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sitkack

17,430 karma · joined May 31, 2010

Slow thinker, like molasses.
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sitkack··on EloqKV, a distributed database with Redis compatible API (GPLv2 and AGPLv3)
What they rolled out was multikey transactions, they previously only had single key. Between multikey and session consistency, Aerospike is pretty nice.
sitkack··on EloqKV, a distributed database with Redis compatible API (GPLv2 and AGPLv3)
You need to take a look at https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-server sub millisecond reads and writes and supports transactions. Its main competitor is ScyllaDB which has comparable performance.
sitkack··on EloqKV, a distributed database with Redis compatible API (GPLv2 and AGPLv3)
Would you accept AGPL licensed pull requests?

EloqKV deployed on cloud is the same version hosted on github (the AGPL requires that users of EloqKV in your cloud service be available.

If you are taking AGPL licensed pull requests you can incorporate source from Aerospike and ScyllaDB (pre-relicense).

sitkack··on EloqKV, a distributed database with Redis compatible API (GPLv2 and AGPLv3)
another wonderful option with AGPL https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-server and for the redis interface https://github.com/aerospike-community/skyhook aerospike also has transaction support and strong session consistency
sitkack··on OpenMower – An open source lawn mower
You wouldn't anthropomorphize a lawn mower would you?
sitkack··on Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible
I agree, and thanks to AI we can scream debuggers at each other online, amazed that THAT actually works.
sitkack··on Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"
Bro already has a disease, doesn't care if everyone else gets it too. What kind of argument is ... I already sent my ID all over the internet multiple times?
sitkack··on Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"
Kroger already does this, they will get sued for millions and millions of dollars when they have a data breach.
sitkack··on Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bork_tapes
sitkack··on Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
If it doesn't have an NPM build, it isn't a serious project. Not using anything w/o a build.
sitkack··on Pfeilstorch
Unicellular organisms can be quite intelligent. Just because it has a single cell doesn't mean it doesn't have a mind!

Now the flu is virus, but it could still have a mind to perceive the seasons in it's infected running state.

sitkack··on When did AI take over Hacker News?
If I order Chinese takeout, but it gets made by a restaurant that doesn't know what Chinese food tastes like, then is that food really Chinese takeout?
sitkack··on When did AI take over Hacker News?
You forgot Erlang and Poker bots.
sitkack··on AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery
You can use Claude Code against Kimi K2, DeepSeek, Qwen, etc. The 20$ a month plan gets you access to a token amount of sonnet for coding, but that wouldn't be indicative of how people are using it.

https://gist.github.com/WolframRavenwolf/0ee85a65b10e1a442e4...

We gave Gemini CLI a spin, it is kinda unhinged, I am impressed you were able to get your results. After reading through the Gemini CLI codebase, it appears to be a shallow photocopy knockoff of Claude Code, but it has no built in feedback loops or development guides other than, "you are an excellent senior programmer ..." the built in prompts are embarrassingly naive.

Qwen has it's own agent which I haven't used https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code

Another is https://github.com/sst/opencode

sitkack··on HN Search isn't ingesting new data since Friday
Someone else posted this as well, but ... you wouldn't be able to find it.

There are dozens, dozens of us that use hn.aloglia, much better interface than the front page.

sitkack··on AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery
Jon Gjengset (jonhoo) Who is famously fastidious did a stream on live coding where he did something similar in terms of control. Worth of a watch if that is a style you want to explore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL7Au1tzNxE

I don't have the energy to do that for most things I am writing these days which are small PoC where the vibe is fine.

I suspect as you do more, you will create dev guides and testing guides that can encapsulate more of that direction so you won't need to micromanage it.

If you used Gemini CLI, you picked the coding agent with the worst output. So if you got something that worked to your liking, you should try Claude.

sitkack··on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
> By assuming that "professional arm candy" must be of one gender

Didn't say that, you are projecting. I will assume now tho, HN has this untraveled suburban teenage male vibe when it comes to anything except code. That period when they discover Rand and are good a specific set of narrow problems.

sitkack··on Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software
Python is too popular, no one uses it anymore.
sitkack··on Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible
Something something grug printf is all you need. People who LARP as Unix neckbeards rejoice in having nothing. Not content, actively seek out worse solutions.

Real Scottish craftspeople enjoy having amazing tooling. They even know how to use a debugger!

sitkack··on Pfeilstorch
People get colds in the winter time because they are all packed inside (without proper ventilation (ha!)).
sitkack··on Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software
Python still has no standard and open antagonistic towards refactoring their standard library so that the language and the library aren't shipped as a monolith.

The most difficult part for alternative Python implementations is supporting the same stdlib.

sitkack··on Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths
It would have to be shown with a large engineering margin that the exhaust salt would have known quantifiable effects.

It too might need to be physically subsea buried.

sitkack··on Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths
They don't talk about pollution, some pollution will drop off while coagulating microplastics can be much higher. The whole ocean is basically a fractionating column. Of course they are going to want to dump the salt in the bottom to complete the mass transfer loop of the upwelling water. This is going to mess up the whole thing.

Humans should be operating in closed water systems. We would have to do that anywhere else we go, we should be turning Earth into well run spaceship.

sitkack··on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
Inform me about my assumption of gender.
sitkack··on Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years
Don't pretend. You are trolling.

The same thing can be said for circular saw. The intention is the important aspect regardless of the purpose of the device.

Stop being coy and immature.

sitkack··on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations
You are an algorithm.
sitkack··on Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years
Devices are supposed to work as intended, implied is WHEN intended. If you have a circular saw that randomly cuts when not asked, is a mature response "oh no our cutty thing cuts" ?

That is why your post was flagged. A snarky, snide response like your detracts from meaningful discussion.

sitkack··on Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
I think what you meant to say is "that is not an enforced fair and free market" which is much different than capitalism.

The free-market folks talk about something that works in theory as an ideal, but has never actually been put into practice.

sitkack··on Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
All of Open Source needs a sunlit patent pool, a searchable database of documented inventions AND all of the follow on ideas around them. This could provide a way to force patent examiners to do their jobs and allow the Open Source Community to crowd source invention bombing the proprietary world.

How does one lookup these patents? They need more exposure so they can be refuted.

sitkack··on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
What a shallow, dismissive and sexist thing to say.
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