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Hatchet | Product Engineer | NYC or SF or REMOTE (US and EU) | https://hatchet.run Hey HN! I'm Alexander, one of the founders of Hatchet. Hatchet is an open-source platform for run…

> I do wish the guide was expanded a bit with lots of specific examples and details... a lot of it is hand-wavy blurbs. I appreciate the feedback; I'm usually someone who tends to …

OP here, I appreciate this. > in addition to minimizing locked records, make sure your locks are ordered deterministically across all queries (eg by id asc, always) or you’ll deadl…

OP here, I appreciate the feedback! I tried to focus on things which could take down your database, so things like particularly slow reads and writes, autovacuum settings, reducing…

Hatchet | Full-Stack Engineer | NYC or SF or REMOTE (US and EU) | https://hatchet.run Hey HN! I'm Alexander, one of the founders of Hatchet. Hatchet is an open-source platform for …

> Our analysis revealed the fork-to-star ratio as the strongest simple heuristic for identifying potential manipulation. The logic is straightforward: a star costs nothing and conv…

Candidly we're still trying to figure that out: all of the plumbing is there in the open source, but the actual implementation of writes to S3 are only on the cloud version. This i…

Author here - I'm also generally skeptical of coding agents, but with the right problem domain and approach they can produce quality output when paired with humans. There was a poi…

Hi, thanks! To be clear, the demo there is merely a WASM-based Ghostty build which is rendering the TUI on a web page, just so people could try it out without needing to install an…

Hi everyone, I enjoyed building this TUI for myself and wanted to write down how I did it. I appreciate all the thoughts and feedback! The web app is our main investment, but I thi…

You're right - I'll remove that now until we can get it more performant or drop it altogether. This wasn't something we caught during testing. I appreciate the feedback!