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lucasknight··on Ask HN: What in the world is going on at Supabase?
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@kiwicopple - given you have keyword notifications set up on here [0], between this and your current AWS situation, this is not a good look

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42223240

lucasknight··on Alephic Writing Style Guide
I disagree. When people typically pronounce, for example, "1800s," they would say "Eighteen Hundreds," with the plural suffixing "hundred," implying a period of far longer than a decade. If trying to reference the decade following 1800, in conversation I would say "the Eighteen Noughts."
lucasknight··on Show HN: Bhvr, a Bun and Hono and Vite and React Starter
You might want to have a look at Remix [0]. I haven't used it extensively myself, but it does claim to handle errors well.

> Route Error Boundaries keep the happy path happy. Each route module can export an error boundary next to the default route component.

> If an error is thrown, client or server side, users see the boundary instead of the default component. Routes w/o trouble render normally, so users have more options than slamming refresh. If a route has no boundary, errors bubble up. Just put one at the top and chill out about errors in code review, yeah?

[0] https://remix.run

lucasknight··on Crazy Lawyer looking for Crazy Co-Founder to develop a prototype
Interested. Shoot me an email at me@lucasknight.com.au
lucasknight··on Who Is Hiring? SpaceX
I'm a little confused here. SpaceX is also looking for aliens right? /s
lucasknight··on Las Vegas' $2.3B LED Sphere Looked Better in Renderings
Billion dollar catfish scandal?
lucasknight··on GPT-4 performs better at Theory of Mind tests than actual humans
I'm genuinely curious to find out whether anybody is surprised by this given that it's a language model that has been trained on almost all of the information and the data on the internet will beat human accuracy on tests - computers can retain memories and data a lot better than humans can and models like these simply have a lot more non-unique information than humans have consumed in their lifetimes.
lucasknight··on Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices
I honestly have never loved Microsoft but I can definitely see that they are making some great business decisions. I love Apple but they need to up their game. AI has been around for over a decade but we are definitely going to start seeing it everywhere. I know big things are coming. (that's what she said)
lucasknight··on Ask HN: How to become a coder who can design?
I've been a self taught designer for as long as I've been a self taught programmer.

Initially I started out building basic 2D games in GameMaker Studio which got me to start to draw pixel art (just basic stuff) so I'd say if you want to make a game maybe start out with that.

In my honest opinion I believe that design is quite mathematical and structure.

Definitely download Figma and do your best to learn the basics - it's an incredibly useful piece of software and on the internet there's plenty of challenges and resources that you'd be able to do to get the skills of Figma.

I remember I did a "30 days of design" challenge a little while ago which sent me an email every day with a concept to design. I'd try and find that and see if it's still up and running.

I wish you the very best with your endeavours! Welcome to the design community <3

lucasknight··on Ask HN: Best courses to learn React Native for a back end dev
I'd definitely start by taking a look at the React Navigation documentation. It's a library that provides a lot of tools for native navigation and page routing. In my opinion, this is the most important library (apart from React and React Native) to learn to have the skills to be an entire React Native app.

From the React Navigation docs they suggest taking a look at these resources to get the fundemantals sorted:

1. React Native Express - teaches all the basics of React Native 2. Main Concepts of React - Allows you to understand how React works 3. React Hooks - Provides specific reference towards using hooks in React (they're addictively useful)

[1]: https://www.reactnative.express [2]: https://react.dev/learn/thinking-in-react [3]: https://react.dev/reference/react

lucasknight··on Ask HN: Making Internet Friends
I'll try that for shits and gigs. I'll let you know how it goes...
lucasknight··on Ask HN: Making Internet Friends
It's the former. Just people to chat to.
lucasknight··on Ask HN: Making Internet Friends
Yeah but... I hate interacting with people IRL
lucasknight··on Apple is now worth more than Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta combined
I have a strong feeling that Meta and Microsoft are going to somehow merge.
lucasknight··on Ask HN: How do I contact large companies to trial my startup idea?
Thank you, this is very valuable advice. I haven't built anything yet; I agree it's important to talk to prospective customers before doing so.