet", I looked at the dev's name as I was like 99% sure you're Romanian.

It looks cool, though I've never used emacs or planning to do so.

alexdumitru··on Google Cloud Networking reporting issues
Everything Google-related is down for me, so I can't open that page.
alexdumitru··on Google Cloud Networking reporting issues
All Google services have been down for me for the past 30 minutes, at least.
alexdumitru··on WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux
This looks great. I hate Linux desktop and Windows server, so WSL has been a blessing for me.
alexdumitru··on UiPath on track to be the best-ever European seed investment
You described really well the advantages of Romania's lack of regulation. I think that's also part of the reason we have high quality gigabit internet connections for just 8 euro.

Of course, there are also a lot of disadvantages of living here, but it seems like while we're getting closer to Western Europe's standards of living, we also lose the advantages you speak of.

And about freedom, I also think you're right. I've travelled a lot and I'm pretty sure we have much more freedoms in Romania compared to the western part of Europe and most of the other developed countries outside Europe. This also comes with its ups and down though.

alexdumitru··on Clubhouse user IDs, Chatroom IDs are transmitted in plaintext over the internet
ING Bank forces me to use exactly 5 numbers as my password. That happened after an update 2 years ago, when I had a long and safe password. They forced me to "update to a more secure password".

So 12 characters is not secure, 4 numbers is not secure, 6 numbers is not secure either. 5 numbers is the best security!

alexdumitru··on Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS
I'm in Europe, but most of my users are based in the US. The ping seems to be in the low 100s for my users and the price is really low compared to AWS/GCP/Azure (about $450 vs $2500). I think it's pretty much worth it.
alexdumitru··on Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood
They don't own it, but they're their largest customer.
alexdumitru··on Debian 11 “bullseye” freeze started
I've switched from CentOS to Debian 7-8 years ago (Debian 7) and I just love it.

I was trying a lot of distros, but I always came back to Debian and I stopped doing that for the past few years because Debian just works.

alexdumitru··on Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React
Is that possible? I can get out of fullscreen with no problem.
alexdumitru··on Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
I don't know why people hate clover. I'm planting clover along with grass, because it looks nice and helps the soil.
alexdumitru··on The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”
Here in Romania we've always called it Cehia, which sounds a lot like Czechia, so it feels more natural now.
alexdumitru··on TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management
That would be much better for me.
alexdumitru··on Show HN: Vuiet – a music player and explorer for Emacs
I was pretty sure you're Romanian based on the app's name :)
alexdumitru··on 1% rule
Add a hidden checkbox. If checked, it's definitely a bot. You get rid of more than 99.99% of bots, from my experience.
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