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tealpod··on Every Byte Matters
Nice, I like to see your talk video, audio. Thanks.
tealpod··on Every Byte Matters
We compiled one of our Java app to native binary using GraalVM (for encyption and secret managment needs). Side effect is the Java native binary performance is excellent, app startup time also significantly less compared to JVM version.

I am not sure how it compares with C++, Rust and Zig, but we made a benchmark with a similar Go binary, Java native version performance (load tests) is similar to Go binary. Only RAM usage of Java native binary is 3 times to Go binary (and JVM app took almost 10 times more RAM than Go version).

tealpod··on Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
If anyone wants a aggregated status page for github, cloud & AI services.

https://status-page.org/

tealpod··on WebDAV isn't dead yet
FTP is not dead. A huge percent of Wind Turbines use FTP for data transfer.
tealpod··on Show HN: I built a web framework in C
> asterisk is inexplicably used both to declare a pointer and a COMPLETELY different operation of dereferencing a pointer.

This is the most confusing concept of pointers. I feel this could have been easily avoided with different character like ~ or ^ or other.

tealpod··on Launch HN: Datafruit (YC S25) – AI for DevOps
Sounds good.

BTW, your website is heavy, for a basic set of components it shouldn't be taking 100% CPU.

tealpod··on Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda
Yes, We used GraalVM for data encryption project, side-effect is super fast performance. The number of req/sec also 3x.
tealpod··on Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
I once solved a similar issue in a large application by applying the Flyweight design pattern at massive scale. The architectural details could fill an article, but the result was significant performance improvement.
tealpod··on I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files
AI isn’t ready to take full control of critical systems, and maybe it never will be. But big companies are rushing ahead, and users are placing trust in these big companies.

I believe AI should suggest, not act. I was surprised to see tools like Google CLI and Warp.dev confidently editing user files. Are they really 100% sure of their AI products? At the very least, there should be a proper undo. Even then, mistakes can slip through.

If you just want a simple terminal AI that suggests (not takes over), try https://geni.dev (built on Gemini, but will never touch your system).

tealpod··on Show HN: Compass CNC – Open-source handheld CNC router
Beautiful. I made few CNC's in my previous life, started a CNC company and bankrupted. Bankrupt because I tried to make everything myself, including electronic circuits. Your work looks great, congrats.

I suggest you keep a small video on the homepage(maybe youtube video). Also your site took a little time to load because of huge images (especially github image is 11mb).

tealpod··on Features of D That I Love
D is one of the most beautiful and very efficient language. I wonder why it never got the attention it deserves.
tealpod··on Gemini CLI
Two weeks back I made a simple wrapper CLI app for GEMINI https://geni.dev.

I strongly believe in AI cli apps for devs, congrats.

tealpod··on Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
Notepad++ Paint.NET NetBSD
tealpod··on The WinRAR Approach
I follow similar principal for https://Watermark.ink Almost every feature on watermark.ink site is free.
tealpod··on IO Devices and Latency
Your style of explaination and animation are exceptional.
tealpod··on You should know this before choosing Next.js
Very well said.
tealpod··on Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
I don't understand how to use this site. There is no movement or voice or what to do next after I go to a page.
tealpod··on I stopped everything and started writing C again
Dlang is a clean langauge. Unfortunately it never got the attention it deserves.
tealpod··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
Firefly language looks simple and beautiful.
tealpod··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
Looks like we don't have a choice.
tealpod··on Using S3 as a Container Registry
This is such a wonderful idea, congrats.

There is a real usecase for this in some high security sectors. I can't put complete info here for the security reasons, let me know if you are interested.

tealpod··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
https://HelloEle.com is a Cli tool to upload, download files with numbers.

I built it in the process of teaching a cli tool. Which I extensively use to move files between computers, especially to servers.

tealpod··on Ask HN: Best books/courses to learn Java core+advanced?
For understanding Core Java, especially OOPS this book greatly helped me.

'The Java Programming Language' - by James Gosling.

tealpod··on A Tour of the Tektronix Ceramic CRT "Catacombs"
Yes, very much true.

I started my career at Tektronix. The famous Gang-of-Four, who initially categorized/identified Software Design Patterns is all started at Tektronix.

tealpod··on Styling Flowcharts Using CSS
I suggest don't remove the demo. I have a watermarking app https://watermark.ink the only reason there are non-english speaking users is because of the landing page itself is the app.
tealpod··on Animated Drawings
Thank you Thank you Thank you, my kid loving it. I will be happy to volunteer and help in anyway I can.
tealpod··on Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web
This is beautiful.

I made something similar, Write.wtf

https://www.producthunt.com/products/retiring-write-anonymou...

Lack of interest killed it.

tealpod··on Launch HN: Medplum (YC S22) – Open-Source Firebase for Healthcare
My experience with Firebase. I worked on AWS, Azure, GCloud and Firebase. I feel Firebase is the easiest way to deploy web application. It provides features like Web-hosting, User-Authentication, Cloud-Functions and Database, Storage. Firebase is popular in mobile app world also. User-Auth is the easiest on Firebase.

Imagine you are new to cloud world and you want to deploy production ready web app (not a toy project). With Firebase you can confidently and quickly make the app with little learning. This confident part is very important, with AWS you have to fight with AWS configuration for months, then also you may have doubts.

Firebase is acquired by Google-Cloud but still exists as a separate entity. For every Firebase project there is a behind the scene Google-Cloud project created.

My main complaint is their databases (they have two db's). RealtimeDB(which I believe will be deprecated) and FirestoreDB. FirestoreDB is proprietary and limited in features. For example there is no way to have a auto-increment(which is often used in many applications). The work-around suggested by Firestore auto-increment is very ugly. Direct editing and modifying the data (not programmatically) in FirestoreDB is a pain. There is no official db-query feature, if you have more data (like more than 1000 elements) their webUI to navigate FirestoreDB data is of no use.

tealpod··on JavaFX 19
https://tealpod.com/compressor/ for Mac OS is made with JavaFX. Windows version is developed on .NET MFC.
tealpod··on Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
Bloom Filter is very clever and simple DataStructure, Thank you.
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