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If we're talking about putting static assets (like basic websites) on their CDN, or moving your backend to Workers, (etc...) you are by definition moving _away_ from single point-of-failure.

> Maybe that's the core of this message. Face your fears. Put your service on the internet. Maybe it goes down, but at least not by yet another Cloudflare outage.

Well I'd rather have my website going down (along with half the internet) be the concern of a billion dollar corporation with thousands of engineers - than mine.

zikeroon Play snake in the URL address bar

this is the most cursed thing i've seen

zikeroon Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it

Another idea I had with this concept is to make an LLM-proof captcha. Maybe humans can detect the characters in the 'motion' itself, which could be unique to us?

- The captcha would be generated like this on a headless browser, and recorded as a video, which is then served to the user.

- We can make the background also move in random directions, to prevent just detecting which pixels are changing and drawing an outline.

- I tried also having the text itself move (bounce like the DVD logo). Somehow makes it even more readable.

I definitely know nothing about how LLMs interpret video, or optics, so please let me know if this is dumb.

zikeroon Show HN: Startup funding simulator

working on this one! thanks

zikeroon Show HN: Startup funding simulator

wanted to make any simulation shareable by copying the url. but you're right, there has to be a better way ...

zikeroon Show HN: Startup funding simulator

pre-tax though

zikeroon Show HN: Startup funding simulator

thanks for the suggestion! we had the same thing happen as well. although it's not very standard I think in the case of safes. a dirty way now would be to do "Resere/give options" before the safe.

zikeroon Hoppscotch desktop application

Built with Tauri. No electron app is a 16.5MB download.

(I have no affiliation, just a fan)

zikeroon I made nodb, a RESTFful API to store and fetch JSON

Something similar I'm working on: daba.so

zikeroon Ask HN: I’m falling out of love with coding

No viable alternative to JS/TS for web (client side) unfortunately.

zikeroon Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot

> * Get more energy out of fusion fuel that it took you to make the energy you put into it

What does that mean if the cost of energy is 0 ? (e.g renewables)

zikeroon I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)

Arrest this man! How dare you practice for an interview? /s

Granted some people practice 100+ questions, you practiced only 1, and it was the right one. Same same.

Lucky indeed, but I wouldn't attribute your success to luck. You were clearly a good enough engineer to receive 2 offers, and good enough to build a career there.

We all have multiple encounters with low-probability scenarios in life. If you have a 10% chance of succeeding at something, and you have 50 attempts, and you only need one success, then your actual chance of succeeding is 99.5% rather than 10% - almost inevitable.

zikeroon UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned

On what grounds are you claiming Morocco is less politically stable?

zikeroon Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine

Nice stuff!

I found an error in the chinese demo, with the example you provided (4th character wasn't the same). I know no OCR is perfect, but IMHO at least your own demo should be free of errors.