Hacker News: cyberjar

New comment by cyberjar in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

cyberjar — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:27:58 +0000

I'm starting to get a bit of fatigue for these projects that boil down to just "I asked Claude to re-write this code into a new language that's in vogue right now!"

I really don't understand why this is needed outside of an opportunity to show how impressive LLMs can be when working within large codebases, but even then people in the comments are finding bizarre implementation choices that a human developer wouldn't make. I'll stick with Postgres and its - gasp - C implementation for now, thanks.

New comment by cyberjar in "Learning to code is still worthwhile"

cyberjar — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:11:22 +0000

I think literature, music and programming are all crafts, but I can't quite go so far as to call programming 'art'.

New comment by cyberjar in "The Beauty of Bonsai Styles"

cyberjar — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:08:18 +0000

When I was younger, bonsai always seemed to have a notoriety of being difficult to care for. I've got a ficus which I've owned for about 4 years now, and it's doing well because my apartment emulates tropical/greenhouse conditions on even mild spring days. I'm thinking about getting a large cloche for it to try and ramp up the humidity even more and encourage aerial roots. I've also got a Chinese elm next to it that's doing well, which I will move outside in the summer. The only worry with that one is how to keep it dormant over winter - I'll have to move it inside but I'm worried it will be too warm.

More recently I bought a Japanese maple shrub from a nursery. I was planning on turning it into a bonsai, but it's already re-grown its leaves for the season so best not to prune it harshly like I was planning. I think that's the main lesson to learn with bonsai - patience. It's going to be almost a year now before I can do anything major to it. Until then it will just be some extra balcony foliage.

New comment by cyberjar in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

cyberjar — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:48:31 +0000

I thought that was always the case. Dig as required to get your soil to the correct type for what you want to grow, then let it be and don't dig.

Digging to turn the soil seems like an old adage that has been passed down through generations, but modern scientific studies are now showing it provides very little to no benefit for yields.