Hacker News: r00tbeer

How I went AI-native in my terminal workflow

r00tbeer — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:59:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/ai-native-in-the-terminal-workflow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580235

Points: 2

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New comment by r00tbeer in "Google Antigravity"

r00tbeer — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:05:55 +0000

The first patch release (released on launch day) says: "Messaging to distinguish particular users hitting their user quota limit from all users hitting the global capacity limits." So, collectively we're hitting the quota, its not just your quota. (One would think Google might know how to scale their services on launch day...)

The Documentation (https://antigravity.google/docs/plans) claims that "Our modeling suggests that a very small fraction of power users will ever hit the per-five-hour rate limit, so our hope is that this is something that you won't have to worry about, and you feel unrestrained in your usage of Antigravity."

New comment by r00tbeer in "Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain"

r00tbeer — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:15:16 +0000

Avoiding this scenario is why Google will renew all the domains for every startup it has ever acquired in perpetuity.

New comment by r00tbeer in "The Case for a High-Level Kernel-Bypass I/O Abstraction (2019)"

r00tbeer — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:35:50 +0000

See https://irenezhang.net/papers/demikernel-sosp21.pdf for a more thorough paper on the Demikernel from 2021. There are some great ideas for improving the kernel interface while still allowing efficient DPDK-style pipelines.

In-Q-Tell-All: Inside the CIA's Portfolio

r00tbeer — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:38:08 +0000

Article URL: https://sherwood.news/business/ai-companies-cia-is-investing-in/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41627269

Points: 3

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Windows PowerToys Run utility (open source quick launcher)

r00tbeer — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:01:15 +0000

Article URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40147642

Points: 1

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An improved chkstk function on Windows

r00tbeer — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 22:58:00 +0000

Article URL: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2024/02/05/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39268386

Points: 1

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Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive

r00tbeer — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 22:55:51 +0000

Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/12/virtual-machines-as-core-android-primitive.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538100

Points: 255

# Comments: 165

New comment by r00tbeer in "My website is one binary (2022)"

r00tbeer — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 06:03:09 +0000

I think that URL gets served by the same single binary. Might look like multiple files and connections to you ...

New comment by r00tbeer in "Casey's novel(?) circle drawing algorithm (DDA variation)"

r00tbeer — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 02:57:20 +0000

"To the best of my knowledge, this derivation is more efficient than the standard published Bresenham or midpoint circle formulations I found on-line. All of them seem to require more operations. In the branching version, mine requires only 3 to 6 adds — that’s it. The standard algorithms I’ve seen listed tend to require 9 or more."

Casey's novel(?) circle drawing algorithm (DDA variation)

r00tbeer — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 02:57:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/efficient-dda-circle-outlines

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37084609

Points: 4

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New comment by r00tbeer in "The Resilience of Costco (2018)"

r00tbeer — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 03:37:02 +0000

This is from June, 2018. (That should be in the title.) I'm curious how the last five years have been for Costco.

Job is (probably) safe from artificial intelligence

r00tbeer — Sun, 07 May 2023 19:22:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/05/07/your-job-is-probably-safe-from-artificial-intelligence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854702

Points: 4

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New comment by r00tbeer in "Datomic is Free"

r00tbeer — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 02:54:22 +0000

Hasn't everyone learned that "store all the history of changes" is an anti-feature? The Legal departments generally do not care for this (its just more data to make sure you deleted). And it makes schema migrations more painful as not only do you have to migrate the data you have now, but all of your historical data too! If you add a new property do you backfill it in your old data (to keep your code working)? Or start special casing old version in your code? Neither is pretty.

If you want historical audit trails, make them intentional and subject to the same rules and patterns as your regular data.

New comment by r00tbeer in "The Sheer Terror of PAM"

r00tbeer — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:10:54 +0000

This is systems debugging: "After hacking around for a while I got nowhere, but in so much detail."

Tool for generating screencast videos

r00tbeer — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:26:42 +0000

Article URL: https://studio1.io/blog/announcing-studio1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18355613

Points: 1

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New comment by r00tbeer in "The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found"

r00tbeer — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 04:04:08 +0000

I wonder how often it is an advantage to not know English. Then you might have less baggage from outside the computer and you might map the token to what it actually does in the system (rather than what the token was aspiring to be). Assuming you can get to that point, of course.

New comment by r00tbeer in "Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?"

r00tbeer — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 01:00:07 +0000

Here's my playlist. First the good ones that are actively in my queue (in general order of recommendation):

- The Memory Palace: http://thememorypalace.us/ (these are stunningly good historical stories)

- On the Media: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/otm/

- Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/reply-all/ (this is the one I expected to see on every list at hackernews, and don't)

- The Gist: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist.html

- The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily

- 99% Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org/

- Economist Radio: https://radio.economist.com/

- New Yorker Radio Hour: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/tnyradiohour/

- Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/ (not the juggernaut of content they once were)

- This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/

Shorter series (or just defunct or really rarely updated) that I can recommend to this crowd:

- Zachtronics Podcast: http://www.zachtronics.com/podcast/

- Revisionist History: http://revisionisthistory.com/ (should be starting a new season soon)

- Mystery Show: https://gimletmedia.com/mystery-show/

- A Life Well Wasted: http://alifewellwasted.com/ (great videogamey series)

- Containers: https://www.flexport.com/blog/alexis-madrigal-containers-pod...

- S-Town: https://stownpodcast.org/

Listening at 1.8x for most of these shows forces me to pay attention, and let's me consume more content. The exception is for The Memory Palace which deserves to be heard exactly as Nate makes it (1x).

Trump vs. the media

r00tbeer — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 23:50:21 +0000

Article URL: http://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828086/donald-trump-media

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10683765

Points: 1

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New comment by r00tbeer in "The Wrong Kind of Paranoia"

r00tbeer — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 04:02:48 +0000

Most of the commenters here didn't seem to read James' whole article. He's not saying that you should throw away isolation but that isolation should be taken care of from your architecture, not your programming language. Of all the places that should be up on a microservices architecture and see the sanity of it, you would think that would be here on HN, no?