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Re:Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:45AM (#50072576)
Amongst all the professionals that I have worked in my 15 years, VCs are the least ethical people. They will do “anything” for money.
Re:Supabase Is Acquiring Turso on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:44PM (#49938396)
I know it’s hard. My previous Postgres startup did fail.

IMHO, Turso spent a lot of time on rewrites and what’s possible instead of finding PMF.

Re:Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams on Thursday October 01, 2026 @03:38PM (#49926130)
I wonder how many of data infra startups are wrapper on top of S3.

Also, the boundary between OLTP and OLAP is blurring every day.

For folks who want an off shelf version of this you may be interested in https://github.com/viggy28/streambed

(Disclaimer: I am one of the committers)

Boundary between OLTP and OLAP is blurring every day.

For folks who want an off shelf version of this you may be interested in https://github.com/viggy28/streambed

(Disclaimer: I am one of the committers)

Re:AfterVibe: What Remains When the Conversation Ends on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:50AM (#49888777)
Super interesting.

I am going to explore integrating this on https://github.com/viggy28/recall

My bad on the phrasing. CJ joined MongoDB. The modern gender pronouns are confusing.
For folks who don’t know, CJ was the president of product and technology at Cloudflare for 6 months and CJ left them and joined MongoDB.
Re:Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? on Saturday September 26, 2026 @11:31AM (#49857500)
Appreciate it. Will definitely add a CLI option for it.
Re:Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? on Saturday September 26, 2026 @06:01AM (#49854971)
Thanks you.

Certainly, there is a lot of room to improve the README. Overall the project is very much alpha.

You're right. Currently, it's very binary. The answer is more nuanced and it should classify it based on the profiles like you mentioned.

Also, I noticed parsers for other databases that compiles to WASM. So, all running on client side.

Re:Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? on Saturday September 26, 2026 @05:51AM (#49854925)
Nice. Integrating it on CI and catching there is still the best way/place. Having said, it doesn't work like that in practice.
Re:Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? on Saturday September 26, 2026 @05:49AM (#49854919)
Agree. `lock_timeout` will go a long way in terms of damage control.
Re:Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? on Saturday September 26, 2026 @05:30AM (#49854800)
Author here: Adding some context. I led the Postgres platform team (2019-23) at Cloudflare and we were supporting 170+ growing product teams. One of the constant asks is schema migration review. We published a lot of best practices, added CI checks however, it was still hard to catch. Also, I tried to explain the internals of how the locking (rewrite) works, but I realized most of the devs just want the answer - Is it safe or not safe to run?

Not sure if it rings a bell, the name is a reference to the Silicon Valley Jian Yang's hot dog or not hot dog app.

Also, I understand the decision of safe vs not-safe depends heavily on data/histogram and edge cases, but still quite a lot of low-hanging issues can be easily caught with a deterministic rule engine. So I ported pg_savior[1] and used sql parser from libpg-query-node[2] which compiles as WASM, so it entirely runs on the browser. No telemetry, no login. Source attached [3]

[1] https://github.com/viggy28/pg_savior [2] https://github.com/constructive-io/libpg-query-node [3] https://github.com/viggy28/safe-not-safe

Re:Platform-Independent SIMD in Go on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:33PM (#49848274)
You're right. I could have but this encourages me to seriously consider it.
Re:Platform-Independent SIMD in Go on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:44AM (#49845380)
This will welcome more database/warehouses to be written in Go.

Personally I will implement it in https://github.com/viggy28/streambed

Re:Python Workers are now generally available on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:14PM (#49791948)
Agree. Until then I will wait.

Still a welcome move that they finally added support from Python.

I use recall https://github.com/viggy28/recall for the following reasons:

1. It's tightly integrated with Pi 2. Creates context automatically from sessions 3. No external dependencies - sqlite and numpy

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @08:12PM (#49690180)
An analytics store for Postgres on S3 using DuckDB as the query engine

https://github.com/viggy28/streambed

Re:Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:08PM (#49647041)
Is Bending Spoons the PE for startups?
Re:Neki by PlanetScale on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:06PM (#49647015)
Obviously welcome more tools for Postgres and sharding but it’s a tough hill to climb against the hyper clouds. Best wishes to the team.
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? on Monday September 07, 2026 @01:07AM (#49594110)
Instead of managing skills as files, I have been using a simple utility which helps me create, update/attach skills and finally search it across sessions https://github.com/viggy28/recall/
I don’t see mention of pi. Does anyone whether it works? I am going to check out.
Re:Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70% on Friday August 07, 2026 @09:30PM (#49218087)
Reads like an add to Omnigent or whatever harness (wait it’s meta harness?.
Is that the core/tech behind Kitesurf?
TL;DR

Initial bet didn’t work out and it also became irrelevant.

Company is focusing on computer for agents. Founder CEO replaced with a new CEO.

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