Hacker News: dogman123

New comment by dogman123 in "GitHub Actions is shitting the bed again"

dogman123 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:46:58 +0000

Someone from GitHub please give us the tea on what the hell is really going on over there.

New comment by dogman123 in "Tell HN: Claude Code Is Down"

dogman123 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:45:30 +0000

yup

New comment by dogman123 in "Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray"

dogman123 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:32:25 +0000

neat. i'm pretty novice in the guts of this kind of stuff, but how does this work under the hood for blocking operators where they "cannot output a single row until the last row of their input has been seen"?

i think this is where spark shuffling comes in? but how does it work here.

https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/guides/performance/how_to_tun...

New comment by dogman123 in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

dogman123 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:40:32 +0000

pretty awesome that the new yc website touts gary tan's work at palantir as a positive

"he was an early designer and engineering manager at Palantir (NYSE:PLTR), where he designed the company logo"

New comment by dogman123 in "Show HN: ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases"

dogman123 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:34:12 +0000

Is there a way to have the model inside of codex to make use of chunkhound instead of its “built in” search/explore functionality with rg? Whenever I spin up a new agent using xhigh thinking it spins its wheels for a while to get up to speed — wondering if chunkhound can make this process faster.

New comment by dogman123 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

dogman123 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:19:29 +0000

im building a backtesting framework that uses polars as the underlying engine instead of the more traditional pandas. i've learned a ton.

New comment by dogman123 in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

dogman123 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:41:41 +0000

hell yea brother

New comment by dogman123 in "650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark"

dogman123 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:27:25 +0000

One thing that I never really see mentioned in these types of articles is that a lot of DuckDB’s functionality does not work if you need to spill to disk. iirc, percentiles/quartiles (among other aggregate functions) caused DuckDB to crash out when it spilled to disk.

New comment by dogman123 in "Firefox is the best mobile browser"

dogman123 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:42:47 +0000

I’m often surprised how little people talk about the iOS Orion browser on here and it’s ability to let you use both Firefox and chrome extensions. I’ve been using it for a while now and it’s been great. It’s a little bit buggy sometimes, but nothing that would make me switch.

New comment by dogman123 in "We’re secretly winning the war on cancer"

dogman123 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 03:58:36 +0000

My dad was diagnosed with multiple myeloma 2 years ago. His bone marrow transplant failed (frequent first line of defense) and he just finished CAR-T therapy a couple months ago. The initial side effects from the treatment were _bad_, but everything is looking good right now. CAR-T is really mindbogglingly insane cyberpunk stuff.

New comment by dogman123 in "Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work"

dogman123 — Fri, 30 May 2025 17:43:04 +0000

can someone ELI5 how these proof-of-work captchas work under the hood to detect whether i'm a bot or not?

New comment by dogman123 in "Launch HN: ParaQuery (YC X25) – GPU Accelerated Spark/SQL"

dogman123 — Mon, 12 May 2025 18:58:32 +0000

This could be incredibly useful for me. Currently struggling to complete jobs with massive amounts of shuffle with Spark on EMR (large joins yielding 150+ billion rows). We use Glue currently, but it has become cost prohibitive.

New comment by dogman123 in "Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor"

dogman123 — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:52:25 +0000

I think I'd need gemini 2.5 built into the trial to try this out. It's crazy how bad claude has become.

New comment by dogman123 in "Show HN: A motherfucking app (does one thing, under 300 LOC)"

dogman123 — Fri, 02 May 2025 14:55:58 +0000

I thought the era of gratuitous cursing was behind us. Oh well.

Suddenly Miners Are Tearing Up the Seafloor for Critical Metals

dogman123 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:24:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/miners-are-pulling-valuable-metals-from-the-seafloor-and-almost-no-one-knows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43699169

Points: 11

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New comment by dogman123 in "JPMorgan Says Quantum Experiment Generated Random Numbers"

dogman123 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:05:43 +0000

https://archive.ph/gM13L

New comment by dogman123 in "OpenAI Expects Revenue Will Triple to $12.7B This Year"

dogman123 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:08:11 +0000

https://archive.ph/dipJs

New comment by dogman123 in "Better Shell History Search"

dogman123 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:39:48 +0000

Got it, thx!

New comment by dogman123 in "Better Shell History Search"

dogman123 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:24:47 +0000

Curious on this: "Atuin's sync keeps my history on all of them"

I just checked on their GitHub and it says "Additionally, it provides optional and fully encrypted synchronisation of your history between machines, via an Atuin server."

So you trust all of your shell commands to be stored on a server that you don't control?

Maybe I'm missing something here.

New comment by dogman123 in "'The Maverick's Museum' Review: Albert Barnes and the Art of Collecting"

dogman123 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:43:16 +0000

The Barnes Foundation is one of my favorite museums in the country. There isn’t anything else quite like it.