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> No human can go edit a brain to become better at math.
We literally do this by studying.
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.
From a business perspective, it's a long time to get to your first dollar.
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.
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.
No such thing. Business, like history, goes in circles.
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.
That's how you push the field forward. Good isn't good enough.
Posted by
levkk on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @11:55AM
from the pgdog.dev dept.
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levkk on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:24AM
from the show-hn dept.
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levkk on Monday September 21, 2026 @09:58AM
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levkk on Friday September 18, 2026 @11:13AM
from the show-hn dept.
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%...
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.
Same here! Except:
- PgDog is open source
- It runs anywhere, not just your cloud
- It's built for Postgres, not a MySQL pivot
I personally have thousands of hours in _both_ WoW and Counter Strike, and yet ...
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.
Posted by
levkk on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @10:01AM
from the pgdog.dev dept.
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levkk on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:56AM
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levkk on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:28AM
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levkk on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:50AM
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Posted by
levkk on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @10:49AM
from the pgdog.dev dept.
PgDog | Founding Software Engineer | Remote & Onsite (SF) | Full time |
https://pgdog.devPgDog 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.
Posted by
levkk on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @01:01PM
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Yup. Getting pretty tired from seeing these "0days" that are not exploitable in any real use case. Just vibes, no substance.