Hacker News: ubolonton_

The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce

ubolonton_ — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:54:14 +0000

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-two-abstractions-of-system-design.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49534936

Points: 119

# Comments: 15

Agentic Coding at ClickHouse

ubolonton_ — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:22:42 +0000

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/agentic-coding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057726

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Why Claude Code Won (For Now)

ubolonton_ — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:37:49 +0000

Article URL: https://alexisgallagher.com/posts/2026/why-claude-code-won/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560879

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Databricks Acquires Mooncake

ubolonton_ — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 05:53:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/mooncake-labs-joins-databricks-accelerate-vision-lakebase

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45470853

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Desktop Extensions: One-Click MCP Server Installation for Claude Desktop

ubolonton_ — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 05:39:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/desktop-extensions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44410599

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ubolonton_ in "Observability 2.0 and the Database for It"

ubolonton_ — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:19:05 +0000

I introduced ClickHouse at my company 2 years ago, and came to the same conclusion.

For observability, it seems to have become the dominant storage choice for new observability startups.

And the newly introduced JSON type would help it winning even harder.

Zero-Staleness: Like using your primary, but faster

ubolonton_ — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:03:39 +0000

Article URL: https://materialize.com/blog/zero-staleness-faster-primary/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41625625

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Mako Front End Build Tool

ubolonton_ — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:33:54 +0000

Article URL: https://makojs.dev/blog/mako-open-sourced

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40831713

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

TypeSpec: A new language for API-centric development

ubolonton_ — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:54:47 +0000

Article URL: https://typespec.io/blog/2024-04-25-introducing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40206124

Points: 275

# Comments: 114

New comment by ubolonton_ in "Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011)"

ubolonton_ — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 04:39:04 +0000

Ok, understood. I was confused by the phrase "parse of that tree".

Tree-sitter's output is closer to being "dynamic" than "untyped", though.

It's not too hard to build a layer on top of tree-sitter (out of the core lib) to generate statically typed APIs. I haven't felt the need for that yet, but it may be worth exploring.

> actually process/compile it

At work, I built a custom embedded DSL, using tree-sitter for parsing. It has worked well enough so far. The dynamically-typed nature of tree-sitter actually made it easier to port the DSL to multiple runtimes.

> provide 100% accurate code intelligence

Totally agree that tree-sitter cannot be used for this, if we are aiming for 100%.

New comment by ubolonton_ in "Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011)"

ubolonton_ — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:29:08 +0000

What do you mean by “parse of that tree to get useful structures out”? Can you provide some concrete examples?

On the Future of Cloud Services and BYOC

ubolonton_ — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:40:17 +0000

Article URL: https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/9/25/on-the-future-of-cloud-services-and-byoc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37674517

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Updates on Opstrace Integration into Gitlab

ubolonton_ — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:17:02 +0000

Article URL: https://opstrace.com/blog/gitlabobsvervabilityui

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35541181

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ubolonton_ in "Comprehensive Keyboard Handling in Terminals"

ubolonton_ — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 11:15:22 +0000

In Emacs, local-function-key-map has this entry:

    C-x @ s                   event-apply-super-modifier

So to get s-g to work, you'd configure the terminal emulator to convert the Command+G key press to the C-x @ s g sequence.

    # Hex code (iTerm)
    0x18 0x40 0x73 0x67

    # kitty (without Emacs doing the integration)
    map cmd+g send_text all \x18@sg

Konsole somehow seems to have this done for the whole English alphabet, so it just works out of the box there.

For 2-modifier bindings, I guess you can add a creative entry to local-function-key-map. (If the other modifier is Shift, you can just use uppercase letters.)