Hacker News: jzebedee

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.

New comment by jzebedee in "OpenGitOps"

jzebedee — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:36:42 +0000

Interesting. I've used Pulumi but this is the first I've heard of Kusion.

From a quick look, it still requires all of the resource specification to be present in the AppConfiguration, and it's written in their own DSL called KCL. Is there more to the use case that I'm missing?

It seems like if I'm already specifying the details of the entire workload, I'd either use Terraform, where I probably already know the DSL, or Pulumi, where I could skip the DSLs entirely.

Cosmopolitan Python Bundler

jzebedee — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:10:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/metaist/cosmofy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424185

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jzebedee in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

jzebedee — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 08:58:39 +0000

"Mostly" is doing some heavy lifting there. Even if you don't see a problem with reams of copyleft code being ingested, you're not seeing the connection? Trusting the companies that happily pirated as many books as they could pull from Anna's Archive and as much art as they could slurp from DeviantArt, pixiv, and imageboards? The GP had the insight that this doesn't get called out when it's hidden, but that's the whole point. Laundering of other people's work at such a scale that it feels inevitable or impossible to stop is the tacit goal of the AI industry. We don't need to trip over ourselves glorifying the 'business model' of rampant illegality in the name of monopoly before regulations can catch up.

New comment by jzebedee in ".NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser"

jzebedee — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:15:48 +0000

> As far as I can tell, Windows 11 doesn't even have a toolkit with platform UI elements.

They do, it's called WinUI 3. It's barely used for all of the aforementioned.

New comment by jzebedee in "Noah, the Flood, Advertisements"

jzebedee — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:14:17 +0000

Actually, that doesn't clear it up for me at all. The age of useless invasive advertising is over because, why?

BettaFish – Public Opinion Sentiment Analysis Model

jzebedee — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:07:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/666ghj/BettaFish/blob/main/README-EN.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804447

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Using Generative Social Simulation

jzebedee — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:41:20 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747469

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jzebedee in "Knowledge Is Worth Your Time"

jzebedee — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:33:04 +0000

It's an article that unintentionally reinforces the position it criticizes. Yes, knowledge is worth your time. But the author continuously conflates it with academia, before listing many, many reasons why that model is failing.