Hacker News: jzebedee

New comment by jzebedee in "Finger: the 1971 social network that never died"

jzebedee — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:19:29 +0000

I'm always curious where these moments of serendipity get their start. How'd you come to read Omar Khayyám's 11th-century poetry?

New comment by jzebedee in "The lost civic life of movie rental stores"

jzebedee — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:29:09 +0000

> Then that crazy bastard started taking photos of people's menus.

I don't get the reference. Is this a startup origin story?

New comment by jzebedee in "How to Sell a Kettle"

jzebedee — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:29:27 +0000

The whole article is satire, parodying the overwrought ad copy designed to sell a simple appliance (electric kettle) to different marketing segments.

New comment by jzebedee in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

jzebedee — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:26:52 +0000

I think you can realize how ludicrous it is to invoke 80 year old copyrights for a product whose main use case is coding. How much code from 1946 was it lawfully ingesting?

New comment by jzebedee in "ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud"

jzebedee — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:57:14 +0000

No, of course not. They have zero domestic police authority for US citizens.

New comment by jzebedee in "We rewrote our custom visualisation renderers from SVG to be in Canvas"

jzebedee — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:39:01 +0000

I was interested in the approach as a way to reduce DOM bloat, but it's clearly Claude's writing and visualizations.

New comment by jzebedee in "Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices"

jzebedee — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:14:45 +0000

Which is a competitive success story. It's much more profitable to avoid competition with abusive dynamic pricing and punish users for price-shopping.

New comment by jzebedee in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"

jzebedee — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:45:23 +0000

It's a good reminder, because in the auth landscape I wish I had just picked up Keycloak and stuck with it. Commercial auth is a bad value proposition and not the kind of infrastructure where you want to have acquisition churn happening often.

The self-hosted space is another headache. I wasted so much time trying to make smaller self-hosted auth solutions work, since Keycloak has a reputation for being heavyweight.

I looked into the Ory stack extensively trying to actually use it as advertised for self-hosted / open-source auth. It's aggressively gimped and its SSO features are emphatically _not_ open-source and are gated behind licensing, with no way to find out until you're actually running it.

It's also just unfinished. Their "stack" is a lot of cobbled-together Go mixed with incompletely rebranded acquisitions like SAML Jackson (now "Polis"), which they managed to gut so completely it went from a best-in-class OSS library to unusable.

New comment by jzebedee in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

jzebedee — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:22:45 +0000

C# is strongly-typed, not stringly-typed. The point of the union is to list possible outcomes as defined through their respective types.

The idiomatic way to do this would be to parse, don't validate [1] each string into a relevant type with a record or record struct. If you just wanted to return two results of the same type, you'd wrap them in a named tuple or a record that represented the actual meaning.

[1] https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...

New comment by jzebedee in "FBI warns of '764' network: violent social engineering targeting kids in games"

jzebedee — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:30:56 +0000

Previously covered by Ken Klippenstein:

[1] Pre-Teen Terrorists: FBI’s New Target: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/pre-teen-terrorists-fbis-n...

[2] FBI Echoes QAnon Pedophile Conspiracy: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-pushes-qanon-pedophile...

[3] What are "Nihilistic Violent Extremists"?: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/what-are-nihilist-violent-...

Firnflow: Fast search over object storage (open-source turbopuffer)

jzebedee — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:10:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/gordonmurray/firnflow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139836

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jzebedee in "Dav2d"

jzebedee — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:19:49 +0000

Project description:

  dav2d is the fastest AV2 decoder on all platforms :)
  Targeted to be small, portable and very fast.

If you're out of the loop like me:

  AV2 is the next-generation video coding specification from the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Building on the foundation of AV1, AV2 is engineered to provide superior compression efficiency, enabling high-quality video delivery at significantly lower bitrates. It is optimized for the evolving demands of streaming, broadcasting, and real-time video conferencing.

- from https://av2.aomedia.org/

K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes

jzebedee — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:00:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rancher/k3k

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983176

Points: 114

# Comments: 52

SQLite WAL-reset database corruption bug

jzebedee — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:06:19 +0000

Article URL: https://sqlite.org/wal.html#walresetbug

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421496

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by jzebedee in "Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook"

jzebedee — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:42:48 +0000

Mins here being short for minutes, not minis.

New comment by jzebedee in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

jzebedee — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:04:59 +0000

This is highly location dependent with how unequal the US transit infrastructure is. It'd help to add your city for anecdotes to mean much.

New comment by jzebedee in "Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months"

jzebedee — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:40:39 +0000

If it surprises you, then you haven't paid attention to the blatantly unconstitutional actions of DHS in this administration. The purpose is terror and filling deportation quotas, not enforcing immigration law.

New comment by jzebedee in "Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”"

jzebedee — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:58:18 +0000

It's covered in the article. The full SQLite test suite isn't open source, so you (the third party) don't have the same confidence in your modifications as the SQLite team does.

New comment by jzebedee in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

jzebedee — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:58:36 +0000

> Right now french people are obsessed with ecology and egalitarianism. Those who don't are not well seen in society, or left the country already.

While we're barreling toward climate catastrophe? That's not the criticism you think it is.

New comment by jzebedee in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

jzebedee — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:59:54 +0000

That's amazing. I just assumed the ad lists were volunteer maintained like a wiki. I'll be sure to use Easylist now that I know they're also advocating for users while punishing bad advertisers.