Hacker News: agentdrek

New comment by agentdrek in "Data has weight but only on SSDs"

agentdrek — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:41:57 +0000

your user name is found at the 4,922,096,564th digit of Pi

New comment by agentdrek in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

agentdrek — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:00:21 +0000

It should be a lesson to learn on how simple, logical and reliable tools can last decades.

New comment by agentdrek in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

agentdrek — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:20:26 +0000

I can't find anything verifiable related to your statement ...

New comment by agentdrek in "Just Use Postgres"

agentdrek — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:28:47 +0000

Over the decades, PostgreSQL, aka Postgres, has grown into the most powerful general-purpose database and has become the de facto standard for developers worldwide. Just Use Postgres! takes a modern look at Postgres, exploring the database’s most up-to-date features for AI, time-series, full-text search, geospatial, and other application workloads.

Just Use Postgres

agentdrek — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:28:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.manning.com/books/just-use-postgres

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124581

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by agentdrek in "Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding"

agentdrek — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:36:32 +0000

YMMV I guess but it's my goto tool; fast and reliable results at least for my use cases

New comment by agentdrek in "Tailscale has raised $160M"

agentdrek — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 18:16:55 +0000

Probably closer to say that Dropbox is a GUI on top of WebDAV

New comment by agentdrek in "Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code"

agentdrek — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:16:06 +0000

I still keep the Reference Guide on my desk to remind me of my roots and how far things have come and yet how much they remain the same.

New comment by agentdrek in "The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development"

agentdrek — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 01:06:09 +0000

"I can't accept Drum and Bass" is the greatest YouTube remix rabbit hole to go down

New comment by agentdrek in "What If Data Is a Bad Idea?"

agentdrek — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:11:44 +0000

'It was a bit like a physicist asking, “What if gravity is a bad idea?”' Didn't that just happen in physics this week?

New comment by agentdrek in "Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub"

agentdrek — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:32:51 +0000

Clearly a POLA violation (principle of least astonishment)

New comment by agentdrek in "Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor"

agentdrek — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:37:02 +0000

Interesting to look through the "starred" repos of that account ... seems like a hit list: https://github.com/JiaT75?tab=stars

New comment by agentdrek in "TIL: Postman Humour"

agentdrek — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 20:40:50 +0000

Newman lives on.

TIL: Postman Humour

agentdrek — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 20:40:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman/issues/963

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38561528

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by agentdrek in "How to tackle unreliability of coding assistants"

agentdrek — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:15:24 +0000

is that a vi repeat? lol

New comment by agentdrek in "I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser"

agentdrek — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 08:28:33 +0000

love the name ... needs a 1980's Commodore BASIC visual :-)

New comment by agentdrek in "Doom for 16-bit DOS computers"

agentdrek — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 21:20:47 +0000

Doom will soon have been ported to more hardware than NetBSD!

New comment by agentdrek in "US Will Have to Write Off Billions in Student Debt Due to Deaths"

agentdrek — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:29:42 +0000

that's crazy

New comment by agentdrek in "FTX used corporate funds to purchase employee homes, new filing shows"

agentdrek — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:57:52 +0000

What is TRUMPLOSE lol

New comment by agentdrek in "Resources for microtonal music"

agentdrek — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:03:46 +0000

Cubase should be no problem