Hacker News: Thaxll

New comment by Thaxll in "PostgreSQL for Everything"

Thaxll — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:12:47 +0000

The main issue with SQLite is the very poor type system, after testing it for an app I was shocked.

New comment by Thaxll in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

Thaxll — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:23:43 +0000

I'd like to know what you base your statement on that the Raft implementations in etcd or CockroachDB are incorrect. Your original paper does not mention those implementations, so where does that claim come from?

New comment by Thaxll in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

Thaxll — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:20:22 +0000

They never said that.

New comment by Thaxll in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

Thaxll — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:04:13 +0000

The "world" runs on Kubernetes which is using Raft: https://pkg.go.dev/go.etcd.io/etcd/raft/v3

Are you saying that this implementation is wrong?

"This Raft library is stable and feature complete. As of 2016, it is the most widely used Raft library in production, serving tens of thousands clusters each day. It powers distributed systems such as etcd, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Cloud Foundry Diego, CockroachDB, TiDB, Project Calico, Flannel, Hyperledger and more."

One of the most popular distributed DB is Cockroach which is written in go and also uses Raft: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/tree/master/pkg/raf...

New comment by Thaxll in "Gpiozero Flow"

Thaxll — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:20:57 +0000

The video game industry is built arround that, game engines use that model all the time as gameplay scripting.

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/unreal-engine/bluepr...

New comment by Thaxll in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

Thaxll — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:03:14 +0000

Golang-ci exists for a while and everyone is using it.

Not sure what you're talking about.

New comment by Thaxll in "SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions"

Thaxll — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:02:05 +0000

SQLite gets so much praise here but when you start using it, you realize quickly how bad it is, the type system is by default very limited and dangerous.

It's like comparing old php with a strongly typed language.

There is not even a date type...

New comment by Thaxll in "Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices"

Thaxll — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:42:34 +0000

It doesn't exists because:

- it's against ToS

- it can get you banned

Reversing API is trivial, this is not the reason.

New comment by Thaxll in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

Thaxll — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:13:12 +0000

I'm not wrong they forked the engine and it's the same studio that worked with the same engine before, id tech is made for fps it's clear.

New comment by Thaxll in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

Thaxll — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:41:22 +0000

Most major studios are using custom engines, Ubisoft, EA, Activision, Take2, Blizzard ect...

New comment by Thaxll in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

Thaxll — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:28:24 +0000

That's not how it works, first of all IdTech is not a general engine, it's only made to build specific games: fps.

Next you need to make a product out of that meaning a very large investment so that the engine is actually usable outside of ID, people that don't know what an engine is think of the rendering part but it's actually very minor compare to pipelines ect ... which we know nothing about, it might not even be good or painful to use.

Unreal is widely used because it can create any kind of game and the pipeline, tooling are good and well integrated.

New comment by Thaxll in "Kernel anti-cheat is an overreach"

Thaxll — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:11:26 +0000

Overwatch is a bit different though , it's not a pure hitscan fps such as valorant, cs or r6. Cheats in Overwatch are not as useful because the gameplay is different from other fps.

New comment by Thaxll in "Kernel anti-cheat is an overreach"

Thaxll — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:02:37 +0000

Since you're not a gamer sorry but your opinion does not means much, you don't seem to realize how cheating is a problem in online games, it's not just an inconvenience, it kills games.

New comment by Thaxll in "Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail"

Thaxll — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:24:01 +0000

For $30 you should sign your binary so you don't have a UAC popup.

Also is it not doable with Google takeout ( with Gmail )?

New comment by Thaxll in "We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library"

Thaxll — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:37:59 +0000

So much for Rust forcing you to handle errors.

New comment by Thaxll in "Steam Machine launches today"

Thaxll — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:52:13 +0000

I mean it's a PC, you can install whatever your want on a PC.

New comment by Thaxll in "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)"

Thaxll — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:50:34 +0000

So you centralize 3 liners?

New comment by Thaxll in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

Thaxll — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:20:46 +0000

Don't run k8s on bare metal if you don't have a good platform team though. Using a cloud provider ( eks / aks / gke ) is trivial and "problem" free.

I've never had DNS problems going down, the only thing I've seen is app that would create too many iptables entries when flooding request dns ( app problem ).

New comment by Thaxll in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

Thaxll — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:24:46 +0000

k8s is not a pain, I would never return to something like Pupet / Ansible / etc ... to deploy bare ec2 instances, it's just re-inventing the wheel badly.

Just use ECS / Fargate with an ALB in front if you need a simpler use case.

New comment by Thaxll in "Iroh 1.0"

Thaxll — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:09:25 +0000

I don't understand the problem its trying to solve in the first place, IP works just fine, such as DNS.

There is already IPv6 and quic, you need vendor and major software to have any traction in that field.