Hacker News: kermatt

New comment by kermatt in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

kermatt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:03:39 +0000

https://duckdb.org/docs/lts/sql/dialect/friendly_sql

New comment by kermatt in "Show HN: Diffcat – a TUI for delightful Git diffs"

kermatt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:38:48 +0000

This is really nice. I have tried, but not quite configured tig to do exactly what this does.

New comment by kermatt in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

kermatt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:07:22 +0000

Companies do not have moralities. They have revenue targets.

Any statement to the idea of a moral compass is just a form of marketing when the politics of the day align with it.

The best we can to is have independent moralities, while balancing that with the need to eat.

New comment by kermatt in "Introduction – Rust for Python Programmers"

kermatt — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:39:24 +0000

Because Astral is now owned by a profit driven org, and that often becomes problematic.

Also because Pip ain't perfect, but it is stable in a sense.

New comment by kermatt in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

kermatt — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:44:31 +0000

Not quite as simple as learning it once. SQL evolves like other languages, across vendor implementations.

The ClickHouse and DuckDB dialects for example extend the language with analytic options not found in ANSI SQL, nor T-SQL, Pl/PgSQL, etc. DuckDB QoL enhancements are greatly missed when not available.

New comment by kermatt in "Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot' (2025)"

kermatt — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:03:35 +0000

His investment in time is guaranteed to pay off for him, and the investment in time of the people who work for him is guaranteed to pay off for him.

The rest of us have no guarantees, and have learned the trade-offs are less and less likely to be worthwhile.

New comment by kermatt in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

kermatt — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:28:08 +0000

My org has a monthly team plan, and because I don't use what I would call unsupervised agents, I rarely come close to exceeding limits. I guess I am one of those "chat only users" that so many articles limit my output. A split terminal with Vim on the left snd Claude on the right has been a great combination. Neanderthalic AI.

Personally I'd consider efficient and economical use of AI to be a key skill for a good developer. Using AI for everything at full throttle would appear to be a crutch. I wonder if this will eventually become a hiring criteria for companies without unlimited budgets (most of them).

Project Feather – Faster local mode Spark

kermatt — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:47:06 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1Nphejrf_vh4YRECn0JPgKClqxDS_lB6wufZFJQxyY98/edit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330822

Points: 2

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New comment by kermatt in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

kermatt — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:56:55 +0000

Share some examples?

New comment by kermatt in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

kermatt — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:50:18 +0000

What would people here _not_ use DeepSeek for?

Obviously business IP for non-China based companies should be treated carefully, but for personal projects where would the cost savings not be worth a risk?

New comment by kermatt in "Of Course They Booed"

kermatt — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:41:09 +0000

The mistake is university choosing commencement speakers that are completely out of touch with what students about to enter the workforce need. Unless of course the university itself is choosing speakers based on their contribution to the university bottom line.

Big tech executives, no matter what their previous accomplishments were, eventually become sales people. Their job, as they see it, is to push a narrative that benefits the businesses or industries their wealth is tied too.

Students don't want to hear what billionaires want. They want to hear what will enable them to survive in a newly chaotic job market that seems ever more weighted against job seekers.

New comment by kermatt in "Python 1.0.0 is out (1994)"

kermatt — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:32:39 +0000

> Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week?

This is what brought me to Python (1.5)

Working on Windows servers, using the ActiveState Perl Development Kit satisfied the need for a better scripting environment than batch files, but I was a poor Perl programmer, it just never stuck.

Python solved the problem of "What the heck was I trying to do?" when looking at my own 6 month old code. It is still my primary language today.

New comment by kermatt in "Vivaldi 8.0"

kermatt — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:19:36 +0000

> What is the advantage of building a browser engine from scratch?

Same reason some of us choose Linux over Windows.

New comment by kermatt in "Gemini Omni"

kermatt — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:29:30 +0000

> I can create more videos as soon as your limit resets. Check your usage in Settings.

I have not used Gemini in a month.

PostgreSQL ext makes LLM available as an index for similarity searches,inference

kermatt — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:19:34 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/gregburd/pg_infer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180290

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kermatt in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

kermatt — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:10:51 +0000

It is more than one fiscal quarter away. May as well be a lifetime.

New comment by kermatt in "The vi family"

kermatt — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:59:16 +0000

Same here, but on Windows 3.1 or OS/2 in my case.

I think use of the Watcom compiler led me to Vi way back then, and I am still trying to learn to not use the arrow keys.

New comment by kermatt in "Googlebook"

kermatt — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:35:13 +0000

> The very first thing they show this new machine doing is helping people shop for clothes using AI.

I can only imagine the fashion horrors created by AI sycophancy. That said, most "fashion" is already a horror show.

TI-84 Evo

kermatt — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:16:26 +0000

Article URL: https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950507

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by kermatt in "Pandas feels clunky coming from R. What about Haskell?"

kermatt — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:07:01 +0000

Although not quite the same without a pipe operator, https://pola.rs was an improvement for me when missing the R dataframe syntax.