Hacker News: thesmart

New comment by thesmart in "Building durable workflows on Postgres"

thesmart — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:29:20 +0000

So we're back to distributed queues on PostgreSQL circa 2006...

New comment by thesmart in "Claude Opus 4.8"

thesmart — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:28:03 +0000

Rolling back to 4.6 is such a stark difference

New comment by thesmart in "Manage agent skills with GitHub CLI"

thesmart — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:44:58 +0000

Considering Github seems to have <99% uptime, I'm not super excited to use `gh` for anything. Besides, wasn't able to publish my skill anyway:

gh skill publish shellcraft

X shellcraft: name "shellcraft" does not match directory name "."

New comment by thesmart in "Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs"

thesmart — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:46:16 +0000

Because the B70 cards can pipeline 500 tok/s on concurrent workloads. Apple Silicon and Nvidia consumer cards only work well w/ serial workloads.

New comment by thesmart in "Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs"

thesmart — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:44:51 +0000

The idea that Intel's foundry could replace TSMC is hilarious. No. Maybe a gamer-focused mid-market card based on 30-series.

New comment by thesmart in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

thesmart — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:35:58 +0000

How about "no." You may be okay giving away your individual rights, including to copyright, but I am not.

New comment by thesmart in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

thesmart — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:34:44 +0000

Yeah, I'm guessing that probably because in their TOS you grant them some license work-around for running the service, which can mean anything.

New comment by thesmart in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

thesmart — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:31:59 +0000

I'm ready to abandon Github. Enschitification of the world's source infrastructure is just a matter of time.

New comment by thesmart in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

thesmart — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:44:20 +0000

WebAssembly is amazing, but I don't think making it a DOM controller is where the action is. What specific scenarios do you aspire to unlock and why would those scenarios lead to broader adoption?

New comment by thesmart in "Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?"

thesmart — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:53:53 +0000

Both

New comment by thesmart in "GitHub is down again"

thesmart — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:26:05 +0000

Can we please demand that Github provide mirror APIs to competitors? We're just asking for an extinction-level event. "Oops, our AI deleted the world's open source."

Any public source code hosting service should be able to subscribe to public repo changes. It belongs to the authors, not to Microsoft.

New comment by thesmart in "GitHub is down again"

thesmart — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:24:40 +0000

Yes. Feels like every other week.

New comment by thesmart in "GitHub is down again"

thesmart — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:21:04 +0000

It's really pathetic for however many trillions MSFT is valued.

If we had a government worth anything, they ought to pass a law that other competitors be provided mirror APIs so that the entire world isn't shut off from source code for a day. We're just asking for a world wide disaster.

New comment by thesmart in "SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight"

thesmart — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:06:56 +0000

That's LEO, not to lunar orbit and entry. Saturn V had a maximum lift capacity of 310,000 lb (140,000 kg) to low Earth orbit (LEO) and could deliver approximately 50 tons (45,000 kg) of payload to the Moon.

New comment by thesmart in "SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight"

thesmart — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:02:41 +0000

So you think SpaceX isn't building on the shoulders of giants?

There are teams of incredible engineers working there because NASA paved the way.

New comment by thesmart in "SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight"

thesmart — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:01:07 +0000

I had understood that reusing shuttle parts was more about keeping congressional districts (that make the parts) happy, and thus securing votes for funding.

New comment by thesmart in "SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight"

thesmart — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:52:20 +0000

You can't really compare them because SLS was a jobs program intended to spread out contracts across many states by reusing suppliers from shuttle programs. Cheap? No. Wasteful? also no. Most of that money went back into those economies.

New comment by thesmart in "System Initiative Adds AI Agents to Infrastructure Automation Platform"

thesmart — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:39:17 +0000

This solves a major problem that fills me with dread: any time the ai agent tries to change infrastructure. Can't wait to use this.

New comment by thesmart in "Sora: Creating video from text"

thesmart — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:48:36 +0000

What real life problem does this solve?

New comment by thesmart in "Cases where full scans are better than indexes"

thesmart — Fri, 26 May 2023 16:33:25 +0000

Saying there are cases where full scan is better than an index is really just describing an edge case where the default index implementation is non-optimal.

There are edge cases where default implementation of an index will not result in good performance in some use cases. For example, write heavy loads where the updated tuple values are frequently changing position in the index constantly. However, the solution is rarely "no index".

A solution is to throttle the index update by an acceptable delta through a non-default implementation.

A solution is to develop your own application-side index.

A solution is a custom PSQL function that interacts with an index in a more complicated way.

Maybe a non-default implementation is not priority right now, e.g. if scale is low. But it is always good to think ahead and to have a plan and to log the tech debt and track it responsibly so there are no surprises later. Don't build on shifty foundations.