Hacker News: vamega

New comment by vamega in "Await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs. Tasks"

vamega — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:40:43 +0000

The article’s understanding of Java’s Virtual Threads is incorrect. Virtual threads have a preemptive concurrency model, not a co-operative one, so suspension points are not only at calls to things like Future.get()

New comment by vamega in "JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart"

vamega — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:00:43 +0000

I really hope Fastmail implements the JMAP spec for calendars and contacts soon. They’ve had the mail part of the spec implemented for a while, but it still requires CardDAV/CalDAV for contacts and calendar access.

New comment by vamega in "Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment"

vamega — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 05:33:20 +0000

I control my Mitsubishi mini-splits with an esp32. I’d never done any soldering or worked with a microcontroller before, but I was able to install this into 4 units in a single day.

This esphome project has great integration with home-assistant and Apple Home and I’d highly recommend this approach over the Mitsubishi app if your unit is supported and you’re willing to do a little work.

https://github.com/echavet/MitsubishiCN105ESPHome

New comment by vamega in "Show HN: Astro dev blog template with interactive colorschemes"

vamega — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:53:22 +0000

Wow, this is a surprise. I was just looking up astro last night, and stumbled upon this theme and started building my blog off of it.

Thanks for making something really nice.

New comment by vamega in "Parsing Protobuf like never before"

vamega — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:48:52 +0000

Amazon uses CBOR extensively. Most AWS services by now should support being called using CBOR. The protocol they're using is publicly documented at: https://smithy.io/2.0/additional-specs/protocols/smithy-rpc-...

The services serve both CBOR and other protocols simultaneously.

New comment by vamega in "Mill as a direct style build tool"

vamega — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:55:10 +0000

Does Mill plan to have something like Bazel’s Remote Execution?

New comment by vamega in "Comet open source remote KVM from GL-iNet"

vamega — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:16:50 +0000

It doesn't look like this is available just yet. I can't wait to see more details when it comes out.

I have a JetKVM (https://jetkvm.com/) and it's been absolutely fantastic. I'm still waiting on the ATX expansion board, but the core unit is used to monitor my homeserver.

New comment by vamega in "The DuckDB Local UI"

vamega — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:40:20 +0000

This looks pretty great. The UI looked fantastic, and the post mentioned that it was open source. However what's open source appears to be the DuckDB extension, which forwards the requests to a remote URL. I've not been able to find the code for the actual UI.

Is the actual UI open source, or is that something MotherDuck is allowing to be used by this while remaining proprietary? Right now it doesn't appear like this would work without an internet connection.

New comment by vamega in "Show HN: Firebender, a simple coding agent for Android Engineers"

vamega — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:34:20 +0000

Does this work with Flutter, or does it only work with Android native apps?

Workday to Cut Nearly 2k Workers on Profitability Focus

vamega — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:22:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-05/workday-layoffs-will-hit-nearly-2-000-workers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42948821

Points: 3

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New comment by vamega in "If we had the best product engineering organization, what would it look like?"

vamega — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 01:38:01 +0000

Relational databases are not the preferred storage mechanism at Amazon. If a team wants to use an OLTP relational database it’s possible that it will be a decision they will need to defend at any kind of design review.

Of course there are relational databases running OLTP workloads, but it’s far away from the norm. There was a program a while ago to shift many RDBMS systems onto something else.

New comment by vamega in "Deletion of Outdated Azul Zulu for Azure Container Images for Better Security"

vamega — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:02:01 +0000

Seems like Microsoft is intentionally doing a leftpad. One day people are going to wake up and a host of CI pipelines and the like will start failing.

NPM, Maven and other package management systems don't generally allow revoking older libraries for security flaws. The pain from this if it goes through will be felt widely.

Deletion of Outdated Azul Zulu for Azure Container Images for Better Security

vamega — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:55:51 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/deletion-of-outdated-azul-zulu-for-azure-container-images-for-better-security/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42369876

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by vamega in "Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala"

vamega — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:02:38 +0000

Why do you call these other languages “better”? They’re different, but I’m not sure why either of the one’s you mentioned would be better for this use case.

New comment by vamega in "Show HN: Kotlin Money"

vamega — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:03:49 +0000

What is the double hack used in OpenHFT? I tried looking this up and came up short.

New comment by vamega in "Linux 6.12 Features Super Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 and Pi 5"

vamega — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:35:09 +0000

Yeah, went through a whole journey getting this to work on a NixOS guest with a Proxmox host recently.

You reminded me to write up the process, and publish a flake for NixOS users who want the kernel.

New comment by vamega in "Vapour: A typed superset of the R programming language"

vamega — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:10:46 +0000

Lots of quantitative research uses R. It’s still very popular in the industry.

Insurance is also still using a lot of R. Actuaries I know still use it, and they talk of Python, but I don’t see anyone actually moving to using Python.

New comment by vamega in "A high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM"

vamega — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:37:31 +0000

GraalPy license on GitHub - https://github.com/oracle/graalpython/blob/master/LICENSE.tx...

New comment by vamega in "The future of kdb+?"

vamega — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:08:22 +0000

For anyone else reading this, the author did post this comment on the blog, and added a reply there too.

New comment by vamega in "The weird and wonderful world of DNS LOC records (2014)"

vamega — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:51:47 +0000

How do you go about adopting a bench in Astoria Park?