Hacker News: callamdelaney

New comment by callamdelaney in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

callamdelaney — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:00:14 +0000

They were doing this over a year ago [1]

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/callam-d-b38b05105_windows-is...

New comment by callamdelaney in "SQLite Is All You Need"

callamdelaney — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:10:46 +0000

None of that is an issue depending on what your software actually does. Now sure if you're doing something like logging, or you're cloudflare, or meta or some shit then yeah it's not going to cut it.

Generally I target enterprise b2b customers, they use the application from 9-5 generally. Weekly scheduled downtime is not the end of the world.

If it doesn't boot properly, which has never happened, I build a new server - takes 10 minutes max. Litestream keeps database relatively fresh, so it gets pulled on boot. Floating IP points at new server. We do this in dev regularly, the only difference in prod is a few variables.

Even if your target is higher uptime or bigger scale, you can go far further than you think on sqlite - it's multitudes of magnitude quicker than postgres for most general use cases.

Most software projects go nowhere. YAGNI. Build something valuable and people will put up with bullshit for a while.

New comment by callamdelaney in "SQLite Is All You Need"

callamdelaney — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:21:37 +0000

You move to postgres at that point. Though if you can't scale to $1marr with sqllite then ehhh

New comment by callamdelaney in "SQLite Is All You Need"

callamdelaney — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:21:01 +0000

Yeah it blocks for the 0.001ms it takes for 99.99% of queries to come back. Or you can enable WAL and allow readers to read at the same time as somebody is writing.

New comment by callamdelaney in "Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for ~$1.3k)"

callamdelaney — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:37:04 +0000

AI trains AI already, agents are happy to spin up real training pipelines for deep learning or regression models or whatever you want right? I guess the advantage to your project is that it provides a framework to allow the agent to access extra compute?

New comment by callamdelaney in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

callamdelaney — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:32:43 +0000

By politicizing games, ruining them with their agenda, and in a hundred other ways.

New comment by callamdelaney in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

callamdelaney — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:09:02 +0000

Steam isn't a monopoly, it's just a good service. Why would I use a shittier one created by, generally, extremely greedy and woke corporations?

New comment by callamdelaney in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

callamdelaney — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:00:16 +0000

Valve have shown themselves to be reasonably trustworthy unlike say, Sony and Microsoft. If there are no disks then there is no point in consoles in my view, they're just worse computers.

New comment by callamdelaney in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

callamdelaney — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:56:37 +0000

I will no longer buy playstations starting now

New comment by callamdelaney in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

callamdelaney — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:06:38 +0000

Britain doesn't need a European court to grant human rights to its own citizens. You know that the human rights act is not preventing government crackdowns on speech and privacy, and you will also know that the intention is to replace it with a human rights bill of our own.

The current act is being used by lawyers and judges to force migration on a country which never voted for it.

Now would we trust the clearly compromised political class we currently have to implement it? Probably not.

New comment by callamdelaney in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

callamdelaney — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:57:24 +0000

It’s webscale

New comment by callamdelaney in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

callamdelaney — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:41:16 +0000

The only relevant question is, how much did it cost?

New comment by callamdelaney in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

callamdelaney — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:57:03 +0000

Architecture is one of the easiest things in programming frankly.

New comment by callamdelaney in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

callamdelaney — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:33:51 +0000

Developers have been lacking taste for decades anyway, like all of those kubernetes clusters built out for companies that could run on a 50 euro a month dedicated server at hetzner.

New comment by callamdelaney in "UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations"

callamdelaney — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:33:57 +0000

Microslopinator strikes again

New comment by callamdelaney in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

callamdelaney — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:51:15 +0000

Too much vibe coding

New comment by callamdelaney in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

callamdelaney — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:07:01 +0000

Agree

New comment by callamdelaney in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

callamdelaney — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:18:44 +0000

I thought you like worked there but with the additional context that you never did, yeah cringe

New comment by callamdelaney in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)"

callamdelaney — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:37:10 +0000

If you manage to build kubernetes again I recommend you burn it down and start again.

New comment by callamdelaney in "Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations"

callamdelaney — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:47:44 +0000

They’re great pass-me downs. The rubber feet issue was one I encountered too, also got some sticky keys due to beer!