Hacker News: evnix

New comment by evnix in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"

evnix — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:36:24 +0000

Can someone explain how is this different from lambda calculus, it seems like you can derive the same in both. I don't understand both well enough and hence the question.

New comment by evnix in "Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox"

evnix — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:39:12 +0000

This is similar to how I solved a BYOK(bring your own key) feature at work. We had a lot of hardcoded endpoints and structures on the client and code that was too difficult to move over a nice BYOK structure within the given timeframe. So we ended up making a proxy that basically injected customer keys as they passed through our servers. note that there are a lot security implications doing this.

New comment by evnix in "Build a Compiler in Five Projects"

evnix — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:51:03 +0000

Most of these compiler projects and books would be 100x more popular and accessible if they were in Javascript

New comment by evnix in "How does gradient descent work?"

evnix — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:52:55 +0000

Can someone please ELI5

New comment by evnix in "Traefik's 10-year anniversary"

evnix — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:56:49 +0000

Letsencrypt Https should be a default like caddy.

Mounting certs, opening right ports and mapping them right is really not what I want to mess around with just to get SSL.

New comment by evnix in "Designing NotebookLM"

evnix — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 09:13:49 +0000

NotebookLM is a success in spite of the interface not because of it.

Pretty awful UX to be honest. Credit goes to the backend engineers who made this happen.

Took me ages to figure out you can copy paste simple text. Editing any text isn't great either.

Why isn't there a dedicated markdown notes section with folder and files? Most of us won't have ready to use PDFs but almost all of know how to use a text editor and paste text into it. Your Notes app UI is without proper support for editing and maintaining notes.

New comment by evnix in "How to Stop Your Event-Driven Architecture from Turning into Chaos"

evnix — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:10:30 +0000

Are you a middle aged+ developer? You read the DDD/CQRS/event driven book or viewed the conference. My dear friend, you have fallen victim to developer porn. It's very addictive. You end up playing "the architecture game" rather than building anything useful.

I have yet to come across ONE good large scale project that makes use of these and isn't a big ball of mud.

New comment by evnix in "My Self-Hosting Setup"

evnix — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:28:10 +0000

I wish I had the time to do any of this. I could probably do it on a weekend but maintaining it, upgrading it to keep up with new releases would be something I wouldn't have time for.

I end up just paying a cloud provider and forget about it.

Anyone else on the same boat? What has been your approach?

New comment by evnix in "Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale"

evnix — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:46:49 +0000

After working with NATS, I wouldn't want to touch Kafka even with a long stick. Its just too complex and a memory hog for no good reason. It doesn't have all the features that NATS supports as well.

New comment by evnix in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

evnix — Tue, 13 May 2025 07:06:15 +0000

Apart from the GUI, What does it improve on when compared to aider.

New comment by evnix in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

evnix — Tue, 13 May 2025 07:01:27 +0000

How does this compare to aider?

New comment by evnix in "Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines"

evnix — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:27:59 +0000

I get that the intention was not harmful, but i am trying to make the poster understand how people might feel.

Regarding Germans, if the news was, "AG deportation private company is a scam, they were sending people to forced euthanasia"

and someone came and said, "AG stands for Actually Germans". I am sure no German would want to be associated with that.

New comment by evnix in "Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines"

evnix — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 08:37:39 +0000

Not racist but offensive indeed. It's like relating school shootings to white people. A white child sitting in Norway might not relate and may find it offensive and insulting.

New comment by evnix in "Marrying Up and Marrying Down"

evnix — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:38:36 +0000

Education is just a proxy for wealth, just like extravagant vacation pictures on Instagram and nice cars.

Six figure salary seems "meh" when compared to Instagram which keeps showing women 3 figure millionaires and their daily routines in their mansions.

I don't like any of this, but that's how humans are and that's the world we live in.

New comment by evnix in "Why it's so hard to build a jet engine"

evnix — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:31:10 +0000

I feel, What's more harder are the jet engines on fighter planes. These are usually a decade or two ahead in terms of advancements. The technology here trickles down to commercial jet engines slowly. Things like Metullargy for blades etc are a closely guarded secret. China and India are pouring billions into research just to get theirs close to even the lower end of what GE has to offer.

New comment by evnix in "Keeping a Changelog at Work (2020)"

evnix — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 03:48:17 +0000

Any kind of work, most sprint reviews are basically: what can we do better so that we can squeeze more out of you than last sprint.

New comment by evnix in "How we centralized and structured error handling in Golang"

evnix — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 05:43:11 +0000

This is the way to go, pretty much solves, 404 resource not found or route not found. But you will get laughed at by so called architectural dogmatists. Remember we aren't really doing REST, it's just RPC and let's call it that.

Shoehorning http protocols error codes as application error codes, drinking the cool aid and calling it best practice is beyond bizzare.

New comment by evnix in "7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025"

evnix — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 08:32:43 +0000

Whenever I see a DB written Java, I run, very fast and very far away.

I've never had good experience with these implementations. If you say, the DB isn't performing well, the only answer you get is, well you forgot to tune these 1000 knobs and good luck if your data doesn't fit in RAM.

For some reason I feel your DB in a text file, would fare just as good as these given the same memory and resources that these Apache/java DB servers demand.

New comment by evnix in "Please stop the coding challenges"

evnix — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:13:05 +0000

As someone who interviews i support these tests, my reasoning is very different

1. Applicants getting hired because the manager and the candidate is from the same institute or they like the same team or band.

2. Bias based on age or race. I try to remove my own sub conscious bias as best as I can but most don't.

3. HR thinking you are not good enough and rejecting because you did java 18 and not java 19. Or you can write impressive React but haven't done Vue.

It takes the managers and HR a little out of the equation. They just rubber stamp your decision.

Take home exercises are something we tried but the incidents of cheating were so high and good code is so subjective that we gave up.

New comment by evnix in "Self-Contained Executable Programs with Deno Compile"

evnix — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:09:21 +0000

Small binary size?

58MB for a hello world doesn't not seem small to me.

58MB might not seem much but we used to have entire games in a few MB.

You might argue it doesn't increase that much after 58MB, I don't know what is this good for. I want my command line apps to be lean, I don't care about decoupling source and deno binary on a server side program. I don't see the benefits personally.