Hacker News: billwashere

Vinext – The Next.js API surface, reimplemented on Vite

billwashere — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:34:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47149811

Points: 17

# Comments: 2

New comment by billwashere in "An Update on Heroku"

billwashere — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:01:54 +0000

Here is an article that explains it better - https://www.salesforceben.com/salesforce-shuts-down-heroku-e...

Stolen from https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/s/6U8jJJRzBC

New comment by billwashere in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

billwashere — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:14:40 +0000

Completed books:

Project Hail Marry by Andy Weir

Dungeon Crawler Carl (Books 1-7) by Matt Dinniman

I'm currently reading:

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Japanese government erases floppy disks from systems

billwashere — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:07:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-10/japan-eliminates-use-of-floppy-disks/104077114

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40925987

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by billwashere in "Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software"

billwashere — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:39:33 +0000

For the last 10(ish) years I've been using Greenshot [1]. I haven't found any issues with it but it is only available on Windows and Mac.

[1] https://getgreenshot.org/

PowerSync Open Edition Release

billwashere — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 01:29:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.powersync.com/blog/powersync-open-edition-release

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40550651

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by billwashere in "What happens in the brain to cause depression?"

billwashere — Sun, 26 May 2024 21:34:43 +0000

I've been reading Brain Energy by Dr. Chris Palmer that makes a compelling argument that all mental illnesses are metabolic disorders of the brain

https://brainenergy.com/

Alphabet Progressing in Talks to Buy HubSpot, Sources Say

billwashere — Sat, 25 May 2024 22:50:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-09/google-parent-alphabet-is-said-to-progress-in-talks-with-hubspot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40478393

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by billwashere in "URLhaus: A database of malicious URLs used for malware distribution"

billwashere — Wed, 15 May 2024 12:12:14 +0000

See this post on why.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40097818

New comment by billwashere in "The Curse of Monkey Island"

billwashere — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 21:46:56 +0000

Never heard of exoscummvm but https://www.scummvm.org/ is the original site. I spent a lot of time playing Monkey Island the ds version of scummvm.

New comment by billwashere in "Winlator: Android app that lets you to run Windows apps with Wine"

billwashere — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 02:44:56 +0000

You can using wsl [1] or without [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20632942

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38909304

New comment by billwashere in "San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels"

billwashere — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 01:30:32 +0000

https://archive.is/G4q37

New comment by billwashere in "Don't use DISTINCT as a "join-fixer""

billwashere — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 22:34:29 +0000

Oops, you are right

New comment by billwashere in "Don't use DISTINCT as a "join-fixer""

billwashere — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 11:34:58 +0000

select distinct customer_id, max(order_id) over (partition by customer_id order by created_date desc) FROM orders

http://sqlfiddle.com/#!15/51df39/2

Pg_bm25: Elastic-Quality Full Text Search Inside Postgres

billwashere — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 09:43:39 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.paradedb.com/blog/introducing_bm25

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37809126

Points: 206

# Comments: 71

Semantic Kernel: Integrate cutting-edge LLM technology quickly

billwashere — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:31:45 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35229163

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Colima – container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

billwashere — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:56:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35202802

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by billwashere in "Ask HN: EU Bank with Good API?"

billwashere — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 20:14:29 +0000

You could try Modern Treasury and outsource the API requirements.

https://www.moderntreasury.com/products/payments

New comment by billwashere in "Software horror show: SAP Concur"

billwashere — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 10:47:37 +0000

Depends on the industry,Oracle Netsuite is similar to SAP. A lot of construction/professional services use Deltek Vantagepoint. Also Mircosoft Dynamics comes to mind.

New comment by billwashere in "Ask HN: What are some blog posts that you have enjoyed going through?"

billwashere — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:26:04 +0000

Nick Johnson's blog about damn cool algorithms

http://blog.notdot.net/tag/damn-cool-algorithms