Hacker News: nitsky

New comment by nitsky in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

nitsky — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:45:30 +0000

True, but it makes the specific collision the post observed completely impossible.

New comment by nitsky in "M4 MacBook Pro"

nitsky — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:58:44 +0000

I'm waiting for OLED. Will purchase as soon as they do it.

New comment by nitsky in "Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment"

nitsky — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:59:30 +0000

What is?

New comment by nitsky in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

nitsky — Mon, 27 May 2024 03:23:11 +0000

To replace inside single quotes, you can do `mi'c`. There's nothing to restrict it to the current line, but you will see the selection before you hit c. That's the big benefit of the noun-verb model that Helix uses.

New comment by nitsky in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

nitsky — Mon, 27 May 2024 03:21:12 +0000

Helix is my daily driver. I love it! Kakoune's editing model, built in tree sitter and LSP, works great with zero config. My only gripes are I wish it had Kakoune's client-server model and collaborative editing.

New comment by nitsky in "Social Security now expected to run short on funds in 2035, one year later"

nitsky — Sat, 11 May 2024 23:36:34 +0000

What action could be taken to fix it?

New comment by nitsky in "Cloudflare R2 IA storage tier"

nitsky — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:40:51 +0000

Is the “data processing fee” any different from an egress fee in practice? Seems a little deceptive.

New comment by nitsky in "Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system"

nitsky — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:03:14 +0000

Are you sure you can't have your cake and eat it too? You can have many configuration options, but give each one a sane default.

New comment by nitsky in "Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing language"

nitsky — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:55:23 +0000

> I optimize directly for the hardware I'm running on, which typically gives me 10-100x performance improvements. Controlling how memory is managed is critical.

What makes you think you can't control how memory is managed in Rust? Rust doesn't have "automatic" memory management, it has a compiler that can help ensure you are managing memory correctly, and force you to type "unsafe" when you are doing things it doesn't understand.

New comment by nitsky in "Mold linker: targeting macOS/iOS now requires a commercial license"

nitsky — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 23:02:51 +0000

Anyone who writes C/C++/Rust, like I do, can benefit tremendously from Mold. I use it daily. Each time I hit save and need to run my program, Mold saves me about 10 seconds in linking time. That time adds up quickly, and prevents me from getting distracted.

New comment by nitsky in "Fermyon Spin JavaScript and TypeScript SDK"

nitsky — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:46:42 +0000

I wonder how using a typical isomorphic React app performs on Fermyon using JS running with QuickJS vs on Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, or Netlify. Has the Fermyon team tested this?

Fermyon Spin JavaScript and TypeScript SDK

nitsky — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:41:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fermyon.com/blog/spin-js-sdk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33907785

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by nitsky in "Ofcom letter on restrictions on internet services for “designated persons” [pdf]"

nitsky — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 13:06:12 +0000

No, in law the term “person” refers to both “natural persons” and “corporate persons”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person.

Remember the political fight over the phrase “corporations are people”? Well, they certainly are “persons”.

New comment by nitsky in "Show HN: A tiny WASM compiler and runtime for demonstration purposes"

nitsky — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:45:54 +0000

Check out the component model proposal, which adds a stable ABI for rich types like strings, arrays, structs, etc.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model

New comment by nitsky in "Postgres WASM"

nitsky — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 15:29:28 +0000

Using IndexedDB, the forthcoming SQLite support in Chrome, or the browser filesystem components all might be good paths. Either way, what do you think about using WASI instead of Linux? I think it would reduce the overhead significantly.

New comment by nitsky in "Postgres WASM"

nitsky — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 14:45:44 +0000

This is a really exciting milestone for WASM! Has anyone tried compiling postgres for wasm32-wasi and implementing a wasi-compatible interface for the file system and other OS bits postgres needs? I think that would be a big improvement.

New comment by nitsky in "Hacking anything with GNU Guix"

nitsky — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:31:55 +0000

What in particular did you find strange and unconventional?

New comment by nitsky in "Ruff – a fast Python Linter written in Rust"

nitsky — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 02:17:23 +0000

The goal of this project is to demonstrate that python can tooling can be made faster by writing it in Rust instead of Python. C++ and Haskell could be reasonable choices, but Rust has a strong combination of speed and type safety that make it a good choice for this application.

New comment by nitsky in "Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers"

nitsky — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 13:26:49 +0000

I think this attempt at clarification is just proving xvector’s point.

New comment by nitsky in "Big changes ahead for Deno"

nitsky — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:37:19 +0000

Thanks. Any plans for supporting monorepos of first party NPM packages that teams already have?