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5 hours going now and the entire thing is still completely down. This level of incompetence and their total disrespect for their customers is unbelievable.

I maintain a package on npm with >1M weekly downloads. I also got the same phishing e-mail, although I didn't click it.. here are the e-mail headers in the phishing e-mail I got: R…

I guess this is the 1yr sharpe plotted over time, ie the sharpe at date X considers the stddev within the previous 365 days etc? Many brokers only show 1yr sharpe or perhaps 3yr sh…

process.stdout._handle.setBlocking(true) ...is a bit brutal but works. Draining the stream before exiting also kind of works but there are cases where drain will just permanently b…

Hmm, why did you build it as a desktop app in 2022? Seems like a no brainer to have this in the cloud so that you can seamlessly process huge files and integrate with various third…

It would be nice if the web somehow filtered out links that one had decided to not pay for.

We used a similar approach when we pushed to get -Werror enabled in a large C++ code base I worked on years ago.

It's a beauty. Why buy a finished product when you can quickly put something like this together ?

Dead birds? Clearly, the Earth's magnetic field must be reversing!!11 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/

I hate when you browse through 10-15 websites and for all of them you quickly click the "Accept" button in the bottom banner to get rid of the irritating cookie banners. And then s…

The name wren is already used by: https://projectwren.com/

I recently migrated a small side project from MySQL to PostgreSQL. I wrote a short blog post about how I did the migration, issues I ran into etc: http://blog.minimum.se/2019/07/09…

Very impressive!

Wow, Stripe is having a really shitty day.

I agree. Some more info here for those interested: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/A_Guide_to_CVE-2018-1058:_P...

I agree, especially some info on production installation on Linux would be really nice. For example, is it better to install the "postgres" ubuntu distro package, or is it better t…

The OWASP Postgres hardening page recommends that one removes the default "public" schema in postgres: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Backend_Security_Proje... ...whereas th…

The free "teaser video" starts off showing "actor_id serial NOT NULL" but in postgres 10 and above identity columns can/should be used instead? https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don…

The content overview doesn't include anything about escaping data to prevent SQL injection (escaping of literals vs escaping of table/field names etc). This is important to get rig…

It should be really nice to have variable playback speed for the videos.

Great article!

Thanks (you can upvote it here if you want: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19605334 ) I've added a mention of Xapian/Xapiand as well now and generated new graphs that include…

Good point; I've added it now, both to the blog post and to the graph: https://blog.minimum.se/assets/elasticsearch-open-source-com...

To get a feel for the size of Bleve, checkout this graph that shows commit rates doing into Bleve versus Elasticsearch and Vespa: http://blog.minimum.se/assets/elasticsearch-open-s…