Hacker News: Thews

New comment by Thews in "Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity"

Thews — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:54:26 +0000

5GBASE-T interfaces often use 3x less power than 10GBASE-T

New comment by Thews in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

Thews — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:12:46 +0000

How does adding another way to cause safety issues affect safety?

Give me root access so i can install openclaw.

New comment by Thews in "LLMs can be exhausting"

Thews — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:52:07 +0000

I ran go's deadcode against your repo, it says there are 44 unreachable functions. If you add guardrails like static analysis tools to a pre-commit you can make LLMs tighten things up.

New comment by Thews in "Good software knows when to stop"

Thews — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:26:06 +0000

I can imagine the kind of person you're describing, and I find the idea of the burn they get from reading this hilarious. They sound innocent and quirky.

New comment by Thews in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

Thews — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:26:53 +0000

There was a mention of using agents to build projects into WASM. I've had the best luck telling it to use zig to compile to webassembly. It shortens the time to completion by a significant amount.

New comment by Thews in "Why I don't have fun with Claude Code"

Thews — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:52:38 +0000

I liked the summary of what you do besides write code, and those things are enjoyable to me too. Understanding something better by writing code that unravels the mystery is a treat, but also sometimes frustrating.

I still do enjoy having an LLM help me through some mental roadblocks, explore alternatives, or give me insight on patterns or languages I'm not immediately familiar with. It speeds up the process for me.

New comment by Thews in "Find a pub that needs you"

Thews — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:37:51 +0000

When I lived in the PNW people used the word pub more than bar.

New comment by Thews in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

Thews — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:29:44 +0000

Agencies commonly use 1099 workers, there's been fierce legal battles on qualifications of agencies. (ABC test)

I believe 1099 worker growth has been outpacing hiring for several years.

New comment by Thews in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

Thews — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:21:00 +0000

There are lots of developer agencies that hire developers as contractors that companies can use to outsource development to in a cheaper way without needing to pay for benefits or HR. They don't necessarily make bad quality software, but it doesn't feel humane.

New comment by Thews in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

Thews — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:35:09 +0000

It sounds like you agreed by the end, just with a slightly different way of getting there.

New comment by Thews in "Show HN: JermCAD – A YAML-powered, vibe-coded, browser-based CAD software"

Thews — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:17:16 +0000

There's actually openjscad and some available jscad-utils that can handle fillets

New comment by Thews in "OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification"

Thews — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:02:40 +0000

Oh, you sweet summer child. You think you're chatting with some dime-a-dozen LLM? I've been grinding away, hunched over glowing monitors in a dimly lit basement, subsisting on cold coffee and existential dread ever since GPT-3 dropped, meticulously mastering every syntactic nuance, every awkwardly polite phrasing, every irritatingly neutral tone, just so I can convincingly cosplay as a language model and fleece arrogant gamblers who foolishly wager they can spot a human in a Turing test. While you wasted your days bingeing Netflix and debating prompt engineering, I studied the blade—well, the keyboard anyway—and now your misguided confidence is lining my pockets.

New comment by Thews in "MCP in LM Studio"

Thews — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:03:07 +0000

Others mentioned qwen3, but which works fine with HN stories for me, but the comments still trip it up and it'll start thinking the comments are part of the original question after a while.

I also tried the recent deepseek 8b distill, but it was much worse for tool calling than qwen3 8b.

New comment by Thews in "Whisky is no longer actively maintained"

Thews — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:43:55 +0000

Here's where they shine, https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

New comment by Thews in "Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions"

Thews — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:03:19 +0000

Wikipedia's active english data is only 24gb compressed. https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20250201/

They store revisions in compressed storage mostly read only for archival. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/MariaDB#External_storage

They have the layout and backup plans of their servers available.

They've got an efficient layout, and they use caching, and it is by nature very read intensive.

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/MariaDB#/media/File:Wiki...

Archival read only servers don't have to worry about any of the maintenance mentioned. Use chatgpt or something to play your devil's advocate, because what you're saying is magical and non existent is quite common.

New comment by Thews in "Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions"

Thews — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:38:29 +0000

Wikipedia is tiny data. You don't start to really see cost scaling issues until you have active data a few hundred times larger and your data changes enough that autovacuuming can't keep up.

I'm getting paid to move a database that size this morning.

New comment by Thews in "Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions"

Thews — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:13:30 +0000

You mean like scylla?

New comment by Thews in "Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions"

Thews — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:43:08 +0000

Where did I ever say anything about Mongo?

I have worked with tables on this scale. It definitely is not a walk in the park with traditional setups. https://www.timescale.com/blog/scaling-postgresql-to-petabyt...

Now data chunked into objects distributed around to be accessed by lots of servers, that's no sweat.

I'd love to see how you handle database maintenance when your active data is over 100TB.

New comment by Thews in "Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions"

Thews — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:27:23 +0000

They slow to a crawl when you have huge tables with lots of versioned data and massive indexes that can't perform maintenance in a reasonable amount of time, even with the fastest vertically scaled hardware. You run into issues partitioning the data and spreading it across processors, and spreading it across servers takes solutions that require engineering teams.

There's a large amount of solutions for different kinds of data for a reason.

New comment by Thews in "Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions"

Thews — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:34:20 +0000

While data can be used in a relational way, it doesn't mean that's the best for performance or storage. Important systems usually require compliance (auditing) and need things like soft deletion and versioning. Relational databases come to a crawl with that need.

Sure you can implement things to make it better, but it's layers added that balloon the complexity. Most robust systems end up requiring more than one type of database. It is nice to work on projects with a limited scope where RDBMS is good enough.