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email: firstname.lastname@boomla.com (replace accordingly) name: Tibor Halter [zupa]

Working on boomla.com, a no-code-first web application platform.

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zupa-hu··on Built Dental Scope
Open in incognito to see which comments disappear.
zupa-hu··on Built Dental Scope
Weird indeed. Several comments of his are dead.

Zeruxe: in case you are unfamiliar, this means most people can’t see them, only those who are logged in and have showdead enabled.

zupa-hu··on Ember-1
Agentic work costs ~input^2. For a single message, they cost the same. For long conversations, you end up paying much less.
zupa-hu··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
I would not be surprised if it’s the same method we use for finding important stuff that we can’t remember where we put: “All right where would I put it this time to make sure I find it in the future? Ah there it is!”

LLMs are future predictors after all.

We also don’t know if there were ather message boards we don’t know of. Or was it from the same time as the other board? They don’t need to find the same channel every time, just some of the time.

zupa-hu··on DeepSeek API Pricing Update
# Flash, off-peak

    cache-hit 2.5x
    cache-miss 1.57x
    out 2.36x
# Flash, peak

    cache-hit 5x
    cache-miss 3.14x
    out 4.71x
Edit: fixed the numbers and formatting
zupa-hu··on Show HN: I built a 2-min quiz that shows you how bad you are at estimating
It is very disappointing that you can't see what you got right or wrong without giving out your email. I'm not even sure if one would learn from the email or whatever the calibration result is.

I'm happy for you if it works but I sure feel cheated. I hope others also feel it's against the spirit of a Show HN. But maybe it's just me.

zupa-hu··on I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced
Hm, long time ago.. I’d say 3 years.

Definitely more than 1yr and less than 10. I know that’s a wide range, sry.

zupa-hu··on I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced
For what its worth, I’ve tried this with my family when I was in my teens, some 20+ years ago. The idea wasn’t to test it’s really them, rather that they are not forced to say things.

Then came the time when I wanted to use it. They didn’t remember. Not the phrase. Nor that we ever talked about this in the first place.

zupa-hu··on An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
I also caught this but then figured 10m may not be the typical drawing time. 10m -> 1m means 10x faster. 5m = 300s alas 3s/drawing. So maybe it only tool 30s/drawing previously. (Unlikely.)

But even then, it also says 5m can save days of work. Days is minimum 2days, or 16h, or 960s. That’s not 10x faster as previously stated, but 192x faster.

So yeah, it doesn’t add up.

zupa-hu··on How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
Oh does it? Thanks for the clarification then. Their home page said 2.5kW so I assumed that's what it is.

To be fair, 2.5kW does sound too much for a single 3x3cm chip, it would probably melt.

zupa-hu··on How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
This would be a hell of a hot power bank. It uses about as much power as my oven. So probably more like inside a huge cooling device outside the house. Or integrated into the heating system of the house.

(Still compelling!)

zupa-hu··on Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language
Isn't syntax pretty much just compression? We could write down the AST itself in some generic notation but that would be orders of magnitudes larger, so invent clever tricks to compress it, which we call syntax.

Edit: typo

zupa-hu··on You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
Exactly my thoughts.

I’d love to have this for phone calls and sms as well. If you didn’t spam me, I’ll refund.

zupa-hu··on “No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too
In my book, asking for a tip is called begging. A tip is voluntary.
zupa-hu··on Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
Would you elaborate why?
zupa-hu··on Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
Oh lol I love that angle!
zupa-hu··on Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends
I think it's a great demo, it is interesting how harsh the feedback is that you are getting. You are probably just too late to the party.

I also work in this space and the road ahead gets exponentially harder, unfortunately.

zupa-hu··on Wrong ways to use the databases, when the pendulum swung too far
Is it just me? No conclusion, no takeaway, nothing.
zupa-hu··on Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals
Thanks for this comment, I'm glad it's not only me. I came back feeling like, I enjoyed the article and it was a waste of time. Classic advice, where its only use is passing it on.
zupa-hu··on A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
Maybe if you are copy-pasting some html templates, but then it is not “writing code”. Handwriting complex logic, at 5k sloc per day, no way.
zupa-hu··on Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive
That exists, it is called a nominal type system, while in your example the language has a structural type system.

Edit: Assuming your example is even statically typed.

zupa-hu··on The software engineers willing to pay $10k to help them land a coding job
Maybe you should repost here to reach a more qualified audience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547609
zupa-hu··on A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn
Seems like you are a startupper from Hungary? Shoot me a mail, I love getting to know other local startuppers. (in profile)
zupa-hu··on Ask HN: As a Founder, is this business model compelling?
Hey! I'm the founder of an early stage startup. The product was long in the making, about to release v2 and I planned to do sales myself.

I've played with the idea of this model myself, in the sense that it would be an interesting value-creating service. I'm open and also skeptical.

1) My product is software, you were in hardware. 2) Do you have a large existing rolodex? 3) How many startups do you plan on representing? 4) Where are you from & where are you located?

I'm not shy of talking to people. The biggest help for me would be prospecting and qualifying.

I'm in a rush, please reach out! Email in profile.

zupa-hu··on Claude can now search the web
Every automated crawler follows human-driven actions.
zupa-hu··on The race is on to build the most complex machine
..and then he adds these movements need to have nanometer precision. WHAT?!
zupa-hu··on DiceDB
Not sure how many such solutions there are out there so no idea about the norm. I doubt polling is a real option.

You may want to search for realtime databases.

zupa-hu··on DiceDB
One example is when you want to display live data on a website. Could be a dashboard, a chat, or really the whole site. Polling is both slower and more resource hungry.

If it is built into your language/framework, you can completely ignore the problem of updating the client, as it happens automatically.

Hope that makes sense.

zupa-hu··on Succinct data structures
They publish a benchmark for anyone interested: https://marisa-trie.readthedocs.io/en/latest/benchmarks.html

Summary for storing a list of 3M Russian words:

- ~60x less memory

- ~5-10x slower compared to hashmap

zupa-hu··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025)
SEEKING WORK, EU / US, REMOTE

Location: Budapest, Hungary (company in the UK)

Summary - I'm an experienced developer, I can build your full stack web app on my own. - Be it your MVP or later iterations.

Platform - Existing software stacks are a complexity hell, I've built a full-stack web development platform called Boomla to simplify it 10x. - To clarify, Boomla is my startup. - Boomla removes problem spaces, thus simplifies learning it and building with it. It improves iteration speed. - It fully supports code, partially nocode. The goal is to fully support both, with an AI assistant. - Version 1 of the platform was a website builder with thousands of users. It has been in production for 8 years. - Version 2 is aimed at interactive web apps, both internal and customer facing. - The platform is really fast due to having 10.000x faster data access compared to SQL databases. (Too good? Let's talk.)

Pros - You get a motivated and very capable developer with 20+ years of experience. (I've built the programming language, storage, web design language, etc.) - Get white-glove treatment as an early customer plus favorable pricing. - You can transition to a dedicated team later, happy to help. The platform reduces the amount of things to learn and do, thus ideal for less experienced developers, who are easier to find.

Lived in: UK, Germany, Hungary

Languages: English, German, Hungarian

See profile for email.

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