HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

chenster

1,667 karma · joined August 27, 2012

coder, entrepreneur.
submissionscomments
chenster··on Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
That's the natural outcome. AI will eventually collapse into a single, universal entry point, much like Google Search became the default gateway for the web.
chenster··on Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It
Great post except that light grayish blue background is killing my eyes.
chenster··on How I use HTMX with Go
Every time I see a post on Htmlx made to frontpage, it gives me utter joy.
chenster··on Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to ALPRs
Privacy is no more if that is true
chenster··on Microgpt
The best ML learning for dummies.
chenster··on Show HN: SingTube - YouTube's Missing Karaoke Player
Show HN: SingTube - The Missing Karaoke Player for YouTube. YouTube KTV song search, song queue management, bilingual support in Chinese and English, multiple playlist management.
chenster··on Plain Vanilla Web
Microsoft solved this with VIEWSTATE in ASP.NET it's perfect, then industry went with everything Ajax and other over engineered frameworks.
chenster··on Plain Vanilla Web
Still the case in most Asian countries where UIs are all Craigslist alike and UX is just shit. People just got use to it. Apparently westerns willing to pay a premium for better UX. It's a culture gap.
chenster··on Plain Vanilla Web
In south east asia, people dont' have very good phone or even smart phone in that matter, txt msg makes sense. The same to many african countries where dumb phones are still dominant.
chenster··on Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
Can it run Deepseek?
chenster··on Ask HN: What site do you use to sell your used stuff?
OfferUp
chenster··on Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
Word of the day - Rout
chenster··on React Is Holding Me Hostage (2023)
Author has not yet gone through 5 stage of react griefs as last stage is 'acceptance"
chenster··on TikTok goes dark in the US
China should also unblock YouTube and Twitter/X, Facebook if US decided to reverse its decision on Tiktok.
chenster··on TikTok goes dark in the US
The difference is communists spying on Americans vs Americans spying on Americans.
chenster··on Why Naming Variables Can Distinguish a Good Programmer from a Bad One
Good catch. The total discount should be divided by 100. I missed that. :) Fixed now.
chenster··on Bulma CSS Framework
Probably gonna get some hate here. Really, another CSS framework? People, can we make our minds and stay on one and perfect it instead keep chasing the next 'better' alternatives?
chenster··on Show HN: Visual DB – Web front end for your database
Blazer (https://blazer.dokkuapp.com) does reports and targets non-tech users (preferrablly knows Sql) you should check it out, but yours does more and better.
chenster··on Show HN: Visual DB – Web front end for your database
why pivot from airform to visualdb?? It kind of does everything now, so I don't know what exactly what it is for. what is the most used visualdb feature by users?
chenster··on Anti-patterns in event-driven architecture
Can you elaborate #1 Nouns over Vers?
chenster··on Anti-patterns in event-driven architecture
What did you mean traditional crud as oppose to event-driven arch? How is it relevant to the subject in dicussion?
chenster··on Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product
Thank you! This is exactly something we are look for at querro.io
chenster··on Ask HN: Purchasing real estate property doesn't seem to make financial sense
Southern CA
chenster··on Ask HN: Purchasing real estate property doesn't seem to make financial sense
$500K is BEFORE sell the house with capital gains. If you do decide to sell, the number is $3750/month average costs per month to living the house you own after 30 years. Still better than renting, but not as most of home owner had imaged.
chenster··on Ask HN: Purchasing real estate property doesn't seem to make financial sense
Thanks for sharing. How about purchasing home for primary resident? Most people who buy home for personal residence believe they are making a sound investment. I contend that the opposite is the case.
chenster··on Ask HN: Purchasing real estate property doesn't seem to make financial sense
It's definitely cheaper to own than rent in the long run, but like 15+ years.

House appreciates and keep up with inflation, but not a great investment vehicle because the nearly break even ROI. It's not all sunshine and roses contrary to common wisdom.

In my view, owning a home primarily acts as a safeguard against inflation, it represents a "safe" investment option for "lazy" individuals who reluctant to learn more complex investment strategies that could yield higher, riskier return.

chenster··on TikTok requires users to "forever waive" rights to sue over past harms
Another reason not to use TT
chenster··on Atlassian Acquires Loom
To name a few, RecordIt (gif only), Camtasia, Snagit
chenster··on Atlassian Acquires Loom
This reminds Buffer how simple the idea was and how well they executed it. A good product doesn't have to be complex.
chenster··on Atlassian Acquires Loom
Loom gives a much better UX and easy to use and more important ability to share. They probably have a huge user base that other businesses interested in acquire.
Page 1 of 16Next →