Hacker News: ovao

New comment by ovao in "What About Rails?"

ovao — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:23:35 +0000

True enough, but the likelihood that the person calling another person a Nazi is correct about the other person is so low that it’s much more likely they’re wrong rather than right. (This is true just statistically speaking.)

Absolutes are not usually very compelling nor very interesting, just as high improbabilities are usually neither compelling nor interesting.

New comment by ovao in "Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant"

ovao — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:11:48 +0000

Adversarial review is a thing, but it’s not the thing. Slop begets slop.

New comment by ovao in "Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center"

ovao — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:28:50 +0000

That was my read as well:

> ...the site had gone through a long approval process, which required public notices and public-comment periods. However, when Gilroy resident Rosa Rodriguez wanted to state her concern about the damage a data center can do to a region suffering from drought, she was told that the comment period had already lapsed in 2024

Is the "circumvention" the headline refers to that public commentary periods are time-boxed? But how could they not be time-boxed?

In fairness to the residents, the negative implications of data centers was probably not well known to them in 2024, but it seems to me that (at least based on the article) all the processes & rules were followed.

New comment by ovao in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

ovao — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:07:52 +0000

Note that Andrew's since removed the “outright fabrication” bit from his post. No indication of the edit itself though, which is a choice.

New comment by ovao in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

ovao — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:06:59 +0000

I'd say "use it as your database if you know your access patterns make it suitable/well-suited for its use as your database". Even then it will probably not be your only database — if it's part of your MSA/SOA.

I would not build in DynamoDB if you suspect your access patterns will drastically change over the lifetime of the application (or if you intend to, e.g., plan to build a data warehouse or something crazy with it).

New comment by ovao in "Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes"

ovao — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:40:27 +0000

Do you have any stats on the latter?

New comment by ovao in "Date is out, Temporal is in"

ovao — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:06:36 +0000

Storing them in UTC is valid here also, but their IANA time zone string should also be stored ‘somewhere’.

New comment by ovao in "Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods"

ovao — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:18:49 +0000

Weird comment. I have three or four Apple devices at the moment and I don’t pay Apple a subscription fee for anything, let alone pay-per-use fees.

New comment by ovao in "Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?"

ovao — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 18:42:37 +0000

I posted (about three years ago now) in a Who Wants to be Hired thread. Admittedly, it was kind of on a whim, since I’d just left a job in operations after feeling burnt out, and thought I might dip my toes in the water of software dev full-time. I was contacted by four or five companies, I interviewed with three, and landed a gig with the company I’m still with currently.

For what was a two sentence post I made thinking it wouldn’t really amount to anything, it turned out to be one of the best moves I’ve made. (For both parties, I’d say.)

New comment by ovao in "Don't microservice, do module"

ovao — Fri, 24 May 2024 20:03:48 +0000

Who’s to say he’s necessarily right? The third approach (or pieces from it) could actually be the right one, even if he doesn’t know it.

New comment by ovao in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"

ovao — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:33:59 +0000

If you’re referring to game dev specifically, there have been (and continue to be) concerns around the weight of C++ exception handling, which is deeply-embedded in the STL. This proliferated in libraries like the EASTL. C++ itself however is intended to have as many zero-cost abstractions as possible/reasonable.

The cost of exception handling is less of a concern these days though.

New comment by ovao in "Cybertruck Launch"

ovao — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 23:53:28 +0000

I’d be curious to know why you’d say that.

New comment by ovao in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

ovao — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 12:22:59 +0000

Which advertisers have been scamming us? And does that subset encompass everyone who advertises on YouTube?

New comment by ovao in "Starship will attempt a launch this Friday"

ovao — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:54:11 +0000

It seems a bit naive, given his list of business successes, to think that the positive things that happen at these companies under his leadership only happen because his employees overcame him as the obstacle to success.

I can understand not liking his politics or what have you, but logically speaking, what you’re suggesting doesn’t make any sense.

New comment by ovao in "The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete"

ovao — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 02:03:24 +0000

I didn’t make an argument; I posed a question to the parent.

New comment by ovao in "The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete"

ovao — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 01:26:49 +0000

Would you argue that the Hamas attack against Israeli non-military citizens on October 7th was an attempt by Palestinians to normalize relations?

New comment by ovao in "YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform"

ovao — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:32:05 +0000

I don’t think it’s unreasonable at all to argue that YouTube has an effective monopoly in the video sharing space. Yes, there are certainly other platforms — Vimeo, Rumble, etc. — but purely in terms of reachability, YouTube absolutely holds near-absolute reign here. Trying to effectively monetize video content on other platforms, from what I understand, is extremely unlikely for the vast majority of creators.

And while there’s a valid counter-argument in some of the numbers creators on X have put up (e.g., Tucker Carlson), those are really the exceptional cases.

I could see Brand going straight over to X, but I don’t know if that’s sufficient to really argue that YouTube isn’t effectively a monopoly in the space.

New comment by ovao in "Reasons to replace advanced search with filters"

ovao — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 02:40:17 +0000

An interesting suggestion, but ‘indeterminate’ maps to nullish values, not to negative values.

If you have options such as “oak”, “teak” and “walnut”, and there are some options outside of those, how do you allow users to select neither oak, teak or walnut? It’s not through selecting one or all as indeterminate — it’s gotta be through some other mechanism.

New comment by ovao in "Reasons to replace advanced search with filters"

ovao — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 02:35:10 +0000

> You have to learn the ux anyhow, may as well have the users learn boolean operators

This seems like a bit much to ask considering the context, and especially considering “optimal UX” is an untenable proposition to begin with.

New comment by ovao in "Reasons to replace advanced search with filters"

ovao — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:15:03 +0000

Getting the UI for that right seems like the real trick. We have checkboxes and radio buttons that are well-understood to give us the thing(s) that are selected or checked, but we don’t have anti-checkboxes.