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New comment by FreakLegion in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

FreakLegion — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:18:58 +0000

That isn't what the data shows, but we don't need to discuss it further. My reply was to the person interested in learning from other Postgres OLAP designs. This stuff is all pretty immature though and I wouldn't actually build on it outside of some very narrow, well-understood workloads.

New comment by FreakLegion in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

FreakLegion — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:01:32 +0000

I'm aware he edited it, but the original version isn't wrong, either. Just like Jarred's

> We fuzz Bun's runtime APIs 24/7 using Fuzzilli, the JavaScript engine fuzzer used by V8 & JavaScriptCore

isn't wrong, even though that was only being done for the last 5-6 months of Zig Bun, and not the previous 5 years when they were accruing all of their tech debt.

New comment by FreakLegion in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

FreakLegion — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:02:56 +0000

pg_mooncake (now effectively abandoned due to being acquired by Databricks, but still up at https://github.com/Mooncake-Labs/pg_mooncake) pulled the DuckDB engine into Postgres wholesale, if I remember right.

pg_lake also uses DuckDB but keeps it external, routing through Postgres and managing Iceberg tables (but not the data itself) there (https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/pg_lake).

Both of these were neck and neck with ClickHouse last time I tried them.

New comment by FreakLegion in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

FreakLegion — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:45:55 +0000

The Fuzzilli PR was merged on Nov 20. The acquisition was announced on Dec 3. A big holiday was in the middle.

The teams no longer interacted after the acquisition, and in prior interactions the Bun team would've been correct in saying they weren't fuzzing.

So Jarred isn't wrong, and Andrew also isn't wrong.

New comment by FreakLegion in "GPT-5.6"

FreakLegion — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:14:58 +0000

Is there a Yoda skill? -> A Yoda skill, is there?

There is a Yoda skill. -> A Yoda skill, there is.

New comment by FreakLegion in "International chess federation sanctions Kramnik"

FreakLegion — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 01:36:35 +0000

I'm generally skeptical of causal narratives like this, but Naroditsky talked openly and at length about the ongoing physical and mental health effects of Kramnik's nonsense. So in this particular case, I'm comfortable blaming Kramnik either way.

New comment by FreakLegion in "Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship"

FreakLegion — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:08:40 +0000

> “we really do not want any distraction now, if you feel that strongly you can always send an unsolicited term sheet to the board to consider”

Nope, don't do that. If you receive a credible term sheet at a meaningfully higher valuation, you'll have to rerun your 409A, even if you don't take the investment.

New comment by FreakLegion in "Staying Awake (2008)"

FreakLegion — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:40:13 +0000

Are you under the impression Socrates wrote anything in the first place?

New comment by FreakLegion in "'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence"

FreakLegion — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:19:31 +0000

Experienced business travelers want to use their personal credit cards so they get the points, and scaled businesses overwhelmingly disallow this, because they want that value for themselves.

New comment by FreakLegion in "Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today"

FreakLegion — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:44:27 +0000

And now we're much less reliant on oil, and more countries produce it and have reserves. The flip side is the economy and financial system already felt creaky anyway (tariffs, inflation, job market, government shutdowns, private credit, AI, etc.), so net net things may be just as bad or worse.

New comment by FreakLegion in "If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true"

FreakLegion — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:20:56 +0000

Steve Blank the startup whisperer and Steven Blank the economist are two very different people.

New comment by FreakLegion in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

FreakLegion — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:25:55 +0000

Because Delve defrauded them.

New comment by FreakLegion in "Show HN: We're building an AI hedge fund"

FreakLegion — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:36:45 +0000

SPY is up at least as much as your Claude bot since the Nov 25 2024 start date, but you show it down 3%. If AI is both doing the trading and reporting the results, you...may have a problem.

New comment by FreakLegion in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

FreakLegion — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:15:42 +0000

Investors aren't on the hook for the bad behavior of companies they invest in. Quite the opposite: Defrauding investors (and acquirers, and creditors) is commonly the thing that lands people like Elizabeth Holmes in prison.

New comment by FreakLegion in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

FreakLegion — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:53:18 +0000

Reread the comment I replied to:

> I would stare longingly into the void, wondering if I can ever work another python project after having experienced uv, ruff, and ty.

You think you're disagreeing with me, but you're agreeing. To wit: The original post is silly, because ty is beta quality and Ruff isn't stable yet either. Your words.

These are just tools, Pylint included. Use them, don't use then, make them your whole personality to the point that you feel compelled to defend them when someone on the Internet points out their flaws. Whatever churns your butter.

New comment by FreakLegion in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

FreakLegion — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:20:14 +0000

Ruff is performant but finds about half the issues Pylint does (see https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/970). Ty is quantitatively the worst of the well-known type checkers (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398023). Uv is Astral's only winner.

New comment by FreakLegion in "'It's sweet. It's bitter. It's ours.' The chocolate ritual that binds my family"

FreakLegion — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:51:39 +0000

Probably the handful of dashes (not even em dashes!) and the sentences "It was never just about the candy. It was about being together." Superficially these look like the AI markers people are always calling out, but only superficially.

New comment by FreakLegion in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

FreakLegion — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:43:25 +0000

The board of a Fortune 1000 financial services company just fired the CISO and Deputy CISO because they did too good a job cataloging all of the risk in their infrastructure. Now that it's documented and defensibly quantified, the company is somewhat obliged to do something about it, and the board was not thrilled.

It can be a rough gig.

New comment by FreakLegion in "Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker"

FreakLegion — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:03:10 +0000

This was more likely an Intune admin getting phished. Intune has a built-in wipe action: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/remo....

New comment by FreakLegion in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

FreakLegion — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:23:19 +0000

This is well known in cybersecurity circles. I mentioned here[1] a couple years back that I know CISOs who've had to clean up big messes because their predecessor was on the Cyberstarts payroll, but on the bright side I also know a couple of those predecessors who were fired for it.

Cyberstarts is the most blatant offender, but to be fair, VC has turned into the next rung on the career ladder for CIOs/CISOs, whose role is otherwise generally terminal (unlike e.g. COO or CMO). So a lot of deals get done now just on giving CISOs a path into VC. It's more subtle than Gili's way, and just as effective.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40487846