Hacker News: mping

New comment by mping in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

mping — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:52:12 +0000

You assume everyone has extra 200$ to pay. For someone living in a low wage country, it's hard to pay that much, even if you produce a multiple of that value in theory

New comment by mping in "TigerBeetle: A Trillion Transactions [video]"

mping — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:17:35 +0000

The design with hot/cold storage makes it much more interesting than FDB for some use cases. FDB is an excellent DB with very strong operational guarantees, TigerBeetle seems to be specialized for financial data and to optimize perf/cost ratio.

Both are great

New comment by mping in "PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases"

mping — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:43:44 +0000

Jesus dude,just say it was a mistake to call it free forever. How can you be a founder or whatever, have a product and not expect people to judge the words your website had, or the words you say? You should know it comes with the territory.

Doesn't matter how hard you guys worked to be profitable, it's about building trust and relationship with your audience.

New comment by mping in "OpenTelemetry Is Great, but Who the Hell Is Going to Pay for It?"

mping — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:24:20 +0000

On paper this looks smart, but when you hit a but that triggers under very specific conditions (weird bugs happen more often as you scale), you are gonna wish you had tracing for that.

The ideal setup is that you trace as much for some given time frame, if your stack supports compression and tiered storage it becomes cheap er

New comment by mping in "Java 24"

mping — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:39:12 +0000

I think in practice it has to do with some libs (eg jdbc drivers) that would be relying on synchronized. If the performance with vthreads was much worse for some cases it would be a bit of failure

New comment by mping in "Pick Your Distributed Poison"

mping — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 10:22:13 +0000

Don't forget FoundationDB

New comment by mping in "DJI announces an electric mountain bike drive system"

mping — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 00:17:06 +0000

Well put. I wouldn't want to ride with my kids with a 3000w bike breezing pass me in the bike lane at 45km/h

New comment by mping in "How to do the jhanas"

mping — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:07:43 +0000

Sure! But those were not ordinary people but special disciples, who had accumulated alot of blessings over a long time, thus were able to meet the Buddha and become enlightened with a couple of sentences from the Buddha. Still, the Buddha himself certified their enlightenment, they didn't go around claiming it themselves. Huge difference.

New comment by mping in "How to do the jhanas"

mping — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:05:06 +0000

Claiming that someone attains Arhat (or Arahant, if you are used to Theravada texts) with just a couple of meditation retreats is just wild. Because the 9 dhyana, or 9 samadhi, or 9 Juana corresponded to the level of wisdom of an Arhat. It corresponds to enlightenment in Theravada, and in Mahayana too - just not the "biggest" one.

So it's actually very harmful to do these claims; each dhyana (or jhana) level corresponds to a certain level of wisdom, and you are supposed to have less and less afflictions as you move up. The problem with meditation training is that is very common (and easy) to get sidetracked for 10 years thinking you have attainment but you are stuck. The Chinese style is to find a good teacher, an enlightened teacher, a so called Good Knowing Advisor who can certify your attainment or put you on the right track. Because otherwise it's just wishful thinking.

Best or luck to the author, but like the GP said, have some humility and find a competent, certified teacher. Making false claims, even out of ignorance will prevent you from accessing the proper instructions in the future.

New comment by mping in "Ask HN: 30y After 'On Lisp', PAIP etc., Is Lisp Still "Beating the Averages"?"

mping — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:19:48 +0000

I see your point, but in my experience you can ramp up some eg: Java developer real quick; and in a couple of months they can quickly start to become more productive than with Java.

There are alot of caveats here, and it highly depends on the teams, projects, maturity, quality of tools, and so on, but there are not alot of weird concepts in clojure that makes it that hard to understand (as a counterpoint to eg: rust borrow checking rules, or C++ templating, and so on).

The hard part with clojure is having just enough discipline to keep things in check.

New comment by mping in "Show HN: File0 – An easier way to manage files in serverless apps"

mping — Tue, 28 May 2024 11:07:44 +0000

It's just different maturity stages of different products. It's very hard not to add features when your bottom line depends on it.

New comment by mping in "WiFi 7 is officially here, but routers are pricey. Do you need it yet"

mping — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:19:11 +0000

Same, I have two powerline APs that deliver ethernet+wifi, more than enough for chromecast/netflix/etc. The only issue i have is sometimes clients don't choose the best APs.

New comment by mping in "'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' author Robert Kiyosaki reveals he's $1B in debt"

mping — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:51:44 +0000

It's woefully short sighted, as it misses the long-term prospect of economic output, as most classes of people you mentioned provide some economic benefit in one way or another. Cynicism should be precise, in my opinion.

New comment by mping in "Italy bans cultivated meat products"

mping — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:24:49 +0000

At this point, we all should point to personalized diets. I'm vegetarian for many years now, yet I started to have iron deficiency. B12 is perfectly fine. My wife is also vegetarian, her B12 and iron are fine.

You should keep an eye on your b12/iron/protein/whatever levels, but each individual requires a different approach.

New comment by mping in "The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete"

mping — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 11:12:40 +0000

Don't have a horse in the race. Isn't Israeli constitution specifically about the Jewish people, as a ethnic, religious group? I read it discriminates against interfaith marriages, etc

New comment by mping in "Why should I care about OpenTofu?"

mping — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 05:49:30 +0000

Infrastructure as code. You define your infra in a couple of files, then terraform builds it against eg: aws.

New comment by mping in "Spring 6.1 now compatible with virtual threads and JDK 21"

mping — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 02:58:54 +0000

There is a flag you can pass to the JVM to emit a log when a thread is pinned. It can also log a stack trace to show the call stack.

New comment by mping in "We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x"

mping — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 18:51:34 +0000

Congrats on the (kinda) launch. I was curious to see what you guys were up to. The blog post is pretty detailed, and with good insights. Reducing modern app development complexity to mixing data structures sounds like a good abstraction. I'm sure you thought really hard about the building blocks of Rama and you know your problems better than most of the hn crowd.

Now, the really hard part becomes selling. If companies start using your product to get ahead, that will be the real proof, otherwise its "just" tech that is good on paper.

On a side note, did you guys got any inspiration from clojure? I see lots of interesting projects propping up from clojure people...

Best of luck!

New comment by mping in "Vegan diets cause far less climate pollution, study shows"

mping — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 15:26:49 +0000

Veganism is actually a spectrum, as one can always find some connection to animals and their suffering. And you don't need to buy into it, you can go with your own definition.

To me it sounds you have just a bunch of excuses to avoid actually doing anything.

New comment by mping in "Time to subsidize e-bikes?"

mping — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 05:49:03 +0000

Can we start calling them analog bikes instead? As a guitar player, acoustic sounds very weird.