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Back in college, I thought I could compress my phone number by telling people its index in pi, but my 7 digit phone number is at an 8 digit index. I didn’t have the compute to find…

I had this too until I lowered it's memory limit. In ~/.duckdbrc `set max_memory='1GB';` or even less

By default, it tries to take 80% of your memory. I've found that you need to set it to something much smaller in ~/.duckdbrc `set max_memory='1GB';`

You can be my first user! https://postgraphs.com/ - it’s an old weekend project of mine that I’d like to finish up soon

Similarly, watch a random walk solving a maze https://stripenight.com/random_walk.html

The best way to get software engineers to solve your issue with X is to phrase your question “Why is X so horrible? It can’t even do Y.” The engineers will inevitably reply “That’s…

I hadn't heard of Opera Unite. It's similar and 10+ years older! Thanks for the kind words - friends have been mostly confused by this project.

Heroku's github integration has been down for 2 weeks

> there's actually proportionally less failures in Product Hunts busiest period This is a really interesting post! I think there's a little survivorship bias. As Product Hunt grew …

This is advice that seems reasonable but is actually pretty harmful. Take a startup with a few users. The senior engineer decides they need pub/sub to ship a new feature. With Kafk…

This is a neat idea, but I think the site is a bit too barebones for people to want to trust with their data.

The article does a good job of explaining the difference between WHERE and HAVING. The simplest resource I've found for this is Julia Evans' "SQL queries run in this order" [0], wh…

This is quite a bit of infrastructure for an app that hasn't launched yet. If it's not too late, consider simplifying by removing RabbitMQ or Redis. Perhaps even getting rid of bot…

When you first hear Tailwind's concepts, they seem to contradict everything you know about good software design. When you try it out and begin to remember some of the class names, …

Hi HN! This was a python script I used on the command line for a while, before spending a weekend converting it to a microsite. Pretty print json with single quotes or None or anyt…

Lots of developers believe that if they think hard enough and choose the right side project, it will succeed. I think the takeaway here is that chance plays a big role. So increase…

Browser extensions will redirect HTTP to HTTPS as the request is made, so CoffeeShopWifi can't help you there. Most sites will send a redirect to HTTPS, which CoffeeShopWifi does n…

Neat to see all the alternatives. I'm not sure what non-technical folks do when faced with this problem, so I picked a friendly domain name. Ironically, if CoffeeShopWifi.com works…

Hi HN, PrettyPrintPlease is a small weekend project that I’m excited to share. I work at a hardware company and spent a few months with our logistics team integrating a lot of outd…