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Yea, I edited the title to reflect that it's more of a claim. My B

What's actually more accurate is to say that there's a site out there that claims that they will sell you upvotes on Hacker News. Whether that actually happens, where, and how is u…

True, but: ShowHN rarely makes it to the front page https://randomshit.dev/posts/what-gets-to-the-front-page-of-...

Nothing special, just was interesting to see. I wonder who the clientele is...

I should mention that I clicked on every single link to see the contents before classifying it, which is part of what made this so tedious

Oh man, this is awesome. I learned a lot from collecting this data and one of the big takeaways for me was how diverse the set of news sources on HN is (to your point, very little …

"I hope you come away with a new appreciation that trade-offs exist, there is no free lunch despite the implementation language or algorithms used. Optimizations exist, but you can…

There's something highly unnatural feeling about video chat, I think it's very fundamental, and I have a hunch that research will bear this out eventually

I would also add: 1. new SQL entrants: PlanetScale, Cockroach 2. PaaS SQL: Spanner, Aurora

Weird, everything I've read said the contrary, e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/business/edgar-f-codd-79-...

From what I'm told, they've been pushing it very aggressively to existing customers, and growth has been slowing over the past few quarters. Pretty impressive all in all, given the…

This is great, now I can know how much money I'm losing all the time !

Hello everyone, author here. I wrote this post after wondering why Oracle is such a ubiquitous name, but almost no developers I've worked with have ever used it. After some researc…

~hello everyone, author here~ I know posts with ThOuGhT LeaDeRshIp titles like this are usually annoying, but I thought it would be interesting to write down some of the lessons I'…