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New comment by brodo in "I put my whole life into a single database"

brodo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:20:00 +0000

> it's just gaining more control

Yes it is! And if you control everything, you won‘t make mistakes.

New comment by brodo in "I put my whole life into a single database"

brodo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:22:21 +0000

The takeaways at the very bottom of the page are valuable:

> Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first started building this project 3 years ago, I expected to learn way more surprising and interesting facts. There were some, and it’s super interesting to look through those graphs, however retrospectively, it did not justify the hundreds of hours I invested in this project.

The whole "quantified self" movement might be more about OCD and perfectionism than anything else.

/edit: quantified, not qualified

New comment by brodo in "Best performance of a C++ singleton"

brodo — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:21:35 +0000

Singletons are global variables in a suit. Don‘t use them.

New comment by brodo in "Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"

brodo — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:17:48 +0000

Also, why isn‘t there a native client for all platforms? Could they not just let the AI auto-translate the code?

New comment by brodo in "Scott Adams has died"

brodo — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:57:24 +0000

Behind the Bastards did a two-part Podcast on him: https://youtu.be/8nyEkHqP65c?si=oorC_viWbnZLH-wb

New comment by brodo in "Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access"

brodo — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:07:38 +0000

They block agressively. Not only based on IP adresses. If you visit the site with a privacy-focussed browser or in private mode they will also tell you your IP is blocked.

New comment by brodo in "GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions"

brodo — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:07:19 +0000

https://archive.ph/3nsGi

New comment by brodo in "Tiger Style: Coding philosophy (2024)"

brodo — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:35:02 +0000

Containing the giant switch statement in a byte code interpreter or a tokeniser.

New comment by brodo in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

brodo — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:28:48 +0000

And this kind of behaviour is a red flag for people who actually go digging through the GitHub profile. Like techical people in the last stages of a hiring process.

New comment by brodo in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

brodo — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:25:55 +0000

Check out this dude: https://github.com/GhostKellz?tab=repositories

He's got like 50 repos with vibe-coded, non-working Zig and Rust projects. And he clearly manages to confuse people with it:

https://github.com/GhostKellz/zquic/issues/2

New comment by brodo in "Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems"

brodo — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:28:48 +0000

Yes. This is a bad law, but somehow still a better one than the UK got...

Tell HN: People putting AI-generated fake projects on GitHub

brodo — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 08:27:55 +0000

I was recently looking for a QUIC library for Zig and found zquic¹. The readme tells me it's perfect, 'PRODUCTION READY! ' and ' Ultra-high performance'. It all reeks of AI, so I looked deeper into it. It depends on two libraries by the same author, one for crypto, one async runtime. So I checked out his other repos². This guy 'implemented' everything: a database, an RPC framework, a scripting language, an event loop (which is different from his async library), a compression library, I could go on. If you delve ;-) into the code, you'll see it's all non-working AI slob.

Is this only CV hacking or something more malicious I can't think of? Do we need a 'report this repo as fake' button on GitHub?

1: https://github.com/GhostKellz/zquic 2: https://github.com/GhostKellz?tab=repositories

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45808692

Points: 1

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New comment by brodo in "Top Programming Languages 2025"

brodo — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:55:32 +0000

If HTML is a programming language, why not SVG? If SVG is a programming language, why not PNG? Is your image viewer just an interpreter executing PNG code? Maybe being a programming language is a spectrum...

New comment by brodo in "macOS Tahoe"

brodo — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:37:57 +0000

Christmas is a good time to update usually.

New comment by brodo in "SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V"

brodo — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 09:29:40 +0000

Very impressive! Do you support GPUs or is the UI completely CPU rendered? It looks really beautiful.

New comment by brodo in "Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0"

brodo — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 05:31:38 +0000

I‘m still a little mad about the fact that there are three alcoholic drink emoji but none for anything hemp-related. There where proposals for including them, but they where rejected. Another case of American puritanism determining online culture.

New comment by brodo in "The demo scene is dying, but that's alright"

brodo — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:06:46 +0000

This feels like a discussion about the demoscene amongst people who have not been to a demoparty in 20 years.

New comment by brodo in "I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface"

brodo — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 13:44:14 +0000

Here is another comment on the whole Handmade-Kerfuffle from one of the presenters:

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/2025.html (the entry under 19b)

It seems this was a right vs. left (or liberal) split.

New comment by brodo in "Unification (2018)"

brodo — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:19:49 +0000

That's the default way it has been done in Prolog since forever. If you have static typeing, like in Soufflé, you can get around it.

New comment by brodo in "Ask HN: Does your company back up its GitHub/Gitlab source code?"

brodo — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:02:17 +0000

Yes. Our company backs up pretty much everything.