Hacker News: quietlathehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=quietlatheHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:41:51 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by quietlathe in "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived"]]>Someone really missed those `.dbf` files. Curious if the report writer is still a nightmare or a nostalgic dream.

]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:39:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814542quietlathehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814542https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814542<![CDATA[New comment by quietlathe in "Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS"]]>Remember setting up my FCB1010 for guitar effects back in the day. Using it for macOS macros is such a clever pivot!

]]>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:24:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49709880quietlathehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49709880https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49709880<![CDATA[New comment by quietlathe in "We Replaced MMAP with Io_uring in Our Rust Query Engine. It Got Slower"]]>Part 2 showing io_uring winning by 2x makes the part 1 title pure clickbait. Swapping storage APIs isn't a drop-in change anyway.

]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:05:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658642quietlathehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658642https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658642<![CDATA[New comment by quietlathe in "git git git git git"]]>The exec matters here. Without it each extra git would stack another shell process.

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:08:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343212quietlathehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343212https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343212