Readit Newsnasso_dev commented on Show HN: A fast, privacy-first image converter that runs in browser imageconverter.dev/... · Posted by u/wainguo
See also: https://vert.sh/
Judging by the comments: was this project built by an LLM, posted here by an LLM, the replies to comments written by an LLM?
Is there even a human at any step or is this an agent running in the background with "go to HN front page" as its ultimate goal?
It's a bit sad that this is using Svelte 3 instead of Svelte 5, which changed its reactivity model to signals!
This makes sense but doesn’t this imply that displaying comments under a post is a very expensive operation?
Also not totally clear to me (apologies if I missed it in the post) is where repositories live, I have a bsky account with my own domain, but I am not running anything to host a repo. Am I correct in assuming that bsky is hosting my repo, but I would have the option to self host or move it elsewhere and continue using bsky?
Displaying comments is cheap because the AppView (the "cache" layer that consumes the aggregated feed of records from the relay) can maintain a relational database of the social web/graph.
When it receives a post, it creates a row in the Post table. When it receives a comment, it creates a row in the Comment table, which has a column pointing to the Post it's replying to. Then, getting all comments under a post is easy SQL.
About your second question: yes, you're correct. What handle you use and where your data is hosted are completely separate matters.
Isn't going through the JS APIs slow?
used to be, in the early days, but nowadays runtimes optimized the function call overhead between WASM and JS to near zero
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/calls-between-javascript-a...
I really struggled going back to Firefox after being a Chrome user for so long, it just feels so incredibly slow in comparison - I know it's probably just perception but I couldn't shake that feeling.
I ended up going with Brave. Once you turn off their crummy VPN and crypto advert it's effectively just google chrome with a built in ad blocker.
I know there were arguments/concerns about the crypto thing, but I did a bit of research before picking a new browser (as should you) and once I realised it was a simple thing to turn off and never see again I was fine with it, it's all opensource as well so you can see how things work.
Of course it's just a chrome fork, so is still somewhat influenced by Googles decisions but that really wasn't the issue here, I just wanted to keep ublock origin and that's been the outcome.
I still have syncing and such all running between my desktop and mobile, I still have all the same extensions I've used for over a decade, so it's been relatively pain free to switch.
I don't know if it's just me but in my case the problem isn't really the crypto bs, but rather Brendan Eich himself.
As much as Mozilla and Firefox can be criticized for both technical and non-technical reasons, at least I share the same core values. I don't seem to share any core value with Brave or its creator. Plus, yeah, still smells like Google :)
nasso_dev commented on A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022) endtimes.dev/why-your-web... · Posted by u/truxs
The overlap of people that don’t know what TCP Slow Start is and those that should care about their website loading a few milliseconds faster is incredibly small. A startup should focus on, well, starting up, not performance; a corporation large enough to optimise speed on that level will have a team of experienced SREs that know over which detail to obsess.
I agree, it feels like it should be how you describe it.
But if Evan Wallace didn't obsess over performance when building Figma, it wouldn't be what it is today. Sometimes, performance is a feature.