Hacker News: xngbuilds

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time

xngbuilds — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:44:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pgedge.com/blog/looking-forward-to-postgres-19-its-about-time

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506372

Points: 154

# Comments: 43

New comment by xngbuilds in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

xngbuilds — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:43:17 +0000

After watching Andrew Kelley's interview video makes me want to pick up Zig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqddnwKF8HQ

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

xngbuilds — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:15:19 +0000

Article URL: https://lemon.rip/w/6-c-extensions-compilers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267126

Points: 175

# Comments: 92

Switching to Colemak

xngbuilds — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:37:42 +0000

Article URL: https://pta2002.com/blog/colemak/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265702

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

More Tagged Union Subsets with Comptime in Zig

xngbuilds — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:50:54 +0000

Article URL: https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2026/05/18/even-more-tagged-union-subsets-with-comptime/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191298

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM

xngbuilds — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:10:35 +0000

Article URL: https://btxx.org/posts/memory/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064312

Points: 253

# Comments: 99

Just Use Go

xngbuilds — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:40:22 +0000

Article URL: https://blainsmith.com/articles/just-fucking-use-go/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062997

Points: 226

# Comments: 222

Benchmarking AI agent retrieval strategies on Kubernetes bug fixes

xngbuilds — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:01:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/05/08/benchmarking-ai-agent-retrieval-strategies-on-kubernetes-bug-fixes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061869

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Potential Consequences of Using Postgres as a Job Queue

xngbuilds — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:45:38 +0000

Article URL: https://richyen.com/postgres/2026/05/04/postgres_job_queue.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048747

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A text editor as UI: implementation

xngbuilds — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:51:43 +0000

Article URL: https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2026/05/05/nfp-e/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036261

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Programming Is Real Engineering, and AI Proves It

xngbuilds — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:36:39 +0000

Article URL: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2026/programming_is_engineering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034650

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

xngbuilds — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:48:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020185

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Tokens and Dreams

xngbuilds — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:55:50 +0000

Article URL: https://charlesleifer.com/blog/tokens-and-dreams/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017576

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Don't let your Mac's storage fill up

xngbuilds — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:53:29 +0000

Article URL: https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/05/dont-let-your-macs-storage-fill-up/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016771

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

Do AI summaries hurt critical thinking?

xngbuilds — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:53:34 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/blueprint-for-disaster/ai-summaries-are-a-threat-to-our-cognitive-sovereignty-917afc37692f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007539

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Container Is Not a Sandbox

xngbuilds — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:11:49 +0000

Article URL: https://emirb.github.io/blog/microvm-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998392

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

A desktop made for one

xngbuilds — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:32:05 +0000

Article URL: https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997947

Points: 461

# Comments: 266

Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig

xngbuilds — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:11:33 +0000

Article URL: https://pure-systems.org/posts/2026-04-29-functional-programmers-need-to-take-a-look-at-zig.html

Hacker News: xngbuilds

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time

New comment by xngbuilds in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

Switching to Colemak

More Tagged Union Subsets with Comptime in Zig

Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM

Just Use Go

Benchmarking AI agent retrieval strategies on Kubernetes bug fixes

Potential Consequences of Using Postgres as a Job Queue

A text editor as UI: implementation

Programming Is Real Engineering, and AI Proves It

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

Tokens and Dreams

Don't let your Mac's storage fill up

Do AI summaries hurt critical thinking?

Container Is Not a Sandbox

A desktop made for one

Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig

GitHub Is Sinking

Bypassing DPI with eBPF Sock_ops