Hacker News: bbkane

New comment by bbkane in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

bbkane — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:16:44 +0000

I wish that article showed what the display looks like instead of just the keyboard. Others here have mentioned the lovely information density; I'll have to search elsewhere to see it

New comment by bbkane in "Go Concurrency Distilled"

bbkane — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 03:32:31 +0000

Go doesn't monomorphize, so benchmark your generics- they might not be zero cost

New comment by bbkane in "What About Rails?"

bbkane — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:41:18 +0000

Are you referring to writing a wrapper cli? Or adding a GUI?

New comment by bbkane in "Swift 6.4 Released"

bbkane — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:21:15 +0000

Oh you mean algebraic types (Elm terminology)? Or the newtype pattern? Or something else?

New comment by bbkane in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

bbkane — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:30:01 +0000

That sounds like it'll be easier to maintain. Will it also be faster?

New comment by bbkane in "Distributed Systems Classics (2017)"

bbkane — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:24:03 +0000

Good for him! That's the dream!

New comment by bbkane in "Swift 6.4 Released"

bbkane — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:23:00 +0000

Nushell does have types: https://www.nushell.sh/book/types_of_data.html

New comment by bbkane in "Swift 6.4 Released"

bbkane — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:23:04 +0000

I'm sorry, what are the same problems you're referring to? I ended up leaving because:

- it was unstable and kept changing (less of an issue now)

- I still need to know bash due to its ubiquity

- it was worse than python for data crunching scripts (ide tooling + my familiarity)

This was several years ago so I'm curious about a more recent perspective

New comment by bbkane in "Swift 6.4 Released"

bbkane — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:30:40 +0000

They should adopt Nushell! It would be seen as very "Apple"- a brave great somewhat non interoperable user experience upgrade

New comment by bbkane in "Distributed Systems Classics (2017)"

bbkane — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:39:28 +0000

I'm assuming this was a while back, mind sharing how far he went or what he was able to produce with this focus?

New comment by bbkane in "Distributed Systems Classics (2017)"

bbkane — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:32:53 +0000

CRDTs are eventually consistent data structures

New comment by bbkane in "Charts built for Chat"

bbkane — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:29:22 +0000

Interesting, but I'm not sure how it's different from Observable Framework ( https://observablehq.github.io/framework/ ) for dashboards as code. I like that one because it's Markdown and JS instead of a language defined in YAML + templates

New comment by bbkane in "How we rebuilt complex permissions without migrating to Zanzibar"

bbkane — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:40:01 +0000

Maybe it's because I'm not an RBAC expert, but I had a hard time understanding the data model for folders. Are they a subject? And then there's a layered CASL where layers overwrite each other? And the user is an actor?

New comment by bbkane in "Emacs Bedrock 2.0"

bbkane — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:05:48 +0000

Pop a screenshot in your README please!

New comment by bbkane in "TALA Is Open-Source"

bbkane — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 01:00:49 +0000

I just started diagramming with d2- I'll have to try this one out!

New comment by bbkane in "Htmx 4.0"

bbkane — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:06:11 +0000

Interesting, it's not mentioned anywhere in the https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-golang README. By contrast, Postgres is mentioned right at the top.

I recommend updating the README to mention SQLite somewhere, with maybe a link to https://docs.dbos.dev/golang/reference/configuration#using-s... ?

New comment by bbkane in "SQLite as a Document Database (2020)"

bbkane — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:01:27 +0000

Even for a personal project such as the one in the blog post, I'd still rather use a package manager to install SQLite.

It's POSSIBLE to build it from source, and manually re-download the source and C compiler (and any dependencies, though I'm not sure SQLite has any) when I want to update and instruct any collaborators to do the same thing... But I'd still rather automate it all with a package manager.

Especially because I'm probably also handling other dependencies in the project and I value the uniform simplicity of using a package manager for all of them

New comment by bbkane in "SQLite as a Document Database (2020)"

bbkane — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:55:59 +0000

The great thing about using a package manager is that it also handles updating and uninstalling software, not just the initial install

New comment by bbkane in "Htmx 4.0"

bbkane — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:56:46 +0000

How are you using dbos with SQLite? The docs say its a Postgres library

New comment by bbkane in "Omacom Foundation launches with $8M"

bbkane — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:43:35 +0000

I love XFCE, but I switched to KDE as it supports Wayland (and I want to use WayDroid). KDE has a similar window + shortcut philosophy.