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Re:Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:05PM (#50321816)
If you took the findings seriously why didn’t you take the outrageous claims you were making in your own copy seriously? Why couldn’t you provide cogent analysis of these issues during the process? How did you hack up your db so bad in the first place?! This thing looks so bad bro I can’t help but think this kind of assertion only adds fuel to the fire.
> we're working on benchmarking now as well.
But you already said you were 1000x faster than Postgres??
Re:Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:16PM (#50318520)
Bro you've got to be kidding. pre-release builds? Aphyr directly addresses this in this analysis. Furthermore, given the absolutely ridiculous nature of some of these bugs, and the low confidence exhibited by the authors in the fixes, how can anyone assume that suddenly things are correct? The database was so janky that it sounds like most of the time was spent on basic bugs that a decent set of unit-tests would've caught. Who knows what wasn't uncovered because the db was so broken to begin with?
I mean did you see the "primary key equality" thing? Holy shit.
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:37PM (#50294630)
Jesus... How the fuck is this even on the frontpage?
Re:Laptop Based on 6502 CPU
on Monday October 19, 2026 @07:49AM (#50151231)
My father was very much the embodiment of the late 80s businessman. In the 90s he gave me his (now outdated) Dolch lunchbox. I lugged it around alright. It ran DOS and iirc was a 286 processor.
Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:30PM (#50108110)
The main difficulty I see in these "RETVRN TO SOVL" things is not the window-manager or desktop itself but the UI toolkits for the applications. GTK2 had so many excellent themes. Now GTK or libadwaita seem designed to resist themes and introduce constant breaking of selectors or widgets or whatnot. I believe they griefed the themers into just giving up. I have less knowledge about Qt, but I assume it's probably the better pick these days.
Re:Postgres isn't slow, your storage is
on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:16AM (#50055297)
io2 has lower latency than gp3, and better durability. We switched workloads off gp3, didn’t even need to provision crazy iops. It had a cascading effect of calming down.
Re:Claude Haiku 5.5
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:37PM (#50001634)
It performs well in the domains we’ve implemented it. Cheap, fast, good enough, multimodal. Its a workhorse and it strikes a nice balance. I’m open to the suggestion that I’m just winging it here and happened to get lucky with a model whose training fit our usage, which is boringly unspecific.
Re:Claude Haiku 5.5
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:01PM (#49999936)
Thx I’m digging into it but am somewhat comforted not to be alone in this. Turning up the level helps some but then we lose the speed. I don’t know that we’ll switch to 5.5 and may shop a different provider.
Anecdotally we ran sonnet 4.6 for our more complex stuff and sonnet 5 was a LOT worse. 5.5 seems to have fixed it and we cut over our customer workloads. It’s strange, really.
Re:Claude Haiku 5.5
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:08PM (#49997391)
At work we use haiku 4.5 for a handful of latency sensitive tasks that are fairly simple. It performs well. Just started testing 5.5 as I’ve been anticipating a nice improvement since it was teased. Results so far are trash. Prompt leakage even. And it’s slower. I guess it’s cheap but I think they got the balance wrong on this.
Re:Supabase Is Acquiring Turso
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @06:24PM (#49948372)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x8_ZZhRL3YU&ra=m
54min in was what I was thinking of.
“Lots of people have tried, you’re welcome to try”
I apologize if I gave a bad gloss, but I think it was roughly in the spirit of what you said.
Re:Supabase Is Acquiring Turso
on Friday October 02, 2026 @02:11PM (#49936691)
I think Richard Hipp has quipped “if you think you can build a better SQLite by god you’re welcome to try!”
Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:17PM (#49886270)
Post is slop but I was on a call this morning with our go-getter sales guy (he’s calling himself a gtm engineer now) where he talked about alternately buying Reddit comments and going and placing flyers on car windshields himself at offices of potential customers. Our CEO was enthusiastic.
Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird?
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:48PM (#49872622)
Don’t take AI so damn seriously (rule 63)
Re:S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @07:07PM (#49871725)
We ran EBS for years. Finally the costs became ridiculous and we moved our entire dataset to S3. We’re saving 20k/month. There’s just no beating the price.
Re:Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:19PM (#49473607)
This kinda dissonance is uncomfortable. How do people reconcile it?
Re:Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @11:27AM (#49098770)
The AI slop is tiring man wtf. It’s so fucking lazy. The benchmark is comparing apples to oranges and doesn’t seem to be aware of it, and the way it’s written just reeks of LLM.
Re:SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @07:35AM (#49096097)
sqlite-web, put it behind nginx with basic auth or configure a password.
Re:Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:47AM (#49020729)
Exactly. Shows us what is true in the sense of the experience of being a human. It is resilient against slop because good literature has experiential depth. Maybe LLMs learn to emulate this some day, but I doubt it. Not enough money in getting it right.
Re:I graded 36 popular MCP servers on agent usability. A third got a D...
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @08:15AM (#49005531)
Bro this is just slop.
Re:The real prices of frontier models. Tokens * Price, right?
on Monday July 13, 2026 @06:35PM (#48899845)
Bro, this was the only reason I opened the comments, and I'm so happy to see someone else noticed. Even if they removed that, the utter sloppiness of the prose is unbelievable. Offensive, even.
Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur
on Friday June 12, 2026 @02:56PM (#48508073)
The question that resonated with me was whether open source even matters anymore.
I think it does but there are weird dynamics I don’t fully understand. I’m curious about HNs thoughts.
My theories: Centralization around key projects due to AI pointing new users towards them. (At the same time this drives up the PR deluge onto these projects. Especially from newer users already heavily using llms.)
So many low effort AI-generated open source libraries that it becomes harder to tell signal from slop. More movement to the bigger projects because they are perceived as safer bets.
Re:The Dead Economy Theory
on Saturday May 30, 2026 @08:12AM (#48335351)
There are obvious tells that this was heavily curated by AI, the very thing it criticizes in the opening paras and roasts throughout as a life-destroyer.
I don’t disagree with the premise, and I appreciate the roasts of the SV pseudophilosophers (he left out Ayn Rand tho).
Re:Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend
on Sunday May 24, 2026 @06:03PM (#48261466)
Oh man I wrote this exact comment before trawling far enough to find yours. It belongs at the top. That HN cannot discern the obvious is more alarming than the blatant hypocrisy of the authors. Yeesh!
Re:Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend
on Sunday May 24, 2026 @05:56PM (#48261404)
This post reeks of being written by Claude. Surely you all feel it, too? Are people who write these kinds of posts lacking self awareness, integrity? Does it matter?
Re:Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @08:51PM (#48201674)
15 years ago GitHub was a strong signal for like-minded devs who were of the “let me code and slide pizza under the door” variety. The signal became less meaningful over time so people started optimizing for other things…stars, whatever. Brand. I think the venn diagram of front end marketing types and the explosion of js frameworks probably was the driver for this. Now with vibed out projects everywhere it’s a real task to separate the wheat from the chaff. And I still use gh because I imagine those stars are still current in some markets but maybe I’m deluding myself.
Or, Perhaps the invention of the rocket emoji most likely was the cause of this phenomenon.
Re:Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:05AM (#48178534)
I didn’t follow the article’s thesis. It felt written from a defensive crouch and claimed not to be punching down but it seemed to be radiating hostility the entire time. Something about vibe coding only replaces the lowest level of mechanical work involved in creative pursuits (including coding)?
I’m not a booster a doomer or a boomer but I think it’s a reasonable litmus test for LLM coding to implement 80% of an existing app or service. It’s not an accusation against anyone using LLM (I do) nor is it an excuse to take shots, it’s just a way of framing SotA capabilities.
Weird article, perhaps I missed something.
Re:Is China using fentanyl as a weapon against the United States?
on Friday May 15, 2026 @09:46PM (#48156053)
Didn’t know the sackler family was Chinese.
Re:Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside you...
on Thursday April 30, 2026 @01:49PM (#47965939)
Yeah, I had the same instinct - this feels very much like a "nice idea" but the execution falls short. I mean - busily banging on sqlite like this? Shit at that point just use Redis.
Re:I'm never buying another Kindle, and neither should you
on Monday April 20, 2026 @02:37PM (#47838670)
What on earth is this guy saying doesn’t he own like every kindle?
Re:The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess
on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @10:16PM (#47698605)
Read Moby Dick some time my friend.