<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: olavgg</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=olavgg</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:32:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=olavgg" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I play BAR a few hours every week. Online games are really good and smooth. BAR is by far the best RTS out there today. It only misses an awesome single player, but its coming now.<p>Some of the elements in BAR is really awesome, radar, anti-radar, radar killing rockets, EMP on anti-nuke. The strategic depth and complexity is really at DOTA level.<p>It's by far the greatest RTS to play for the next 10+ years. And its free.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:45:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054398</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054398</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Apache Pulsar 5.0 Released with Scalable Topics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pulsar 5.0 has two headlines. Scalable Topics are a new kind of topic that grows and shrinks with demand while preserving per-key ordering. The second is major performance and reliability improvements for the topics and applications you already run, which you get by upgrading your cluster, with no application changes. Oxia is the recommended metadata store for new clusters that replaces ZooKeeper.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:52:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992078</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apache Pulsar 5.0 Released with Scalable Topics]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2026/10/05/announcing-apache-pulsar-5-0/">https://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2026/10/05/announcing-apache-pulsar-5-0/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992077">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992077</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:52:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2026/10/05/announcing-apache-pulsar-5-0/</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The numbers are quite interesting, does bcachefs run on Almalinux 10? I only see Fedora supported. All my servers run Almalinux today and I am super happy with it, no plans to use something else.<p>How is root support for bcachefs? This is the one thing I really miss with ZFS today, its just too much work. I do love my FreeBSD systems with a root ZFS though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:48:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774227</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have already created a croos-platform solitaire game in Rust with Opus 4.5. Done in one evening. I absolutely do not understand why OpenAI could not write a proper application in 6 months. Do they struggle to use the product they sell?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:36:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284473</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ROCE do require proper nic/switch tuning. But if you go all in on Mellanox NIC's and switches, its basically on knob on the switch: roce<p>If you buy CX3 and Mellanox SX6036(easy fan adjustment and low power usage) switches on Ebay for cheap. Which are great up to 56Gbps. You can run infiniband which is way easier to setup, just remember you still need to enable IP over IB to start the handshake for the RDMA connection.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:04:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131867</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, nfs with rdma will increase your performance significantly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:01:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126557</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Why Vanilla JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I fully agree with the author, and I have stayed on vanilla JS for decades now. I like the simplicity, ownership, zero dependecies. I have my own bundler in Spring Boot using Google Closure Compiler, which works autonomously with the javascript assets. No nodejs needed.<p>Also with the developer disruption of agentic coding AI, the arguments for using   vanilla JS is even stronger. Code reviews of code/solutions is much easier. Scoping of code paths for each server-side render templates is easier. The AI does all the boilerplate coding, while keeping it readable and debugable. Implementing design patterns is just common computer science stuff, and the coding agent is pretty good at it.<p>I also what to mention, as a business owner, and boss of a startup. All developers here work with vanilla javascript. They were first surprised, but today they prefer it by a huge margin because of the simplicity and zero dependency and non existing build steps. The web browser is the framework, you need another abstraction over the web browser.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:58:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890274</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Looking Ahead to Postgres 19"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The MSSQL developer experience is ok, until you want to pipe the backup over ssh. Then you understand that the Linux support is a joke, with no stdout(<a href="https://linux.die.net/man/3/stdout" rel="nofollow">https://linux.die.net/man/3/stdout</a>) support.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:59:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736599</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes CX5 can offload more. I believe CX4 has similar offloading capabilities as CX3, except that it supports 100G.<p>Another note: In my experience, RoCE works much better on CX4+ generation. CX3 is best with Infiniband. I think some firmwares on the CX3 generation, has a messed up config for RoCE. But running Infiniband is not a complex task, is way easier than people think, like 10x easier and faster to setup than Ethernet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:34:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706131</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe you have priced it wrong? I just checked Ebay, a 16GB 12800 Registered ECC module goes for 40-50USD ea. That is crazy! Last year they were like 5 USD each.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:20:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635579</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With NVMe-oF and RDMA I can saturate a 25G link with spinning disks easiliy with around 16 drives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:56:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596024</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I disagree, I play a lot around with enterprise stuff. Its insane that I need to buy enterprise grade hardware that costs 1000x more for lab/experimentation/learning. My only alternative is to wait a few years, and get it from Ebay.<p>I also believe that a strong reason that Optane pdimm's failed, was that it was only available on enterprise servers so hackers didn't get a chance to play with it and build software that took advantage of this special hardware.<p>Just look at how specialized Infiniband is, even though its awesome and has some great use cases. If it was a commodity tech, there would be 100x times more applications/software that took advantage of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:49:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583082</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583082</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We're a self hosted shop, we went with Valkey. Valkey also has support for RDMA, which we already is running in our infrastructure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:16:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412882</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But that is his point.
If you cannot find the session id in redis, you login again.
If your Redis server crash, you start a new one and everyone just login again. No data is lost.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:14:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412851</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I look at the oil & gas sector, I remember MS-DOS + Wordperfect was the beginning. Then Windows 3.1 + Microsoft Office took over, and since that, its been Microsoft, Azure, and SAP.<p>They refuse Google Cloud, AWS, and many still believe open-source is cancer. They are Microsofts best customers. They prefer consultants over hiring software developers, and the consultants just to what they're told and never question the status quo.<p>Whenever I spending time at these companies, my head is filled with dinosaurs.<p>Where I live we have something called The ONS event/Exhibition, where the oil sector gathers to promote themself. 2 years ago AWS had a big stand there, but it was mostly empty. This year, AWS doesn't participate at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:19:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409552</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "The real cost of owning a home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just paid 120 000 USD for replacing the exterior drainage system. I knew it was expensive, but not that expensive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 18:54:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284186</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284186</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every time I give Photoshop a chance I give completely up, the thing doesn't even start on neither Fedora or Ubuntu and I have no interest in configuring Wine for this. GIMP is the least painful way to get the job done. I have been using it for over 20 years, and it has been a pain-free experience. That GIMP is bad is just as wrong as the people who say Java is bad.<p>But you know what's even worse, people that use Illustrator to create SVG's for the web. Inkscape creates proper readable SVG's at 5KB, compared to 50MB SVG's I get from Illustrator experts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:48:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194066</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is a bit different, Mellanox with iSCSI/iSER over IB/RoCE is much less complex than iSCSI over TCP. RoCE runs over UDP, but requires switches with PFC, and ECN. Chelsio plays nice with any switch. Mellanox has much better offloading of NVMe-oF, where the network card can directly communicate with the NVMe device over pci-express so it can completely bypass system ram and host cpu. In fact, Linux will know nothing about the transfers to and from the NVMe device.<p>To get accelerated iSCSI, you need to install Chelsio or Mellanox drivers. While both work out of the box with the inbox drivers, they have special drivers that you have to download and install to unlock the extra performance. I think Chelsio has everything included in FreeBSD, so there the inbox drivers already come with top performance unlocked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:45:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101731</link><dc:creator>olavgg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101731</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by olavgg in "Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ZFS supports self healing, you do not have scrub, it will be corrected during a bad read as long you have a copy. Metadata has 2 copies by default for additional safety for a single disk.</p>
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