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New comment by Andys in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

Andys — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:54:18 +0000

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New comment by Andys in "Covering electricity price increases from our data centers"

Andys — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:21:05 +0000

Every piece of progress looks like this to begin with.

New comment by Andys in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

Andys — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:12:25 +0000

https://tapitalee.com Deploy to your own AWS account like Heroku

New comment by Andys in "Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems"

Andys — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:58:40 +0000

We did this at Chargify, but with MySQL. If Redis was unavailable, it would dump the job as a JSON blob to a mysql table. A cron job would periodically clean it out by re-enqueuing jobs, and it worked well.

New comment by Andys in "Elasticsearch was never a database"

Andys — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:55:05 +0000

This is made possible because Elastic gained a write-ahead log that actually syncs to disk after each write, like Postgres.

New comment by Andys in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"

Andys — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:24:27 +0000

I came to a similar conclusion. What about measuring enjoyment? Turns out people enjoy meetings more than work!

New comment by Andys in "[dead]"

Andys — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:38:31 +0000

I'm surprised that we're circling back to banning things being the answer, when we (the Internet) know that doesn't work long-term.

It seems nice at face value, so it appeases everyone, while being an overly blunt tool used as a political weapon, etc.

New comment by Andys in "Eurostar AI vulnerability: When a chatbot goes off the rails"

Andys — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:15:42 +0000

Imagine viewing the same chat logs, while logged in an admin interface, then it isn't self-XSS anymore.

New comment by Andys in "Kiro: A new agentic IDE"

Andys — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:58:45 +0000

Try kilocode - https://kilocode.ai/ Its a VScode extension and allows different LLMs to be used.

New comment by Andys in "How much slower is random access, really?"

Andys — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 01:25:49 +0000

What if you factored in time to sort them first?

New comment by Andys in "How much slower is random access, really?"

Andys — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 02:24:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing that.

Presumably if you'd split the elements into 16 shares (one for each CPU), summed with 16 threads, and then summed the lot at the end, then random would be faster than sorted?

New comment by Andys in "Is TfL losing the battle against heat on the Victoria line?"

Andys — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:21:20 +0000

Ice blocks were trialed in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_cooling#cit...

New comment by Andys in "An Image of the Australian Desert Illuminates Satellite Pollution"

Andys — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:44:54 +0000

This is a regressive view. Developed countries profit from the educational nature of the Internet. We're all better off from having banked and shared common knowledge.

New comment by Andys in "An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system"

Andys — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:50:55 +0000

Ceph is massively over-complicated, if I had two teams I'd probably try and write one from scratch instead.

New comment by Andys in "MySQL transactions per second vs. fsyncs per second (2020)"

Andys — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:34:21 +0000

I thought PostgreSQL did, but now that I check the docs, you are correct, the default `commit_delay` is zero. That would be worth increasing a little if you can afford the latency.

New comment by Andys in "Bigscreen Beyond 2"

Andys — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:50:06 +0000

How is it low res when the specs say 5120 × 2560?

New comment by Andys in "Forces deep underground seem to be deforming Earth's inner core"

Andys — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 21:01:10 +0000

Additionally, the magnetic shape and location of the poles are also shifting, which I think suggests the core is also shape changing.

New comment by Andys in "I Went to SQL Injection Court"

Andys — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:19:09 +0000

Not a lawyer, but why not use opensource as an example? Many successful public e-commerce websites have public schemas and aren't all hacked.

New comment by Andys in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

Andys — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:15:01 +0000

But its a weird distribution, because of owners who never have a single problem.

New comment by Andys in "The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App"

Andys — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 18:34:48 +0000

CockroachDB can too, although its licensing has made it unpopular.