Hacker News: o_pax

Aerogramme – A Robust Email Server

o_pax — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:41:11 +0000

Article URL: https://aerogramme.deuxfleurs.fr/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593190

Points: 1

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New comment by o_pax in "Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay"

o_pax — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:43:31 +0000

Well, there are monthly international newspapers and magazines. That you can even pay so they can afford not to have to rely on AI and have (hopefully) real journalists do the work. That are also available in digital form. I agree with you that the flood of streaming news is neither healthy nor helpful in creating priorities and perspective. Let's not starve the obvious alternative, as long as it still exists.

New comment by o_pax in "Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust"

o_pax — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 23:41:55 +0000

This is really good news, I am looking forward to trying it out! Is XQuery also planned as an additional frontend? By the way, there is also χrust, a rust project working towards pretty similar goals (XPath 3.1, XQuery 3.1 and XSLT 3.0). At first glance, the architecture also seems quite similar, it is not as far along, though. Have you had any contact with them?

Cold District Heating

o_pax — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 18:29:00 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_district_heating

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41889601

Points: 10

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Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture

o_pax — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:23:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-023-00023-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40574358

Points: 2

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New comment by o_pax in "Infinite Craft"

o_pax — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 06:53:22 +0000

And "Edward" + "Love" is "Bella".

New comment by o_pax in "Infinite Craft"

o_pax — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 06:47:02 +0000

  Apocalypse + 2016 = 2017
  Apocalypse + 2017 = 2018
  Apocalypse + 2018 = 2019
  Apocalypse + 2019 = 2020
  ...

but ...

  Apocalypse + 2030 = 2030

Uh-oh!

New comment by o_pax in "Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners"

o_pax — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:37:38 +0000

You're wrong. Haskell is named after Haskell Brooks Curry. There might be an opportunity for a new functional language named Brooks.

Time, for Real – GreptimeDB Is Now Open Source – Greptime

o_pax — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 05:26:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.greptime.com/blogs/2022-11-15-this-time-for-real

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33635319

Points: 6

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Bokode

o_pax — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 17:15:43 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33250744

Points: 1

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Snel: a columnar database for fast on-line analytics

o_pax — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 13:35:19 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/grandata-engineering/introducing-snel-a-columnar-just-in-time-query-compiler-for-fast-on-line-analytics-9cf561f82526

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20255372

Points: 2

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New comment by o_pax in "Clear is better than clever [pdf]"

o_pax — Tue, 07 May 2019 08:30:45 +0000

Python has its version of the ternary operator as well. It may look unusual due to the different order of the operands, but it works quite nicely, in my opinion:

  x = (-1 if a < b else
       1  if a > b else
       0)

This emphasizes the possible values that x may be assigned to.