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by peterldowns 10d ago
What made you just start posting on HN? Welcome and thanks for the links!
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by peterldowns 10d ago
Thanks for reading :) Broken down by key idea: - Allowing actions/setup-go users to specify a cache key prefix so that they can have more than one golang CI job, each with its own cache: this is 100% worth upstreaming. I believe there
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by peterldowns 10d ago
How did this new account `vertigoruntime` get three posts on the front page, all in the last day? - This post - The DeepMind Institute https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727659 - Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual
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by peterldowns 10d ago
Good question — we'd be happy to submit a PR, but it's not clear to me that they'd be interested. Some background: - Our approach writes new cache entries all the time. This can get expensive, and is a pretty big change in be
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by peterldowns 10d ago
Hey everyone, one of the authors here. This is a "small" improvement that has saved us a LOT of developer time over the last few months. It's actually quite crazy to me that the default actions/setup-go simply does not w
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Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go(cloudx.ai)
42 points by peterldowns 10d ago|5 comments
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by peterldowns 14d ago
But why not Zanzibar?
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by peterldowns 16d ago
This is awesome. Does the demo run fully client-side? This is at least as good as my current solution (Preview.app -> Tools -> Remove Background), I generally pre-crop so it's not too hard to get just the object I care about.
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by peterldowns 22d ago
As a Pennsylvanian I think this is idiotic and I completely blame the press, who have breathlesslly amplified baseless negative claims. Such as that datacenters are somehow bad for the environment, have negative impacts on water supply, wil
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by peterldowns 1mo ago
The idea is that it's like Github but it stays up even as your commit/CI frequency increases. As a customer I'm stoked and looking forward to fully switching over as that's exactly what I want.
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by peterldowns 2mo ago
I feel stuck on Github until the next generation of forges (I assume Linear is working on one too, and the Pierre guys, and there's probably more) are ready. When it works, I'm actually a huge fan of Github. It just doesn't w
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by peterldowns 2mo ago
Can't wait for the Graphite/Cursor alternative (Origin) to become available. Actions being down for an hour in the middle of the US East workday is crazy. It's super frustrating to be an enterprise customer of Github, seems l
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by peterldowns 2mo ago
We built our first version of our in-app agent with opencode, but we're probably going to switch to Pi. Fundamentally, Pi is the shape of the thing that should exist, and it's awesome to see that it works. Very satisfying to my en
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by peterldowns 2mo ago
Possibly — but then you need a cowfs everywhere you run your tests. Templates are already really fast. Give it a shot and lmk if it’s faster!
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by peterldowns 2mo ago
Yup! If you keep your laptop on, failing dbs are investigable on tmpfs too — works fine for debugging a few tests in a loop, just can’t run the tests, sleep the computer, have lunch, and come back.
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by peterldowns 2mo ago
Just want to say thank you, Brandur, for checking out pgtesdb and benchmarking it so thoroughly. I’m pleased that it performs so well and I’m going to throw some tokens and brainpower at potentially implementing a cleanup+reuse+pool of succ
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by peterldowns 2mo ago
Back in highschool, simulating different elevator algorithms was one of the projects I implemented during my CS class. It wasn't for the class — AP CS did not require anything like actual programming — but it was a fun project. A cool
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by peterldowns 2mo ago
Just want to say thank you to Brandur for doing such a cool experiment. Last year I actually explored the River test suite to understand how they made it work so quickly — he's understating it when he says their implementation is &quot
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Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast(brandur.org)
20 points by peterldowns 2mo ago|2 comments
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by peterldowns 3mo ago
Always wondered this. Must have been tried and not worked?
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by peterldowns 3mo ago
Keep following this line of thought and you'll end up in the same territory as Nick Land. If you haven't read already, the xenosystems blogs would probably be quite interesting to you.
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by peterldowns 3mo ago
"completely" in my experience
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by peterldowns 4mo ago
Yes, we know. Good teams increase the likelihood of success with AI code generation the same way they increased the likelihood of success during hypergrowth: better infra, better devops, better internal abstractions/frameworks/bui
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by peterldowns 4mo ago
What kind of cpu/memory do the vms get? Is there a way to define the template that's used, so I can say to a new team member, log in to boxes.dev and all the repos and tools are already there for you? And where do you get the mach
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by peterldowns 4mo ago
I've decided to no longer post here after the incredible amount of spam I started receiving, both in terms of direct email submissions as well as unqualified and outright fraudulent applications to my application tracking system. By fr
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by peterldowns 4mo ago
Judson sounds a lot like Henry, my twin brother, in terms of his abilities and profound autism. Growing up I learned to say that Henry is “autistic retarded” but I am sure that’s out of date. Anyway, God bless Judson, his family, and especi
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by peterldowns 4mo ago
Yes. This is partially why other ecosystems don’t see as many supply chain attacks.
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by peterldowns 5mo ago
Neutrino research is so cool. SNO+ is entering a new phase this year, with a new scintillator fluid that might allow us to determine their Majorana status. Always cool to realize how much is still unknown, and how tenuously we “know” anythi
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by peterldowns 5mo ago
This is really good, particularly the async tasks part. Hadn't thought about that. We'll be thinking about these lessons for the next version of our agent CLI.
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by peterldowns 5mo ago
Oh sweet, thanks Mitch! I was a customer of Buildkite a few years ago, looking forward to working together again.

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