Hacker News: alex_hirner

Symbolic Learning in Python and Julia

alex_hirner — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:07:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/astroautomata/PySR

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50171936

Points: 82

# Comments: 23

The Coming Programming Language Renaissance

alex_hirner — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:40:29 +0000

Article URL: https://joshlf.com/posts/pl-renaissance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093847

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Nix Language, Courtesy of WebAssembly

alex_hirner — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:15:28 +0000

Article URL: https://determinate.systems/blog/builtins-wasm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49702393

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by alex_hirner in "Durable execution without history replay"

alex_hirner — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:35:22 +0000

Snapshotting programs is also what https://github.com/pydantic/monty enables and aims for.

FWIW, I think we'll see a rise of AI-ready interpreters. In some sense, I like that it challenges traditional microservice architectures as an aside.

Rust-Like Syntax for WebAssembly

alex_hirner — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:05:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ocsigen/wax

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670473

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Harness Engineering Is Cybernetics

alex_hirner — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:48:57 +0000

Article URL: https://x.com/odysseus0z/article/2030416758138634583

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321625

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Intelligent-Data /S

alex_hirner — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:53:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nicholascordova01/INTELLIGENT-DATA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793929

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by alex_hirner in "Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine"

alex_hirner — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:45:55 +0000

I like the CLI interface, very comprehensive.

However, I'm puzzled by pi support: https://github.com/ctxrs/ctx/issues/40

Fail Fast, Run Faster: Shape Safe Deep Learning in Rust on Apple Silicon [pdf]

alex_hirner — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:45:38 +0000

Article URL: https://cs231n.stanford.edu/2025/papers/text_file_840593634-egpaper_cvpr17_final%202.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730438

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Getting Started with Datastar – Build a Rust and Axum Todo App

alex_hirner — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:46:38 +0000

Article URL: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-03_datastar-rust-todo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487890

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by alex_hirner in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

alex_hirner — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:44:14 +0000

Does ai.backfill() fill incomplete/dirty rows or does pg_durable have some notion of partial completion?

New comment by alex_hirner in "Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire"

alex_hirner — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:48:43 +0000

How does it compare to https://github.com/supabase/etl ?

Object-Store Native Databases

alex_hirner — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:27:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.opendata.dev/docs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260261

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by alex_hirner in "Show HN: Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3"

alex_hirner — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:45:24 +0000

What are your thoughts on eviction, re how easy to add some basic policy?

How this secret data company is powering the AI revolution [video]

alex_hirner — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:40:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dduQeaqmpnI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184435

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The end of the road for Kafka-delta-ingest

alex_hirner — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:25:28 +0000

Article URL: https://brokenco.de/2025/10/30/kafka-delta-ingest-was-fun.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46098567

Points: 17

# Comments: 4

New comment by alex_hirner in "The future of Python web services looks GIL-free"

alex_hirner — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:28:04 +0000

memray and later a custom request wrapper that output python gc statistics. Our main candidates for the leak are: grpc, asgi server itself, psycopg, django channels. All leaked to some degree. Alas, it did not became clear what caused the runaway leak at 30 MB/s. Capturing flamegraphs just before OOM kills would require some more engineering. Granian contained these situations until upgradings later that year made the system more stable to begin with.

New comment by alex_hirner in "The future of Python web services looks GIL-free"

alex_hirner — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 17:31:51 +0000

It was and is a life saver. Our django app suffered from runaway memory leaks (quite a story). We were not able to track down the root cause exactly. There are numerous, similar issues with uvicorn or other webservers. Granian contained these problems. Multi process management is also reliable.

New comment by alex_hirner in "Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB"

alex_hirner — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 13:15:39 +0000

I'd love to make it work with flightsql or HTTP endpoints returning arrow IPC [0]! Did you consider using perspective for last-mile charting [1]? Building your own seems like a huge chunk of work. Well done!

[0] https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/clients/wasm/data_ingestion#a... [1] https://github.com/finos/perspective

Run Express server in the browser (2016)

alex_hirner — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 07:50:14 +0000

Article URL: https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/run-express-server-in-your-browser/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45556197

Points: 2

# Comments: 0