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tycoon177on Show HN: I made a game testing your prompting skills

I would suggest different colors than black and blue. I found myself not able to differentiate unless I tilted my laptop monitor away. I can't imagine that color blind users would have a better time. May I suggest red and black?

tycoon177on Self-Hosting DNS

Blocky is great! The maintainers are also really easy to get along with. I had a few features I needed to get off of pihole (cnames, defining DNS via zone files) and they worked with me to plan the feature and were very kind and responsive with reviews of my pull requests :)

tycoon177on Ask HN: What API should I build a realtime data viz on top of this week?

Oh, and if you do stick with react, I'd suggest this library! It's super powerful. I'm using it for some visualizations at work and it's pretty awesome what can be done. https://recharts.org/en-US/

tycoon177on Ask HN: What API should I build a realtime data viz on top of this week?

I kind of doubt it, but you could fake a realtime api by streaming results from your backend of choice as if you were getting it from an api. Some of the data is large enough that you could download it async on your backend and stream results as you parse it! I'm actually downloading the liquor sales for my state since 2012 and so far it's over 2gb of data, so definitely stream-worthy.

I did also find this just now. https://github.com/bytewax/awesome-public-real-time-datasets

tycoon177on Ask HN: What API should I build a realtime data viz on top of this week?

I'm not sure if you're in the US, but there are a lot of data sources at https://data.gov/ that are pretty interesting! A similar service may be available for other countries.

If you want to really get out of your comfort zone, I would suggest a new language/paradigm. I've recently been loving learning Elixir with Phoenix liveview. It fills a lot of the full-stack needs and lets you focus on your backend data and your frontend display.

tycoon177on PasteBar – Limitless, Free Clipboard Manager for Mac and Windows. Open Source

With the tauri backend, do you have plans to support Linux machines? If not, what is the limiting factor?

tycoon177on One-man SaaS, 9 Years In

It seems to mean other people's money based on a cursory web search.

tycoon177on My deployment platform is a shell script

You don't wanna know

tycoon177on Fidelity marks down X valuation by 71.5%

71.5% so far

tycoon177on Show HN: Kali – Scheduling Assistant for iOS

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kali-security/id1538756589

tycoon177on Slack’s jarring new design – can you go back to the old one?

All things considered, I like the new design. There are some nice features, like the activity tab being a more sane way to view unreads than previously available. I'm also a sucker for the new custom theming support. It's also nice to see slack workflows/automations being more discoverable. I was starting to get concerned that this feature would be canned.

Not knowing which workspace has notifications at a quick glance is a huge pain though.

tycoon177on Ask HN: Who is using small OS LLMs in production?

There's also the availability factor. OpenAI has been known to go down on occasion and without warning. If a product relies on an LLM, I wouldn't feel great about the observed uptime of OpenAI APIs.

tycoon177on Minimal downtime major PostgreSQL version upgrades with pg_easy_replicate

Was just going to comment this. It's specifically:

> This ensures zero data loss and minimal downtime for the application.

tycoon177on Ask HN: Hardware problems from running with a laptop in a backpack?

The only other concern I might have other than an hard drive would be the fans. Any moving pieces could have issues caused by vibrations, but fans are much more resilient than hard drives and I wouldn't personally worry about it.

> Have you found any solution to minimize the bouncing?

Any quality laptop bag/backpack has straps to keep the machine stationary and wearing it securely on your pack should reduce nearly all risk of damage short of a lot of moisture (rain) or impact damage (falling over onto your laptop or dropping it)

If it were me, I would go for it! Really low risk, IMO.

tycoon177on Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox

That is the JavaScript spread operator. It takes all of the elements of an object or an array and adds them to another. In this case, the code posted is merging the iphone 13 pro device settings object into an object literal

tycoon177on Ask HN: What is your home networking setup?

As much fun as it was to tinker with all of the networking gear in years past, I have settled on using a google wifi mesh system for the time being at home.

If I could do it over again, I think that I would have opted for something a bit more "pro-sumer", perhaps ubiquiti's mesh system. For what it is, the google system works well enough, but there are a few annoyances that make it less than ideal for the average hacker news reader. An example of this is that you DO NOT get a web interface. Everything must be done with their mobile app.

The best part about the google system is that they intend for the routers to be setup and managed by an average person, which in my experience has lead to a very stable system. I couldn't tell you the last time I had to reboot any of the hubs and the family hasn't had any complaints. A close second is that the hubs each have an ethernet jack on them, allowing my desktop to be "hard wired" into the network and still get fiber-like speeds despite the fiber drop not being near the desktop computer.

Even in my small-to-mid sized home in suburbia seems to benefit from the mesh system and I won't be going back! The benefits are real.

tycoon177on APKTool: A tool for reverse engineering Android APK files

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Everyone's experiences are different! It's helpful to share things we may consider "old news" because it may just end up benefiting those around us.

tycoon177on Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

This last week, I created my own minimal rss reader that has no fluff so that I could combat my incessant use of the web. My intent was to make content as dry as possible so that it doesn't continually pull me in.

Here's the Hacker News rss feed in action! https://rss.mchone.dev/?feed=https://news.ycombinator.com/rs...

Here's the engadget rss feed as well. It's more content-rich https://rss.mchone.dev/?feed=https://engadget.com/rss.xml

And here's my github repo: https://github.com/BenMcH/remix-rss