Hacker News: 1500100900

New comment by 1500100900 in "Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly"

1500100900 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:30:07 +0000

Are you sure about bit-exact floats? Can you show where Booth's multiplication is done?

New comment by 1500100900 in "Recreating the US/* time zone situation"

1500100900 — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 13:20:15 +0000

> Your backend needs to store location because places can switch time zones.

For the event, your backend only needs to store the timestamp in a timestamptz field and make sure that clients set the correct time zone on session start (this you might want the backend to store in the database too, but probably in the users table).

New comment by 1500100900 in "Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite"

1500100900 — Tue, 14 May 2024 09:44:48 +0000

The last time I checked, audio and video firmware wasn't there.

New comment by 1500100900 in "OpenBSD Workstation Hardening"

1500100900 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:26:06 +0000

I'm surprised that not only is there no application firewall for any of the BSDs, there doesn't even seem to be any need for it. There is OpenSnitch, but only for Linux.

New comment by 1500100900 in "A peculiarity of the GNU Coreutils version of 'test' and '['"

1500100900 — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:17:19 +0000

I'd be interested in learning which commands you have in mind and what specifically is a bit nicer about their coreutils implementation.

New comment by 1500100900 in "Postgres: The next generation"

1500100900 — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:59:24 +0000

Unless you're Tom, you'll have to work on tickets assigned to you by some manager.

New comment by 1500100900 in "Azure dropping database support for MariaDB. Users advised to migrate to MySQL"

1500100900 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 15:48:18 +0000

In a world where HA is key, PostgreSQL has nothing to offer.

New comment by 1500100900 in "Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit"

1500100900 — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 09:05:30 +0000

Give Mastodon a threaded view and technically it's the same as reddit, but federated? Usenet, but not just for nerds.

New comment by 1500100900 in "Waiting for Postgres 16: Cumulative I/O statistics with pg_stat_io"

1500100900 — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:16:33 +0000

While waiting for PG 16 you can upgrade to 15.

New comment by 1500100900 in "Ask HN: Why is there so little info on the web about IBM mainframe programming?"

1500100900 — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 21:39:44 +0000

So you DO search for answers to mainframe questions on s**overflow?

New comment by 1500100900 in "Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE"

1500100900 — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:41:38 +0000

Postgres actually does have thousands of engineers but it's not easy to notice because they all share the same name.

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/04/20/analyzing-postgres...

New comment by 1500100900 in "The FreeBSD/Firecracker Platform"

1500100900 — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:09:53 +0000

https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl?memb...

New comment by 1500100900 in "PostgreSQL 15"

1500100900 — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:26:58 +0000

Not for free (have to pay EnterpriseDB for that). Every free option here is basically "glue pieces together to build your own HA".

New comment by 1500100900 in "It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++"

1500100900 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:08:29 +0000

Gavin's personal project is being used in production.

New comment by 1500100900 in "Ushering out strlcpy()"

1500100900 — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 08:51:24 +0000

> The BSD answer to the problems with strncpy() was to introduce a new function called strlcpy()

Not BSD, it was OpenBSD specifically.

New comment by 1500100900 in "FreeBSD – A Lesson in Poor Defaults"

1500100900 — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:32:19 +0000

Have you tried auditing ZFS? That's way too much code to be secure, it's best for OpenBSD to never import it.

New comment by 1500100900 in "Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)"

1500100900 — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 06:32:43 +0000

> Don't know what keeps him going. A desire to see FreeBSD fix those defaults?

And when they do fix any of those things, what is his reaction going to be? So far it's been "it took them so much time to fix this, let's keep that in mind".

The point of it is clearly to convince people to use OpenBSD instead of FreeBSD.

New comment by 1500100900 in "Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)"

1500100900 — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 18:42:29 +0000

> The flag is called in-place for a reason.

What's the reason? Surprisingly, the file is never edited in place.

New comment by 1500100900 in "Use one big server"

1500100900 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:00:57 +0000

How is backup restoration any easier if your whole PostgreSQL cluster goes back in time when you only wanted to rewind that one tenant?

New comment by 1500100900 in "Use one big server"

1500100900 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:58:40 +0000

Cassandra may be great when you have to scale your database that you no longer develop significantly. The problem with this DB system is that you have to know all the queries before you can define the schema.