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New comment by memset in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

memset — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:32:23 +0000

Side project to generate good-looking programs for recitals and concerts: https://concert-programs.projects.jaygoel.com

For people who use Fora for travel, a tool that uses AI to create google calendar events from travel itineraries: https://itinerary.projects.jaygoel.com

New comment by memset in "PGLite Evangelism"

memset — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:16:29 +0000

Is there a feasible way to run this in a different language? (Go, in my case?)

Show HN: Create Programs for Recitals

memset — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:56:13 +0000

Just a side project to let you create PDFs for physical programs for music recitals. You can print them out at home or take them to a print shop!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609463

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by memset in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

memset — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:24:11 +0000

I just built a little tool that takes a Fora itinerary as input and creates a google calendar (.ics) feed as output.

https://itinerary.projects.jaygoel.com/

New comment by memset in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

memset — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:27:28 +0000

What have you done for email?

New comment by memset in "My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood"

memset — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:51:17 +0000

In the early 2000s, we had a camera that saved to an internal hard drive. The only way to watch videos was to either copy them to the computer or hook an RCA cable from the camera to the TV. You could also go from VGA to RCA with the right set of cables.

However, everyone did have a DVD player! So I, similar to the author, wrote scripts to take videos, generate DVD isos, and then burn to DVDs.

I learned about message queues (rabbitmq) with that project and had connected a bunch of old laptops with Linux VMs installed.

I never finished the project and nowadays there are a hundred ways to share and stream digital video. I hadn’t anticipated, at the time, that casting videos wirelessly to our TVs would become the norm.

New comment by memset in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

memset — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:00:35 +0000

For testing, consider https://github.com/localstack/localstack

European Alternatives for Digital Products

memset — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:06:54 +0000

Article URL: https://european-alternatives.eu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642896

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by memset in "Why we built our own background agent"

memset — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:55:25 +0000

I work at Ramp and have always been on the “luddite” side of AI code tools. I use them but usually I’m not that impressed and a curmudgeon when I see folks ask Claude to debug something instead of just reading the code. I’m just an old(er) neckbeard at heart.

But. This tool is scarily good. I’m seeing it “1-shot” features in a fairly sizable code base and fixes with better code and accuracy than me.

New comment by memset in "I'd tell you a UDP joke…"

memset — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:53:20 +0000

In the same vein, here are some goodies:

- Jon Skeet facts: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact...

- Chuck Norris facts: http://www.betterprogramming.com/chuck-norris-programming-fa...

New comment by memset in "Code and Let Live"

memset — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 04:49:25 +0000

I have just now learned about exe.dev and it looks awesome.

I really hate that modern development means not having persistent disk. I’m glad there are new options coming out which let you do this in and easier way than managing my own EC2 instances!

New comment by memset in "Code and Let Live"

memset — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 04:38:44 +0000

Could you clarify what this actually is?

Would I think of this as an EC2 instance which automatically and quickly scales to zero, with pricing only for resources consumed? (CPU and RAM when up, and disk all the time?)

Building an Accounting Ledger with a DB

memset — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:32:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jaygoel.com/posts/building-a-scalable-accounting-ledger/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478526

Points: 5

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New comment by memset in "Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)"

memset — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:29:59 +0000

I wrote an article on how to model a ledger with a DB. https://www.jaygoel.com/posts/building-a-scalable-accounting...

It addresses how to model dr/cr in a DB with positive and negative numbers, but still produce reports with positive numbers as expected

New comment by memset in "Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)"

memset — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:29:32 +0000

It depends on the “normal balance” of the account.

For Asset and Expense accounts, yes. For Liabilities, Equity, and Revenue it is the opposite.

New comment by memset in "Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English"

memset — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:46:10 +0000

Isn’t this the nature of all software abstractions? They often introduce a less performant way of executing a task at the tradeoff of user convenience?

New comment by memset in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

memset — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:11:50 +0000

I’m building a netsuite competitor (having spent a lot of my career on accounting and erp implementations.)

The trick (one trick) is to allow LLMs to provide an audit/accounting/compliance playbook, along with customizations, based on the user describing their business model.

New comment by memset in "Stackoverflow Outage"

memset — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:09:47 +0000

The source code itself.

If an LLM can read the source of the library you’re trying to use - or examples of others using the library in GitHub, or official documentation - then there is less of a need for a fellow SOer to put the pieces together to debug issues and answer questions.

New comment by memset in "Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB"

memset — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:06:53 +0000

How do you use these in practice? Both Python and Go don’t make it easy to link a different variation of SQLite with one of these plugins compiled in. How do you make it work?

New comment by memset in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

memset — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 03:56:39 +0000

Nice! Some feedback from my wife, who is into all manner of word games: she found it a little bit brute-forcey: needing to try all different combinations in order to get the right configuration of the word. In contrast to a crossword where there is already a layout, which gives her a hint for how to proceed with the rest.

(She finished today's puzzle, and I gave up.) From a UI perspective it is very slick - very smooth, and I like how it kind of "gets" what you were trying to do when providing corrections/hints.