Hacker News: AsyncBanana

How much would you pay for a smarter baby?

AsyncBanana — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:38:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/10/how-much-would-you-pay-for-a-smarter-baby

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49258140

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by AsyncBanana in "Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD"

AsyncBanana — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:10:11 +0000

You have no idea how long I have been waiting for adaptive planning. One of my biggest annoyances with the Postgres core team has been their reluctance to implement any sort of adaptive planning despite it, at this point, being a well-established technique that has been implemented in multiple production databases. I hope this, at the very least, proves the viability of this model outside of academic/niche contexts.

New comment by AsyncBanana in "Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?"

AsyncBanana — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:55:20 +0000

The more I read about LLMs and more complex ML in general, the more I realize nobody really knows what is going on.

Refinement types for Rust

AsyncBanana — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:43:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/flux-rs/flux/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117741

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by AsyncBanana in "The AI Aesthetic"

AsyncBanana — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:14:25 +0000

A lot of these things are continuations of previous trends too. The shimmering text effect is strongly reminiscent of skeleton UI, only repurposed for chat interfaces. As always, design is more continuous evolution than discrete shifts.

New comment by AsyncBanana in "Show HN: Port Zero – how I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0"

AsyncBanana — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:19:42 +0000

I have never really needed something like this. The cloud aspect is a bit different, but Tailscale already does that better at a way lower price.

New comment by AsyncBanana in "China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines"

AsyncBanana — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:29:50 +0000

China is still far behind modern lithography. It took ASML almost 2 decades to get from immersion DUV (and EUV prototypes) to commercial EUV machines.

New comment by AsyncBanana in "NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements"

AsyncBanana — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:51:04 +0000

I don't love the increasing move towards industry research instead of traditional academia. It is just going to mean more closely-held, proprietary advancements.

It is past time to upgrade to post-quantum encryption

AsyncBanana — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:46:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/07/29/it-is-past-time-to-upgrade-to-post-quantum-encryption

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105931

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Europe's fires are just the start

AsyncBanana — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:10:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/07/28/europes-fires-are-just-the-start

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097059

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by AsyncBanana in "Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude"

AsyncBanana — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:46:22 +0000

"prompt engineering" in general just boggles my mind. It is amazing how all of this investment has just created software that doesn't follow instructions well.

Making Postgres slower

AsyncBanana — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:12:59 +0000

Article URL: https://byteofdev.com/posts/making-postgres-slow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704736

Points: 355

# Comments: 39

A Quick(ish) Introduction to Tuning Postgres

AsyncBanana — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:49:41 +0000

Article URL: https://byteofdev.com/posts/tuning-postgres-intro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44652832

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by AsyncBanana in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

AsyncBanana — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:19:09 +0000

At this point, most people likely associated the word "phone" with something closer to a modern smartphone than a landline. Language can change. From my point of view, the problem is more that Apple set a precedent of these restrictions due to them being the first mover, and few mainstream phone companies have tried to break out of this idea (even though other phones are technically more flexible if you try hard enough).

New comment by AsyncBanana in "Paul Graham on NFTs"

AsyncBanana — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 20:19:28 +0000

True, although people need to make green NFTs more mainstream if they want NFTs to be more supported.

State of the Web: Static Site Generators

AsyncBanana — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 23:47:43 +0000

Article URL: https://byteofdev.com/posts/static-site-generators/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30142558

Points: 161

# Comments: 173

State of the Web: Bundlers and Build Tools

AsyncBanana — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 21:47:14 +0000

Article URL: https://byteofdev.com/posts/bundlers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30050797

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by AsyncBanana in "The fastest object diff library in JavaScript"

AsyncBanana — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:20:23 +0000

I agree it can be pretty easy to set up a basic version of this, but eliminating edge cases, optimizing, and unit testing can make it take significantly longer.

New comment by AsyncBanana in "The fastest object diff library in JavaScript"

AsyncBanana — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 16:33:36 +0000

Thanks for your interest! Currently, Microdiff does not have a patching functionality by default, and the API is different. If there is enough interest, though, I might make a compatibility layer to ease the differences, and it probably would not be hard to do yourself too.

New comment by AsyncBanana in "The fastest object diff library in JavaScript"

AsyncBanana — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 16:29:24 +0000

For a bit of info on why it is often faster, you can look at https://github.com/AsyncBanana/microdiff/issues/2. I will probably add something to the README about that soon too.