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Re:Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapsh... by vyedin on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @12:33PM (#49099666)
this is super cool, bookmarking to give it a whirl

> As a demo, I made a Hacker News clone with story submission, votes, comments and auth in about 60 lines of Markdown, plus CSS

although why would you use it for evil

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Re:Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapsh... by wgjordan on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @01:09PM (#49100197)
> although why would you use it for evil

I couldn't help it! Ben Johnson recently wrote a Litestream post touching on this topic [1]:

> multiple-writer distributed SQLite databases are the Lament Configuration and we are not explorers over great vistas of pain

I offer my sincerest apologies if this database release may have inadvertently opened the gates of Hell.

[1] https://fly.io/blog/litestream-writable-vfs/

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