Hacker News: balakk

New comment by balakk in "RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#"

balakk — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:32:15 +0000

It's all about the goddamned machines.. since F# is terse, they figure agent-generated F# code is cheaper.

New comment by balakk in "RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#"

balakk — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:06:27 +0000

Finally, an article about humans programming some computers. Thank you!

New comment by balakk in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

balakk — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:30:11 +0000

I wonder if this emboldens china to do the same to Taiwan..

New comment by balakk in "Microsoft's New PC Looks Just Like a Mac Mini but Serves a Whole New Purpose"

balakk — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 03:09:08 +0000

For those of us in "enterprise" work farms, thin clients never really left. Citrix and related technologies are still massively used within any enterprise that has offshore/outsourced IT and software dev teams. It is still the most cost-optimal way to provide IT environments to vendor/non-FTE resources, and this is not going away any time soon. These devices can be incredibly convenient, it takes away the multiple man-years of effort involved in rolling out remote-access solutions.

New comment by balakk in "Half a century of SQL"

balakk — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 11:15:42 +0000

Sorry but I've to agree with the other flippant response to this post. The whole idea of SQL is to avoid such imperative thinking, and SQL optimizers are incredibly good in most prominent DB engines. There are ways to hint and influence a certain query plan; but that's not to take away from the incredible convenience that SQL affords for writing adhoc queries.

New comment by balakk in "Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)"

balakk — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 02:00:19 +0000

If only google can buy some "search" technology for using in this app..

Microsoft’s Chiplet Cloud to Bring the Cost of LLMs Way Down

balakk — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 03:10:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/12/microsofts-chiplet-cloud-to-bring-the-cost-of-llms-way-down/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36704596

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Hybrid combines the worst of office and remote work

balakk — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:40:24 +0000

Article URL: https://world.hey.com/dhh/hybrid-combines-the-worst-of-office-and-remote-work-d3174e50

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36329541

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by balakk in "List of rivers by discharge"

balakk — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:15:16 +0000

Orinoco flow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw :)

New comment by balakk in "Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course"

balakk — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:54:20 +0000

okay I'm curious - what are dirty systems programming skills, professor?

New comment by balakk in "Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records"

balakk — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 03:41:07 +0000

I suspect not, https://twitter.com/Kantrowitz/status/1616888609885372416

May not be the same folks, but it surely didnt happen that way.

New comment by balakk in "Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)"

balakk — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 04:45:51 +0000

slightly reminds me of k5, when it was funny and interesting:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090108092943/http://www.kuro5hi...

New comment by balakk in "AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)"

balakk — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 06:53:04 +0000

I have a pair, but haven't used too many gestures, since it seems somewhat limited. I was very surprised that you cant even accept/reject a call with a gesture. Just curious, why would you get buttons instead of sensors?

Microsoft Dev Box

balakk — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:46:38 +0000

Article URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-dev-box-preview/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32552211

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by balakk in "Windows needs a change in priorities"

balakk — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:29:07 +0000

Windows exes open fine in WSL2. You can also run linux apps from a Windows prompt - which is weird, but it works.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/filesystems

New comment by balakk in "Vim 9 will be dedicated to Sven Guckes"

balakk — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:14:53 +0000

New comment by balakk in "I Tricked Myself into Liking Running"

balakk — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:39:42 +0000

> For example, target running at 165-170bpm

Depends on age/health condition, 165-170 could be much higher for an older, less healthy person. But the strategy is right I think, with an adjusted bpm

New comment by balakk in "Peering agreements between Backblaze and Cloudflare"

balakk — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:46:05 +0000

Cant speak for others, but there are some specialized SKUs in Azure you can opt, for non-metered egress data transfer.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/expressr...

It starts about USD 1200 per month, for a 1 Gbps line.

New comment by balakk in "Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?"

balakk — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 06:59:48 +0000

There will be contact with an alien civilization, the kind of which we haven't ever thought about.

New comment by balakk in "Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app"

balakk — Wed, 20 May 2020 00:23:58 +0000

FWIW, Sharepoint (online) has had a Lists feature for decades now, and is as prevalent in Enterprises as Access was, if not more. It just so happens to be that Teams is the flavor of the future. So more stuff from SharePoint comes into Teams. Not everything is a conspiracy.

Disclaimer: work there, but my views..