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Re:PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue on Saturday April 18, 2026 @06:12PM (#47819971)
I don't understand the latency graph. It says it has 0.25ms consumer latency.

Then in the latency tradeof section it says end to end latency is between 1-2 seconds.

Is this under heavy load or always? How does this compare to pgmq end to end latency?

Ask HN: Is GPT-5.2 smarter than you?

Posted by saberd on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:57AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Three years ago I asked HN if GPT-4 was smarter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35160752Reading the responses now feels almost quaint. We have now reached GPT-5.2, how are you feeling?I remember I also asked GPT-3.5 if it was afraid of being replaced by GPT-4 and its response was very human. It said that although GPT-4 was better, it was a bigger and heavier model and that there would...

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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @06:36AM (#47046395)
yeah I also really liked the font and graphs. maybe its https://plus.excalidraw.com/virgil?

Show HN: Nibble a fast and easy to use network scanner

Posted by saberd on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @06:03AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/backendsystems/nibble

Hi HN. I built Nibble, a local network scanner I always wanted because I kept forgetting the quickest way to find devices and services on my LAN or VPN that I needed to SSH or log into. It focuses on speed and ease of use.It scans common ports, grabs service banners, and identifies hardware vendors in a clean terminal UI. It’s open source and MIT Licensed, and it's available on brew, npm and...

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I gave up on publishing my CLI tool to a PPA

Posted by saberd on Monday January 19, 2026 @08:27AM
from the self-post dept.

I built a small CLI tool and thought it'd be nice to let Ubuntu users install it via apt. Seemed straightforward enough.Turns out Launchpad builds run in a network-isolated environment, so you can't fetch dependencies at build time. The toolchain versions available vary by Ubuntu release, and each version needs its own build configuration. The debian packaging format has a steep learning curve,...

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Re:I Love You, Redis, but I'm Leaving You for SolidQueue on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:31AM (#46615865)
We use pgmq with the pgmq-go client, and it has clients in many different languages, it's amazing. The queues persist on disk and visualizations of queues can easily be made with grafana or just pure sql requests. The fact that the queues lives in the same database as all the other data is also a huge benefit if the 5-15ms time penalty is not an issue.
Re:Rust – Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:39PM (#38224899)
I feel like shitting on golang is uncalled for if the systems you write can be done in C#.

I often see comments like this on hn, but In my experience golang works great and I'm writing real time systems with it.

Re:Nuclear Negligence on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @03:20AM (#37059608)
Nuclear Negligence examines safety weaknesses at U.S. nuclear weapon sites operated by corporate contractors.
Re:GPT4 is up to 6 times more expensive than GPT3.5 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:38PM (#35159197)
At last they didn't call it freeai
Re:Why not “Why not WireGuard?” (2020) on Sunday October 17, 2021 @02:04PM (#28898375)
Are outgoing ports blocked by the university? Wireguard servers usually use port 5000. http://portquiz.net:5000/
Re:Exposing Fraud and Deception in the Retro Video Game Market [video] on Monday August 23, 2021 @06:03PM (#28282563)
The video brings up that the same auction house was involved in the coin collection bubble in the 80s and had to settle with the FTC then.
Re:Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:04AM (#25314230)
So free as in open source, why is this called free and not open then?