Hacker News: aperture147

New comment by aperture147 in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"

aperture147 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:36:34 +0000

Techinically I can build a Postgres DB on Durable Object on Cloudflare right? I'm kinda tired of SQLite migration cascading all of my tables now. Has anyone tried to implement that on DO?

New comment by aperture147 in "We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months"

aperture147 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:30:15 +0000

Why is bullshit detector ringing as hell right now??? This sounds like another billion-dollar-Markov-chain-IP that claimed to change the world, opening with a paper with flying colors.

New comment by aperture147 in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

aperture147 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:21:17 +0000

Valve cuts 30% of your revenue no matter how much you earn. They also cut 15% of the transaction by being the middleman on the market.

They also ignored the gambling/trading plague for too long, until a lot of countries threatened them to stop indirectly promoting gambling (which definitely hit them financially).

They are sitting on a money printing machine and their job is making it print no less to buy GabeN another yatch. They are like the cigarette company who donates shit load of money to the charity and cancer prevention lab while making more cigarrate then ever because people love smoking it.

I don't think they wanted or planned to be monopolized, but they are definitely taking the advantage of being it.

New comment by aperture147 in "Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond"

aperture147 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:04:38 +0000

AV1 is not new anymore and I think most of the modern devices are supporting them natively. Some devices like Apple even have a dedicated AV1 HW-accelerator. Netflix has pushing AV1 for a while now so I thought that the adoption rate should be like 50%, but it seems like AV1 requires better hardware and newer software which a lot of people don't have.

New comment by aperture147 in "Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files"

aperture147 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:15:25 +0000

Hey I think I've just found a new marketing stunt for a new vibe-coding platform:

"Worried your vibe-coded app is about to be broadcast on the internet’s biggest billboard? Chill. ACME AI now wraps it in “NSA-grade” security armor."

I've never thought that there will be multiple billion-dollar-AI-features that fixes all the monkey patching problems that no one saw them coming from the older billion-dollar-AI-features that fixes all the monkey patching problems that no one saw them coming from...

New comment by aperture147 in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

aperture147 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:03:57 +0000

Well actually they tried with Windows Phone, Windows RT and Windows 10 S but failed miserably. Even Apple didn't even try to lock their macOS from installing 3rd party app.

New comment by aperture147 in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

aperture147 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:59:58 +0000

> They are a significant actor in the market, and as a non-pc-gamer I am glad that their business goals align with Linux users.

Until MS (or worse, Oracle) shows up with their half-baked clone (like Xbox Machine or Larry Cube) and ruins everyone's party

New comment by aperture147 in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

aperture147 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:53:46 +0000

> From my observation, they are protecting their business through protecting their customers' benefits.

Yeah that's what I mean too, that's why I put the "accidentally" in a double-quote.

This sounds like what Red Hat is doing, they created an open-source software, prove the importance of it in the community then sells the support package to enterprise who interested in using it.

Hope that they will not close the door when Microsoft, AWS or Oracle making their own GabeCube and call it SatyaCube, BozosCube or LarryCube

New comment by aperture147 in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

aperture147 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:43:20 +0000

Well that explains a lot, because I thought that you guys moved due to their direction sounds more like a political act.

Btw why not GitLab?

New comment by aperture147 in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

aperture147 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:40:06 +0000

Then... don't use GHA and move to other CI/CD/Workflow platform.

If you try it, don't like it then don't use it, GitHub does not force you to use GHA anyway, and moving away from GitHub due to their direction sounds like a political movement. It's like someone who stop shopping from Walmart, not because they sells bad product but because they support the Republic, then going to a local shop that sometimes close unexpectedly sound unreasonable.

New comment by aperture147 in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

aperture147 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:25:12 +0000

I think Valve is not some kind of God who free the human from the hand of Microsoft, they are a private company, they are just protecting their business and protecting their business "accidentally" also protecting the customer's benefits. The movement towards Linux benefits Valve the most since they have invested on Linux Gaming for 10 years now and that movement "conveniently" benefits the gamers too. That's a win-win situation, users can escape themself from a bloated Windows and Valve has the pioneering advantage.

New comment by aperture147 in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

aperture147 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:28:03 +0000

I don't get it, why did they allow GitHub bot to modify and merge pull request automatically? Yeah I agree that MS is ruining everything with AI, but this problem is avoidable, if they turn off the bot's auto merge feature, or turn it off completely. The reason they move to a lesser known Git provider sounds more like a marketing stunt.

New comment by aperture147 in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

aperture147 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:15:02 +0000

Why don't they use their self-acclaimed SE-replacing AI coding bot to fork Bun and called it AnthroBun instead of hiring actual engineers behind Bun?

New comment by aperture147 in "Cloudflare Sandbox SDK"

aperture147 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:47:33 +0000

Neat feature to make use of Containers. I'm thinking of wrapping my video renderer in Containers and use sandbox to spawn the rendering job, but I'm not sure about the limitation of CF containers, such as how much vCPUs I have, how many capability I can get from containers (like SYS_NICE), how many RAM I have and how many jobs I can run at the same time, is there any built-in queue like Runpod (which I am using) to ratelimit the job, etc. I will give this a try.

New comment by aperture147 in "Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks"

aperture147 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:41:01 +0000

They might flip the emergency switch that burns a little more money to improve the cold start, schedule more CPUs to each V8 process or remove the `sleep(100)` somewhere in the code. I kinda doubt that they have actually made any code improvement but just a marketing stunt that make everything seems to be faster for a month then everything will be just as slow as it is, or they are buying time to actually improve the code.

New comment by aperture147 in "Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks"

aperture147 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:07:33 +0000

CF used to encouraged people to move to Workers instead of using Pages. They recently removed the message in their landing page that said so (just checked, you could visit Wayback Machine to verify), so I guess Pages will still be available anyway. Btw the best thing that Pages gives out is allowing people to use different domain from another domain registry when Workers force user move their domain to CF.

New comment by aperture147 in "Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks"

aperture147 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:43:50 +0000

It’s good that CF is actually trying to improve its platform instead of blaming others for smearing its product. Still, the breakneck pace is a mixed blessing. Things change so fast it’s hard to keep up, and launches often outrun polish. The R2 Data Catalog still lacks Iceberg v3 support; Wrangler has shifted dramatically in just a few months; and Pages seems to be on the way out, leaving me with Workers Assets that are painful to migrate. Configs that worked in Wrangler 3 didn’t carry over cleanly to Wrangler 4, and it feels like Wrangler 5 will introduce yet another interaction model.

New comment by aperture147 in "The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"

aperture147 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 02:42:07 +0000

Finally there is a sensor that can measure my tilt.

New comment by aperture147 in "Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site"

aperture147 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:47:04 +0000

I know that putting all eggs on one basket and giving it all to Cloudflare is not a good idea, if they have an outtage then I would also have it to. But when they are down, one third of the internet is down with them too. With 240$ a year for CDN, 60$ a year for serverless and $0.015 / GB-month for S3-compatible storage with free egress, I don't think anyone could find a better alternative than CF. I'm mixing with AWS, CF and self-hosted machines and the infra cost is less than 5k$ a year. Now I can spend the remain hard earned money for some fresh marlboro cigarettes.

New comment by aperture147 in "Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site"

aperture147 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:28:45 +0000

Well at least Cloudflare will not charge me for this situation.