bhurlow

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) on Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:26PM (#46578962)

love the UX

Re:Datomic Is Now Free on Saturday April 29, 2023 @01:16PM (#35754904)

I've been told by the Datomic team only on-prem is used within Nubank. Could be wrong tho

Re:Datomic Is Now Free on Saturday April 29, 2023 @01:10PM (#35754832)

sharding, microservices, they run many instances of Datomic to handle different functionality

Re:Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working ... on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @08:55AM (#24198008)

yoga, not even kidding

Re:Nubank acquires Cognitect on Thursday July 23, 2020 @10:37AM (#23927787)

I'm just remembering the sad collapse of RethinkDB...

The task of making a viable commercial database in 2020 is herculean and I can really empathize with the team's need to both keep cashflow and have a sufficiently sized deployment to debug against.

Can also say that everyone I've met at nubank are really passionate about the ecosystem and seem like they'll be excellent partners

Re:Nubank acquires Cognitect on Thursday July 23, 2020 @09:47AM (#23927307)

any relevant links to share about this?

Re:Nubank acquires Cognitect on Thursday July 23, 2020 @09:11AM (#23926966)

Is a "transaction log" not exactly the technical shape of a bank?

Re:Rackspace S-1 on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:48PM (#23793434)

would put Scalyr in that category

Re:Babel 7.5 on Sunday July 07, 2019 @09:36AM (#20375024)

I'm excited to use the pipeline operator but I was burned when I adopted a library (https://github.com/danprince/zaphod) which used the function bind operator only to find that lost major steam in TC39 process

Re:Rich Hickey on Datomic Ions [video] on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:52PM (#18018551)

Out team chose Datomic for it's graph like properties and emphasis on data locality. This is optimal for GraphQL style patterns where you'd otherwise join a million tables

Re:Why use GraphQL, good and bad reasons on Friday August 24, 2018 @09:59AM (#17834962)

Datomic "on premise" version is not dependent on any AWS services and can be run on any box using vanilla java

Re:ClojureScript beginners' home page on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:05AM (#16867465)

Support for NPM modules out of the box is a hot topic in the cljs community, imo things have greatly improved even in the past few months.

Checkout https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo And https://andrearichiardi.com/blog/posts/lumo-npm-dependencies...

Re:Midifinity: An infinite collection of synthesizers on Friday February 23, 2018 @09:58AM (#16446634)

I love the url hashes

Re:React-Move – Animate anything in React on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:18PM (#14145197)

imagining what a non-deterministic animation library would be like :) ...

Re:Next.js 2.0 on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:48AM (#13967658)

You can use Next.js to do server-side only rendering. It uses React idioms for rendering in favor of vanilla templating

Ask HN: Resources for learning about scaling a startup?

Posted by bhurlow on Sunday December 14, 2014 @06:18PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Heya HN,I work for a small startup in mpls thats growing pretty fast.Does anyone have any recommendations about books/resources to learn about building web applications to scale?We're using postgres and leveldb as our primary data stores...

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What a trojan backdoor script looks like.

Posted by bhurlow on Saturday March 22, 2014 @04:35PM
from the blog.brianhurlow.com dept.

http://blog.brianhurlow.com/anatomy-of-a-trojan-backdoor-attack

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Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Meteor.js? on Saturday November 16, 2013 @11:55AM (#6745404)

Meteor is one of the most comprehensive and smooth frameworks for making web applications available today. It solves a ton of problems with a few overarching concepts: http://docs.meteor.com/#sevenprinciples

Re:Show HN: Hiro – Fast and responsive notetaking meets semantic search on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @06:00PM (#6479342)

love it!

Show HN: node minimalistic proxy

Posted by bhurlow on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @03:14PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://gist.github.com/bhurlow/5535282

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Show HN: node minimalistic proxy

Posted by bhurlow on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @03:13PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://gist.github.com/bhurlow/5535282

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Ask HN: DNS service with an api

Posted by bhurlow on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @04:37PM
from the ask-hn dept.

What's a good DNS hosting solution that has a good, straightforward api. (I find route53 to be an api headache)

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Re:Ask HN: What's the easiest way to host a static website? on Thursday April 11, 2013 @12:20PM (#5532898)

this is cool thnx, more or less what I was looking for

Ask HN: What's the easiest way to host a static website?

Posted by bhurlow on Thursday April 11, 2013 @12:15PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have tried:1. Amazon s32. Custom simple node.js web server and a PAAS like Heroku, Appfog etc.3. Linux server running nginx (so far more expensive than the above options)Any other awesome static web hosting services I'm missing? I'm looking for absolute ease of use here

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Re:Ask HN: Would anyone use a command line task manager? on Thursday April 11, 2013 @12:12PM (#5532844)

Ive been using timetrap https://github.com/samg/timetrap

Re:I’m done with the web on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:24PM (#5416281)

Lets think about this from the opposite direction: Which projects on the web are the MOST successful? Facebook? Twitter? Gmail? Github?

Do ANY of those giants use big, all-encompassing super libraries? NOPE