HN is for sure a contribution to the community that they generously provide (and a bit of a recruiting tool for YC no doubt. Perhaps not as much these days since YC is a household name in startup world).
It's not just the inability to post though, it's the inability to even see the existing discourse on a busy day.
How is asking about the architecture of this site least interesting and lowest in information? Your opinion is the least interesting and lowest in information.
An app doesn't need to be multi-threaded to horizontally scale the physical hardware. A load balancer can dispatch requests to multiple single-threaded processes running on individual servers.
That would result in multiple distinct instances of HN that don't share data. You're thinking of an architecture with a separate central data store that all the instances access and update, but that is not how HN works to my knowledge.
That's just how powerful modern hardware is. You don't need a k8s cluster to run a simple CRUD app under realistic loads. I'm sure the hackernews codebase has acquired some performance optimizations over the years, but I doubt that it's doing anything especially clever performance-wise.
Slack is a healthy marketplace and I think buying plugins is something most users know they can do and take pleasure in. Shopify also boasts how mosts users adopt apps and it's core to their user experience. CloudFlare, I have no experience with their apps, but as a CloudFlare user myself, I don't think I've ever felt compelled to browse their app store. Perhaps some good 2 cents to keep in mind? On the surface though it looks like they basically can do plugin/widget style stuff, where they can inject your script into the markup of a page before they serve it to the user. Zero-integration steps for the user. Similar to how Shopify's ScriptTag API allows zero-integration steps for widgets, etc.
For me personally, I really weighed between Shopify and just rolling my own authentication and doing normal advertising/customer acquisition. As I state in the article, I just really didn't want to do any of that, even on a small scale. That means you're constrained to the problem domain of ecommerce, but that there is a deep well to pull app ideas from. I'll probably end up doing some Shopify App Store ad campaigns consistently and Google Ads if customers find it solves their problem and has traction though!
I also see a ton of YouTube ads for Shopify Apps, so I imagine that is a working channel for app developers. Only one way I'll find out for sure -- testing! :)
Does QA just pull and test against a dev instance? Do they test against prod? Do engineers get prod API keys if they have to test an integration with a 3rd party?
Copy and paste and just post a notice about it. A few small exchanges will list for free or very cheaply and they’ll typically run a node or two, which helps the initial security of your blockchain.
Connect your crypto wallet, to this completely legit website with a slightly different domain name than the real domain name, add like, 3ETH to your wallet, and agree to the transaction. I promise it's official and you're not approving me taking all the crypto and NFTs out of your wallet.
(Joke, by the way. Although something that can happen if you're not careful).
That's your opinion. The author apparently has a different one.
I would point out that in Western society there have been groups such as religious orders dedicated to the "virtue of poverty" for at least 8 centuries[0] so this is not exactly a new idea.
I'm sure that back then, the ideas probably elicited at least one similar reaction from someone in the equivalent of your position. But enough other people found those ideas sufficiently inspiring that the group has persisted since 1208. It seems unreasonable to call "cruel" something that has given meaning to so many people.
Yes, just like the lifestyle that the author promotes here. They are not forcing you to quit their job, they are encouraging you to voluntarily make that choice. If the article was titled "Join the Franciscan Monks" and was about the benefits the author perceived from making that choice rather than what they did, the article would similarly mention the "virtues of poverty".
One person choosing, for personal reasons, a situation that another person had forced upon them and dislikes, is not inherently cruel.
Yeah. I grew up working poor my wife grew up go-hungry-poor, we’re close to out of debt and living comfortably with two kids in our 40s. Poverty? No fucking thanks.
For now it's just a project. I learned Flutter and wanted to build something with it.
If enough people like it, I will make this a full-fledged service.
And focus on adding features like dark mode, server-sync, sign-in, account management, export/import of recipes, sharing screenshots of recipes like this one directly with your friends https://i.redd.it/kk1goqsswo981.png
Really nice! I wonder how you get the parsed recipe to load so fast, much faster than say outline.com (though they prob have some more server-side stuff going on)
