Hacker News: candrewlee

New comment by candrewlee in "Show HN: Octelium – FOSS Alternative to Teleport, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Ngrok"

candrewlee — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 20:30:52 +0000

It’s especially when they conquer the whole market. It’s why investors favor growth and adoption, even at a loss, until it’s won the market and can turn up the monetization dial.

New comment by candrewlee in "Web Numbers"

candrewlee — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 20:20:06 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. Bluesky had an interesting idea for identification using a domain you control to verify your account by adding a TXT DNS record for _atproto.

The problem is that it’s only a rented domain and thus a rented username. My DNS provider Porkbun offered a 5 year deal, but I would pay for much longer if I could.

New comment by candrewlee in "The Zed Debugger Is Here"

candrewlee — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 05:39:49 +0000

Zed is fantastic. I've been making the leap from neovim to zed lately, and it's been an great experience. Everything feels snappy, and I love how well they've integrated Vim bindings. Their agent mode is nice as well. It's clearly an underdog to VSCode, so the extension ecosystem isn't quite there yet... but for a lot of the things I've used it for, it's sufficient. The debugger has been the big missing feature for me and I'm really glad they've built it out now - awesome work.

Ilya Sutskever, U of T honorary degree recipient speech

candrewlee — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:25:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZ2zaotrJs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44230212

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by candrewlee in "Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode"

candrewlee — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:54:40 +0000

15s is fast, wow.

Do you have any metrics on which parts of the whole compiler, std, package manager, etc. take the longest to compile? How much does comptime slowness affect the total build time?

New comment by candrewlee in "Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode"

candrewlee — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:30:51 +0000

This is awesome for Zig, I think this direction is gonna be a primary differentiator when comparing to Rust.

And hey, I wrote a lot of the rendering code for that perf analyzer. Always fun to see your work show up on the internet.

https://github.com/andrewrk/poop

New comment by candrewlee in "It's Not "Just a Button""

candrewlee — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:38:52 +0000

Author here. I wrote this blog post to explain what software developers do, and why building a button can be harder than it seems.

It's Not "Just a Button"

candrewlee — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:28:16 +0000

Article URL: https://candrewlee.com/blog/2025-06-07_software-development-lifecycle

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44218294

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by candrewlee in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

candrewlee — Tue, 20 May 2025 06:02:47 +0000

Very cool, same wavelength!

New comment by candrewlee in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

candrewlee — Sun, 18 May 2025 16:52:49 +0000

Do any of these algorithms use vector embeddings to determine the semantic similarity between cards? Seems like that might be a useful parameter for tuning the algorithm, since you’re likely to forget something similar on a topic you’ve forgotten things about.

New comment by candrewlee in "Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?"

candrewlee — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:30:24 +0000

Congratulations, wishing you many more.