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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:51PM (#50344347)
> No human can go edit a brain to become better at math.

We literally do this by studying.

Re:Corporate Linux on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:08PM (#50185957)
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain. Fork it, run it, make it better. That's the gift of GPL. Just because you can't spin it up on EC2 (yet) doesn't make it a worse kernel. Lots of hosting providers accept custom images.
Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:53PM (#50173209)
From a business perspective, it's a long time to get to your first dollar.
Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:10PM (#50169504)
It's kinda crazy that Partiful existed for over 7 years, has series A funding, and yet is completely free.
If I could run SoTA models on my desktop, you would be onto something. While it's a subscription, the big guys who own the data centers will do whatever the guys in government tell them to. TLDR: you'll start getting the "I can't assist you with this task" reply to all your prompts.
Re:How the Claude Code team does code review on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:45PM (#50125793)
Yuuuup. Which I guess makes it even harder to detect what's AI and what's not.
That defeats the purpose. If I have an email, I want to be reachable. We just need a good spam detector...oh wait, that's pretty much solved already :)

Anyway, nothing against the posted project! I think it's cool.

Re:Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:57PM (#50074901)
No such thing. Business, like history, goes in circles.
Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:55AM (#50058249)
We disabled PRs for PgDog, but left the issues open, for now.

Most bugs that are reported via AI-generated GitHub issues are edge cases, which are technically bugs, but not something anyone actually ran into.

Contributions are exclusively AI-generated, and it's much easier to just go off of a GitHub issue myself than asking the bot behind the GH account to remove the 5 redundant tests it added, or to refactor what has become a 3k line file.

AI doesn't care about code quality, maintenability, or long term goals. It's just a local maximum optimized with RL. Great for debugging, OK for reviews, but can't produce anything that's above average.

Re:Supabase Is Acquiring Turso on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:55PM (#49935777)
That's how you push the field forward. Good isn't good enough.

Show HN: pg_raw_parse - parse PgSQL in Rust

https://github.com/pgdogdev/pg_raw_parse

Hey HN!We built a wrapper on top of the Postgres native SQL parser to allow us to parse and manipulate SQL in Rust.Our library forks libpg_query [1] and its original Rust bindings, pg_query.rs [2]. By not using Protobuf and mapping our structs directly on top of the Postgres arena allocator, we are able to achieve a pretty massive speedup:- 20-60x parse/deparse, depending on query size- 90%...

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116% would be 2x which will break the laws of physics. 16% is possible if you're not allocating heap memory, which I believe is the main selling point here.
Re:Neki by PlanetScale on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:25PM (#49651501)
Curious to compare your implementation to ours [1] some day (if you guys open source it).

[1]: https://docs.pgdog.dev/features/sharding/2pc/

Re:Neki on Thursday September 10, 2026 @05:23PM (#49650339)
Same here! Except:

- PgDog is open source

- It runs anywhere, not just your cloud

- It's built for Postgres, not a MySQL pivot

Re:Codex Is Down on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:30AM (#49551670)
Oh no! Anyway...
Re:AI Policy on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:35PM (#49541260)
I personally have thousands of hours in _both_ WoW and Counter Strike, and yet ...
Re:AI Policy on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:35PM (#49539628)
Not if he can also deliver equally good or better results, which I suspect he will. Not everyone needs it to do a good job, and for others, it could be a net negative.

Using computers created an unambiguous productivity boost. Same cannot be said for all types of software engineering with AI; that's why we keep having this debate. The results are mixed.

Re:Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? on Sunday August 16, 2026 @12:45PM (#49321598)
We don't maintain it anymore. I'm working on pgdog[1] fulltime now. We've had several successful pgcat -> pgdog migrations now.

[1] https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026) on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @12:38AM (#49164409)
PgDog | Founding Software Engineer | Remote & Onsite (SF) | Full time | https://pgdog.dev

PgDog is a proxy for scaling PostgreSQL, the world's most popular open source database.

Comp: 120k-250k + 1-3% equity

Contact: [email protected]

There is a difference between using an electric drill and having a robot assemble the entire car.
Re:Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:52PM (#49042053)
Yup. Getting pretty tired from seeing these "0days" that are not exploitable in any real use case. Just vibes, no substance.

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