Hacker News: secondcoming

New comment by secondcoming in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

secondcoming — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:23:46 +0000

This is a timely post. We are going to use Consul to replace the need for Internal Load Balancers. What issues do you have with it?

New comment by secondcoming in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

secondcoming — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:21:01 +0000

legal discovery process?

New comment by secondcoming in "sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library"

secondcoming — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:46:25 +0000

But won't all those posix functions that take only `const char*` parameters need to be changed to be pointer/length?

New comment by secondcoming in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

secondcoming — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:42:00 +0000

I had unattended-upgrades cripple our VMs

New comment by secondcoming in "C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For"

secondcoming — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:20:37 +0000

numpy is a python wrapper over a C library written by people who have ground those gears

New comment by secondcoming in "C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For"

secondcoming — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:16:36 +0000

I'm not sure what the argument is here?

These are in the standard library because someone proposed their inclusion.

They're fine for the majority of people who really don't want to roll their own data structures each time.

They're not compulsory to use, you're still free to roll your own.

New comment by secondcoming in "C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For"

secondcoming — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:03:18 +0000

In my limited experience with looking at autovectorisation compiler output, gcc is quite bad unless you hold its hand, and clang tries to autovectorise everything it sees.

New comment by secondcoming in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

secondcoming — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:26:59 +0000

"Claude, don't create any technical debt please"

New comment by secondcoming in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

secondcoming — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:59:46 +0000

all your GPUs are belong to us

New comment by secondcoming in "Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust"

secondcoming — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:19:32 +0000

Well that is very disappointing news.

Even the decoder makes a copy even though it's returning a string_view? What's the point then.

I can understand encoders having to make copies, but not in a decoder.

New comment by secondcoming in "Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust"

secondcoming — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:43:43 +0000

Is this still true? New versions of protobuf allow codegen of `std::string_view` rather than `const std::string&` (which forces a copy) of `string` and `repeated byte` fields.

https://protobuf.dev/reference/cpp/string-view/

New comment by secondcoming in "Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust"

secondcoming — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:22:53 +0000

Google really dropped the ball with protobuf when they took so long to make them zero-copy. There are 3rd party implementations popping up now and a real risk of future wire-level incompatibilities across languages.

New comment by secondcoming in "It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths"

secondcoming — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:26:38 +0000

If a user of S3 knows that directories aren't real why would they expect directory-related normalisation to happen?

New comment by secondcoming in "How to make Firefox builds 17% faster"

secondcoming — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:53:51 +0000

Ah ok, thanks

New comment by secondcoming in "How to make Firefox builds 17% faster"

secondcoming — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:13:49 +0000

What even is a 'clobber build'?

New comment by secondcoming in "Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy"

secondcoming — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:12:27 +0000

How long would it take for the heat to be depleted? Humans have only managed to drill something like 12km into the earth because it gets too hot to go further.

New comment by secondcoming in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

secondcoming — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:46:56 +0000

I find that sometimes changing the font in my IDE can give me an inexplicable boost

New comment by secondcoming in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

secondcoming — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:45:00 +0000

> Imaging being able to work on a branch stacked on a coworkers branch while you’re both constantly modifying them

I think that's something I don't want to imagine

New comment by secondcoming in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

secondcoming — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:21:47 +0000

The advantage of VMs is that you can nuke them and be done with it if you need to.

I use my personal laptop for $WORK and everything work related is done via the VM.

New comment by secondcoming in "UK intelligence censored report on global warming and homeland security"

secondcoming — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:54:55 +0000

No. It's because farmers sometimes pollute rivers (despite household sewage being pumped into UK rivers daily), want to kill badgers to stop TB spreading, and because they work large areas of land they're obviously wealthy.