<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: BowBun</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BowBun</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:10:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=BowBun" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately tons of US gov contracts a) are lowest bid and b) only have one applicant</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:23:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260654</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>His source and claims seem backed up - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late_Great_Planet_Earth" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late_Great_Planet_Earth</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:36:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169619</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169619</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same here, this seems like a setup issue.<p>If you give the LLM the ability to run queries against prod-like data and review the paths, you have a fully autonomous system that can correctly optimize your ORM/queries. Been doing this for months.<p>pgAnalyze is a great complementary tool for this and they offer MCP</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:29:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124352</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124352</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Amazing, great work. Keep polishing this up!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:44:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064280</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same here, in Godot! This is a common practice for games with performance/networking constraints too. For example building a deterministic sim in a regular engine tends to fail without custom primitives or a nice library to handle some of the intricacies. By moving non-display code out of the engines you can reliably build and control all of this.</p>
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<p>Smart man, I still act as the middleman any time my gf wants a show!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:25:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988037</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988037</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Kimi Work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pedantic.<p>> A narrative is a structured account of connected events, experiences, or ideas, commonly referred to as a story<p>Regardless of intent, it is how you tell your story.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:04:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984183</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm privy to dozens of people working on this problem every day and I imagine there's many more people working on this problem out of sight. I'm bullish on this idea, but it's going to be a slow burn.</p>
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<p>There was a brief moment in all the hullabaloo that this went unnoticed :X</p>
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<p>Incredible!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:29:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557830</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's odd to me that you found the need to use a throwaway here.<p>You're missing my point I think. I'm talking about _eradicated_ diseases, not the flu and covid. Those are not 'preventable' diseases in the sense that there is no known cure, including the vaccines. The vaccines for _those_ are clear that they have limitations and don't work 100% of the time.<p>Measles has _not_ been an issue for a long time because we spent a lot of resources trying to get rid of it. CDC's site boasts over 20 years of 'elimination status'. - <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html</a><p>The direct and _only_ cause for the eradication of Measles in the US was due to vaccinations. The fact that it is ressurging in conservative communities (I insist on the political connection, as it was this same group that showed clear anti-vaccination sentiments throughout COVID) indicates that they are choosing not to take a vaccine that has been known to save lives for decades. This directly contributes to preventable deaths.<p>This has nothing to do with washing your hands or big pharma wanting you to get shots every week. It simply has to do with science and clear historical precedent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:57:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547565</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "How to earn a billion dollars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've always respect PG's articles (obviously), but him pointing to a sole founder at a high growth rate (which founder btw, what is the product) as 'proof' that no bad has been done to reach that level of growth is so incredibly naive!<p>His founder is not at the level we are talking about. They obviously would not represent the 'bad' that AOC was trying to make a point about. Why don't you pick your actual billionaires?<p>Airbnb - Ignored and exploited local housing regulations, over time the blowback has been HUGELY negative. Here the 'bad' is the commoditization of housing in peoples' homes, causing housing problems.<p>Coinbase - For years, they built their business on bitcoin being used on dark nets for illegal purposes. There's the bad. If they were truly good they would have done KYC from day 1. Why would they? Billionaires gotta break rules.<p>DoorDash/Instacart - Exploitation of cheap labor, they _consistently_ underpay workers, hire undocumented laborers for that purpose, and pit laborers and consumers against each other rather than improving the system.<p>These, Paul, are the actual billionaires AOC was talking about. Not your young founder making the 200th to-do app.<p>Really unimpressed and disappointed by the shallowness of his thinking here.</p>
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<p>I lived in Texas for ~20 years and am well-versed in the plains+midwest, I just don't agree here. If all you do is drive through highways in these states, yes those are truck stops. However I'm fully confident in saying everywhere has the places the author is talking about. Like he said, it's about creativity.</p>
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<p>Absolutely they are, look at Ona's customers</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:30:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497286</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497286</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think they're trying to get one over me, nor do I think it's _that deep_. One should simply acknowledge the prior projects that led to where you are today, even if they are your own. I 100% stand by my original statement and think that pgDog should mention that they're affiliated or a paid product on top of pgCat!</p>
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<p>If you look at recent data[1], this has only accelerated further. This was not attributable to one president. Attempting to point blame for complex economic systems to one person is so foolish I don't even know where to start picking it apart. Look at the actual legislation and actions by which this happens. This is done through tariff manipulation, regulatory capture, and insider trading which we literally have weekly evidence of.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-oxfam/fight-inequality/oxfams-global-inequality-report/" rel="nofollow">https://www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-oxfam/fi...</a></p>
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<p>I disagree, because now I am suspicious as to why there's a glaring omission like that. Never the mind looking at contribution timelines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:11:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482779</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really wish they'd acknowledge the prior art and name that they've taken inspiration from - <a href="https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat</a><p>Don't pay a startup for your DB proxy, you should own that layer yourself inside of your infrastructure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:02:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481816</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use codeburn, has both terminal and menu bar versions. Works quite well - <a href="https://github.com/getagentseal/codeburn" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/getagentseal/codeburn</a></p>
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<p>yes, since 2020</p>
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