Hacker News: andrewbarba

Show HN: Specli – compile any OpenAPI spec to an agent optimized executable

andrewbarba — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:14:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/AndrewBarba/specli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734976

Points: 1

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New comment by andrewbarba in "Pasta Cooking Time"

andrewbarba — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:36:24 +0000

This math doesn't account for the time it takes to get the water to a boil. Probably closer to 40% savings. Still, quite good!

Amazon S3 Vectors

andrewbarba — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:37:54 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-s3-vectors-first-cloud-storage-with-native-vector-support-at-scale/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44577483

Points: 48

# Comments: 6

NPM blocking all packages with the word "camel"

andrewbarba — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:58:09 +0000

Article URL: https://status.npmjs.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549036

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by andrewbarba in "Show HN: Click counter using iPhone volume buttons"

andrewbarba — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 20:43:00 +0000

Doesn't seem to work for me. I downloaded and ran on my Mac and proceeded to click the volume buttons on my iPhone but the count remains 0.

Apple Rejects the Hey Calendar from Their App Store

andrewbarba — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 20:34:33 +0000

Article URL: https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-rejects-the-hey-calendar-from-their-app-store-4316dc03

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38884517

Points: 147

# Comments: 77

Prettier 3.0: Hello, ECMAScript Modules

andrewbarba — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 16:46:45 +0000

Article URL: https://prettier.io/blog/2023/07/05/3.0.0.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36603061

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The ChatGPT Memory Project

andrewbarba — Fri, 12 May 2023 00:05:43 +0000

Article URL: https://redis.com/blog/chatgpt-memory-project/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35910112

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by andrewbarba in "Apple will launch a journaling app"

andrewbarba — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:22:25 +0000

It will, most definitely, be end to end encrypted along with the rest of user data in the iCloud ecosystem.

Deploy server side Swift applications on Vercel

andrewbarba — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:22:44 +0000

Article URL: https://swift.cloud/blog/deploy-server-side-swift-applications-on-vercel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34534915

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by andrewbarba in "Apple HomePod 2nd Generation"

andrewbarba — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:28:42 +0000

Worth noting:

- We lost two tweeters (7 down to 5)

- We lost two mics (6 down to 4)

Really curious how the sound compares to the original.

New comment by andrewbarba in "One Million Database Connections"

andrewbarba — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:12:27 +0000

How could you possibly say this is doing it wrong? The only way you could batch requests in the way you describe is if you have 1 (or very small number) compute nodes. You would need all those requests to hit same node so you could try and batch. With serverless compute infrastructure (which is what this blog is demonstrating by using lambda) you can have 1 isolated process per request and therefore need a database that can actually handle this kind of load.

Turbo – an incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript

andrewbarba — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:45:08 +0000

Article URL: https://turbo.build

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333832

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Halide – iPhone 14 Pro 48mp RAW

andrewbarba — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 19:08:49 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/halidecamera/status/1571209773303070721

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32880406

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by andrewbarba in "Implementing parts of the Swift compiler in Swift"

andrewbarba — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:23:09 +0000

Love to hear that! Always feel free to reach out if you have any questions or run into issues.

New comment by andrewbarba in "Implementing parts of the Swift compiler in Swift"

andrewbarba — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 18:08:28 +0000

Thanks so much.

And short answer - Yes.

My guess is it's a matter of 'when' I have to deal with this. I've had the domain for a while, and this is something I've wanted to build for such a long time. Things fell into place when I was able to build a Swift SDK for Fastly's platform back in January this year. The stubborn engineer in me went ahead and used the domain anyway and launched what you see today.

New comment by andrewbarba in "Implementing parts of the Swift compiler in Swift"

andrewbarba — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:38:09 +0000

This is a shameless plug, but I built Swift Cloud to help people build scalable backends in Swift: https://swift.cloud

Behind the scenes we compile Swift to WASM and deploy to Fastly's edge network, Compute@Edge. At my day job we are using this in production and serving thousands of requests per second on our Swift app. Overall it's a lot of fun to deploy Swift on server, but the developer UX still leaves a lot to be desired. Running and testing locally is still non-trivial.

New comment by andrewbarba in "Select ’Hello, World’: Serverless Postgres Built for the Cloud"

andrewbarba — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:16:05 +0000

Are there plans to release an HTTP API to make it easier to use with services like Fastly Compute@Edge and Cloudflare Workers? And if so would the API be global or region specific?

One thing I haven't seen with "serverless" databases is an easy way to dictate where data is stored. Mongo has a pretty clever mechanism in their global clusters to specify which regions/nodes/tags a document is stored in, and then you simply specify you want to connect to nearest cluster. Assuming your compute is only dealing with documents in the same region as the incoming request, this ends up working really well where you have a single, multi-region db, but in practice reads/writes go to the nearest node if the data model is planned accordingly.

A real world example of how I am using this in Mongo today: I run automated trading software that is deployed to many AWS regions, in order to trade as close to the respective exchange as possible. I tag each order, trade, position, etc. with the exchange region that it belongs to and I get really fast reads and writes because those documents are going to the closest node in same AWS region. The big win here is this is a single cluster, so my admin dashboard can still easily just connect to one cluster and query across all of these regions without changing any application code. Of course these admin/analytics queries are slower but absolutely worth the trade off.

What’s New in Swift 5.7

andrewbarba — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:08:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/249/whats-new-in-swift-5-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31694449

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

MongoDB Releases Queryable Encryption Preview

andrewbarba — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:09:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/mongodb-releases-queryable-encryption-preview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31653710

Points: 120

# Comments: 67