Hacker News: binhex

New comment by binhex in "Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug"

binhex — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:09:25 +0000

Yeah, tailscale seems to have leadership with their head on right, I agree with the way they handle a lot of things.

New comment by binhex in "When rust ≠ performance. a lesson in developer experience"

binhex — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:48:26 +0000

> but because we have this data (file name, etc.) passed back and forth between different layers in the code. we were doing lots of .clone() and db.open() at different layers to fetch the same data. The interesting part for me was that, this change reduced our

Reduced your what? The article seems to be cut off.

New comment by binhex in "Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job"

binhex — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:52:13 +0000

Something that took me way to long to figure out: know when it's time to leave a job.

New comment by binhex in "Xerox Alto's 3 Mb/s Ethernet: Building a Gateway with a BeagleBone"

binhex — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 19:10:56 +0000

I love these types of posts. There is something really interesting about the detective work required to be able to talk to old devices like this.

New comment by binhex in "Formed by Megafloods, This Place Fooled Scientists for Decades"

binhex — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:48:41 +0000

I've climbed at Frenchman's Coulee before: https://goo.gl/maps/4pFfBLs13452

It's a really interesting place with some great scenery, but there isn't a huge variety of climbs on columnar basalt.

New comment by binhex in "Paper is Dropbox's new vision for how teams can work together"

binhex — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:33:29 +0000

As a counterpoint, I quite like Carousel, and I haven't noticed any problems. Background uploads work for me, although it seems to wait until I am on wifi to upload.