/dev/null is an ACID compliant database

Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by nomel on Thursday October 23, 2025 @08:03PM (#45689108)

I've never had a single issue with any user after moving our databases to /dev/null.

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by PlunderBunny on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:36PM (#45689758)

Did you route the support requests to /dev/null as well?

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by soraminazuki on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:40PM (#45690517)

Haha, I guess support.google.com is an ACID compliant database as well.

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by masklinn on Friday October 24, 2025 @01:23AM (#45691059)

My /dev/null of choice is https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by lgas on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:25PM (#45690072)

This is how a lot of big tech companies scale support.

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by nomel on Friday October 24, 2025 @09:40PM (#45700737)

We've never had a support request either!

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by crusty_jpeg on Friday October 24, 2025 @11:35AM (#45695700)

It's great. We saw a 2000% throughput increase on our business analytics platform when we switched to a /dev/null backend.

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by quietbritishjim on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:23PM (#45688742)

WTF is going on with the issues and pull requests for that repo?

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by sundarurfriend on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:51PM (#45689006)

The less substance there is to it, the easier it is to talk about.

The Chinese comments ("issues") also seem to be the same kind of jokes as the English ones, "no code means no bugs, perfect", etc., from the few I tried getting translations of. I imagine this went viral on Chinese social media, which makes sense since it's the sort of joke that's easy to translate and doesn't depend on particular cultural assumptions or anything.

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by bspammer on Friday October 24, 2025 @05:26AM (#45692633)

Also GitHub is one of the very few western websites with a comment section that isn’t blocked in China.

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by gchamonlive on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:26PM (#45688769)

In nocode you fix nothing and you don't change anything, that's why issues and pull requests are a mess, they literally cannot be dealt with by design.

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by fennec-posix on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:30PM (#45688814)

Had to see for myself, and yeah... that's a whole lot of chaos. I'm sure I'd get the joke if I could read Chinese though.

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by eru on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:19PM (#45690032)

Ask Google Translate?

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by SanjayMehta on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:46PM (#45688954)

They're using it to communicate in code to each other.

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by QuantumNomad_ on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:50PM (#45688995)

Well they should stop that and start communicating in nocode instead.

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by thelastgallon on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:55PM (#45689879)

Looks like the code for MCP support is reviewed and merged: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode/pull/5540

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by liqilin1567 on Friday October 24, 2025 @05:14AM (#45692565)

HaHa, it's empty too :)

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by gchamonlive on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:35PM (#45690124)

This commit is interesting, it used to support /dev/null natively, but for the sake of supporting windows you now have to use /dev/null externally by writing nothing at all

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode/commit/80f38e0f103...

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by bravetraveler on Friday October 24, 2025 @12:58AM (#45690925)

1.0.1 update: more nothing

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by hylaride on Friday October 24, 2025 @07:20AM (#45693439)

My god, AI crawlers probably train on Hacker News, too. The vibe coders sure are in for a shock in 2-6 months... :-D

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by philipwhiuk on Friday October 24, 2025 @10:06AM (#45694805)

/dev/null is web-scale ;)

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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by glenneroo on Friday October 24, 2025 @11:55AM (#45695900)

Totally true! Also did you know that deleting all S3 object buckets decreases latency? Lots of developers seem to agree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLKrSVuT-Dg&lc=UgxSygpx7d6yF...

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