Hacker News: kamma4434

New comment by kamma4434 in "Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?"

kamma4434 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:19:29 +0000

Hello, my name is Lamer Exterminator, pleased to make your acquaintance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamer_Exterminator

New comment by kamma4434 in "Asking authors about their own papers"

kamma4434 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 10:38:10 +0000

Makes sense, but first and last author should be able to answer on all the work

New comment by kamma4434 in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

kamma4434 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:52:01 +0000

They also invented the whole big data Ai industry, and managed to become a second tier company there. So…

New comment by kamma4434 in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

kamma4434 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:49:00 +0000

While this says nothing about Google as a company, I am sure AdSense is feeling the same pain as everybody else which livelihood depends on page views - just n orders of magnitudes bigger. So it would not surprise me if they were scraping the bottom of the barrel, so to speak, for any revenue opportunity.

New comment by kamma4434 in "The revolt of the reader"

kamma4434 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:17:02 +0000

I found it an improvement too

New comment by kamma4434 in "Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System"

kamma4434 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:08:57 +0000

In fact, everyone will ask their llm to write their own app, and it better be correct…

New comment by kamma4434 in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

kamma4434 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:11:12 +0000

With or without the original interface, twitter is still a dumpster fire

New comment by kamma4434 in "A better SQL in 11 lines of code"

kamma4434 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:06:27 +0000

One wonders if that’s an ORM at all or a query composer…

New comment by kamma4434 in "A better SQL in 11 lines of code"

kamma4434 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:50:22 +0000

There is no good ORM -like it says here https://github.com/l3nz/ObjectiveSync “Bad practice - if you hide the database, you may get something done quickly, but it's a bad idea. If yor Java code expects to have a collection of one million objects as an array, it does not matter if they are lazily loaded or not - some code somewhere might want to iterate over them, and this will kill the process. You cannot really forget that there is a database somewhere, and you should not do it.”

New comment by kamma4434 in "A better SQL in 11 lines of code"

kamma4434 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:45:11 +0000

I’m not sure how they come up with the 20-line example anyway - it’s one join.

Traditionally SQL uses a lot of lines because you put one thing per line, but so what?

New comment by kamma4434 in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

kamma4434 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:12:14 +0000

Me too - I get the feeling it’s the same garbage at a different price point.

New comment by kamma4434 in "A theory for decades of C vulnerabilities"

kamma4434 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:27:22 +0000

I’m no rustacean but it’s high time we do better than C.

New comment by kamma4434 in "A theory for decades of C vulnerabilities"

kamma4434 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:25:27 +0000

This is one of the beauties of Clojure’s spec. You can define a ‘type’ that is a string which length is a prime number and contains only Ascii characters but ‘x’. To put those invariants in code and not in your head is so liberating.

New comment by kamma4434 in "The Java Story – The official documentary [video]"

kamma4434 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:39:04 +0000

I totally forgot about “applets”. Those were really bad! The browser would freeze for seconds while they were loading. Good riddance!

New comment by kamma4434 in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

kamma4434 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:45:06 +0000

+1 for Flora Incognita. This is what apps should be.

New comment by kamma4434 in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

kamma4434 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:07:37 +0000

I personally do not care about GC - in the last 15 years it’s been a solved issue. Where imho the JVM rocks, is that you can instrument it in production

New comment by kamma4434 in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

kamma4434 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:42:57 +0000

> Go without generics was ok. I say that as a fan of generics in other languages.

Well kinda. I found it very annoying every time you want to print a sorted map which keys are strings that you could not abstract the operation. It felt like paying a stupidity tax. (And I quite like go. It’s the only language where write once run everywhere actually works. Cross compiling for all targets is as easy as creating a local binary)

New comment by kamma4434 in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

kamma4434 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:35:08 +0000

Welcome to Java, where Collections are the bread and butter of every programmer since 1998.

While you are at it, I humbly suggest to add composable streams too, that we had in 2014, and that make working with collections way more pleasant.

(Jokes aside, in Java it is very nice that you can start with a generic ArrayList and turn it into a linked list with one single keyword change and no code needs changing, or that you can turn any collection into a synchtonized or readonly doppelganger with one line of code. Collections are nice and I miss them in Golang)

New comment by kamma4434 in "The Glass Famine"

kamma4434 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:20:18 +0000

I lived all of my life in metric countries and I never felt that was missing. One foot is 30cm, two is half a meter, three one meter.

New comment by kamma4434 in "The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)"

kamma4434 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:59:59 +0000

Not sure what happened but I did not post this three hours ago, as the page header says. I posted it a couple of days ago. What happened?