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Re:Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres by iepathos on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:57PM (#37575598)
Nice tool, only unfortunate name, consider changing it. Already very well know security tool named hydra https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra been around since 2001. Then facebook went ahead and named their config tool hydra https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra on top of it. Like we get it, hydra popular mythology but we could use more original naming for tools
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Re:Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres by robertlagrant on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @04:36PM (#37576158)
Let's hope Ory never uses it! Oh no[0].

[0] https://www.ory.sh/hydra

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Re:Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres by cultofmetatron on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @04:02PM (#37575688)
yea acropolis would be a better name given that its columns are famous
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Re:Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres by coatue on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @04:13PM (#37575850)
I was thinking X.com - is it available?
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Re:Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres by re-thc on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @08:37PM (#37579029)
Better to call it Twitter.
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Re:Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres by hamoid on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @04:49PM (#37576339)
Or https://github.com/hydra-synth/hydra (Livecoding networked visuals in the browser, since 2017)
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Re:Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres by metadat on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @10:29PM (#37579763)
Yeah, everyone names their thing something generic like Atlas or Hydra. Choose to be daring and original instead! You won't regret it.
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