Hacker News: dharbin

New comment by dharbin in "Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access"

dharbin — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:53:43 +0000

Why would Snowflake develop and release this? Doesn't this cannibalize their main product?

New comment by dharbin in "Austin's Reign as a Tech Hub Might Be Coming to an End"

dharbin — Tue, 20 May 2025 12:01:01 +0000

This feels like a contentless article. They gave a statistic and crafted a narrative based on one person’s experience, which leaves me with many more questions than answers.

New comment by dharbin in "Playstation 5 Pro"

dharbin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:30:40 +0000

"Pro" is a funny qualifier for a game console. The definition has morphed from "for professionals" to "more expensive" or "more capable."

New comment by dharbin in "Better Dotfiles"

dharbin — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:55:32 +0000

I’m a big fan of chezmoi (https://www.chezmoi.io/) which is a very capable dotfile manager. Chezmoi supports some useful advanced capabilities like work/home profiles and secrets manager integration.

New comment by dharbin in "Home Assistant Presence Simulation"

dharbin — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:52:36 +0000

Can it automate a cutout of Michael Jordan attached to a model train set?

New comment by dharbin in "Dblab: Interactive Terminal Client for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and Oracle"

dharbin — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 15:16:27 +0000

In my opinion, psql is the "perfect" terminal database client. It's fast, has the ability to easily switch between wide and narrow row formats, and has commands for the things I do frequently.

I have often wanted psql to work with other databases, because the other CLI clients are either bare-bones, or just plain unusable.

New comment by dharbin in "Moai in Video Games"

dharbin — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 15:23:10 +0000

I don't think I even knew what those "Easter Island" statues were called until I started playing Gradius games.

New comment by dharbin in "TSMC ups Arizona investment from $12B to $40B with second semi fab"

dharbin — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:15:50 +0000

I heard a story about an Intel fab in Arizona that would always produce bad silicon at a certain time a day. After some investigations it was determined that a train passed by at that time every day causing enough seismic activity to disrupt the manufacturing process.

New comment by dharbin in "There was a stretch where phone design went bananas"

dharbin — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:58:33 +0000

Actually, I love this. I remember having a teeny tiny phone back then (not quite a Zoolander size), and it was a lot of fun. Now everything is a boring rectangle of glass. Bring back the fun!

New comment by dharbin in "DALL·E now available in beta"

dharbin — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:00:09 +0000

I find it amusing that they suggest DALL-E, which typically generates lovecraftian nightmare images, for making children's story illustrations.

New comment by dharbin in "CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City"

dharbin — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 21:28:39 +0000

Wouldn't it be a more compelling product if you sold the model, not the model-making tool? If I was the city of Portland, I would rather just buy the pre-made Portland model than have an intern build it with CityEngine.

New comment by dharbin in "The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019)"

dharbin — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:09:26 +0000

Yeah, they're old, but are the talking points wrong?

New comment by dharbin in "Zlib – a spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library"

dharbin — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:52:22 +0000

As ubiquitous as zlib is, I wonder why it’s not implemented in hardware like many audio and video codecs are.

New comment by dharbin in "Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant"

dharbin — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 17:09:05 +0000

Don't forget to vaccinate the wild deer and other animals that catch and spread COVID.

New comment by dharbin in "How to build a small town in Texas"

dharbin — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 18:22:02 +0000

He's planning for Wifi, but not A/C. Best of luck to this fellow, but I'm not sure his priorities align with most folks in this part of the country.

New comment by dharbin in "“User engagement” is code for “addiction”"

dharbin — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:30:28 +0000

Can someone have a gambling addiction? I've often heard that gambling addiction is a real problem, so why can't social media be addictive? Social media and mobile games like to use similar "engagement" techniques as slot machines, for example.

New comment by dharbin in "Python's Type Checking Renaissance"

dharbin — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 01:12:13 +0000

Pylance is much faster and can index a large virtualenv without issue, IMO

New comment by dharbin in "Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max"

dharbin — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:37:38 +0000

According to Gruber's article, you can use these as wired headphones by plugging in a "Lightning to 3.5mm headphone jack cable," but otherwise I agree with you. "Built to last" means more than the material choices (metal vs plastic), but also whether or not you can swap out the batteries.

Nintendo, Disney, and Cultural Determinism

dharbin — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 21:12:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.matthewball.vc/all/onnintendo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24043495

Points: 1

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The Mysterious Anomaly Weakening Earth's Magnetic Field Seems to Be Splitting

dharbin — Tue, 26 May 2020 21:31:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-anomaly-weakening-earth-s-magnetic-field-seems-to-be-splitting-into-two

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23316640

Points: 1

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