Hacker News: simonklee

New comment by simonklee in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

simonklee — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:38:37 +0000

Not really, except that they have a bunch of weird things in the source code and people like to make fun of it. OpenCode/Codex generally doesn't have this since these are open-source projects from the get go.

(I work on OpenCode)

New comment by simonklee in "Open-source Zig book"

simonklee — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 20:58:08 +0000

I agree with you. After reading a couple of the chapters I'd be surprised if this wasn't written by an LLM.

New comment by simonklee in "Open-source Zig book"

simonklee — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 20:51:13 +0000

It's just an odd claim to make when it feels very much like AI generated content + publish the text anonymously. It's obviously possible to write like this without AI, but I can't remember reading something like this that wasn't written by AI.

It doesn't take away from the fact that someone used a bunch of time and effort on this project.

Zig / C++ Interop

simonklee — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:09:05 +0000

Article URL: https://tuple.app/blog/zig-cpp-interop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45885135

Points: 110

# Comments: 15

New comment by simonklee in "Rating 26 years of Java changes"

simonklee — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:57:03 +0000

java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar are the two packages I remember struggling with as a new programmer. Which I guess is solved with java.time after Java 8.

New comment by simonklee in "Why Cline doesn't index your codebase"

simonklee — Tue, 27 May 2025 18:51:56 +0000

And it's obviously expensive use this approach.

New comment by simonklee in "Postgres with data branching and PII anonymization"

simonklee — Thu, 15 May 2025 08:33:00 +0000

Performance benefits of the approach seem nice, with SPDK reducing kernel context switches, and direct NVMe to reduce latency in the storage path. This does require a more specialized setup, than Neon's tiered architecture (Safekeepers → Pageservers → cloud storage), at the expense of storage cost obviously.

Postgres with data branching and PII anonymization

simonklee — Thu, 15 May 2025 08:14:29 +0000

Article URL: https://xata.io/blog/xata-postgres-with-data-branching-and-pii-anonymization

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43992908

Points: 13

# Comments: 4

New comment by simonklee in "The Llama 4 herd"

simonklee — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:43:09 +0000

Is this the first model that has a 10M context length?

New comment by simonklee in "Uncached Buffered IO"

simonklee — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:13:17 +0000

Some comments by the author: https://x.com/axboe/status/1854244924633252074

Uncached Buffered IO

simonklee — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:09:56 +0000

Article URL: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241110152906.1747545-1-axboe@kernel.dk/T/#mbd9e894ed581bb962ae3e51b7d67ab323757ffc0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110455

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by simonklee in "Postgres 17rc1 looks great with sysbench on a small and large server"

simonklee — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:10:36 +0000

There is a nice TLDR at the top of the post:

  - 17rc1 looks great - there are no big regressions and several big improvements
  - There might be small regressions (~2%) from Postgres 15 and 16 to 17 but this benchmark was not setup to diagnose that.

Postgres 17rc1 looks great with sysbench on a small and large server

simonklee — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:10:36 +0000

Article URL: http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2024/09/postgres-17rc1-vs-sysbench-on-small.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41515359

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by simonklee in "[dead]"

simonklee — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:11:29 +0000

I like tokenizers and parsers because they have a certain rhythm to them, and Zig's new labeled switch simplifies state transitions by allowing continue statements to target specific switch cases. Like computed-gotos in C.

- Zig issue: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8220 - Release notes: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/21257#issuecomment-23368...