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Gigacore··on Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
It is funny how weekends are almost always up!
Gigacore··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
I will take note of that. Thanks for pointing.
Gigacore··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
How do you solve it?
Gigacore··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
I shared a well-thought vibecoded app on ShowHN last month. It took a few hours to get POC and two weeks to fully develop a product to meet my requirements. Nobody cared.
Gigacore··on 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
Remember the days when people actually made money out of writing blog posts?
Gigacore··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
Just returned from Malaga in Spain. The EasyHotel we stayed in had frosted glass cubicle for the toilet and shower. But there were huge gaps in between. Haha!
Gigacore··on Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
This is why Metaverse never really took off. Our brains are just ready for it.
Gigacore··on Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR
It takes an evolution for humans to adopt VR. We are not hardwired to wear an headset or glasses at all times. VR does have some nice use cases, mostly in industrial/enterprise setup, but not in day-to-day life.
Gigacore··on India passes bill to ban money-based online games
Skip paywall - https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.thehind...
Gigacore··on Instagram Addiction
Capitalism does not care about 'anti-user moves'. They will do anything and everything to get users spend as much time as possible on their platforms.
Gigacore··on Happy New Year 2025
Happy New Year, HN!
Gigacore··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
The cost issue is similar to the bandwidth issue faced by YouTube in its early days. It took a while for countries across the world to get high speed internet. As technology advances, the cost to generate video using these models would go down significantly and perhaps the quality of the generated video would also be better than what it is today.
Gigacore··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
Sora and similar video generating models will mark the beginning of YouTube like era.
Gigacore··on React has grown beyond its original promise and it's causing more harm than good
> React is the automatic target for a lot of newbies. They jump straight into webdev, learn some HTML/CSS and eventually work their way towards React for employability.

This has been the trend largely for last 3 to 4 years with the candidates (<5 yoe) I have interviewed. I probe them on core fundamentals of Javascript, HTML and CSS. When I get to the nuances, most of them outright call it out saying that they are React developers and do not do Javascript without realizing the fact that React is based on Javascript. And other common misconception is that they assume JSX works the same way while writing the vanilla Javascript code.

Gigacore··on Show HN: Hnpdf.com – Quick access to pdfs shared on Hacker News
The only challenge is a proper description. Some comments go by "Here you go: <link to pdf>" without much description of its content. But it is a good idea. I will try to figure out something.
Gigacore··on Show HN: Hnpdf.com – Quick access to pdfs shared on Hacker News
Glad you liked it. Thank you!
Gigacore··on Show HN: Hnpdf.com – Quick access to pdfs shared on Hacker News
Good idea. I will give it a try.
Gigacore··on Show HN: Hnpdf.com – Quick access to pdfs shared on Hacker News
I am glad you liked it. Thank you!
Gigacore··on Show HN: Hnpdf.com – Quick access to pdfs shared on Hacker News
This has been taken care of. Thanks for pointing it out!
Gigacore··on Show HN: Hnpdf.com – Quick access to pdfs shared on Hacker News
Thank you. I am glad you liked it.
Gigacore··on Instagram Is Over
I stopped posting photos on Instagram. It takes a lot of effort to compose a good shot, process the RAWs and upload them. The interaction rate has gone down considerably. A decade ago, people genuinely commented on photos and provided feedbacks. Like counts has gone down as well. It feels discouraging to post photos with such less of a interaction and feedback. I don't care about the likes, but the platform that originally built to share photos no longer values them. Photos are replaced with stories, reels and ads. The influencers are pushing all sort of crap that gets boosted by the algorithm.
Gigacore··on State of JavaScript 2021
Just curious - what are developers moving on to if styled-components is not so good anymore?
Gigacore··on Uniqlo dangles $8.8M salaries to draw talent in Big Tech showdown
The same company owed $5.5 million in unpaid salaries to women who made the clothes

https://cleanclothes.org/news/2020/uniqlo-and-the-women-owed...

Gigacore··on You don't need an EV to cut your carbon emissions from oil
The problem is not everyone thinks and acts the same. For many a single-use straw is a matter of connivence. They are minuscule in form but the volume of trash produced outweighs the rest.
Gigacore··on Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week
I had a bad experience with their app on Android. The collection is not great either.
Gigacore··on Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week
Even with cracked APK, there was no option to set the region to India. With that, the stats for US must have gone down a bit after users switched their region to India.
Gigacore··on Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week
Saavn was always free. Jio is just offering its paid subscription free for the first 90 days.
Gigacore··on Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week
That's not a bad number to start with! I have used Apple Music, Amazon Prime Music, Google Music, Saavn and Gaana etc. They all differ from one another in terms of collection. Now I am using Spotify in India -- though at this point in time it lacks a collection of regional music and playlists, it still has the better interface and options to use it across different devices compared to others. I guess once Spotify curates better regional music, it will have an edge over other services.
Gigacore··on Lion Air crash: Boeing 737 plane crashes in sea off Jakarta
Boeing's official statement is out - http://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-releases-statements?item=13...
Gigacore··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
Do you sponsor Visa?
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