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New comment by wanderlust123 in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

wanderlust123 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:06:33 +0000

100%

People on HN love complaining at any given moment.

I’d wager most of these people don’t really produce much and are constantly bikeshedding.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

wanderlust123 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:03:58 +0000

There’s no claim being made that your rewrite cannot be better.

He has provided benchmark results which provide a dimension amongst which to measure your rewrite. If you can do better by all means post your rewrite.

Finally, these kind of projects can eventually over time become projects that are actively used. Postgres is not some entity that existed before the universe was created; it was also created by someone and then eventually adoption picked up over time.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

wanderlust123 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:46:41 +0000

These execs suffer from over confidence in their own abilities.

Thats partly why they get so far.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Reviving Papers with Code"

wanderlust123 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:33:04 +0000

Thank you, I think this is a noble effort. Knowledge is being created at a rapid rate and being able to surface interesting stuff is valuable.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

wanderlust123 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:47:17 +0000

It’s not a highly creative art at all, genuinely don’t get this weird compliance glazing here.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

wanderlust123 — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:27:30 +0000

That happens already at a much larger scale, without prediction markets.

These markets decentralise that information asymmetry.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

wanderlust123 — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:41:23 +0000

I find working with Go a lot like working with Lego. I agree it lacks some nice primitives (Result / Option types as you mentioned) and nil pointers is a flaw, but overall sheer plug and play nature of the language makes it highly productive. There is simply a lot less compiler gymnastics between what I want to code and how to get there. Combined with LLMs to do sanity checks it’s pretty nice to work with.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

wanderlust123 — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:26:23 +0000

The simplicity of Go is a feature…

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

wanderlust123 — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:09:00 +0000

Fully agree with this. We use Rust in an enterprise setting for building web app backends and the experience is painful. A lot of crates just seem like someones side project. Too many ways to do things leads to bike shedding in PRs. Compile times are atrocious and can take like 30 mins to build.

Honestly using Go would have got us to the same point much quicker, with code that is much easier to review.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

wanderlust123 — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:36:12 +0000

I think at this point there is no convincing people. Clearly there is value in these tools and it generates code when steered properly. Perhaps your struggles are down to a skill issue.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May"

wanderlust123 — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:37:22 +0000

You are the product whenever you are sending your data to an LLM not controlled by you.

Nothing specific to Deepseek.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Optimizing Ruby Path Methods"

wanderlust123 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:08:58 +0000

Lack of static types is one of the main reasons. Trying to decipher a complex ruby on rails codebase is unnecessarily difficult compared typescript. The tooling is also shit unless you use Ruby Mine.

An absolute shame given how good the functionality is baked into RoR.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

wanderlust123 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:27:52 +0000

I am not following the difficulties you have mentioned. Setting up a local dev environment in Python is trivial with UV.

The only major downside of Python is its got a bit poor module system and nothing as seamless as Cargo.

Beyond that the code is a million times easier to understand for a web app.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Why I Vibe in Go, Not Rust or Python"

wanderlust123 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:52:31 +0000

Obscure? That is just false

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Iranian Women Graduate in Stem 3× the Rate of U.S. Women and Has 5× More PhDs"

wanderlust123 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:09:54 +0000

But she wasn’t oppressed. She made a choice freely and was able to decide what would allow her to pursue a career and get ahead and actually end up becoming the de facto leader of the EU.

The OP is suggesting women are becoming highly educated in technically difficult fields due to oppression. It makes literally no sense. Either they are oppressed and cannot get ahead, or maybe they are able to freely pursue education contradicting the original assertion.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Iranian Women Graduate in Stem 3× the Rate of U.S. Women and Has 5× More PhDs"

wanderlust123 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:07:43 +0000

It absolutely does assume that. There is an implicit assumption in their argument that women are doing something they don’t want to due to “oppression”.

The percent of women being married is irrelevant. Women can be oppressed even if they are not married due to societal expectations. If a single woman is expected not to pursue education and simply become a housewife, then it’s irrelevant whether she is married or not. She is oppressed. However, that is literally a contradiction because STEM education shows high representation of women in Iran.

Honestly there are a lot of people here asserting what they think are facts who don’t have the slightest idea how the world works outside their own city, let alone country. I would encourage some critical thinking when it comes to stuff like this.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Iranian Women Graduate in Stem 3× the Rate of U.S. Women and Has 5× More PhDs"

wanderlust123 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:02:58 +0000

Except what you are saying doesn’t really make sense and is implicitly sexist. You are assuming women in those countries don’t enjoy studying these subjects.

Also, to pursue a hard STEM degree or phd would detract from being a housewife, so no “oppressive” husband would allow that in the first place. Ergo the women pursuing these paths are not oppressed in the first place.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities"

wanderlust123 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:30:58 +0000

This is bordering on delusional lol.

You think folks who are kids of billionaires will be fraternising with some working class kid who got in via merit? That almost never happens.

New comment by wanderlust123 in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

wanderlust123 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:58:08 +0000

So its ok as long as its not domestic. Got it

New comment by wanderlust123 in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

wanderlust123 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:48:23 +0000

Honestly a quick google would tell you what you want to know. But something tells me you must consider yourself an other worldly genius if you consider any part of set theory as nonsense.