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New comment by f311a in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

f311a — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:12:16 +0000

It's not idiomatic implementation in Rust, just translation from C. A few Rust macros simplify implementation and cut the code in half.

New comment by f311a in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

f311a — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:54:43 +0000

The code is so weird, people will have a hard time reading it when they need to check for correctness.

There are much better ways to write it in Rust: https://github.com/malisper/pgrust/blob/14ffab7d31a31e5ab667...

New comment by f311a in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

f311a — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:29:45 +0000

Yeah, claims that it can be faster than CH are very suspicious. CH guys are very good at their craft, they spend hundreds of hours optimizing one single small detail.

New comment by f311a in "Stop Using reCAPTCHA – It's Not a Real Captcha"

f311a — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:40:51 +0000

I think Google stopped using such data long time ago. They have been showing hydrants, buses, crosswalks for ages. It's a solved problem to detect them.

New comment by f311a in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

f311a — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:05:40 +0000

They don't have a goal of becoming a popular language, though and will continue to work on it as long as there are donations. They don't care about being mainstream and there are niche companies who appreciate Zig and donate.

New comment by f311a in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

f311a — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:17:05 +0000

x4 pro will come with backlight and touch screen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REKdjxYtMrI

New comment by f311a in "Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions"

f311a — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:55:14 +0000

It's the same on any package index now.

New comment by f311a in "The Coming Loop"

f311a — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:24:03 +0000

> What does any of that mean in practice?

They want you to spend more tokens

New comment by f311a in "You already have a Git server"

f311a — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:45:35 +0000

It’s a slop article based on a tweet.

New comment by f311a in "Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do"

f311a — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:22:21 +0000

No, it's good for coding and faster to iterate. Flash models work almost the same for changes under 1000 LOC when you dictate how you want your code to look. Big models still suck at big changes and big changes are hard to review.

New comment by f311a in "Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do"

f311a — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:59:45 +0000

I'm using Deepseek flash for certain tasks, it is pretty hard to spend $10 on it. All their top models (by usage) are not from frontier labs.

New comment by f311a in "Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site"

f311a — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:46:25 +0000

Exactly, I also prefer when neighboring cells are automatically marked when you place a star

New comment by f311a in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

f311a — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:55:47 +0000

I reported 100 of them 4 months ago and they were not removed after 3 months. They just don’t care, no one answered the ticket.

New comment by f311a in "DuckDB Internals Part 1"

f311a — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:04:27 +0000

I wish this article was not LLM written

New comment by f311a in "How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data"

f311a — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:22:40 +0000

It's used in ClickHouse as well. CH supports all known compression algos and they are documented pretty well.

New comment by f311a in "Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it"

f311a — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:44:46 +0000

> If you can find resources to learn something that was written by a human, read that first. But Lathe is here to fill in the gaps when that isn't the case

Well, but it will still serve you content from humans, but without any attribution.

New comment by f311a in "databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC driver"

f311a — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:40:17 +0000

You don’t need to connect to duckdb, it’s just a process that you spawn.

New comment by f311a in "databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC driver"

f311a — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:03:56 +0000

ClickHouse also supports a lot of data sources and has a local mode where you just use a single binary with local-only access.

Coincidentally, I wrote an article today on how I use it for similar scenarios. It can fetch from S3, multiple databases at once, and so on.

And you get all the benefits of a database when you need to join or postprocess data from multiple sources.

https://rushter.com/blog/clickhouse-data-processing/

New comment by f311a in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

f311a — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:57:25 +0000

It used to allow reading replies without being signed in.

Not sure what changed, but now it just redirects me to x.com.

New comment by f311a in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

f311a — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:29:04 +0000

It runs in a terminal, it’s not electron