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vietthan··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
2020-01-29: https://shopify.engineering/react-native-future-mobile-shopi... ("After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to go full steam ahead building all of our new mobile apps using React Native.")

2021-11-08: https://shopify.engineering/high-performance-hydrogen-powere... ("The future of commerce is dynamic, contextual, and personalized. Hydrogen is a React-based framework for building custom and creative storefronts powered by Shopify’s platform and APIs.")

2025-01-13: https://shopify.engineering/five-years-of-react-native-at-sh... ("React Native has come a long way in the last 5 years and a lot of limitations that led people to not adopt it simply don’t exist anymore. If you haven’t tried using RN in a while, now would be a good time to revisit it.")

2025-09-05: https://shopify.engineering/react-native-new-architecture ("We successfully migrated two of our largest apps, Shopify Mobile and Shopify Point of Sale (POS) to React Native's New Architecture")

2026-09-10: https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native ("React Native was working well for us, and it remains an excellent framework. But since then, coding models have gotten dramatically better, and for our apps and our team, building the same feature in Swift and Kotlin no longer carries the cost it used to.")

^ to show the timeline of things.

vietthan··on Maximum-weight perfect matchings and FIFA's secret World Cup algorithm
This is pretty cool, and one thing would really help out a layman like me would be maybe a summary/top-line-conclusions that you found as part of your reverse engineering at the beginning of the post.
vietthan··on The vanishing "Proof of Work" in software engineering
Reminds me of artists, how do artists stand out when photography can do better capture of reality (and easier, and cheaper, etc.) than artists can. Artists had to re-invent (or re-discovered, re-focused, etc.) themselves in all kinds of ways like cubism, impressionism, surrealism, etc.

Would coding in [brainfuck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck) be the marker of good engineers?

In the end, the criteria remains the same. The engineers that creates products other people would pay for. The engineers that can convince executives to pay them or let them do this and that freely. The engineers that are thought leaders and have wide audiences.

Anyway, at the micro level, I think "How to How" is still important. I believe in developers that can talk about their workflow in detail, how it evolved over time, etc. Really good engineers invest in the workflows of themselves and others. That's my benchmark before and still is even now.

vietthan··on Announcing the Beta release of ty
I actually would argue that Hashimoto "left" earlier. He "stepped down" from the executive team July 2021 and became an individual contributor then. He likely lost interest/power a long time before 2023.

https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-has...

vietthan··on Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space
The first machine learning model trained in space was done in 2021. Makes for great headlines that goes all around the world though.

https://georges.fyi/opssat/first-machine-learning-models-tra...

vietthan··on Speedrun
In a way, is the author advocating that the best way to get out of the rat race is to win at it?

Also, looks like the author is very different from the typical high school aged person. The author is clearly intelligent and highly motivated, they're also able to maintain good relationships with the people around them (teachers, internet friends, etc.), but if it was so easy, we would see more well-adjusted early graduates of the education system.

vietthan··on Most Scandalous Frauds of 2024
TIL there is an organization for fraud examiners and that they have a podcast!

Top 5 frauds apparently:

1. Boeing to plead guilty to fraud in US probe of fatal 737 MAX crashes [1] - btw apparently criminal charges being dropped by DOJ [2]

2. Truong My Lan facing death row after embezzling $12 billion from Vietnam's bank SCB [3] - btw apparently now it's only 30 years [4]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-pl...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ge0lpqpyro

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/asia/vietnam-truong-my-lan-de...

[4] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vietnam-death-sentence-tycoon-t...

vietthan··on Schools
"We visit New York City public schools to give you the inside story you can't find anywhere else."
vietthan··on Doom in Space (2024)
Hey guys, I sit next to George who is a real driving force in anything he does, including this one. He's letting me have the upvotes for this one but the GitHub project page is: https://github.com/olafurw/opssat-doom/tree/main
vietthan··on A math professor who objects to diversity statements
Hey, looking for a source for "about half the US economy is government spending these days". I've searched online for 2023 and I'm seeing a pretty okay 23% for government spending.
vietthan··on Estimate your GitHub account value
found related concept, I went through about 12 before I start realizing I don't know who these people are https://wangchujiang.com/github-rank/

facebook - 619150.1

sindresorhus (?) - 332369.05

torvalds - 220217.75

openai - 194993.55

ruanyf (?) - 150588.35

karpathy - 125014

bradtraversy (?) - 109041.8

netflix - 107217.95

JakeWharton (?) - 92770.1

peng-zhihui (Huawei researcher?) - 88764

tj (?) - 80875.8

gaearon (bluesky social) - 60159.75

apple - 58110.2

yyx990803 (vue.js?) - 57143.55

google - 54546.65

gustavoguanabara (?) - 50387.35

microsoft - 40706.3

vietthan··on The era-defining aesthetic of “In the Mood for Love”
Anyone who wants more of movies like this, please check out "Past Lives". I call it "In The Mood For Love" in New York.
vietthan··on In Praise of the Meandering Career
Right now, what's most important to me is getting the permanent residency. I think many people are in the same situation. They made a goal of something (in my case immigration to the United States), and the meandering paths just falls off in terms of feasibility for such plans. I'm not against the article by any means, but I think for people like me, we already found what matters, and "meaning" or "fulfillment" is an extravagance in comparison.

Side note: this is very interesting but I felt like I've read this article before, maybe someone else already written about Todd Rose and Ogi Ogas?

vietthan··on Dreams of new physics fade with latest muon magnetism result
Interesting, because this is similar to a Chinese cultivation novels, or what is known as xianxia genre, trope. Usually, characters live in different “realms” and they have to train/fight/be lucky to “reach a higher realm” where the rules are different (usually means the pressure/danger/ambient-absorbable-energy is higher).
vietthan··on Ask HN: What are good patters / practices in Machine Learning Development?
This was posted a few days ago actually

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-patterns/

vietthan··on Fantasy meets reality
NYC resident here, this is simply not true. Yeah of course there are gardens and bushes that are fenced off but most of the grass and dirt you can walk and lie on if you wish.
vietthan··on The worst API ever made (2014)
Bravo. I know nothing about this technically but it was succinct and conveyed the frustration superbly.
vietthan··on “Sadly, I Think Godot Is a Scam. I'm Not Sure I Can Do This.”
If I never took drama class, I would have never gotten this joke. Well done.
vietthan··on Ask HN: What’s the best GUI you’ve ever used for managing/querying databases?
I’m happy with DBeaver as I have many databases of different engines that I have to connect to throughout the day.
vietthan··on EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling
Absolutely agree with your statement, but also want to add that [Google further guts the Android open source project](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36319991) is a thing.
vietthan··on A path to niche skill-sets and community
I’m not in any minority I think. but I hope one day I will join the technical ranks of the awesome hackers mentioned in this post.
vietthan··on Martin Scorsese: “The Whole World Has Opened Up to Me, but It’s Too Late”
Very short article, the meat of it is:

> the most heartbreaking, revelatory moment of the interview is when the 80-year-old Scorsese opened up about the stories he wants to tell and how little time he has left to tell them. “I wish I could take a break for eight weeks and make a film at the same time [laughs]. The whole world has opened up to me, but it’s too late. It’s too late,” Scorsese said. “I’m old. I read stuff. I see things. I want to tell stories, and there’s no more time. Kurosawa, when he got his Oscar, when George [Lucas] and Steven [Spielberg] gave it to him, he said, ‘I’m only now beginning to see the possibility of what cinema could be, and it’s too late.’ He was 83. At the time, I said, ‘What does he mean?’ Now I know what he means.'”

Maybe Scorsese could try making a movie with a way way more limited budget and in limited time, up his efficiency so to speak.

There is definitely something to be said about how age is the greatest enemy of humanity. We are robbed, robbed of our greatest, always too soon. I suppose this is greed as well, but I wouldn't call it a sin.

vietthan··on 'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
This sounds like halfway to boarding school.
vietthan··on Mamihlapinatapai, Most Succinct Word
The first definition sounds painful while the second (romantic) definition is very desirable.
vietthan··on Twitter is now having trouble paying some employees on time
Or on visa
vietthan··on Bob Iger Returns as Disney CEO
Has there been other situations like this before? Successful CEO gives up the helm to essentially retire but then brought back because his hand-picked successor underperformed?

Ps: this is just like that Thanos meme

vietthan··on The New York Times made a weird editorial decision with its tech coverage
yes, that's exactly what I meant. I was demonstrating that just because the top guy is a member of the minority group does not mean that organization is "influenced" by minority group.

Edit: I finally read the context again. Yes the top guy is a member of a minority group, and of course he will have some cultural influence. But people will disagree whether the minority group is _at the right level of influence_.

vietthan··on The New York Times made a weird editorial decision with its tech coverage
We would need to look at the ethnicity statistics across C-level executives. Rishi Sunak is the British PM but I can say "UK politics and government is still dominated by Whites" and the British Parliament would agree with me [1]

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01...

vietthan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
AppCard | Onsite | NYC (US), Tel Aviv (IL), Remote (Possible)

AppCard is an advanced customer retention system designed specifically to service the needs of mid-size retailers, franchises, and independent grocers who are ready to start capitalizing on the potential of their customer data and analytics.

Or in short: we're upgrading your friendly local groceries to compete in the 21st century.

As a Series B startup, we are currently growing rapidly within both tech and non-tech areas, as such we are looking for a lot of people.

Hiring for multiple roles including:

- Software Developer (Junior, Mid, Senior)

- Senior Reliability Engineers (Junior, Mid, Senior)

- System Admins

- Technical Support (Junior, Mid, Leads, Team Lead)

- Customer Success

- Product Managers

- Accountant

- Sales / Business Development

- Marketing

Tech Stack: Python, Java, AWS, Android

Bonus: Networking knowledge as we have thousands of hardware in the field.

Please submit your application at https://appcard.com/about-us/careers/ or send your resume to ( hr-us@appcard.com ) with "HackerNews" in the subject line.

vietthan··on Learning Go as a Python Developer: The Good and the Bad
recommend pipreqs
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