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mbsa7 commented on Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep sciencealert.com/tinnitus... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

Towaway69 · 8 days ago

Someone explaining their tinnitus symptoms made me realise that I had tinnitus for years. Until then I didn’t “hear” it because I just assumed it was normal.

Since then, I’ve realised that tinnitus is contagious! So I prefer not to talk about it just in case I pass it on.

mbsa7 · 8 days ago

For some reason this experience you are describing reminds me of a passage in "One hundred years of solitude" where a character is said to fall in love with a woman that only exists when she is needed.

mbsa7 commented on Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go) github.com/oug-t/difi... · Posted by u/oug-t

xyzzy_plugh · a month ago

For vim heads also worth checking out tpope's fugitive:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

Very useful for inspecting and staging changes, making commits, etc.

I find you can pretty much do anything with it, and it's much faster than anything else, but it does have a slight learning curve. The documentation is very good!

mbsa7 · a month ago

This looks promising, thank you. I always used GitGutter and having to remember “: GitGutterDiffOrig” just to see my changes is a pain sometimes, this plugin seems more intuitive.

mbsa7 commented on Doing the thing is doing the thing softwaredesign.ing/blog/d... · Posted by u/prakhar897

poolnoodle · 2 months ago

Am I crazy or have I read this or a very similar post before?

mbsa7 · 2 months ago

I thought the same thing. From a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45939431

mbsa7 commented on Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons icon-sets.iconify.design/... · Posted by u/sea-gold

Frotag · 2 months ago

This site shows up on google a lot but it's a bit sketchy that there isn't a link to the source / license text. Not to mention the SEO heavy descriptions.

> Free Download Wallet 460 SVG vector file in monocolor and multicolor type for Sketch and Figma from Wallet 460 Vectors svg vector

Plus I've found the license listed isn't always accurate. For example the emojione icons are listed as MIT. But the actual repo says CC 4.0, with the non-artwork being MIT.

https://www.svgrepo.com/svg/404123/skull-and-crossbones

https://github.com/joypixels/emojione/

mbsa7 · 2 months ago

I agree with you on the license issue, don't really mind the descriptions being too verbose or SEO oriented though but that's personal taste.

mbsa7 commented on Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons icon-sets.iconify.design/... · Posted by u/sea-gold

ulrischa · 2 months ago

Question to all HN Users: what is the best icon library?

mbsa7 · 2 months ago

https://www.svgrepo.com I find the site very user friendly as it lets you customize the stroke's width, color etc, see how it looks like and copy the modified version.

mbsa7 commented on Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

mbsa7 · 3 months ago

My favorite so far is “Delty (YC X25) Is Hiring and You Probably Aren't Qualified”.

mbsa7 commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) · Posted by u/david927

hipgrave · 3 months ago

https://sleevenote.com/

I'm working on a new kind of DAP (Digital Audio Player) with the focus being on a better visual experience to go alongside the music. Post going in-depth here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-181321780

mbsa7 · 3 months ago

The UI looks really sexy. Inspiring also. Congrats!

mbsa7 commented on Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers hacktivate.app/why-teach-... · Posted by u/twostraws

mbsa7 · 5 months ago

I have not used the app but the developer Paul Hudson was the guy who taught me Swift and UIKit when I was in college and wanted to dig into iOS development for fun. He’s truly gifted when it comes to teaching.

mbsa7 commented on I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search bloggeroo.dev/articles/20... · Posted by u/josecodea

thiht · 10 months ago

I just read half of the article and this is painful to read. They’re asking for something relative simple as a take home, that just requires a little bit of imagination to fill the gaps. Why does the candidate have to be so fussy about details? Do the best you can, fast, and don’t announce you’re gonna be 2 days late for a take home!

To work in a startup you have to embrace the "just do it" mindset, you have a brain to fill the gaps, and you can always iterate later. I’d be more interested in getting the result of the take home quickly, obviously in a working state, but with a documentation explaining trade offs because of lack of time, ideas for future improvements, design choices, stuff not included (ie. a pretty UI) etc.

My take: they’re literally asking for a CRUD (if you decouple well, you can easily replace the DB with SMTP/IMAP later) with basic email features: send (to, cc, bcc), fetch, reply, reply all, transfer. That’s it, you can do it in 2 hours. Add folders, signatures, "send later", authentication, or whatever if you want to show off.

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Additionally as an experimented Go developer (8 years working with Go as my main language), the code is not great and tbh I would have rejected it if I received this technical test where I work.

In 5 minutes of reading the code:

- lots of commented out test stuff, don't leave that in a take home or I'm gonna assume you'll do the same in your commits

- lots of println but no logging

- relative imports (eg "mymail/app/router"), don't do this

- weird choice of relatively big dependencies (turso? pocketbase? negroni?)

- no architecture or decoupling, everything is in the router

- bad use of the context (getEmails)

- no tests (no need to test everything for a take home but at least some things can be tested)

People say languages are interchangeable and you're never a "xxx" dev, but that's not true. They asked for "Proficiency in Go" and the candidate is not proficient in Go, that would be the number 1 reason for rejection.

mbsa7 · 10 months ago

Would you mind explaining what you mean by relative imports and what the correct approach would be? I'm somewhat confused since I think of relative imports as something like "../.." which you can't do anyway. I'm currently learning Go, so I apologize in advance if I'm missing something.