Hacker News: grep_it

New comment by grep_it in "Open Source Low Tech"

grep_it — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:49:43 +0000

Awesome resource, thanks for sharing!

Open Source Low Tech

grep_it — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:35:17 +0000

Article URL: https://opensourcelowtech.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48683098

Points: 659

# Comments: 138

New comment by grep_it in "Do you even need a database?"

grep_it — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:43:05 +0000

Except that eventually you'll find you lose a write when things go down because the page cache is write behind. So you start issuing fsync calls. Then one day you'll find yourself with a WAL and buffer pool wondering why you didn't just start with sqlite instead.

The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB

grep_it — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:37:41 +0000

Article URL: https://aosabook.org/en/v1/bdb.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861158

Points: 89

# Comments: 12

New comment by grep_it in "Who are the companies that still use Perl in their back end?"

grep_it — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 03:23:26 +0000

Last I heard, DuckDuckGo backend was Perl.

Load Balancing (2023)

grep_it — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:42:28 +0000

Article URL: https://samwho.dev/load-balancing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540850

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Clock synchronization is a nightmare

grep_it — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:59:45 +0000

Article URL: https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/clock-sync-nightmare/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368177

Points: 232

# Comments: 159

New comment by grep_it in "Ask HN: Scheduling stateful nodes when MMAP makes memory accounting a lie"

grep_it — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 04:29:26 +0000

Relevant: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2022/cidr2022-p13-crotty.pdf

SO-YOU-DONT-HAVE-TO INCORPORATED'); DROP TABLE companies; --

grep_it — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:48:17 +0000

Article URL: https://sydht.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019031

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by grep_it in "Why do we need dithering?"

grep_it — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:09:58 +0000

I love the authors style!

PGM Format Specification

grep_it — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:16:01 +0000

Article URL: https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pgm.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909654

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by grep_it in "Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc."

grep_it — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:47:55 +0000

Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications 2nd Edition is free to download for personal use at https://szeliski.org/Book/

New comment by grep_it in "By the Power of Grayscale"

grep_it — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:02:24 +0000

Really enjoyed this article, thanks for sharing!

I had recently learned about using image pyramids[1] in conjunction with template matching algorithms like SAD to do simple and efficient object recognition, it was quite fun.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_%28image_processing%29

Modulo Bias

grep_it — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:16:51 +0000

Article URL: https://irreal.org/blog/?p=10812

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45725140

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by grep_it in "Disable AI in Firefox"

grep_it — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:42:34 +0000

I'm actually not all that opposed to some of these features, but the way it's implemented is so clunky. The UI make it feel like a half baked browser extension.

Smooth weighted round-robin balancing

grep_it — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:34:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/52327e0627f49dbda1e8db695e63a4b0af4448b1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45304304

Points: 29

# Comments: 3

New comment by grep_it in "Unexpected productivity boost of Rust"

grep_it — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:58:53 +0000

Is this rage-bait? A language alone doesn't dictate reliability. There are tons of large scale systems out there running on Python. As for the language being, "flawed irreversibly", I'd be curious to hear you expand on that with examples.

New comment by grep_it in "Ask HN: I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now?"

grep_it — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:36:25 +0000

I still use pycharm, but these days I satisfy my debugging with pudb (https://pypi.org/project/pudb/) which has been amazing and a good middle ground for the integrated debugger feel.

AI is different

grep_it — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:49:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.antirez.com/news/155

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44892283

Points: 499

# Comments: 887

New comment by grep_it in "Writing Toy Software Is a Joy"

grep_it — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 19:38:18 +0000

These are all great projects! When I find myself getting burnt out in my job I find that writing a little toy project usually helps be get back some spark. Some projects that weren't listed that I've enjoyed:

- GUI based bot for a small video game

- raft consensus algorithm

- ray casting

- simple b-tree or lsmtree storage engine

I'll also second chip8 emulator as being a good quick fun one! It helps there are ROMs that help quickly validate your implementation also (https://github.com/Timendus/chip8-test-suite)