Hacker News: dcmatt

New comment by dcmatt in "Omarchy Is Not A Distro"

dcmatt — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:27:17 +0000

An opinionated person has different opinions than a different opinionated person

New comment by dcmatt in "Gas Town Decoded"

dcmatt — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:43:29 +0000

Gas Town wasn't satire?

New comment by dcmatt in "Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source"

dcmatt — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:17:37 +0000

I'm not going to stop using it because it's not "true open source." I'm going to stop using it because there's better databases out there.

New comment by dcmatt in "QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop"

dcmatt — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:42:16 +0000

QNX is owned by Blackberry?! Blackberry still exists?

New comment by dcmatt in "Cursor Acquires Graphite"

dcmatt — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:38:32 +0000

I have such fond memories of Graphite's simplicity. Simply hit the server with a metric and value and BOOM it's on the chart, no dependencies, no fuss.

New comment by dcmatt in "Starship's Tenth Flight Test"

dcmatt — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:09:38 +0000

Don't be bamboozled! This is an amazing time to be alive!

New comment by dcmatt in "Does OLAP Need an ORM"

dcmatt — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 01:24:47 +0000

Just expose a way to explore hierarchies and measures, give me an ability to generate "alternate hierarchies" then let me run MDX and leave me alone! ORM and OLAP don't belong in the same sentence together.

New comment by dcmatt in "How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013)"

dcmatt — Fri, 09 May 2025 00:06:48 +0000

Literally saw Obama's BlackBerries a week ago at the Crypto Museum! Great museum, worth going to if you're in the DC area and have access to a car.

New comment by dcmatt in "Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch"

dcmatt — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:41:01 +0000

No new Zelda, no new Mario. I don't know what Nintendo is doing but I am not a hyped up for the Switch 2 as I thought I'd be.

New comment by dcmatt in "You might not need Redis"

dcmatt — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 21:36:42 +0000

"only 3-5x faster... rarely makes sense to use Redis" This is an illogical conclusion. 3-5x faster is substantial!

New comment by dcmatt in "Defragging my old Dell's UEFI NVRAM"

dcmatt — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 02:37:42 +0000

Short sweet and to the point. Why isn't this a button in the bios, naturally hidden behind a few levels of menus? "Defrag your NVRAM" Other than power failures what would other failure modes be? I guess if the NVRAM has bad cells? Guess it's easier to just reset the whole BIOS whenever there's a problem?

New comment by dcmatt in "Show HN: OmniTools–A Self-Hosted Suite of Open Source Tools for Everyday Tasks"

dcmatt — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:43:32 +0000

How does this compare to CyberChef? https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

New comment by dcmatt in "BleachBit is a free and open-source disk space cleaner"

dcmatt — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:25:23 +0000

This is a fantastic product! It works really well for email servers

New comment by dcmatt in "ISPs say their "excellent customer service" is why users don't switch providers"

dcmatt — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 01:10:33 +0000

Yeah, because every time I call they give me a new "deal" and lower my bill by $10 a month.

New comment by dcmatt in "Show HN: Mdx – Execute your Markdown code blocks, now in Go"

dcmatt — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 19:33:23 +0000

Also Multidimensional expressions, popular in OLAP cubes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiDimensional_eXpressions

New comment by dcmatt in "The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise"

dcmatt — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:43:58 +0000

Still amazing progress! Such a shame that Sony and Honda gave up on their bipedal robots 20 years ago. Imagine where we could've been

New comment by dcmatt in "A stalled Waymo brought Kamala Harris' motorcade to a halt in SF"

dcmatt — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:21:47 +0000

This feels like I, Robot— except instead of killer robots in a tunnel, we’ve got driverless cars cluelessly blocking motorcades

New comment by dcmatt in "The Podcast Index"

dcmatt — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 18:14:15 +0000

Really like what the Podcast Index is doing, especially with pushing Podcasting 2.0 (https://podcasting2.org/) and value for value! Just wish I could do v4v in currencies other than Bitcoin.

New comment by dcmatt in "I Hate the Term "Modern""

dcmatt — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:28:03 +0000

I have a similar feeling towards "Legacy." Aka "Everyone who wrote it doesn't work here anymore and I can't be bothered to learn how it works"

New comment by dcmatt in "Our great database migration"

dcmatt — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:01:32 +0000

Game changer for scaling and costs? It’s an 80 MB database that needs to get duplicated by n developers and a test and production instance. They could get away with a $200 beelink under a desk. I see no reason to prematurely scale. I would focus on making things fast and creating a “duplicate database” button so devs can work without interrupting prod