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LVB commented on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords blog.danielh.cc/blog/pass... · Posted by u/max__dev

FabHK · 24 days ago

Latacora, 2018: In order of preference, use scrypt, argon2, bcrypt, and then if nothing else is available PBKDF2.

So even 7 years ago bcrypt was only the 3rd recommended option.

LVB · 23 days ago

They follow with:

"But, seriously: you can throw a dart at a wall to pick one of these... In practice, it mostly matters that you use a real secure password hash, and not as much which one you use.

LVB commented on 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results survey.stackoverflow.co/2... · Posted by u/colingw

robenkleene · a month ago

I always jump straight to the IDE section because that's the most intersting to me https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-dev-id-es

A few notes:

- VS Code at #1 (of course) with 75%, Visual Studio at #2 with 29%

- Vim at 24% and Neovim at 14%, which seems pretty whopping to me (I wonder how much overlap is there, the survey is clearly "click all that apply")

- Cursor is 17.9%, wild

- Nano is 12.5%, lol

- Sublime Text is 10.5%, impressive given how much the IDE market has changed

- Zed is 7.3% I wonder if that's enough to be Ramen profitable for a small team? (Not familiar with what Zed is charging for these days)

LVB · a month ago

Zed lets you pay for AI, and I’m a happy customer. Their agent feature works well with Claude models IMO and the full integration and editor experience is excellent.

LVB commented on I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again indiehackers.com/post/ive... · Posted by u/AlexandrBel

nzach · a month ago

I just want to share my recent personal experience.

Recently I've finally decided to try creating something new that people would find useful hoping that some day I would be able to turn a profit from that. So I vibe coded a pretty bare-bones (but fully functional) version of my idea and started to talk about it in several platforms, including IndieHackers.

And the main "advice" I've got after talking with a few people was "You are putting too much effort in your product, your focus should be on finding the right market fit for your idea". And after reading the logs in my server I found out nobody bothered to actually try what I built(and no, you don't need to create an account to use), which is fine. But why would you give this generic advice without even looking at the thing?

So, after a brief encounter with this community(people that are trying to build products) I can see how one could be tricked into the idea that success mainly comes from a good idea and not a good execution.

I get that many people are in this space only to make money and that finding the "magic idea" is probably a good advice if you don't care about what you will build and you need to make money fast. But I think we should also encourage people to build interesting things, even if it's not clear how one could make money from these ideas.

LVB · a month ago

Yes, and it is very tiresome advice to see continually, especially when given to newcomers whose first instinct is to build a solid, useful app or service, and they're being steered away from that. The number of times I've read that one should put up landing pages, spend time socializing them, and only if there are enough signups to actually build something is rather depressing.

These folks are obviously playing a different game than I'm used to. But in my ~30 years at it, I can confidently say that taking the time to build what I feel are good apps, well-crafted, has provided immense satisfaction (I can at least look at a collection of apps, not landing pages), and has always developed or honed my skills, which has opened many doors. The marketing-first approach just sounds painful for someone who, like me, wants to be building things.

LVB commented on Spaced repetition systems have gotten better domenic.me/fsrs/... · Posted by u/domenicd

LVB · 3 months ago

> Thankfully, the leading spaced repetition software, Anki, has incorporated FSRS as its default scheduling algorithm since version 23.10, released in 2023-11

I've used Anki for a long time and apply updates, but I don't closely track changes. Based on the above, I figured I'd be using FSRS, but I'm not. All of my decks have that setting turned off. Fair enough (no silent updates to existing data), but even when I create a new deck, I have to turn the FSRS setting on manually. I found the same even with a whole new profile. What aspect of this is "default"? Is there a global setting I'm missing?

I'm glad it's available, though, without any plugins!

LVB commented on One hundred and one rules of effective living mitchhorowitz.substack.co... · Posted by u/mathgenius

jebarker · 4 months ago

I often wonder if there's any real benefit in reading things like this. Philosophising (and meditating) without putting it into practice in your life is largely worthless, but I tend to think with ideas like this you only learn them through experience.

LVB · 4 months ago

Over my many years I've found that mental pivots that have lasted came at completely unpredictable times. I'd hear or read something like one of these, it would resonate and get me thinking "Hmm, yeah, I should stop that", and it stuck. Presumably my brain was primed to receive the advice at that time.

LVB commented on Leaving Google airs.com/blog/archives/67... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

r0nan · 4 months ago

I’m curious what he means by Google changing and the Go project changing

LVB · 4 months ago

re: Go, I did wonder if there was any connection to Russ leaving (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41132669)

LVB commented on QModem 4.51 Source Code github.com/AaronFriel/qmo... · Posted by u/AaronFriel

LVB · 4 months ago

I love seeing this. I used these tools during my computer-formative years. Now, at 51 with a whole computer career under my belt, I've been thinking a lot about those days. Nostalgia will bias things positively, of course, but I'm look back fondly on how, at least for personal projects, I just did stuff.

At that time, I had no background in "real" CS or best practices. I didn't have the internet advising this way or that, and my only resource was a book or two from B. Dalton. I didn't even really think about good or bad code... merely: does it do the thing I want it to. I just made my programs however I wanted and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Lately, I've wanted to get back to that mode, at least a bit. It is really tough to set aside all of the rigor and analysis I'm accustomed to and just bang something out. Ugly, buggy, happy path only, but at least they exist. Things like Cursor et al. have come along at the right time...

LVB commented on Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year techcrunch.com/2025/04/29... · Posted by u/GeekyBear

fidotron · 4 months ago

> One factor Google didn’t cite was the new trader status rule enforced by the EU as of this February, which began requiring developers to share their names and addresses in the app’s listing.

Yep, it was probably that.

LVB · 4 months ago

Doesn't Apple require this too? (https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-co...)

LVB commented on Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store) apps.apple.com/us/app/not... · Posted by u/rooster117

LVB · 5 months ago

Excellent timing, as I was just looking at some apps to help get back into after 20 years away. I’ve noticed that a number of them, including yours, do include microphone input. That’s great since I only have an upright, but I wondered how well it actually works, especially with more complex drills, or if I should look at getting an affordable midi keyboard for the app-supported practice sessions?

LVB commented on A 10x Faster TypeScript devblogs.microsoft.com/ty... · Posted by u/DanRosenwasser

alberth · 6 months ago

Dumb question: is this a 10x speed up in the run-time of TypeScript ... or just the build tooling?

And if it's run-time, can we expect browsers to replace V8 with this Go library?

(I realize this is a noob/naive question - apologies)

LVB · 6 months ago

Just building (and supporting features like LSP)