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New comment by __s in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

__s — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:17:10 +0000

This weekend I threw together a randomizer for Death Howl. Having done a few challenge runs I wanted more out of custom mode

https://github.com/serprex/RandomHowl

New comment by __s in "Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter"

__s — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:58:04 +0000

Meanwhile Nintendo announced Ocarina of Time remake out November

New comment by __s in "IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]"

__s — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:13:59 +0000

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_Starbucks

New comment by __s in "Neki – Sharded Postgres"

__s — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:28:38 +0000

https://x.com/samlambert/status/2083235983336865916 very funny

New comment by __s in "Neki – Sharded Postgres"

__s — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:25:49 +0000

m8gd local nvme

Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL

__s — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:22:43 +0000

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/introducing-walshadow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646322

Points: 9

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New comment by __s in "Codex on GPT6 Astra Low launched a rocket into space in Factorio Space Age 2.1"

__s — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:15:15 +0000

There's vod: https://m.twitch.tv/videos/2867906622

New comment by __s in "It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis"

__s — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:26:13 +0000

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies reports anubis effectiveness falling off

New comment by __s in "Pnpm 12.0"

__s — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:08:40 +0000

https://pnpm.io/benchmarks yes

New comment by __s in "AI Is a Harsh Mistress"

__s — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:45:03 +0000

Was recently explaining to my father how the free AI people interact with is completely different than the AI products we're burning cash with. That instead of hitting some critical mass of transistors we hit a critical mass of parameters which we then loop into themselves for reasoning

Other old sci-fi I've been thinking of is The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Where claude is chew-z with its alien intelligence & when you start interacting with some code or writing you start noticing that the writer has steel teeth & feel like "damnit, this is palmer eldritch blogging again"

New comment by __s in "Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium"

__s — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:18:22 +0000

Years ago I was doing internal login pages for pay day loan insurance saas. Decided to put their logos to avoid mixups. Just googled. One was named Vision, copied logo from https://www.visions.ca figuring they did land on the side. Couple years later I realized my mistake & fixed, nobody else had said anything

New comment by __s in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

__s — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:03:49 +0000

If only things were zero sum stick-in-bicycle meme decision making would benefit others

New comment by __s in "PostgreSQL for Everything"

__s — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:22:34 +0000

In theory yes, just need s3 fdw

I demonstrated this with ClickHouse: https://github.com/ClickHouse/pg_clickhouse/blob/main/doc/of...

We're working on a chdb based mechanism to copy to/from s3, maybe with fdw on top we can back table in s3

You can try similar things with pg_duckdb & pg_lake

New comment by __s in "Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules"

__s — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:33:59 +0000

This is a film, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_(2026_film)

New comment by __s in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

__s — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:08:01 +0000

Using it to get real work done:

* https://github.com/HarbourMasters/Shipwright/pull/7047

* https://github.com/HarbourMasters/Shipwright/pull/7070

just need to give it clear direction, guide it about how to properly use hooks / preserve decomp code, rewrite all the comments, go back & redo things when it spits out some ugly hack, ...

but this does save time, especially considering this is working with decomp code where many functions are random hex addresses

New comment by __s in "The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here"

__s — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:11:15 +0000

I have an adept, it does not. Hold button to scroll while turning

New comment by __s in "The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here"

__s — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:10:29 +0000

Took about a year for my Kensington slimblade to start double clicking. Many others reporting the same

New comment by __s in "NP-overrated"

__s — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:47:14 +0000

Same with c++ stl unordered_map

New comment by __s in "Introducing Toast 1"

__s — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:46:10 +0000

ime google ai is wrong often enough that I'm still doing that to verify its results

At least validation seems faster than without, but you get what you pay for when it comes to llm intelligence

New comment by __s in "NP-overrated"

__s — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:10:34 +0000

Depends on comparison function. In clickhouse-c for type name lookup it's strcmp so I use generated hash table with no collisions & reusing cityhash function since we have it handy: https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-c/blob/4bdd89a02438...

Benchmarked an order of magnitude faster than linear scan or binary search. I agree with your general sentiment tho, which is why I measured