Hacker News: WillDaSilva

AI Changes the Economics of JIT Compilers

WillDaSilva — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:18:17 +0000

Article URL: https://malisper.me/how-ai-changes-the-economics-of-jit-compilers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287332

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Mamdani to offer 30% discount on meat and produce at city-owned grocery stores

WillDaSilva — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:54:09 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/mamdani-nyc-grocery-stores-prices-bronx-4634d4030209fea663e68f5d6d09a325

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49087542

Points: 7

# Comments: 4

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

WillDaSilva — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:55:58 +0000

In a typical Rust project you organize your project into many crates. I haven't checked, but I'd guess that the vast majority of those dependencies are internal dependencies. After all, this project started by running an automated C to Rust converter, which the authors claimed produced over a thousand crates.

New comment by WillDaSilva in "Immich 3.0"

WillDaSilva — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:31:59 +0000

For what it's worth, Immich supports this too. You can create an album (for each event), create a shared link, allow public anonymous uploads for the shared link, and then give the link to everyone at the event, and ask them to upload their photos. It can be done from any web browser.

The dead economy theory

WillDaSilva — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:46:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324712

Points: 1359

# Comments: 1426

The secrets of the Shinkansen

WillDaSilva — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:41:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-secret-behind-japans-railways

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762060

Points: 159

# Comments: 156

Social Media Without Socializing

WillDaSilva — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:36:35 +0000

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/billionaire-solipsism/#sirius-cybernetics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46683450

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by WillDaSilva in "Go ahead, self-host Postgres"

WillDaSilva — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:06:06 +0000

It's pretty easy these days to spin up a local Postgres container. Might as well use it for prototyping too, and save yourself the hassle of switching later.

Pre-PEP: Rust for CPython

WillDaSilva — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:46:14 +0000

Article URL: https://discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-rust-for-cpython/104906

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196712

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by WillDaSilva in "GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst"

WillDaSilva — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:33:43 +0000

There's a repository setting you can enable to prevent actions from running unless they have their version pinned to a SHA digest. This setting applies transitively, so while you can't force your dependencies to use SHA pinning for their dependencies, you can block any workflow from running if it doesn't.

The Right-wing schism over property taxes

WillDaSilva — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:22:15 +0000

Article URL: https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/the-right-wing-schism-over-property

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45998652

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by WillDaSilva in "Nix Derivation Madness"

WillDaSilva — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 05:23:21 +0000

Pulumi may be what you're looking for. Same concept as Terraform, and many of its provider libraries are just wrappers around Terraform provider libraries, but you can use a variety of common programming languages to declare your desired state, rather than HCL.

Tech PACS Are Closing in on the Almonds

WillDaSilva — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:20:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/tech-pacs-are-closing-in-on-the-almonds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45682875

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Canadian Army launches bold modernization and restructuring initiative

WillDaSilva — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:17:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/maple-leaf/defence/2025/10/canadian-army-launches-bold-modernization-and-restructuring-initiative.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548914

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by WillDaSilva in "Recreating the US/* time zone situation"

WillDaSilva — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 12:14:25 +0000

Timezones are not static, and actually change somewhat frequently. A program that converts any given future time to UTC risks becoming incorrect about when that time is due to political changes that affect the timezone the given future time was in.

New comment by WillDaSilva in "Not paying with cash"

WillDaSilva — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:21:44 +0000

I was able to get a Pasmo card as an alternative to Suica, and it was rechargable with cash. I also did the same with an Icoca card. I didn't need a Japanese address in either case. I just bought the cards from machines at a couple of the larger metro stations. They could be reloaded with cash at any metro station.

New comment by WillDaSilva in "Replacing a cache service with a database"

WillDaSilva — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 23:50:43 +0000

I fully agree. The rate limits are how you control the behaviour of the clients. My suggestion of leaving caching to the clients, which they may want to do in order to avoid hitting the rate limit.

New comment by WillDaSilva in "Replacing a cache service with a database"

WillDaSilva — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:42:56 +0000

There are times when a cache is appropriate, but I often find that it's more appropriate for the cache to be on the side of whoever is making all the requests. This isn't applicable when that is e.g. millions of different clients all making their own requests, but rather when we're talking about one internal service putting heavy load on another one.

The team with the demanding service can add a cache that's appropriate for their needs, and will be motivated to do so in order to avoid hitting the rate limit (or reduce costs, which should be attributed to them).

New comment by WillDaSilva in "Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda"

WillDaSilva — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 12:31:09 +0000

This is exciting to see. I run some latency sensitive code on Lambda with the Node runtime, so cold starts are troublesome. I hope I'll be able to use this one it's in beta or fully released.

Civil Service: A Victim or a Villain?

WillDaSilva — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:47:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.250bpm.com/p/civil-service-a-victim-or-a-villain

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44823257

Points: 3

# Comments: 1