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New comment by andrenotgiant in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

andrenotgiant — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:06:18 +0000

> you can build a crazy popular & successful product while violating all the traditional rules about “good” code

which has always been true

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Some Unusual Trees"

andrenotgiant — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:30:24 +0000

There are lots of "mature" dawn redwood trees in Princeton NJ - particularly in a specific neighborhood built in the 50s.

It makes sense now that the species was discovered in the 40s

The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredibly hack-y

andrenotgiant — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:21:51 +0000

Article URL: https://neon.com/blog/ctrl-c-in-psql-gives-me-the-heebie-jeebies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454127

Points: 139

# Comments: 47

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

andrenotgiant — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:34:32 +0000

sounds like it was good marketing

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Tech people keep falling for the same scam"

andrenotgiant — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:59:22 +0000

I've seen people compare the situation we are in now with AI to early days of Uber. Basically "You're excitement is artificially inflated by the fact that a VC just paid half your bill."

That definitely happened with Uber, but I would argue that one key difference between the Uber situation and the AI situation is COST. How much can COGs be reduced via optimization and technology.

In Uber scenario, the cost is labor, there's a hard lower limit where people will find something else to do for work.

In AI scenario, we've already seen the labs make major reductions in cost-per-token. I think it's fairly uncontroversial to say they have more possible cost reduction levers than Uber.

So I don't agree that at some point VC money will run dry and the unit economics for tokens will dramatically change.

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers"

andrenotgiant — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:41:14 +0000

Is there any good reason to use stored procedures in 2026?

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser"

andrenotgiant — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:56:17 +0000

Love it. Very cool.

Brings back amazing memories from when I was in high school. A friend invited me to come to the museum for some drawing thing, turned out I got to participate in making a Sol Lewitt drawing. Had no idea who he was at the time but it was such a unique experience.

We were in an empty gallery room with a (I believe) BLACK painted wall with a faint grid on it and we were given an old hat with a bunch of cards in it. There were 4 or 5 highschool kids and we each took turns drawing a card out of the hat and drawing the shape from the card on consecutive grid squares on the wall. The shapes were basic lines and semi-circles. It was lots of fun and the end effect was a very beautiful line drawing mural.

New comment by andrenotgiant in "AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs"

andrenotgiant — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:06:02 +0000

... _says company selling a service to use AI to find bugs._

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio"

andrenotgiant — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:57:42 +0000

This got me thinking: Rewind 25 years, I can easily imagine 15 year-old me sinking DOZENS of hours into playing this "game". I remember I put much more time than that into a free game that came in a box of cereal[0].

Today, I loaded the site up and spend about 30 seconds on it before deciding "this is cool!" and moving on, probably never to return.

What changed? I guess it's a mix of: (A) How I value my time. (B) The bar for "what pulls me in" in terms of gaming. (C) Some other factor around me just having already burned enough hours on games.

I'm not really sure how much each factor contributes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chex_Quest

New comment by andrenotgiant in "X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans"

andrenotgiant — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:48:58 +0000

But that would be a narrative violation. X.com and Elon Musk can't possibly be portrayed doing anything positive or productive.

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal"

andrenotgiant — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:48:26 +0000

FT uses "underwater" because the deal was $300 Billion and the stock has lost $315 Billion in market cap since the deal. That's a bit of a stretch, but the rest of the article is very good.

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Is Neon's price drop just coming from moving to Databricks AWS account?"

andrenotgiant — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:13:41 +0000

Is Databricks the largest single customer on AWS? Trying to think of what would be larger.

New comment by andrenotgiant in "PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases"

andrenotgiant — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:46:18 +0000

didn't help that they called it "Free forever" before taking it away. Lesson learned

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Why our website looks like an operating system"

andrenotgiant — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:14:59 +0000

I love the website. It stands out amongst a million vanilla SaaS marketing sites all using the same section stack template.

But nobody will actually use it the way they describe in this article. Nobody is going to use the site enough to learn and remember to use your site-specific window management when they need it.

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Show HN: Kubernetes Operator for Neon Postgres"

andrenotgiant — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:15:31 +0000

Excited to see you launch this!

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering"

andrenotgiant — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:37:15 +0000

I think it's revealing that a group that historically values making decisions based on verifiable and accurate information is now jumping to discredit "Vibe Coding" based on rumors that are easily disproven.

1. Tea App wasn't vibe coding - It was built before vibe coding and the leak was incorrectly secured Firebase https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/26/official-statement-fro...

2. Replit "AI Deleted my Database" drama was caused by guy getting inaccurate AI support. All he needed to do was click a "Rollback Here" button to instantly recover all code and data. https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1946240562736365809

What does this eagerness to discredit vibe coding say about us?

New comment by andrenotgiant in "AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser"

andrenotgiant — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:57:34 +0000

This tracks for other areas of AI I am more familiar with.

Below average people can use AI to get average results.

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Postgres's sslmode=require: ubiquitous, reassuring, and almost useless"

andrenotgiant — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:58:14 +0000

Is the state of affairs getting any better in Postgres 18?

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Timescale Is Now TigerData"

andrenotgiant — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:04:34 +0000

Don't forget Tigris https://www.tigrisdata.com/

New comment by andrenotgiant in "Show HN: An MCP Server for Understanding AWS Costs"

andrenotgiant — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:25:06 +0000

What's the difference between connecting an LLM to the data through Vantage vs directly to the AWS cost and usage API's?