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New comment by messe in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

messe — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:27:43 +0000

Good point. I said it above, but I'll repeat it here that I shouldn't have discounted how frequent once offs can be. I've worked in support before so I really should've known better

New comment by messe in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

messe — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:06:34 +0000

You make some good points. I've worked in support before, so I shouldn't have discounted how frequent "once-offs" can be.

New comment by messe in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

messe — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:38:24 +0000

Fair, but for a once-off thing performance isn't usually a major factor.

The comment I was replying to implied this was something more regular.

EDIT: why is this being downvoted? I didn't think I was rude. The person I responded to made a good point, I was just clarifying that it wasn't quite the situation I was asking about.

New comment by messe in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

messe — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:24:49 +0000

So what's the use case for keeping them in that format rather than something more easily indexed and queryable?

I'd probably just shove it all into Postgres, but even a multi terabyte SQLite database seems more reasonable.

New comment by messe in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

messe — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:11:58 +0000

Now I'm really curious. What field are you in that ndjson files of that size are common?

I'm sure there are reasons against switching to something more efficient–we've all been there–I'm just surprised.

New comment by messe in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

messe — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:24:28 +0000

> No one cares at amateur level

Except people clearly fucking do for some reason, and all that's going to happen is make life worse for women both cis and trans. Trans women will get excluded, and cis women who are "too good" or not fitting societal ideals of femininity will be accused of being trans. This is already happening to children.

> If you chose to identify as another sex

When did you choose to identify as the gender you were born with?

New comment by messe in "Show HN: Robust LLM extractor for websites in TypeScript"

messe — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:44:57 +0000

Or just follow web standards and define and publish your User-Agent header, so that people can block that as needed.

You're creating the wrong kind of value. I really hope your company fails, as its success implies a failure of the web in general.

I wish you the best success outside of your current endeavour.

New comment by messe in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

messe — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:21:09 +0000

Because they're probably a native speaker.

EDIT: this is exactly the kind of mistake that native speakers make, that ESL speakers don't.

New comment by messe in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

messe — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:03:09 +0000

If you can rsync from the other system, and likely have an SSH connection between them, why don't you just add it as an additional remote and git pull from it directly?

New comment by messe in "Show HN: Robust LLM Extractor for Websites in TypeScript"

messe — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:36:53 +0000

> It's not about bypassing access restrictions.

Yes. It is. You've just made an arbitrary choice not to define it as such.

New comment by messe in "Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths"

messe — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:37:36 +0000

1. Word choice, phrasing, and sentence structure make it seem likely. Ironically, one has to go on vibes. One gets a feel for the voice and tone used by LLMs after a while. It's also a new account with one comment.

2. "Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans." From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

3. You don't.

New comment by messe in "Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths"

messe — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:27:08 +0000

LLM written comments are not permitted on this site.

New comment by messe in "GitHub is once again down"

messe — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:25:31 +0000

For fucks sake.

I've been considering it for a while, but I'm definitely now pitching a move away from GitHub at our organization.

New comment by messe in "Migrating to the EU"

messe — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:36:16 +0000

My fucking god the American exceptionalism arrogance runs strong.

New comment by messe in "Migrating to the EU"

messe — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:17:38 +0000

Can you remind me when those actually passed? I can pull equally up equally ridiculous bills from the US that never came to fruition.

New comment by messe in "Migrating to the EU"

messe — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:53:51 +0000

Don't discount that it could be both. It's still early in some parts of the US, they might not have had their coffee yet.

New comment by messe in "Migrating to the EU"

messe — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:52:44 +0000

What part of this are you disputing?

New comment by messe in "Migrating to the EU"

messe — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:51:16 +0000

While there is a trend toward the right in many (not all) EU countries, it's a far cry from the shit show on the other side of the Atlantic.

New comment by messe in "A case against currying"

messe — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:02:06 +0000

Please see my other comment below, and maybe re-read the article. I'm not asking what the difference is between curried and non-curried. The article draws a three way distinction, while I'm asking why two of them should be considered distinct, and not the pair you're referring to.

New comment by messe in "A case against currying"

messe — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:50:12 +0000

That's not what I'm talking about.

The article draws a three way distinction between curried style (à la Haskell), tuples and parameter list.

I'm talking about the distinction it claims exists between the latter two.