Hacker News: onedognight

New comment by onedognight in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

onedognight — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:23:30 +0000

They don’t support any recent rsync protocol, so there’s no 64bit timestamp support, so you can never actually sync metadata across newer filesystems.

New comment by onedognight in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"

onedognight — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:24:36 +0000

I’d guess because most don’t correctly account for wear and tear and depreciation of their car when they do their mental profit calculation.

New comment by onedognight in "Squares in Squares"

onedognight — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:18:56 +0000

Unrelated squares in squares, I think the interjection is PSYCH.

New comment by onedognight in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

onedognight — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:53:41 +0000

Choosing not to look at something is not denying anyone anything.

New comment by onedognight in "The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly"

onedognight — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:40:56 +0000

Support for Trump, or even Republicans writ large, means support for reducing taxes (both estate and income) on the wealthy, while increasing them on consumers (via tariffs). Musk has been an ardent supporter of Trump.

New comment by onedognight in "Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo"

onedognight — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:08:29 +0000

To hell with writing a test for you. That’s what you say to someone who gets paid by you. If the project doesn’t want the fix. That’s their issue, not the reporter’s.

New comment by onedognight in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

onedognight — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:03:06 +0000

Having the equivalent jq expression in these examples might help to compare expressiveness, and it might help me see if jq could “just” use a DFA when a (sub)query admits one. grep, ripgrep, etc change algorithms based on the query and that makes the speed improvements automatic.

New comment by onedognight in "How to defer US taxes"

onedognight — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:33:53 +0000

If I have X dollars and get taxed such that I have X * T after the taxing, say T = (1 - .20), then I invest and that money grows by a factor, say G = (1 + .50), over the years, then in the mean time inflation hits and reduces my money by a factor, say I = (1 - .10), so that what I end up with in the end is F = X * G * T * I. If instead I invested and grew and inflated and then got taxed, X * G * I * T, it would be exactly the same. Multiplication is commutative.

What you are doing by delaying taxes is hoping you have a lower rate later. Say you make less in retirement or die untaxed and your kids get a step up in basis. But without a change in rate (which might go up even), there’s no difference.

New comment by onedognight in "Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike"

onedognight — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:09:57 +0000

> Nothing this administration ever does is planned.

You are joking, right? Project 2025 has achieved 50% of its goals in record time[0]. Trump disavowed both it and invading Iran, but make no mistake. Both were “the plan”.

[0] https://www.project2025.observer/en

New comment by onedognight in "Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California"

onedognight — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:27:27 +0000

Prop 13 isn’t the reason old people hang on to their property. You can downgrade and maintain your Prop 13 tax advantage.

New comment by onedognight in "Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99"

onedognight — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:34:33 +0000

> C99 designated initializers are not supported in C++.

They are, finally, part of C++20.

New comment by onedognight in "There is an AI code review bubble"

onedognight — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:00:08 +0000

I fully agree. Claude’s review comments have been 50% useful, which is great. For comparison I have almost never found a useful TeamScale comment (classic static analyzer). Even more important, half of Claude’s good finds are orthogonal to those found by other human reviewers on our team. I.e. it points out things human reviewers miss consistently and v.v.

New comment by onedognight in "Flux 2 Klein pure C inference"

onedognight — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 22:49:50 +0000

It’s loses them in the current context (say 200k tokens), not in its SQLite history db (limited by your local storage).

New comment by onedognight in "[dead]"

onedognight — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:57:29 +0000

For this model to be convincing, you would need to explain the motivation for the pension funds loaning the 90% that then goes to zero. They are repeat investors after all. As are the PE firms.

Are they getting kickbacks? That would be straight up illegal, but it would make the most sense.

New comment by onedognight in "A 'Holy Grail' Sleep Apnea Pill Could Be on the Market Next Year"

onedognight — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:56:51 +0000

The machine (AirSense 11) has been a god send for me. I can’t believe I waited so long. I haven’t slept a night without it since my first. I haven’t had to tweak any settings. It’s just worked. Sure it’s annoying to travel with, and you look odd while wearing it, but deep sleep is so worth it.

New comment by onedognight in "Pg_ClickHouse: A Postgres extension for querying ClickHouse"

onedognight — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:28:15 +0000

The name of the project is a reference to P. G. Wodehouse[0] for those unaware.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/783

New comment by onedognight in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

onedognight — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:51:36 +0000

It’s a bit clickbait-y, but the article is short, to the point, and frankly satisfying. If there is such a thing as good clickbait, then this might be it. Impressive work!

New comment by onedognight in "KJS: A Complete Formal Semantics of JavaScript"

onedognight — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:01:49 +0000

This is a great result[0]:

> we found that there are 17 semantic rules in the core semantics which are not covered by the [ECMAScript Conformance Test Suite]

> we succeeded to manually write test programs that hit 11 out of 17 behaviors

> the remaining 6 semantic behaviors are infeasible, that is, they represent flaws in the language standard itself

[0] https://github.com/kframework/javascript-semantics/blob/mast...

Judge Issues Tentative Ruling in Favor of SFC

onedognight — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:57:10 +0000

Article URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/04/tentative-vizio-ruling-in-favor-of-sfc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155537

Points: 8

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New comment by onedognight in "Steam censors LGBTQ+ content on behalf of the Russian Government"

onedognight — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:19:30 +0000

Remember when Russia agreed[0] to defend Ukraine if they gave up their nuclear weapons?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum