Hacker News: oatsandsugar

New comment by oatsandsugar in "Foil"

oatsandsugar — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:02:09 +0000

This is surprisingly beautiful:

> The word foil comes from the old practice of backing gems with foil to make them shine more brightly.

Define once, use everywhere: a metrics layer for ClickHouse with MooseStack

oatsandsugar — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:07:14 +0000

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/metrics-layer-with-fiveonefour

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369919

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by oatsandsugar in "International Law of Self-Determination"

oatsandsugar — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:22:57 +0000

How does this law allow for non-democracies?

New comment by oatsandsugar in "Super interesting Wikipedia on HN. So I made wiki-hn."

oatsandsugar — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:03:19 +0000

Some favorites:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Junnn11

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-ha

Super interesting Wikipedia on HN. So I made wiki-hn.

oatsandsugar — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:54:51 +0000

Article URL: https://wiki-hn.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256108

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

AI harness for PG –> CH migrations

oatsandsugar — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:19:17 +0000

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/ai-powered-migraiton-from-postgres-to-clickhouse-with-fiveonefour

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065086

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Migrating from Postgres to ClickHouse for faster dashboards

oatsandsugar — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:22:12 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.fiveonefour.com/guides/performant-dashboards/tutorial?lang=typescript

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057464

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Alphabet sells 100 year bonds

oatsandsugar — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:11:18 +0000

Article URL: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/this-security-will-be-pricing-something-but-what.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966103

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by oatsandsugar in "An articulated archer automaton [video]"

oatsandsugar — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:19:29 +0000

Oh I've been loving this series: its like clickspring for automata.

The magnetic hands were such a cool idea, and the way he builds the springs for the bowden cables in ep 2, gorgeous!

Light Fantastic: ISS videos of "light" set to the music of Chris Zabriskie

oatsandsugar — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:49:25 +0000

Article URL: https://kottke.org/25/12/light-fantastic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328696

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Analytical dashboards and AI chat: local dev to prod (Vercel and Boreal)

oatsandsugar — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:10:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fiveonefour.com/blog/chat-analytical-dashboards-guide

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46318777

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by oatsandsugar in "Public Makes Millions on Plunging Crypto"

oatsandsugar — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:48:14 +0000

Thesis is "crypto millionaires squeeze out other consumers from high demand goods, loss of crypto value reduces demand for those and thus benefits other consumers"

Spurious Correlations: Eng degrees vs. searches for nearby "dollar stores"

oatsandsugar — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:00:05 +0000

Article URL: https://tylervigen.com/spurious/correlation/2354_bachelors-degrees-awarded-in-engineering_correlates-with_google-searches-for-dollar-store-near-me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46233019

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Wenis

oatsandsugar — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:25:39 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226534

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by oatsandsugar in "Bad UX World Cup 2025"

oatsandsugar — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:39:59 +0000

The "choose your date by selecting a substring of pi" is absolutely incredible.

New comment by oatsandsugar in "How good are social scientists at forecasting?"

oatsandsugar — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:34:49 +0000

[This paper] show[s] that forecasters, on average, over-estimate treatment effects; however, the average forecast is quite predictive of the actual treatment effect.

How good are social scientists at forecasting?

oatsandsugar — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:34:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w34493

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049744

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

OLAP migration complexity is the cost of fast reads

oatsandsugar — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:45:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fiveonefour.com/blog/olap-migration-complexity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903189

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by oatsandsugar in "How a Nix flake made our polyglot stack (and new dev onboarding) fast and sane"

oatsandsugar — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:06:04 +0000

When I was in Venture, I did a tonne of research into the Nix ecosystem.

Fast forward to now, a new hire at the startup I work at, on his own volition, implemented a Nix flake day one at the company. Within the week, a bunch of our engineers were using it.

Super cool to see, mainly because of the decreased frustration in setting up our dev environments.

How a Nix flake made our polyglot stack (and new dev onboarding) fast and sane

oatsandsugar — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:56:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fiveonefour.com/blog/managing-a-polyglot-stack-with-nix-flake

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826464

Points: 4

# Comments: 1