Kinrany's comments

On: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

[Kinrany]

You missed a perfectly good opportunity to explain your product :)

On: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

[Kinrany]

Why?

[ciju → Kinrany]

Basically sqlite on opfs mode: https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/persistence.md#incognito

On: Paris: Causally Consistent Transactions with Partial Replication

[Kinrany]

Omitted for title: "with non-blocking reads".

"TCC avoids many anomalies of eventual consistency, eschews the synchronization costs of strong consistency, and supports interactive read-write transactions. Partial replication is another attractive design choice for building geo-replicated platforms, as it increases the storage capacity and reduces update propagation costs."

On: 19 States approved permanent daylight saving time

[Kinrany]

I prefer decaminutes

[W-Stool → Kinrany]

Furlongs per fortnight.

This was a real unit of time on VAX/VMS systems.

On: 19 States approved permanent daylight saving time

[Kinrany]

Markets don't solve coordination problems

[kelseyfrog → Kinrany]

What are you talking about? Markets solve the distribution and valuation coordination problem by price signaling. That's the whole shtick.

[mindslight → kelseyfrog]

Markets are a heuristic for solving some computationally hard problems. Heuristics get stuck in local optima. Overcoming local optima is presumably what GP meant by coordination problem.

On: 19 States approved permanent daylight saving time

[Kinrany]

Changes to official time zones should be a non-issue to you then

On: Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

[Kinrany]

uBlock Origin reduces it to an almost reasonable number of three embeds plus the "trending" section. But the cookies consent modal is also disgusting

[tim333 → Kinrany]

I don't really get anything apart from a couple of links to science alert stuff. uBlock lite and the "I still don't care about cookies" extension.

I tried turning those off to have a look and my what a lot of ads. It sort of puzzles me that people put up with them.

[bookofjoe → tim333]

An analogy: they're sort of like chronic tinnitus. After a few years you don't even notice them.

[rpozarickij → Kinrany]

In addition to uBlock Origin I'm also using AdGuard as my home WiFi DNS server and I'm seeing zero ads and no cookie notices in the linked article. For cookies I'm using uBlock Origin's Filter lists which are available in the extension settings.

[globular-toast → Kinrany]

Funny, I see not a single ad, trending section, nor a cookie consent.

Are you on Chrome?

[mynameisash → globular-toast]

Firefox mobile. I just checked, and for some reason, uBlock Origin was deactivated. No longer!

On: Show HN: I open-sourced my Steam game, 100% written in Lua, engine is also open

[Kinrany]

No license too.

On: Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language

[Kinrany]

People like doing cool stuff

On: Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule

[Kinrany]

Men have been trying to decide who's allowed to own big sticks forever, there's no "playing god" involved