Hacker News: pikzel

New comment by pikzel in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

pikzel — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:17:13 +0000

The status page was often down when GH was down, back in the days.

New comment by pikzel in "I miss thinking hard"

pikzel — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:51:39 +0000

It's all individual. That's like saying writing only happens when you know exactly the story to tell. I love open a blank project with a vague idea of what I want to do, and then just start exploring while I'm coding.

New comment by pikzel in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"

pikzel — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:11:50 +0000

And they're now running all environments on a single machine! The bigger blast radius the better, right? Right...?

New comment by pikzel in "(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling"

pikzel — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:35:03 +0000

They still haven't solved shadowing.

  a, err := foo()
  b, err := bar()
  if err != nil { // oops, forgot to handle foo()'s err }

This is the illusion of safe error handling.

New comment by pikzel in "Why not parse `ls` and what to do instead"

pikzel — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:42:16 +0000

"The Macintosh on which I type this has 64MB: Unix was not designed for the Mac. What kind of challenge is there when you have that much RAM?"

Love it.

New comment by pikzel in "Please put units in names"

pikzel — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 07:33:45 +0000

Had I seen PT5M I would have never guessed it meant five minutes, so you would need to refer to the RFC then.

New comment by pikzel in "Boyfriend-alert – A light based alert system"

pikzel — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 10:48:41 +0000

Yeah, forcing her to use Discord just to get his attention.

New comment by pikzel in "Completing a part-time Master's in computer science while working"

pikzel — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 12:57:47 +0000

Did my master's full time while working full time. Never had better grades before or after, but sacrificed a lot and nothing stuck. Can't remember barely anything I learned during my master's.

New comment by pikzel in "A submarine's weakness: its software?"

pikzel — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:36:01 +0000

This webpage could be a few lines html and css, but uses 172 node modules. 4240 files. The repo is 17.6 MB. We Deserve Much Better.

New comment by pikzel in "“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”"

pikzel — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:48:56 +0000

Why don't you read the article to find out? https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/pap...

New comment by pikzel in "Skies went dark: Historians pinpoint the 'worst year' ever to be alive"

pikzel — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 07:57:46 +0000

Every time I think about the climate and events like these, I'm reminded of when it rained for two million years - "About 232 million years ago, during a span known as the Carnian age, it rained almost everywhere. After millions of years of dry climates, Earth entered a wet period lasting one million to two million years." (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03699-7)

New comment by pikzel in "Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)"

pikzel — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:22:22 +0000

Unfortunately the url gave it away, or it would have been an exciting read.

New comment by pikzel in "Based Cooking"

pikzel — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 10:14:07 +0000

This is just so uninspiring. And I grew up with these colorless, times new roman 90's web pages.

New comment by pikzel in "Try to guess if code is real or GPT2-generated"

pikzel — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:47:19 +0000

Oh you'd be surprised. Here's a few (tld and target market)[0]:

    .kim - Kim (Korean surname)
    .lol - LOL: laughing out loud 
    .organic - organic gardeners, farmers, foods, etc. 
    .plumbing - plumbing businesses

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...

New comment by pikzel in "Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?"

pikzel — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:51:21 +0000

I don't get why I would get a smaller cut of the profit just because I save less for my children than Americans do. I should be paid what is reasonable for the work I do, not how much money I spent on education.

New comment by pikzel in "Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?"

pikzel — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:21:59 +0000

For Google, it's better when it's my CPU doing the work, than theirs.

New comment by pikzel in "Subversive Computing"

pikzel — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 16:32:42 +0000

"It is, quite literally, a site where millions of people post daily photos of their dinners."

If you follow people who post daily photos of their dinners, daily photos of dinners is what you get. That's certainly not how my IG feed looks.

New comment by pikzel in "Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)"

pikzel — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 14:05:15 +0000

I really agree with some points. In my project, we moved from Java/Spring because it was just too much magic happening behind the scenes. We wanted something that was just clear and straight to the point. We should be able to read the code and it should do exactly that, not something else because you annotated the class. I just wish it wasn't so bloated with error handling. It's difficult to see the actual code among all the if err != nil (even though GoLand does a pretty good job at hiding them). Something like this?

  f := os.Open("file") or {
      return err
  }

After a couple of years with Scala, I'm also really missing proper FP, pattern matching, optional types, immutability, etc. Still, I'm pretty happy with Go and it has made me more excited about coding again.

New comment by pikzel in "Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temperature since 1931"

pikzel — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:06:34 +0000

Archer: 'cause you never think of those other two as having their shit together.

New comment by pikzel in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

pikzel — Thu, 14 May 2020 13:06:51 +0000

  jungler
  jun·gler
  an open field used for sports or other contests
  "teens fought some 20,000 jungler, on the ice"

..wut