Hacker News: d1l

New comment by d1l in "The dead economy theory"

d1l — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:12:49 +0000

There are obvious tells that this was heavily curated by AI, the very thing it criticizes in the opening paras and roasts throughout as a life-destroyer.

I don’t disagree with the premise, and I appreciate the roasts of the SV pseudophilosophers (he left out Ayn Rand tho).

New comment by d1l in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

d1l — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:03:44 +0000

Oh man I wrote this exact comment before trawling far enough to find yours. It belongs at the top. That HN cannot discern the obvious is more alarming than the blatant hypocrisy of the authors. Yeesh!

New comment by d1l in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

d1l — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:56:01 +0000

This post reeks of being written by Claude. Surely you all feel it, too? Are people who write these kinds of posts lacking self awareness, integrity? Does it matter?

New comment by d1l in "Dumb ways for an open source project to die"

d1l — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:51:31 +0000

15 years ago GitHub was a strong signal for like-minded devs who were of the “let me code and slide pizza under the door” variety. The signal became less meaningful over time so people started optimizing for other things…stars, whatever. Brand. I think the venn diagram of front end marketing types and the explosion of js frameworks probably was the driver for this. Now with vibed out projects everywhere it’s a real task to separate the wheat from the chaff. And I still use gh because I imagine those stars are still current in some markets but maybe I’m deluding myself.

Or, Perhaps the invention of the rocket emoji most likely was the cause of this phenomenon.

New comment by d1l in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

d1l — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:05:43 +0000

I didn’t follow the article’s thesis. It felt written from a defensive crouch and claimed not to be punching down but it seemed to be radiating hostility the entire time. Something about vibe coding only replaces the lowest level of mechanical work involved in creative pursuits (including coding)?

I’m not a booster a doomer or a boomer but I think it’s a reasonable litmus test for LLM coding to implement 80% of an existing app or service. It’s not an accusation against anyone using LLM (I do) nor is it an excuse to take shots, it’s just a way of framing SotA capabilities.

Weird article, perhaps I missed something.

New comment by d1l in "Is China using fentanyl as a weapon against the United States?"

d1l — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:46:12 +0000

Didn’t know the sackler family was Chinese.

New comment by d1l in "Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file"

d1l — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:49:14 +0000

Yeah, I had the same instinct - this feels very much like a "nice idea" but the execution falls short. I mean - busily banging on sqlite like this? Shit at that point just use Redis.

New comment by d1l in "I'm never buying another Kindle"

d1l — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:37:31 +0000

What on earth is this guy saying doesn’t he own like every kindle?

New comment by d1l in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

d1l — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:16:34 +0000

Read Moby Dick some time my friend.

New comment by d1l in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

d1l — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:46:11 +0000

100% bro

New comment by d1l in "Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)"

d1l — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:43:17 +0000

If you can't tell then I'm not sure what more needs to be said. I took a look through the commit history and it was glaringly obvious to me.

To trust something like data-storage to vibe-coded nonsense is incredibly irresponsible. To promote it is even moreso. I'm just surprised you can't tell, too.

New comment by d1l in "Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)"

d1l — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:26:39 +0000

It's a nonstop slop funnel as far as I can tell. Only ashamed I've been here for more than 5 minutes.

New comment by d1l in "Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)"

d1l — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:23:09 +0000

Are you using ai for the comment replies too?!

New comment by d1l in "Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)"

d1l — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:17:42 +0000

Vibe coded trash.

that credulous hn readers will upvote this is alarming.

New comment by d1l in "A Visual Source for Shakespeare's 'Tempest'"

d1l — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:56:32 +0000

Beethovens 17th piano sonata is based on the tempest. I recommend Richter if you’re curious!

https://youtu.be/qeL3tAb7yV4

New comment by d1l in "Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite"

d1l — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:16:30 +0000

I’d imagine there’s an extremely long tail of features and quirks that will take time to iron out even after SQL compatibility is achieved. Looks like it’s still missing some important features like savepoints (!!!), windows and attach database.

I’d be more excited and imagine it would be more marketable if it focused instead on being simply an embedded sql db that allowed multiple writers (for example), or some other use case where SQLite falls short. DuckDB is an example- SQLite but for olap.

New comment by d1l in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

d1l — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:23:40 +0000

Fuck, my wife got a notice that she would have to increase her iCloud storage so last week began the process of ordering a backup of all her pictures so I could get them off iCloud and organized on some drives at home. We got 12 zips of the pictures along with csv's and some metadata, and I literally just finished iterating on the script to sort them into year-based folders and convert all the HEIC shit into JPG. It's running literally right now.

Guess I should've searched harder!

New comment by d1l in "FVWM-95 (2001)"

d1l — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:07:52 +0000

I still use it (shout out taviso iykyk).

https://github.com/zy/zy-fvwm/blob/master/fvwmrc/taviso.fvwm...

Someone made a full cde style desktop with fvwm: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

It’s too bad tech seems so much to take away this kind of configurability in the name of “we know better”. There’s so much to be said for software that can last so long, as opposed to the constant treadmill of forced updates.

Fuck gnome eternally for destroying gtk and fuck Wayland.

New comment by d1l in "SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear"

d1l — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:18:45 +0000

This is disingenuous and probably was written this way for HN cred and clicks. Sqlite's test suite simulates just about every kind of failure you can imagine - this document is worth reading if you have any doubts: https://www.sqlite.org/atomiccommit.html

New comment by d1l in "SQLite async connection pool for high-performance"

d1l — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:58:12 +0000

That's even crazier - so you're using asyncio because you have a ton of slow network-bound stuff - but for your database access you are running every sqlite connection in it's own thread and just managing those threads via the asyncio event loop?