Hacker News: mollerhoj

New comment by mollerhoj in "You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript"

mollerhoj — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:42:44 +0000

"I think the author is saying" - Wait, are you not the author? This seems dishonest.

New comment by mollerhoj in "Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy"

mollerhoj — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:56:28 +0000

This seems like a strange combination of proposals:

1) PUT, PATCH, and DELETE methods: Logical and obvious extension, no extra syntax, but easy to get around today by just using POST for everything.

2) Buttons actions without forms: Just syntax nicety to avoid a single form tag, unconsequential and just adds implementation complexity.

3) Partial page replacement: Would completely revolutionize js-free html capabilities, but the draft is unfinished..

It would seem to me that the author should have just made the thrid proposal, and not wrapped it in a project of two much less consequential proposals?

New comment by mollerhoj in "Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI"

mollerhoj — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:05:26 +0000

the execution model of cargo-nextest makes my test suite extremely slow to run - Most of my tests rely on postgres. Since cargo-nextest uses a separate process per test, there is no efficient way to share the connection pool.

New comment by mollerhoj in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

mollerhoj — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:09:43 +0000

"feels like using a 30years old database"

New comment by mollerhoj in "Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage"

mollerhoj — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:28:02 +0000

Its a bit confusing to claim that "The things your current stack can't give you because it doesn't own the DAG" and use DataBricks as your example: DataBricks includes jobs and pipelines, so it very much owns the DAG, no?

New comment by mollerhoj in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

mollerhoj — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:25:05 +0000

this is not big news in dk, it will be up again soon - i dont know of any mitid services that are life-or-death enough to have people panicing about an hours downtime

New comment by mollerhoj in "Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved"

mollerhoj — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:31:49 +0000

Interesting, they have one of my games[0], but somehow managed to misspell my username. There must have been a manual process, or even OCR somewhere?

0: https://flashpointproject.github.io/flashpoint-database/sear...

New comment by mollerhoj in "Lab-grown salmon hits the menu"

mollerhoj — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:50:44 +0000

nuts are ultra processed?

New comment by mollerhoj in "Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software"

mollerhoj — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:58:07 +0000

Software engineering is not engineering. No need to pretend that it should be. We dont rebuild a bridge 3 times before we get it right, but in SE thats a pretty good approach

New comment by mollerhoj in "Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software"

mollerhoj — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:54:55 +0000

Theoretically correct, but worse is better - consider how many things we could have asked of C or javascript before they become standards.. Practically, a spec is something to prioritise alongside all the other things we wish for

New comment by mollerhoj in "“Dynamic Programming” is not referring to “computer programming”"

mollerhoj — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:27:50 +0000

I prefer the Danish term: Datalogi

New comment by mollerhoj in "Zig's New Async I/O"

mollerhoj — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:40:29 +0000

single threaded, memory requirements, function coloring

New comment by mollerhoj in "Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language"

mollerhoj — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:14:08 +0000

Our long winters + free education sure doesn't hurt either - what better way to spend the yearly 6 months of darkness than working on a new proglang?

New comment by mollerhoj in "We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible"

mollerhoj — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 06:48:36 +0000

Interesting point about db recovery: I guess your db is small enough that you can do multiple full backups without issue? Or do you backup the WAL only?

New comment by mollerhoj in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

mollerhoj — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:13:47 +0000

it is not strange that these systems don’t do incremental compiles? Things are literally paged.. Why does newer systems such as typst do full compiles when a single page is edited? I know that all subsequent pages might be affected, but surely, one could workaround this by allowing sloppy but fast compile options for subsequent pages, that sacrifices correct layout for something decent?

New comment by mollerhoj in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

mollerhoj — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:27:18 +0000

But that doesn’t make much sense - by your account Latex would also be a mix of closed and open source, since closed source web apps exists for writing Latex.

New comment by mollerhoj in "We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible"

mollerhoj — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:36:12 +0000

This stack appears to be a solid choice for building generic CRUD applications, regardless of immediate ISO certification needs. Would it be feasible to package this as a ready-to-use solution for greenfield projects that may pursue ISO certification in the future? Which components would still require manual setup, and why?

New comment by mollerhoj in "We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible"

mollerhoj — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:28:03 +0000

Did you look into prepackaged solutions such as kamal/dokku/caprover for parts of this? What were you missing from those?

New comment by mollerhoj in "Meta announces Oakley smart glasses"

mollerhoj — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:04:55 +0000

i dont think youre very representative of the general population

New comment by mollerhoj in "When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history"

mollerhoj — Fri, 02 May 2025 16:36:31 +0000

Too bad Googles BERT gets all the credit, when the real innovation was ULMfit