Hacker News: tandr

New comment by tandr in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

tandr — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:18:08 +0000

"Hey Opus, create me an fully tested code base for Oracle-like DB from scratch. Don't overcomplicate it, so it should be ready with when I get back from lunch"?

New comment by tandr in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

tandr — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:48:11 +0000

Wow... How (in)competent is his management??? "If Oracle can do it"... in 25 years with 1k devs...

New comment by tandr in "dBase: 1979-2026"

tandr — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:00:40 +0000

Probably because '<=' is very easily read as "less or equal"? (unless you are joking, of course)

New comment by tandr in "Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive"

tandr — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:37:47 +0000

Or malloc(), or open()... They kind of discussing it in the thread on how to prevent this from a malicious actor (or from footgunning yourself), but my understanding it is not all that plain and simple...

New comment by tandr in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

tandr — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:00:34 +0000

thank you! That was quite educational.

New comment by tandr in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

tandr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:35:26 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by tandr in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

tandr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:46:22 +0000

by the looks of it... any front collision == instant death?

New comment by tandr in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

tandr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:18:46 +0000

What would be these additional vllm flags, if you don't mind sharing?

New comment by tandr in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

tandr — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:12:56 +0000

I think they are talking about AWS dashboard, but I might be wrong.

New comment by tandr in "ForgeKV – Redis-compatible KV server in Rust that scales with cores"

tandr — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:59:26 +0000

I understand that the project is in his early stages, and documentation (README) is very much WIP. So, couple questions

    1. "SSD backed" - on-the-fly 100% time (like KVRocks), or requires same "save" like Redis does?
    2. (if it is like kvrocks) Do you have any perf numbers for DB sizes that are, say, 10x of RAM size?

New comment by tandr in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

tandr — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:07:47 +0000

Some simpler benchmark table would be great. May I suggest Ollama on base machine, Ollama with T1, Ollama with T1+T2 etc. on midsize and big models to compare token/sec?

New comment by tandr in "-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C"

tandr — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:28:21 +0000

Niklaus Wirth died in 2024, and yet I hope he is having a major I-told-you-so moment about people blaming Pascal's bounds checking to be unneeded and making things slow.

New comment by tandr in "Go away Python"

tandr — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:31:22 +0000

It works, but the best in me I cannot explain fully first 3 symbols. /*?sr/bin/env finds /usr by expanding *? to a first matching directory. But why not just /*usr/ instead?

New comment by tandr in "Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries"

tandr — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 03:30:22 +0000

Index Size

    Biscuit 277.09 MB
    Trigram 86 MB
    B-Tree  43 MB

Pretty much you exchange space for speed

New comment by tandr in "Backing up Spotify"

tandr — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 03:13:59 +0000

Spotify just (last week or 2 weeks ago) introduced lossless compression (FLAC) and it sounds amazing.

New comment by tandr in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

tandr — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:54:20 +0000

Last decades? wipes the tear You surely forgot /s at end, I hope. The evil incarnation what is called "Samsung fridge" that I have in my kitchen required repairman's attention just 3 months after the purchase. And then every 3 months after. And children sacrifices, sorry - steam baths, for the ice maker every month or so.

Samsung appliances - never again.

PS. Repairman told me that Samsung have fixed already one of the problems my fridge has by the time he looked at it, kind of hidden recall and fix. Fridge's version (yes, they have versions) have advanced like 7 iterations already from the time I bought it. That means there were at least 7 serious design/manufacturing problems that they had to fix.

New comment by tandr in "Always Invite Anna"

tandr — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:12:25 +0000

Thank you, a very heartwarming story indeed.

I think you just have coined a new saying - "Always invite Anna" sounds intriguing, and yet at the same time very descriptive.

New comment by tandr in "First Ultrasonic Chef's Knife Vibrates 40,000X/Second for Easy Cutting"

tandr — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 02:02:39 +0000

How crazy will it drive my dog?

New comment by tandr in "Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights"

tandr — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:26:22 +0000

Red vs Blue?

New comment by tandr in "What to do with C++ modules?"

tandr — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:04:26 +0000

I was, but I guess adding /s at the end in these cases is a requirement nowadays...