Hacker News: nehalem

New comment by nehalem in "Bringing uv and ty together"

nehalem — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:10:16 +0000

I fundamentally appreciate the single tool toolchain but ty‘s hesitant support of Django(’s quirks) preempts the advantages for me.

New comment by nehalem in "I don't recommend Tailwind CSS"

nehalem — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:27:46 +0000

I wish it would at least be kept out of UI frameworks.

New comment by nehalem in "Distributed DuckDB Instance"

nehalem — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:35:31 +0000

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. The extension system makes great sense.

But it's also stuff like `"SELECT * FROM my_df"` – It's super cool but why is my database connecting to an in-memory pandas data frame? On the other hand, DuckDB can connect to remote Parquet files and interact with them without (explicitly) importing them.

In these examples, DuckDB feels more like an ephemeral SQL-esque Pandas/Polars alternative rather than a database.

Probably it's just me losing track of what a database is and we've evolved from "a monolithic and permanent thing that you store data on and read data from via queries".

New comment by nehalem in "Distributed DuckDB Instance"

nehalem — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:03:52 +0000

I have a deep appreciation for DuckDB, but I am afraid the confluence of brilliant ideas makes it ever more complicated to adopt —- and DuckLake is another example for this trend.

When I look at SQLite I see a clear message: a database in a file. I think DuckDb is that, too. But it’s also an analytics engine like Polars, works with other DB engines, supports Parquet, comes with a UI, has two separate warehouse ideas which both deviate from DuckDB‘s core ideas.

Yes, DuckLake and Motherduck are separate entities, but they are still part of the ecosystem.

New comment by nehalem in "Why I love NixOS"

nehalem — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:09:17 +0000

To be honest, I don’t know. I just enjoy the simplicity of devenv. It’s the right amount of user friendly.

New comment by nehalem in "Why I love NixOS"

nehalem — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:33:50 +0000

Although I’ve never committed to using nix system-wide, I do enjoy nix-based using https://devenv.sh/ for the very reasons described in the article. It’s much easier than local containers for development.

New comment by nehalem in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

nehalem — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:04:04 +0000

Sure and that’s nice going forward. Yet unlike with Chrome, older devices won’t be updated making this a nice add-on at best.

New comment by nehalem in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

nehalem — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:30:38 +0000

And yet another modernisation of the web platform sabotaged by Apple and their misguided (malicious?) refusal to update their devices continually.

https://caniuse.com/temporal

It will take years until this can be widely used as intended.

New comment by nehalem in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

nehalem — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:07:18 +0000

I like this a lot. What I would love to see is a panel to run management commands and see their output. Would be great in services like Google Cloud Run where you cannot access a shell anymore like you could on Heroku.

New comment by nehalem in "Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says"

nehalem — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:34:36 +0000

This is a straw-man argument. A public service that can answer whether a one-time key provided by the user to the service fulfills a certain requirement would suffice.

New comment by nehalem in "Doom has been ported to an earbud"

nehalem — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:14:59 +0000

No doubt, maybe should I have emphasised the "general" part of "general purpose" more. Not a hardware person myself, I wonder whether there would be purpose-built hardware that could do the same more cheaply – think F(P)GA.

New comment by nehalem in "Doom has been ported to an earbud"

nehalem — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:45:51 +0000

Whenever I see another supposedly menial device including enough general purpose hardware to run Doom, I wonder whether I should think of that as a triumph of software over hardware or an economic failure to build cheaper purpose-built hardware for things like sending audio over a radio.

New comment by nehalem in "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"

nehalem — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:31:32 +0000

Answering the question how to sell more tokens per customer while maintaining ~~mediocre~~ breakthrough results.

New comment by nehalem in "Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees"

nehalem — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:34:13 +0000

Seeing news like this, I wonder whether there is a market for an OSS Android and/or Linux distribution that provides the management comfort of Chromebooks without being tied to Google, Apple or Microsoft. A little like Keycloak but one layer higher.

New comment by nehalem in "TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components"

nehalem — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:52:21 +0000

The actual disturbing thing is that given Next‘s track record of questionable security architecture, the author felt compelled to make the joke explicit.

New comment by nehalem in "CSS Grid Lanes"

nehalem — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:38:30 +0000

There is an element of tragic comedy to those announcement. While remarkable on their own, everybody knows that one cannot use any new browser feature reliably any time soon due to Apple not shipping continuous updates to the browsers they force upon their users.

New comment by nehalem in "Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)"

nehalem — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 06:54:54 +0000

To me personally, it feels like Windows 2000 was the last and maybe only consistent UI onto which all later versions bolted what they considered improvements without ever overhauling the UI in full.

New comment by nehalem in "Agent design is still hard"

nehalem — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:15:04 +0000

I am glad Vercel works on agents now. After all, Next is absolutely perfect and recommends them for greater challenges. /s

New comment by nehalem in "Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown"

nehalem — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:15:36 +0000

Thank you. I was rather thinking of magazine like layouts with columns of text and headers and footers on every page holding article title and page number.

New comment by nehalem in "Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown"

nehalem — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:46:24 +0000

How does it do with multi-column text and headers and footers?