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Thanks! This comment was super helpful. :) I made a couple updates to the post with these findings. I suspected something like the `ff` labeling approach would improve the solution…

https://benjamincongdon.me/blog I like to write about productivity, Go/Rust, and my various web development projects. I also tend to write pretty frequently about programming langu…

Pricing depends a lot on how much memory your job requires[1] and how much processing each record requires -- i.e. the pricing is more sensitive to usage. As a very rough estimate,…

Yeah, max execution time (and max memory usage) are the main constraints of using Lambda. Corral deals with this by splitting input data into small enough chunks that each chunk ca…

Hi HN, author here. Corral is my attempt at a performant, easy-to-deploy MapReduce. Unlike traditional frameworks like Hadoop, it uses AWS Lambda for execution and is “serverless” …

The iOS app has been pretty good (if a bit buggy and slow), but the desktop web interface is so bad to the point that I haven't used it in over a year -- and I use myfitnesspal dai…

This is so cool! I've been following Inconvergent's work ( https://twitter.com/inconvergent ). This seems like something I might be interested in. Thanks for sharing!

Cool! I've been looking for something that does just this

Unfortunate that this doesn't apply to "The Pragmatic Programmer". Still, very cool show of support against DRM.

Hi HN, This is a project I've been working on for a while now. It's a hobby horse to try new technologies, but I've really enjoyed working on it. I'm a fan of the GamesDoneQuick (g…