Hacker News: megagpt1

New comment by megagpt1 in "Bye, Bye GitHub"

megagpt1 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:59:46 +0000

Can't they either sign up for accounts on your Forgejo, or send you an IM to request a pull?

New comment by megagpt1 in "A better SQL in 11 lines of code"

megagpt1 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:57:59 +0000

Most databases that aren't postgres have some sort of query hinting.

New comment by megagpt1 in "I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul"

megagpt1 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:56:07 +0000

Burning Man is also a quintessential example of "what if we just did a cool thing?" - a philosophy that more of us need to try following.

New comment by megagpt1 in "Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days"

megagpt1 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:55:26 +0000

Some do. They aren't the ones with the most money.

New comment by megagpt1 in "Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online"

megagpt1 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:53:44 +0000

FAT32 allocates the first free block. IIRC, file order must match disk order because reasons. Ext2 prioritized allocating the middle of free space to allow fragment-free growth on both sides and it became a standard filesystem feature after that.