Hacker News: brandonpollack2

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

brandonpollack2 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:50:23 +0000

I haven't read it yet. The answer is no.

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "Hacker News MOTD shell script"

brandonpollack2 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:47:19 +0000

This gist is something i threw together really quick (with the help of an agent to save me thinking). It fetches/caches for some configurable amount of time the top 30 hacker news stories and lets you display a random one. I have it as my motd when i open a shell.

Hacker News MOTD shell script

brandonpollack2 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:47:19 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/brandonpollack23/db78386cb84389772974edeb9e9e29bc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622996

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "An honest analysis of SpacetimeDB 2.0's insane benchmark results"

brandonpollack2 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:21:57 +0000

Thanks for your kind words. I think the product is great and I do really like it, I just couldn't resist the urge to pick at it and ground it.

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "The database that's 1000x faster – SpacetimeDB 2.0 [video]"

brandonpollack2 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:37:18 +0000

I recently saw the same video and decided to do an analysis of their crazy results, take a look https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148920

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "An honest analysis of SpacetimeDB 2.0's insane benchmark results"

brandonpollack2 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:36:11 +0000

Recently clockwork labs put out this great marketing video launching spacetimedb 2.0. It was seriously impressive so I took a closer look at their bench and results.

TLDR It felt a little dishonest due to using different clients, protocols, concurrency, etc in the benchmarks but I'd love for someone to come explain how foolish and wrong I am.

An honest analysis of SpacetimeDB 2.0's insane benchmark results

brandonpollack2 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:36:11 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/brandonpollack23/77d4d741e9af56ef3a9fc338f68d2ec6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148920

Points: 12

# Comments: 3

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "The Gleam Programming Language"

brandonpollack2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:51:07 +0000

But 100 percent of projects writing the same stuff

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "The Gleam Programming Language"

brandonpollack2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:47:31 +0000

I really like the idea of gleam but I don't want to hand implement serialization for every type (even with an LSP action) in 2026.

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "The Beam"

brandonpollack2 — Tue, 13 May 2025 06:22:20 +0000

If only there was a typed language that didn't hand wave serialization

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "Seattle Annual Beerio Cart Tournament"

brandonpollack2 — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 22:19:37 +0000

This isn't about being good this about friendship

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "Seattle Annual Beerio Cart Tournament"

brandonpollack2 — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 21:29:20 +0000

Live on twitch today

Seattle Annual Beerio Cart Tournament

brandonpollack2 — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 21:29:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.twitch.tv/razstrats?sr=a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957865

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "Sqlite3 WebAssembly"

brandonpollack2 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:53:24 +0000

I was trying to get this working in a rust ecosystem some time ago but none of the blessed.rs sql (rusqlite, sqlx) wrappers seem to take advantage of it yet and wrapping it yourself is a bit tricky since when I was trying I couldn't figure out a way to to get emscripten wasm code to play nice with wasm32-unknown-unknown without some kind of JS wrapper which then requires implementing the interface those crates expect and exposing it from JS. Once that is done in rust itll be great there too!

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "Game Programming in Prolog"

brandonpollack2 — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 02:37:12 +0000

Interesting note: I believe the scripting language that larian (creators of the highly dynamic divinity titles and baldurs gate 3) is a prolog variant.

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code"

brandonpollack2 — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 01:56:56 +0000

Thanks, that is really cool, especially when ramping up on a code base. The labeling is mostly pretty good (though I'd not call some stuff "backend" but who can blame it for not knowing). I still think it might be too expensive as is but if I were using this to generate mermaids for everyone in my company a one time fee of 20 might be justified (you often dont need this continuously)

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code"

brandonpollack2 — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 01:42:51 +0000

This is cool but it is way to expensive and the free version is not that useful.

Tried it on the github.com/pulumi/pulumi codebase and I get 5 blocks and that's it. Seems nice but I'm not going to pay 20 bucks a month to view one layer deeper.

New comment by brandonpollack2 in "Software disenchantment"

brandonpollack2 — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 20:34:39 +0000

Finally, someone I agree with on this topic