Hacker News: okigan

New comment by okigan in "PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s"

okigan — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:58:34 +0000

Or creating repos that will merge their PR(s).

New comment by okigan in "FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)"

okigan — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:24:44 +0000

With all respect to FreeBSD.

It seems weird in 2025/2026 we are still discussing the baseline of getting a storage working.

Feels we’re spending too much time discussing the trees and not enough time getting the forest going: * we need reliable local storage * integrated backup * apps installation / management * remote access and account management * app isolation, reliable updates

New comment by okigan in "Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18"

okigan — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:28:46 +0000

Would love to see a snapshot of the GUI as part of the README.md.

Also docker link seems to be broken.

New comment by okigan in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

okigan — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 23:54:08 +0000

Most are overpaying in taxes for what they are getting.

Not to mention single/families without kids and seniors that still pay for school districts.

New comment by okigan in "Solving the Whole Year Puzzle with Z3"

okigan — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:37:10 +0000

It’s unclear from your description is this Z3 problem or this is the nature of such problems (and it’s a wish).

Are there other tools that do it better or proposal how Z3 would do it?

New comment by okigan in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

okigan — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:37:47 +0000

Ugreen

New comment by okigan in "Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension"

okigan — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:10:25 +0000

It is so seductive that people don’t read the footnotes that explain that active-active does not do what they think it does.

New comment by okigan in "Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension"

okigan — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:52:52 +0000

It took 20 years to acknowledge that pushing eventual consistency to application layer is not worth it for most applications.

Seems the same is playing out out in Postgres with this extension, maybe will take it another 20 years

New comment by okigan in "DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum"

okigan — Sat, 24 May 2025 14:45:54 +0000

What’s a better syntax then?

New comment by okigan in "DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum"

okigan — Sat, 24 May 2025 14:44:47 +0000

Fantastic article.

I don’t use numpy often enough - but this explains the many WTF moments why it’s so annoying to get numpy pieces to work together.

New comment by okigan in "Reverse Video Search"

okigan — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 07:12:07 +0000

Don’t you need to apply filtering to the frame selection based on scene score?

Otherwise you’d select frames with 0.3, 0.7, 1.0, 0.7, 0.3 - selecting 5 frames instead of 1?

Two pass with sobel filter comes to mind.

New comment by okigan in "Betting on DSPy for Systems of LLMs"

okigan — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 04:36:09 +0000

Could we have a concise and specific explanation how DSPy works?

All I've seen are vague definitions of new terms (ex. signatures) and "trust me this very powerful and will optimize it all for you".

Also, what would a good way to reason between DSPy and TextGrad?

New comment by okigan in "AWS Lambda Web Adapter"

okigan — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 05:24:10 +0000

As @leef mentioned, you should transition between Lambda and based on the current load.

I've published LambdaFlex as an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) template. It automatically scales and manages traffic between AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate [1].

This setup leverages the strengths of both services: rapid scaling, scaling down to zero, and cost-effectiveness.

[1] GitHub: https://github.com/okigan/lambdaflex

New comment by okigan in "Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet"

okigan — Tue, 07 May 2024 23:36:13 +0000

After reading the parent comment - I thought to myself “so what”.

But after reading it on the product page - I fully agree: seeing clearly the targeted personas and out of scope usage significantly elevates my trust in the product and the team behind it.

Have not used the software, but now I want to try

New comment by okigan in "LangChain Guide to Get Started"

okigan — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:25:21 +0000

I find langchain complicates more than it helps: abstractions are leaky, API is not consistent across components, and it creates overly complex components.

It's too many layers of over-engineered complexity, and it's for underlying components that are changing very rapidly, so you are getting bogged down with out-dated architecture very quickly.

New comment by okigan in "DeArrow – Solving clickbait on YouTube"

okigan — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 20:38:35 +0000

Don’t worry, they tryout different titles and will see that content matters more than title.

New comment by okigan in "VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration"

okigan — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:44:06 +0000

I had an issue thinking UI was slow, but it turned up that mouse pointer integration issue - simple check: get a USB mouse and inject that USB device into VM.

Still not as good (as I remember VMware would provide), but better!

BTW, tested 7.0 just now -- anecdotally Ubuntu's UI does not feel any faster and somehow still depends on the resolution not the size of the window being moved

New comment by okigan in "Processing billions of events in real time"

okigan — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:01:06 +0000

Yes, please elaborate - what’s better and why?

New comment by okigan in "The Missing Semester of CS Education"

okigan — Fri, 14 May 2021 15:45:42 +0000

“It did cover group dynamics and management, which seems to be missing in the link.”

Can you share more info on that?

New comment by okigan in "Louis Rossmann: A Conversation with Steve Lehto on Right to Repair [video]"

okigan — Sat, 01 May 2021 14:42:20 +0000

https://www.gofundme.com/f/lets-get-right-to-repair-passed

This needs to be posted more often