b-man | Dark Hacker News

user:	b-man
created:	June 14, 2009
karma:	3.5k
about:	Believer in individual freedom and debugging. ebellani -at- gmail -dot- com http://github.com/ebellani/

1.	Just Use Postgres for Everything(amazingcto.com) 17 points by b-man 2 days ago \| 3 comments
2.	Cloudflare outage should not have happened(ebellani.github.io) 160 points by b-man 4 days ago \| 260 comments
3.	Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot's Code(cacm.acm.org) 1 points by b-man 17 days ago \| 0 comments
4.	Historical Reflections: Artificial Intelligence Then and Now(mags.acm.org) 2 points by b-man 38 days ago \| 0 comments
5.	The long slow death of UML(wolandscat.net) 4 points by b-man 39 days ago \| 4 comments
6.	Dealing with GPT Results, Or, Pots, Kettles and Hallucinations(ebellani.github.io) 2 points by b-man 43 days ago \| 0 comments
7.	In depth analysis of database workloads and benchmarks(database-doctor.com) 2 points by b-man 48 days ago \| 0 comments
8.	AAS: The Metric for Monitoring DB Performance(kylehailey.com) 2 points by b-man 50 days ago \| 0 comments
9.	Evolution and Artificial Intelligence Face the Same Basic Problem(mindmatters.ai) 1 points by b-man 53 days ago \| 0 comments
10.	Clips a Tool for Building Expert Systems(clipsrules.net) 2 points by b-man 73 days ago \| 0 comments
11.	Picat: A Logic-based Multi-paradigm Language (2014) [pdf](logicprogramming.org) 44 points by b-man 83 days ago \| 6 comments
12.	Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)(reasonablypolymorphic.com) 244 points by b-man 86 days ago \| 307 comments
13.	Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded (2023)(postgresql.org) 3 points by b-man 87 days ago \| 0 comments
14.	The GenAI Divide State of AI in Business 2025 [pdf](mlq.ai) 1 points by b-man 101 days ago \| 0 comments
15.	The Java type system is broken (2018)(wouter.coekaerts.be) 29 points by b-man 104 days ago \| 5 comments
16.	What is mathematics? A classification based on universals(ebellani.github.io) 2 points by b-man 104 days ago \| 0 comments
17.	Paxos Made Live – An Engineering Perspective [pdf](read.seas.harvard.edu) 2 points by b-man 106 days ago \| 0 comments
18.	Many Faces of Ad Hoc Transactions: findings from real world transactions(cacm.acm.org) 1 points by b-man 108 days ago \| 0 comments
19.	Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)(cs.stanford.edu) 125 points by b-man 113 days ago \| 47 comments
20.	AI and ML AI industry's size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues(theregister.com) 3 points by b-man 128 days ago \| 0 comments
21.	PostgreSQL Schema Management via Source Files(github.com) 4 points by b-man 134 days ago \| 0 comments
22.	Interview with Alan Kay(web.archive.org) 3 points by b-man 140 days ago \| 2 comments
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24.	So why don't we pick the optimal query plan?(vondra.me) 3 points by b-man 142 days ago \| 0 comments
25.	Fundamentals of garbage collection (2023)(learn.microsoft.com) 142 points by b-man 145 days ago \| 32 comments