Hacker News: booi

New comment by booi in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

booi — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:36:20 +0000

probably by paying the fine and doing it anyway

New comment by booi in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

booi — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:06:02 +0000

No we don't... right guys?!

New comment by booi in "Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg"

booi — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:23:16 +0000

You can use AI to figure out the arguments to ffmpeg. But indeed it seems like there's just a single call to FFmpeg CLI to power the whole thing which is amazing.

  ffmpegCmd := exec.Command("ffmpeg",
    "-ss", fmt.Sprintf("%.3f", position.Seconds()),
    "-i", p.path,
    "-vf", strings.Join(filters, ","),
    "-vframes", "1",
    "-f", "image2pipe",
    "-vcodec", "bmp",
    "-loglevel", "error",
    "-",
  )

New comment by booi in "Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results"

booi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:16:04 +0000

You write 3x more than you read? Seems like a strange access pattern. Maybe something is going haywire with logging?

New comment by booi in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

booi — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:56:33 +0000

There's definitely a price where it doesn't scale and that price is almost certainly lower than what people would be willing to pay once for themselves.

New comment by booi in "Moldova broke our data pipeline"

booi — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:55:42 +0000

Tabs can absolutely be entered into cells in multiple ways but the easiest is just copy paste.

And if it’s tab delimited usually people call them tsvs.

New comment by booi in "Moldova broke our data pipeline"

booi — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:53:36 +0000

Clearly this is the issue. This article was 2000 words of trying to work around the actual problem

New comment by booi in "Vercel down in Dubai, EU affected also"

booi — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:15:08 +0000

It's a pretty niche region. It's about 20% more expensive than other major regions so I think it's unlikely to be a core part of most large deployments. That being said, we did hear about it and continue to track it.

New comment by booi in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

booi — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:47:33 +0000

Perhaps I don't understand it but the encryption security model for MacOS/iPadOS/iOS currently doesn't allow multiple different encryption keys for each user. So any user can decrypt the whole drive and while it does enforce user permissions, the security model can't support true multiuser.

I actually don't know if Windows or ChromeOS support this either but this is certainly something Linux can with LUKS et. al.

New comment by booi in "MySQL foreign key cascade operations finally hit the binary log"

booi — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:11:14 +0000

This still makes no sense. The UTF-8 standard was adopted really in 1998-ish and the standard was already variable using 1 to 4 bytes. MySQL 4.1, which introduced the utf8 charset, was released in 2004.

Even if there were no codepoints in the 4-byte range yet, they could and should have implemented it anyway. It literally does not take any more storage because it is a variable width encoding.

New comment by booi in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

booi — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:03:16 +0000

arguably if you're using the CLI they still are

New comment by booi in "Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface"

booi — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:53:24 +0000

That’s only 100% tho

New comment by booi in "MySQL foreign key cascade operations finally hit the binary log"

booi — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 03:57:06 +0000

It still blows my mind that they called that crappy partial buggy characterset “utf8”. Then later came out with actual utf8 and called it “utf8mb4”. Makes no sense

New comment by booi in "Deno Sandbox"

booi — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:22:30 +0000

Where would this happen? I have never seen an API reflect a secret back but I guess it's possible? perhaps some sort of token creation endpoint?

New comment by booi in "GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations"

booi — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:07:21 +0000

Copilot being down probably increased code quality

New comment by booi in "xAI joins SpaceX"

booi — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:04:20 +0000

that's the best part! They don't!

New comment by booi in "Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations"

booi — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:08:24 +0000

I've used Postgres for more than a decade and everytime I wade into the docs I feel the same way, I'm barely scratching the surface. It's so immensely powerful.

New comment by booi in "Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year"

booi — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:46:50 +0000

That's interesting because here in California, $4.6B is slashed off productivity because of wind.

- still angry at pg&e

New comment by booi in "An Honest Review of Go (2025)"

booi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:16:52 +0000

This was not the case for a long time. Actually it seems like it's fairly recently you get native AOT and trimming to actually reduce build sizes and build time. Otherwise all the binaries come with a giant library

New comment by booi in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

booi — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:39:09 +0000

Hi, I'm here to hold the bag?