Hacker News: llimllib

New comment by llimllib in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

llimllib — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:54:56 +0000

the author of this post (whom you were responding to) made `libgit`, the library that preceded `libgit2`, and contributed to libgit2 a long time ago as well. Here he is in 2010 writing about libgit2: https://github.blog/news-insights/libgit2-a-git-linkable-lib...

New comment by llimllib in "macOS Container Machines"

llimllib — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:38:42 +0000

Is this new? I thought we had this already

In my testing (iirc) filesystem performance was not good enough to be usable with node/rust dev where lots of small files get stat-ed

update: what's new is the `container machine` subcommand. I went to test it out, but container failed to run at all for me: https://github.com/apple/container/issues/1681

New comment by llimllib in "The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python"

llimllib — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:44:59 +0000

I remember sitting in the senior study lounge reading the previous Bishop book and implementing the perceptron from it, 22 years ago: https://github.com/llimllib/personal_code/blob/945b017b2915c...

(before numarray and numpy merged!)

New comment by llimllib in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

llimllib — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:04:57 +0000

it's usually a "something is better than nothing" situation.

If you have somebody willing to write custom release messages, that's definitely better; but conventional commits is better than nothing for it.

New comment by llimllib in "Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync)"

llimllib — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:22:41 +0000

the surreal docs should not say "surreal is open source", it's source-available under the BSL

New comment by llimllib in "Building durable workflows on Postgres"

llimllib — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:15:38 +0000

cross-checking your profile suggests that https://github.com/tensorzero/durable is the repo you're referring to

You might consider another name for it, that one is wholly ungoogle-able! Looks neat though

New comment by llimllib in "Building durable workflows on Postgres"

llimllib — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:36:32 +0000

Armin Ronacher's `absurd` is an implementation of durable workflows for postgres:

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/3/absurd-workflows/

https://github.com/earendil-works/absurd

https://earendil-works.github.io/absurd/

I've not used it, but it's worth comparing to other options

New comment by llimllib in "A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025)"

llimllib — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:45:45 +0000

I've written typst, but if I understand correctly (which I'm really not sure I do?) the article is talking about markdown documents with pandoc commands in them that get translated into typst formatting, but I don't know what the _markdown_ looks like

New comment by llimllib in "A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025)"

llimllib — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:34:14 +0000

I wish the article showed what the markdown format for working with typst and pandoc looked like, and what an output PDF looked like. I have no idea whether I'm interested or not from this article

Clanker: A Word for the Machine

llimllib — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:53:19 +0000

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/26/clankers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280673

Points: 13

# Comments: 7

New comment by llimllib in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

llimllib — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:28:01 +0000

3.15: https://docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/3.15.html#whatsnew315-...

New comment by llimllib in "I’ve banned query strings"

llimllib — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:50:04 +0000

bagder merged a fix to curl in response to my report: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/b079595f2e903b820a027a68...

Sorry for not believing you initially! I'm very surprised that was in there

New comment by llimllib in "I’ve banned query strings"

llimllib — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:55:36 +0000

Interesting! I took a look with the agent and it looks like it was this change that went in at curl 8.8.0: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/3eac21d86bc50ba459a9a8a0... (same one susam saw)

There's a flag that would preserve it, but no way to set it from the CLI afaict

edit: I started a discussion here: https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/21544

New comment by llimllib in "I’ve banned query strings"

llimllib — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:28:06 +0000

> curl, for example, seems to illegitimately strip a trailing question mark (could be only for the command line, didn’t test library usage).

umm what? I don't know what they're actually sending where they think this, but if you think curl is broken you should re-think that maybe you're the one doing something wrong.

Here are some examples showing curl not stripping question marks (obviously), I am very curious what this person was actually seeing

    $ curl -s 'https://httpbingo.org/get?' | jq .url
    "https://httpbingo.org/get?"
    $ curl -s 'https://httpbingo.org/get?path' | jq .url
    "https://httpbingo.org/get?path"
    $ curl -s 'https://httpbingo.org/get?path,query=bananas' | jq .url
    "https://httpbingo.org/get?path,query=bananas"
    $ curl -s 'https://httpbingo.org/get????' | jq .url               
    "https://httpbingo.org/get????"
    $ curl -sv 'https://httpbingo.org/????' 2>&1 | grep :path
    * [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /????]

New comment by llimllib in "We sped up bun by 100x"

llimllib — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:24:11 +0000

libgit2 is not nearly as thoroughly tested as the git CLI is, and it is not actually hard to imagine that calling the git CLI to create new repos is faster than shelling out to a C library.

Your comment does not seem to be in good faith, implying that they've made up the performance difference. There's a comment with a benchmark here: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/4760d78b325b62ee62d6e47b...

referencing the commit where they removed the ability to link with libgit2 because it was slower.

Having built a service on top of libgit2, I can say that there are plenty of tricky aspects to using the library and I'm not at all surprised that bun found that they had to shell out to the CLI - most people who start building on libgit2 end up doing so.

I don't know what the bun team actually did or have details - but it seems completely plausible to me that they found the CLI faster for creating repositories.

New comment by llimllib in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

llimllib — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:33:05 +0000

It really feels like Firefox is not a supported browser on GitHub, I hit this and also find that much of the time the commit message is not correctly pulled from the PR description when that setting is enabled

New comment by llimllib in "Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80"

llimllib — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:59:49 +0000

My alma mater, Ursinus, is a very small school and has few claims to fame; but one of them is that John Mauchly taught there before going to Penn to design ENIAC. Wikipedia puts it bluntly:

> Mauchly's teaching career truly began in 1933 at Ursinus College where he was appointed head of the physics department, where he was, in fact, the only staff member.

New comment by llimllib in "Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image"

llimllib — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:44:29 +0000

OKPalette by David Aerne is my favorite tool for this, it chooses points sensibly but then also lets you drag around or change the number of colors you want: https://okpalette.color.pizza/

New comment by llimllib in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)"

llimllib — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:13:48 +0000

You’re in luck, he sells it as a book: https://www.amazon.com/Gervais-Principle-Complete-Office-Rib...

New comment by llimllib in "Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents"

llimllib — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:54:21 +0000

For me, it's file system latency on mac os when virtualizing that kills me. Cargo, npm, pip, etc create many small files and there's a high per-file latency on the FS layer