Meanwhile I cannot turn my living room LED lights on or off because I control them through discord. I guess that's what I get for relying on a messaging service to control my lights.
voidfunc 4 hours ago [-]
Whyyyyyy?
natpalmer1776 3 hours ago [-]
Someone's gotta put the hacker in Hacker News
kurtoid 4 hours ago [-]
Discord bots are dirt simple to make, so it's not that crazy
voidfunc 4 hours ago [-]
This doesn't answer the question tho. Utterly ridiculous.
Kiro 2 hours ago [-]
I find your lack of hacker mentality much more ridiculous.
hoten 53 minutes ago [-]
Typically hacking gains you more control over things - seems fair to question if ceding control over the lights in your home to an external service is within the spirit of "hacking". Maybe "rube goldberging".
dijksterhuis 29 minutes ago [-]
> Typically hacking gains you more control over things
only according to the more modern definition of “hacking”
the earlier version of the term referred to people who write novel, interesting or clever software for the love of the craft.
i think using discord as a free message queue (see spivak’s comment in the thread) is pretty damn clever actually.
i kinda want to build something with it now.
giancarlostoro 4 hours ago [-]
Discord works just fine most of the time, its not that big of a deal. I assume they can still turn off their lights any which other way.
ilrwbwrkhv 2 hours ago [-]
Telegram bots are simpler and has never ever failed me. Much more reliable.
Spivak 4 hours ago [-]
It's a completely free, both in message volume and queue size, highly available hosted 1-1 and 1-n topic based message queue with automatic sharding, excellent performance, and high-quality prebuilt libraries. It has built-in notification support to all platforms and a basic UI toolkit that is easy to use.
The fact that it's also a chat thing is honestly secondary to the foundational tech.
KronisLV 37 minutes ago [-]
> It's a completely free, both in message volume and queue size, highly available hosted 1-1 and 1-n topic based message queue with automatic sharding, excellent performance, and high-quality prebuilt libraries. It has built-in notification support to all platforms and a basic UI toolkit that is easy to use.
"Thanks, I'll base my next enterprise project on Discord as the message queue of choice."
Hah, what an amusing way to look at things, thanks for that.
tourist2d 17 minutes ago [-]
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RadiozRadioz 1 hours ago [-]
These characteristics are common in chat applications. XMPP realised this and has native Pub/Sub support in the protocol, in addition to messages https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html
paulddraper 2 hours ago [-]
Are you serious?
dijksterhuis 2 hours ago [-]
not the parent, but yeah. they’ve basically described the system of discord there.
chat stuff is just one possible use case for the system.
like, when i read the root comment i was a bit like “huhhh?” but reading Spivak’s comment it now makes total sense.
also to add —
* discord gives you easy topic queue debugging. just login yourself and read the queue entries.
* something like 2000 character text content per message
* RBAC for topic queue access
* can probably turn it into a pub/sub topic queue system if you start adding webhooks and bots.
golergka 1 hours ago [-]
That's a serious part of Midjourney business strategy. Hard to imagine how much money did they save on the frontend.
throwaway71271 34 minutes ago [-]
or how much money they lost on missed business
altairprime 3 hours ago [-]
Happily, voice chat worked fine!
Der_Einzige 4 hours ago [-]
At the exact moment that I needed to look at some code that a buddy of me sent to me via discord PM, no less!
Frustrating!
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only according to the more modern definition of “hacking”
the earlier version of the term referred to people who write novel, interesting or clever software for the love of the craft.
i think using discord as a free message queue (see spivak’s comment in the thread) is pretty damn clever actually.
i kinda want to build something with it now.
The fact that it's also a chat thing is honestly secondary to the foundational tech.
"Thanks, I'll base my next enterprise project on Discord as the message queue of choice."
Hah, what an amusing way to look at things, thanks for that.
chat stuff is just one possible use case for the system.
like, when i read the root comment i was a bit like “huhhh?” but reading Spivak’s comment it now makes total sense.
also to add —
* discord gives you easy topic queue debugging. just login yourself and read the queue entries.
* something like 2000 character text content per message
* RBAC for topic queue access
* can probably turn it into a pub/sub topic queue system if you start adding webhooks and bots.
Frustrating!