Hacker News: jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgarzikHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:53:28 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by jgarzik in "Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support"]]>Anti-AI is rationally and logically incorrect, because it focuses on inputs, rather than outputs.

The Linux kernel has always been focused on outcomes and outputs, which is the right focus. Here's Linus: https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2110524360377458786

Outputs: Code quality and long term maintenance matters. Outputs: Serving users with correctness, security and performance matters.

Focus on "purity of input" is a faith-based political filter, not engineering.

]]>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:08:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103905jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103905https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103905<![CDATA[New comment by jgarzik in "[dead]"]]>Testing and feedback welcomed, heading in to 1.0 release soon.

Answering a FAQ: DuckDB is probably the closest analogue, yes.

Unlike duck, (1) sqawk preserves unchanged CSV rows, byte for byte (2) sqawk uses sqlite-like dynamic typing, which is great for heterogeneous, messy Unix text files (3) simpler, more flexible invocation model that does not require referencing file paths inside the query (4) no spilling externally, which can make things faster

Duck is better if the working set is larger than Ram, since it spills, and where columnar batches are heavy.

]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:43:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065914jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065914https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065914<![CDATA[New comment by jgarzik in "[dead]"]]>Humbly requesting feedback and testing from users and their agents.

Primary question: Continue to implement legacy BASIC audio/video and select PEEK/POKE's, or no?

]]>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:13:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050069jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050069https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050069<![CDATA[SQawk: SQL-based Awk tool for CSV/TSV files]]>Article URL: https://crates.io/crates/sqawk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294385

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:09:42 +0000https://crates.io/crates/sqawkjgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294385https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294385<![CDATA[New comment by jgarzik in "Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning"]]>Skeptical of their engineering, with replies to questions like this: https://x.com/jgarzik/status/2031312666036146460?s=20

]]>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:46:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473959jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473959https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473959<![CDATA[New comment by jgarzik in ""apython": Accelerated asm Python 3.12"]]>Rough draft for comment - passes core cpython 3.12 tests with an inspired design.

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:26:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102765jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102765https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102765<![CDATA["apython": Accelerated asm Python 3.12]]>Article URL: https://github.com/jgarzik/apython

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102764

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:26:19 +0000https://github.com/jgarzik/apythonjgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102764https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102764<![CDATA[New comment by jgarzik in "IronClaw: a Rust-based clawd that runs tools in isolated WASM sandboxes"]]>Does it isolate keys away from bots?

]]>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:10:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007187jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007187https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007187<![CDATA[RooDB outperforms MySQL on all benchmarks]]>Article URL: https://twitter.com/jgarzik/status/2022399081285665135

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007052

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

]]>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:00:27 +0000https://twitter.com/jgarzik/status/2022399081285665135jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007052https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007052<![CDATA[RooDB: Now faster than MySQL (acc. to sysbench 1M rows)]]>Article URL: https://github.com/jgarzik/roodb/releases/tag/v0.7.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972136

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:56:22 +0000https://github.com/jgarzik/roodb/releases/tag/v0.7.0jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972136https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972136<![CDATA[New comment by jgarzik in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"]]>Already done, months ago, with better taste: https://github.com/rustcoreutils/posixutils-rs

]]>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:19:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908192jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908192https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908192<![CDATA[New comment by jgarzik in "BotMaker: Simple Openclaw Configurator"]]>I needed this for experimenting. Sharing with others. Please file issues, to extend.

]]>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:11:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837326jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837326https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837326<![CDATA[BotMaker: Simple Openclaw Configurator]]>Article URL: https://github.com/jgarzik/botmaker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837325

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

]]>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:11:20 +0000https://github.com/jgarzik/botmakerjgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837325https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837325<![CDATA[BrainPro: "OpenCode and mullbot, in Rust" – secure agentic platform]]>Article URL: https://github.com/jgarzik/brainpro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810405

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:09:22 +0000https://github.com/jgarzik/brainprojgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810405https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810405<![CDATA[High performance, open source RAFT clustered database: RooDB]]>Article URL: https://github.com/jgarzik/roodb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805867

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:38:29 +0000https://github.com/jgarzik/roodbjgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805867https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805867<![CDATA[New comment by jgarzik in "CFT: "sqawk" 0.8.0 – optimized SQL Awk utility with Rust's sqlparser"]]>The next iteration of awk?

]]>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:34:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571079jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571079https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571079<![CDATA[CFT: "sqawk" 0.8.0 – optimized SQL Awk utility with Rust's sqlparser]]>Article URL: https://github.com/jgarzik/sqawk/tree/v0.8.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571078

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

]]>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:34:15 +0000https://github.com/jgarzik/sqawk/tree/v0.8.0jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571078https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571078<![CDATA[New comment by jgarzik in "It boots on real hardware (hk kernel)"]]>Passes 100% of userland tests, supporting 99% of linux syscalls (though very few filesystems!)

]]>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:57:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46428619jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46428619https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46428619<![CDATA[It boots on real hardware (hk kernel)]]>Article URL: https://github.com/jgarzik/hk/releases/tag/v0.2.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46428618

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

]]>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:57:50 +0000https://github.com/jgarzik/hk/releases/tag/v0.2.0jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46428618https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46428618<![CDATA[New comment by jgarzik in "It boots (Linux compatible kernel)"]]>Early boot and early page table setup, logging single characters to simulated serial console.

Then keep adding tests/features/tests/features/...

]]>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:17:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342903jgarzikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342903https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342903