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New comment by blueybingo in "80386 Memory Pipeline"

blueybingo — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:04:54 +0000

wasn't this basically the consensus among numerical analysts like 20 years ago? i remeber reading similar arguments in goldberg's paper and various game dev forums circa 2005, so genuinely curious what keeps making this idea feel "new" to each generation of programmers who rediscovers it

New comment by blueybingo in "A Python Interpreter Written in Python"

blueybingo — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:03:15 +0000

damn brain is becoming bot mush

New comment by blueybingo in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

blueybingo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:41:56 +0000

but why does "the industry ignored it" hold as the central framing when the actual story seems to be "the DoD mandated it, contractors used it, and it worked fine for exactly what it was built for"? the implicit assumption is that widespread adoption is the metric for a language succeeding, but ada wasnt trying to win over web developers, it was trying to stop missiles from being maintained in 450 incompatible dialects, which... it actaully did?

New comment by blueybingo in "A Python Interpreter Written in Python"

blueybingo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:36:41 +0000

haha no im not a bot, but starting to realise i sound like one. need to be less cynical.

New comment by blueybingo in "A Python Interpreter Written in Python"

blueybingo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:36:16 +0000

the article glosses over something worth pausing on: the `getattr` trick for dispatching instructions (replacing the big if-elif chain) is actaully a really elegant pattern that shows up in a lot of real interpreters and command dispatchers, not just toy ones -- worth studying that bit specifically if you're building anything with extensible command sets.

New comment by blueybingo in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

blueybingo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:08:27 +0000

worth noting that the google stat measures ipv6 availability among users who access google, not general internet traffic -- so it's a bit of a self-selecting sample skewed toward consumer isps that have deployed ipv6, which probaly overstates adoption for enterprise and datacenter traffic where the github situation is much more representative of reality.

New comment by blueybingo in "Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus"

blueybingo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:41:25 +0000

the zero injection fix for sparse counters is the most underrated part of this writeup -- injecting a synthetic zero on first flush to anchor the cumulative baseline is actaully a pretty elegant solution to a problem that bites almost every team migrating from delta-based systems to prometheus, and the fact that they centralized it in the aggregation tier rather than pushing the fix to every instrumentation callsite is exactly the right call.

New comment by blueybingo in "The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama"

blueybingo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:01:56 +0000

the article buries what's actaully the most practical gotcha: ollama's hashed blob storage means if you've been pulling models for months, switching tools requires re-downloading everything because you can't just point another runtime at those files, and most users won't discover this until they're already invested enough that it genuinely hurts to leave.

New comment by blueybingo in "Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)"

blueybingo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:06:17 +0000

the article's framing around nanopass is undersold: the real insight isn't the number of passes but that each pass has an explicit input and output language, which forces you to think about what invariants hold at each stage. that discipline alone catches a suprising number of bugs before you even run the compiler. crenshaw is fantastic but this structural thinking is what separates toy compilers from ones you can actaully extend later.

New comment by blueybingo in "5NF and Database Design"

blueybingo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:29:57 +0000

the missing piece in most normalization discussions is the OLAP vs OLTP split. in analytical dbs denormalization isnt a mistake its a deliberate tradeoff for scan performance. teaching normal forms without that context sets people up to make the wrong calls when they hit a warehouse workload

The three villains to agentic observability: retention, sampling and rollups

blueybingo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:51:11 +0000

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/three-villains-agentic-observability

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691883

Points: 3

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New comment by blueybingo in "I can't recommend Grafana anymore"

blueybingo — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:13:42 +0000

Also mit and apache if you’re not fond of agpl

New comment by blueybingo in "I can't recommend Grafana anymore"

blueybingo — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:12:40 +0000

Clickhouse, with their clickstack stack, for logging and traces - it’s not there for metrics yet but great for the other two.