deathemperor (u/deathemperor)

deathemperor commented on I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software pdfequips.com/... · Posted by u/sanusihassan

sanusihassan · a year ago

the web app i.e the front end part is next.js and typescript mostly, the landing page is built using astro.js, and the back end is heavily python, flask and some javascript for web-to-pdf and markdown-to-pdf, the rest is mostly python

deathemperor · a year ago

just curious: what do you use to convert web pages to pdf?

deathemperor commented on Akira Toriyama has died noisypixel.net/dragon-bal... · Posted by u/gaoryrt

cxrlosfx · 2 years ago

Son Goku, is one of the faces of the hero with thousand faces, IMO one of the greatest of all personification of the myth, from the perspective of someone from Latin America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces

deathemperor · 2 years ago

from my perspective of someone from Southeast Asia, Son Goku is definitely Sun Wukong the Monkey King from Journey To The West

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_King

deathemperor commented on You have a right to know why a health insurer denied your claim propublica.org/article/yo... · Posted by u/srameshc

deathemperor · 2 years ago

I'm a software engineer working in the insurance industry in Vietnam. The company provides claims service (TPA) for insurers. I find the conversation super interesting as our healthcare and insurance system share the same problems with the US (everywhere else too I think). I'm super excited that my work piece by piece improve the industry one way or another.

deathemperor commented on Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today? · Posted by u/nvln

deathemperor · 3 years ago

Nextjs deployed on Vercel Hasura with Postgres Apollo server deployed on Lambda using serverless framework.

deathemperor commented on SvelteKit 1.0 svelte.dev/blog/announcin... · Posted by u/theodorejb

gavinray · 3 years ago

I use the same, but with Hasura and Next.js with GraphQL

+ Next.js

+ GraphQL Zeus / GraphQL Code Generator (typed calls between frontend/backend)

+ Hasura (generates GraphQL API for database)

deathemperor · 3 years ago

Same here. I use Apollo Client. React. Hasura

deathemperor commented on The Business Impact of Code Quality infoq.com/articles/busine... · Posted by u/rbanffy

kelsolaar · 3 years ago

Author’s company is https://codescene.com/, curious to understand what it exactly does, there is no plethora of details on the website.

deathemperor · 3 years ago

I’ve just tested it out with our code base and it’s pretty impressive providing very useful intelligence of my team. Codescene provides metrics like he wrote in the post and many more.

deathemperor commented on YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters github.com/yandex/YaLM-10... · Posted by u/f311a

dav_Oz · 3 years ago

The bots/machine vs human reminds me of that famous experiment from the 30s in which Winthrop Kellogg[0], a comparative psychologist, and his wife decided to raise their human baby (Donald) simultaneously with a chimpanzee baby (Gua) in an effort to "humanize the ape". It was set out to last 5 years but was relatively quickly abrupted after only 9 months. The explicit reason wasn't stated only that it successfully proved the hereditary limits within the "nature vs nurture" debate of a chimpanzee, the reticent statement reads as follows:

>Gua, treated as a human child, behaved like a human child except when the structure of her body and brain prevented her. This being shown, the experiment was discontinued

There have been a lot of speculation as to other reasons of ending the experiment so prematurely. Maybe exhaustion. One thing which seemed to dawn on the parents - if one reads carefully - is that a human baby is far superior at imitating than the chimpanzee baby, frighteningly so, that they decided to abort the experiment early on in order to prevent any irreversible damage in the development to their human child which at that point had become far more similar to the chimpanzee than the chimpanzee to the human.

So, I would rephrase "the internet is dead" into "the internet becomes increasingly undead" because humans condition themselves in a far more accelerated way to behave like bots than bots are potentially able to do. From the wrong side this could be seen as progress when in fact it's opposite progress. It sure feels like that way for a lot of of people and is a crucial reciprocal element often overlooked/underplayed (mostly in a benign effort to reduce unnecessary complexities) when analyzing human behaviour in interactions with the environment.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winthrop_Kellogg#The_Ape_and...

deathemperor · 3 years ago

My mind is blown. Thanks for sharing. Especially with the movie analogy. I’m a very movie person and I imitate my personality traits a lot based on characters on movies…

deathemperor commented on Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension newsletter.tonydinh.com/i... · Posted by u/trungdq88

trungdq88 · 4 years ago

Hello HN,

I see another post sharing their success micro startups today on HN so I thought I should share mine.

I started working on this browser extension for Twitter 8 months ago.

It took 3 months to reach $60/mo, 3 more to reach $400/mo, and 2 more to reach $3K/mo – where I am now.

When I start, I had 0 followers on Twitter. When it reaches $400/mo, I quit my job. I now live freely from corporate drama and travel as much as I can while building products I love.

I share my entire journey publicly on Twitter and my newsletter, including revenue, stats, product launch process, and marketing strategies, etc.

I just want to say that opportunities are everywhere, and it's never easier to start a profitable micro startup to sustain yourself and live an independent life.

Cheers!

deathemperor · 4 years ago

congratz on the success of new launch, Trung.