Hacker News: whage

New comment by whage in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

whage — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:35:39 +0000

Can you please explain why?

New comment by whage in "Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors"

whage — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:50:21 +0000

Doesn't encryption protect against these low level network backdoors? I'd think that encryption happens in the upper layers so by the time traffic goes through the ME, it is just gibberish. Someone with expertise enlighten me, please!

New comment by whage in "F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]"

whage — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 08:11:25 +0000

I've been looking for an article that I think I found 10+ years ago on the web about a very similar topic, something like "the evolution of database systems". It was a very well written article that I just skimmed through and planned to read properly but could never find it again. I remember it had hand-drawn-style diagrams of database architectures with blue backgrounds, sometimes squiggly lines and maybe even some bees on them (could be just my mind mixing it with something). I'd be eternally grateful if someone here could find it.

New comment by whage in "When Random Isn't"

whage — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:29:05 +0000

This post feels like recent movie trailers. The way you wrote it makes me believe you know what you are talking about but I have no idea. Care to give the curious reader pointers to the topics you mention? I mean the "printing press to furnace" analogy of the economy, or what you mean by 1971 or the gold bug or the 50 year transistor omg what?

New comment by whage in "Pushup: a new compiler for making web apps in Go"

whage — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 16:31:48 +0000

This really seems like php. I also think that mixing UI with logic is a recipe for disaster and there is already php (and several others?) for that. I suppose the creators of such a thing have a decent knowledge of compilers and related domains, knowledge which really seems wasted on a project like this.

New comment by whage in "Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI"

whage — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 22:13:10 +0000

I almost peed.

New comment by whage in "Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location"

whage — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 15:03:11 +0000

Never heard of Level1Tech, just looked them up. Man... These people are so likeable! Great content!

New comment by whage in "Choosing Nim out of a crowded market for systems programming languages"

whage — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 22:56:22 +0000

The author seems to be very knowledgeable about the different aspects of programming. Whether you agree with his opinions or not, this article I think is a great starting point for learning about many interesting topics. Definitely bookmarked for later.

New comment by whage in "Consider working on genomics"

whage — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 19:37:48 +0000

I'd like to hear about this too!

New comment by whage in "A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop"

whage — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 13:35:53 +0000

Ken Thompson wrote in his famous paper [1] about quines:

> If you have never done this, I urge you to try it on your own. The discovery of how to do it is a revelation that far surpasses any benefit obtained by being told how to do it

Every once in a while I give them a try but I couldn't yet create one and it frustrates me very much. Afraid of being denied that "revelation" I never dared to read his paper past that point. I'm afraid I might never read it because of my ego.

1: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

New comment by whage in "Lisp can be “hard” real time [pdf] (2000)"

whage — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 14:41:56 +0000

I appreciate the clarification but what I didn't get is what "symbolic processing" has to do with "hard real-time" (who cares what the language looks like?) and similarly, how is "single processor" related to "hard real-time"

New comment by whage in "Lisp can be “hard” real time [pdf] (2000)"

whage — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 13:48:07 +0000

In every paper there comes a line at which I completely lose what they are talking about. If I'm lucky, this happens after the abstract/intro. In this case, this was it: "A real-time symbolic processing system on a single processor should have the following four features". What?

New comment by whage in "More content by people, for people in Search"

whage — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 10:12:05 +0000

Reading through the comments here (and very much feeling the pain they describe), this idea came: Shouldn't we have a search engine that heavily favours the types of websites that we typically look for? You know, the classic 90s style tech blogs, the plain HTML documentation pages. Ignoring websites with ads, sites with lots of baggage (fonts, scripts, whatnot), sites with lots of images. Maybe increase the ranking of pages that don't change much in their look and content as time goes by. I don't know. Would it be useful? How would it pay for itself?

New comment by whage in "More content by people, for people in Search"

whage — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 09:48:36 +0000

This resonates with me so freaking much. I am disgusted by how every bit of information on webpages seem to be buried between paragraphs of empty EMPTY talk and even when they seem to get to the point, most of the time there is no real information there. Sorry, this had to come out. We really need better search engines.

New comment by whage in "Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist"

whage — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:56:11 +0000

Fantastic job. I love that I can easily read breadth-first.

New comment by whage in "5G Mobile Networks: A Systems Approach"

whage — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:52:09 +0000

Can someone help me understand what is usually meant by "systems" as in "A systems approach"?

New comment by whage in "A Primer on Type Systems"

whage — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 23:16:29 +0000

The way the author describes static and dynamic typing seems to imply that static == compiled and dynamic == interpreted. I probably misunderstand something, can someone help me clear things up?

New comment by whage in "Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game"

whage — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:26:11 +0000

Such a simple and good looking game. Fantastic! Gives you a sense of just how big our oceans are.

New comment by whage in "“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”"

whage — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:23:44 +0000

Where should I start if I want to dip my toe in this topic? Have a few years of web development experience and a Bsc in software engineering in progress.

New comment by whage in "Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine"

whage — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:18:25 +0000

Good point, thanks for the excellent article!