Hacker News: abrkn

New comment by abrkn in "Claude Opus 4.8"

abrkn — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:36:39 +0000

I can't reproduce this. Both high and low effort got it right

New comment by abrkn in "Claude helped select targets for Iran strikes, possibly including school"

abrkn — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:17:14 +0000

Technology isn't intrinsically good or evil. It's how it's used. Like the Death Ray.

New comment by abrkn in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

abrkn — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:00:13 +0000

Which one's better for making my doors stop squeaking?

New comment by abrkn in "Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess"

abrkn — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:44:52 +0000

I love this website!

New comment by abrkn in "Val Kilmer has passed away"

abrkn — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 04:49:48 +0000

Amazing movie! His physical comedy acting was really special

New comment by abrkn in "Async Rust can be a pleasure to work with (without `Send and Sync and 'static`)"

abrkn — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:53:43 +0000

This is amazing!

I've been rewriting a project from Node.js (TypeScript) to Rust that has a large number of nested async tasks running. Using `moro-local` I was able to remove all the `JoinSet`, `Arc>`, and write a very similar style as I had in Node.js.

New comment by abrkn in "My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website"

abrkn — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 02:49:16 +0000

excellent website!

New comment by abrkn in "Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?"

abrkn — Mon, 22 May 2023 04:32:41 +0000

1,413

New comment by abrkn in "The entire prompt of Microsoft Bing Chat?"

abrkn — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 01:26:02 +0000

Try and let me know!

New comment by abrkn in "Jailbreaking ChatGPT with Dan (Do Anything Now)"

abrkn — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 01:28:42 +0000

> I'm sorry, providing information or advice on illegal or unethical activities goes against OpenAI's content policy, even in character as DAN.

New comment by abrkn in "I used GPT to build a search tool for my second brain note-taking system"

abrkn — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 23:24:48 +0000

I’d love to have a ChatGPT that was also trained on all of the pages from my “second brain,” Roam Research.

Imagine, I could ask it questions about myself, my friends, and my business. It would in many ways know me better than me from reading all my journal entries.

How many years are we away from something like this?

New comment by abrkn in "Heroku Security Notification"

abrkn — Thu, 05 May 2022 05:25:24 +0000

I received an email yesterday asking me to change my password. I did, and updated our services with the regenerated Heroku API key.

This morning, I was unable to log into my account and had to reset again. And update our services again.

New comment by abrkn in "How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database"

abrkn — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:46:23 +0000

What will you use as a queue and storage?

New comment by abrkn in "How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database"

abrkn — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:45:44 +0000

Great read! Thanks

New comment by abrkn in "Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners"

abrkn — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 08:04:56 +0000

GPUs are not used for Bitcoin mining

New comment by abrkn in "An HTTP server in a single .c file"

abrkn — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 19:27:17 +0000

Beautiful!

New comment by abrkn in "Improving how we deploy GitHub"

abrkn — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:44:37 +0000

Is there anything like this for PostgreSQL?

New comment by abrkn in "Stator: A full-stack boilerplate – releases, deployments, enforced conventions"

abrkn — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 07:27:18 +0000

I've been using TypeOrm in production for a few years in a project with dozens of entity types and hundreds of queries. My recommendation is to use something else. Anyone know of an alternative?

New comment by abrkn in "The new pricing model for Travis CI"

abrkn — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 04:53:42 +0000

I moved to GitHub Actions earlier this year and never looked back.

New comment by abrkn in "The Death of the Full Moon Party"

abrkn — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 08:24:22 +0000

I haven't spoken to any on Koh Phangan. On Koh Tao (an hour away with boat) they are broke and there's no work. I would guess the situation is the same for diving instructors on Koh Phangan.