Hacker News: vhodges

New comment by vhodges in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

vhodges — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:33:53 +0000

Yeah, I haven't been there in years.

New comment by vhodges in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

vhodges — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:27:32 +0000

I am 22095 on GH but 213 on Sourceforge :-D I have a 5 digit user id on Slashdot as well (~20k mark if I recall).

New comment by vhodges in "1-Bit Bonsai: The First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs"

vhodges — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:48:42 +0000

This came out too close to April 1 for me to know if it was real or not :).

I do like the idea of local/on device llms so it's interesting and will keep an eye on it.

New comment by vhodges in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

vhodges — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:08:38 +0000

  Location: Metro Vancouver, Canada
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: Ruby/Rails, Go, Docker/Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, etc
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincehodges/ && https://github.com/vhodges
  Email: vhodges@gmail.com

Just a note, if you do leetcode questions in your interviews (you might call them data structures and algorithms) I am not interested.

I do not do well on them. Case in point I just finished an interview where I ran out of time computing the mode of an array - something I was unfamiliar with. It's not that I couldn't have figured it out but the time pressure got to me and it went downhill from there - we ran out of time for the second part of the interview (I will also say we probably spent to long on the intros part making the time pressure even worse).

It doesn't mean I don't know how to write software, something I've been doing for almost 45 years!

New comment by vhodges in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

vhodges — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:54:17 +0000

It's purely personal, but my body really seems to prefer daylight savings. I always have very rough and fluctuating sleep schedules during the winter. They seem to go away after the spring ahead (it could just be the longer daylight hours that become more apparent during spring). Greetings from Mission!

New comment by vhodges in "My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza"

vhodges — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:24:34 +0000

I still have my copy of

https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/Comput...

New comment by vhodges in "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office"

vhodges — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:46:40 +0000

If you read through the BBC post, it alludes to passing confidential trade documents to Epstein... but of course that's probably because he was being blackmailed by Epstein for f*cking under age girls.

New comment by vhodges in "Ask HN: Is Reddit Down(-Ish)?"

vhodges — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:00:19 +0000

It's down for me too... I tried a subreddit and it says that it doesn't exist :-/

New comment by vhodges in "I launched a €9.9k/mo executive retreat using a free WordPress stack"

vhodges — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:41:09 +0000

Is that per person or for the 5 people? No if per person if the minimum commit is 30 days (300/Night is not too bad, but for a week to 10 days at a time, not the month). If for all 5 then yes, it might make sense for retreats.

I DO wish there a business focused resort with meeting rooms, workspaces, good connectivity and AV, etc. Suites with meeting space for smaller groups/after hours meetings and some amenities for after hours (eg pool, golf, gym, etc).

EDIT: My house is paid for, so I am not really the target demographic :)

New comment by vhodges in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

vhodges — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:42:44 +0000

It could be that Gen 3 shipping late 2026 is a concession that R2 might be delayed until then.

Personally I think they will ship R2 Gen 2 vehicles to the early adopters that are less concerned with ADAS.

My R2 reservation is very late (I had to redo it for reasons) so I probably won't be able to order one until it's available anyways.

New comment by vhodges in "100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite"

vhodges — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:43:36 +0000

sqlite is just a library (in C)

A few projects:

  * https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite Distributed, fault tolerant cluster
  * https://litestream.io/ Replication to S3 (or compatible) - more disaster recovery than fail over
  * https://fly.io/docs/litefs/ Same Author as litestream).  Distributed replication.  Requires writes to be redirected to the primary.

I am debating Postgres vs sqlite (probably with litestream) for a project right now.

And other than HW redundancy, I can get pretty far by scaling vertically on a single box. And for my app, I could probably (and my users!) live with some occasional downtime (as long as the data is replicated/backed up).

If I get 20-50K users, it'll be a successful venture so I don't need much these days and it will be cheaper and easier to run as well.

New comment by vhodges in "Ask HN: Good resources for DIY-ish animatronic kits for Halloween?"

vhodges — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:55:46 +0000

When we were at Spirit Halloween last week I saw some building blocks like drops and swinging mechanisms for DIY.

New comment by vhodges in "Florida to end all vaccine mandates"

vhodges — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:11:45 +0000

Just think of it as evolution in action.

New comment by vhodges in "Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study"

vhodges — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:18:29 +0000

Did they mean route as in path to a solution? Or root as the source? Seems odd.

New comment by vhodges in "Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C"

vhodges — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 22:54:32 +0000

According to the Programming Guide, it supports aliases for imports

"In case of conflict or convenience, you can give modules an alias as well."

New comment by vhodges in "A Space Catapult with Interstellar Potential"

vhodges — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:13:08 +0000

There's a youtube video from one of the paper's authors and interstellar is probably a stretch but 1000+ AU is far beyond what we can achieve today so not bad.

New comment by vhodges in "Our $100M Series B"

vhodges — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:01:37 +0000

If you have to ask.... :)

(other people's) previous guesstimates were 500k - 1M. It does look like you can order it partially provisioned (compute wise I'm guessing) and expand later.

New comment by vhodges in "Launch: Miget – A New Kind of PaaS (No Per-App or Usage-Based Billing)"

vhodges — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:12:51 +0000

I don't know about anyone else, but I pronounce midget and widget exactly the same. eg... soft I sound for the 'i' and a j sound for the 'g'.

So for me, the clarification on the name makes it less understandable :)

New comment by vhodges in "Show HN: Built a spaceship endless runner in 7 days using AI tools"

vhodges — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:43:41 +0000

This...

New comment by vhodges in "My home servers are not a homelab"

vhodges — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:04:55 +0000

No offence taken :).

Just today I saw a post (on Reddit) 'Mauling' over whether to get a Framework 16 or not (I assume that English was not their native tongue). Me? I would have just let the bear have it ;-p