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by vovanidze 5mo ago
the nostalgia for 1999 isnt really about missing dial up or basic html, its about mourning the loss of user agency. back then the browser actually worked for you. today the client is basically a hostile enviroment running megabytes of third
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
charging an enterprise premium just to give users the privlege of opting out of metadata harvesting is wild. they know exactly how valuable project structures, issue titles and sprint cadence data are for training models. this trend is exac
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
the npm supply chain attacks were a massive wakeup call. the fact that we normalized storing sensitive tokens in localstorage for the last decade is wild. moving to a bff pattern isnt just about hiding tokens, its about reducing the client
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Show HN: A stateless search proxy using Cloudflare Workers(github.com)
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
he silent downgrades are the worst part. dropping the cache ttl from an hour to 5 minutes and spinning it as an optimization is just insulting. relying on their official clients feels like a trap now since they will always throttle the ux t
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
exactly. calling it 'anonymized' is pure security theater once you have enough data points to map out someones daily routine. waiting for legislation or eulas to fix this is a lost cause since adtech always finds a loophole. the f
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
w3m is still the goat for quick lookups when you dont want to open a browser and lose 2gb of ram instantly. funny how we need forks of text browsers in 2026 just to keep the web readable. really like the addition of gemini support here... d
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
id 100% read that post. the jump from free tier serverless to why is my aws bill $400 this month for a hobby project is a rite of passage at this point. a $5 hetzner or digitalocean box with dokku/docker-compose is basically a superpow
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
i think you missed the "on day 1" part of my comment. k8s, iac, and observability are incrdible tools when you actually have the scale and team to justifiy them. my point is strictly about premature optimizaton. ive seen teams spe
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
props for actually publishing it tbh. transparent engineering takes are so rare now, usually its just seo fluff. weve basically been brainwashed to think we need kubernetes and 3 different databases just to serve a few thousand users. gotta
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
people wildly underestimate the os page cache and modern nvme drives tbh. disk io today is basically ram speeds from 10 years ago. seeing startups spin up managed postgres + redis clusters + prisma on day 1 just to collect waitlist emails i
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
vifm is great if you live in vim, but mc is just hardcoded into my brain at this point. totally agree on zoxide + fzf though, cant imagine navigating a large fs without them now. they're the only 'modern' additions to my work
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
this hits home. ai makes it way too easy to ship 'more' without asking if we actually should. we've been in feature vomit mode for years now, shipping mb's of js for the most basic crud tasks. simplicity is becoming an a
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
still haven't found anything that replaces mc for me. the 2-pane layout is basically muscle memory at this point. everything modern just feels way too bloated or slow. mc is great but customizing the bindings is a total headache tbh. r
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
seeing that Panda-70M research paper linked above makes this even crazier. the 'good faith' part of DMCA is basically never enforced in reality. platforms have used the 'shoot first, ask questions later' approach for so
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by vovanidze 5mo ago
Total convenience vs security facepalm. We audit Signal’s crypto but the OS just pipes the plaintext into a local notification DB by default. If data isnt persisted, it cant be forensically extracted later. Honestly, sometimes the best priv