Hacker News: skovati

New comment by skovati in "A Research Preview of Codex"

skovati — Fri, 16 May 2025 16:01:55 +0000

I'm curious how many ICs are truly excited about these advancements in coding agents. It seems to me the general trend is we become more like PMs managing agents and reviewing PRs, all for the sake of productivity gains.

I imagine many engineers are like myself in that they got into programming because they liked tinkering and hacking and implementation details, all of which are likely to be abstracted over in this new era of prompting.

New comment by skovati in "20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says"

skovati — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:45:48 +0000

Congress hasn't actually agreed on a FY2025 budget though right? We're just running on Continuing Resolutions currently. So the budget is actually subject to change when this CR runs out March 14th.

New comment by skovati in "Hyrum’s Law in Golang"

skovati — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:54:22 +0000

reminds me of: https://xkcd.com/1172/

New comment by skovati in "20 years later, real-time Linux makes it to the kernel"

skovati — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:45:38 +0000

If you haven't already, look into the avionics and flight software of the Ingenuity helicopter. First time Linux ran on Mars!

New comment by skovati in "NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars"

skovati — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:16:33 +0000

Interesting note about this: the speed of sound on Mars is only ~70% of that on Earth, due to less atmospheric density. Might change your Mach numbers!

New comment by skovati in "A Schism in the OpenPGP World"

skovati — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:24:48 +0000

Signal does have offline backup support though?

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

NASA Launches Psyche Metal Asteroid Mission

skovati — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:49:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/science/nasa-psyche-metal-asteroid-launch.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37871926

Points: 2

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New comment by skovati in "My personal C coding style as of late 2023"

skovati — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 04:24:49 +0000

FWIW, Java does have the "final" keyword.

NASA to Release, Discuss Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Report

skovati — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:01:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-release-discuss-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-report/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37488285

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by skovati in "Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster"

skovati — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 22:07:46 +0000

My philosophy has been to let the distro package manager handle system packages (kernel, OpenSSL, etc) but then use flatpak [1] to install user progs like Chromium and VSCode so I get bleeding edge releases and sandboxing.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.chromium.Chromium

New comment by skovati in "Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (introducing alpkg)"

skovati — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:42:10 +0000

FWIW, musl has implemented DNS-over-TCP recently [1], so future Alpine releases shouldn't have DNS issues in k8s anymore.

[1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/tsc/-/issues/43#note_2...

New comment by skovati in "Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?"

skovati — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:18:53 +0000

Interesting read on the official golang.org proxy DoSing git.sr.ht

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2023-01-09-gomodulemirror/

New comment by skovati in "Cloudflare overtakes Apache and Nginx to become most commonly used web server"

skovati — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 18:38:16 +0000

They've recently built their own proxy [1], not sure how much of their total traffic it handles though.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-t...

New comment by skovati in "Computer Latency: 1977-2017"

skovati — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 02:44:21 +0000

Essentially, energy is carried throughout a circuit by the electric field created by a voltage differential, not by electrons pushing other electrons like how sound is transmitted through a medium. So signals propagate on the same order of magnitude as the speed of light. I think this is a relatively intuitive explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7tQJ42nGno