Hacker News: kreig

New comment by kreig in "Map of Metal"

kreig — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:55:41 +0000

FWIW, There's a lot of new bands sounding like the old classic Metal bands, they are `tagged` as NWOTHM (New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal), such as:

- White Wizzard

- Tailgunner

- Skull Fist

- Wolf

- Enforcer

- 3 Inches of Blood

- Lucifer

- and many others

New comment by kreig in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"

kreig — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:57:59 +0000

I understood this concept with this simple equation: Agent = LLM + harness

New comment by kreig in "Buying a retro game console"

kreig — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:03:53 +0000

Not really, you can now use a Steam Deck or similar to replace the original pad, yet, you'll need to have the Steam Deck though https://github.com/vanilla-wiiu/vanilla

New comment by kreig in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

kreig — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:31:50 +0000

Not really, /lib -> /usr/lib was worse for me

New comment by kreig in "RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?"

kreig — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:23:19 +0000

Single-digit FPS can _absolutely_ be playable if you're a desperate enough ten-year-old...

Absolutely, sweet memories playing at less than 10fps using zsnes on a 486 dx2 by 1999...

New comment by kreig in "The History of Windows XP"

kreig — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:39:34 +0000

FCKGW-RHQQ2...

My current guess at AI automation effect on jobs

kreig — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 22:59:04 +0000

Article URL: https://sortega.substack.com/p/my-current-guess-at-ai-automation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44792291

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

ForkServer in Firefox 141: No More Restarts and Better Performance on Linux

kreig — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:25:52 +0000

Article URL: https://ostechnix.com/firefox-linux-forkserver-no-restarts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44671880

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by kreig in "Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out"

kreig — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:52:39 +0000

On the other hand, here in Latin America, the offshore/nearshore jobs have been increasing in the last couple of years. Source: LinkedIn spam, and a couple of past jobs I've worked have been for nearshore companies.

Spring AI 1.0 GA Released

kreig — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:13:31 +0000

Article URL: https://spring.io/blog/2025/05/20/spring-ai-1-0-GA-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44043240

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

It's Too Eurocentric

kreig — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:52:37 +0000

Article URL: https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/its-too-eurocentric/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43772897

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by kreig in "Parser Combinators Beat Regexes"

kreig — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:15:01 +0000

It makes sense, Combinators can parse a superset of formal languages than regex, according to Chomsky's hierarchy [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy

History of Maths for Beginners

kreig — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:35:34 +0000

Article URL: https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/history-of-maths-for-beginners/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43355542

Points: 162

# Comments: 20

New comment by kreig in "The Potential Pitfalls of Pagination"

kreig — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:32:17 +0000

One solution that we've been implementing in our APIs is the Seek Method (https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/partial-results/fetch-nex...) which scales very well with large data sets in postgres, while avoiding some of the mentioned problems.

How Not to Release Historic Source Code

kreig — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:10:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/how-not-to-release-historic-source-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40170379

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support

kreig — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:30:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Lands-Explicit-Sync

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40004000

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kreig in "JetBrains AI Launch Event [video]"

kreig — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:29:17 +0000

Yesterday I started to explore CodeGPT, it allows to download and run local model via llama.cpp, it's working fine for me so far, at least with with DeepSeek model 6.7b https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/21056-codegpt

New comment by kreig in "The Netwide Assembler (NASM)"

kreig — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 17:13:52 +0000

Same thing came to my mind, when zsnes became open source in early 2000s and we were able to explore its thousand of ASM lines in NASM dialect.

A Tale of Outage and Revival

kreig — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:10:58 +0000

Article URL: https://boilingsteam.com/a-tale-of-outage-and-revival/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37482473

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kreig in "English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals"

kreig — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:25:42 +0000

Funny, the last part reads a lot as if it was written phonetically by a Spanish speaker.