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It’s not a traditional blog, but Oxide’s RFDs cover exactly what you asked — implementation details and trade-offs: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/

To be fair, the most interesting bugs that can be caught with tests always feel like “I would’ve never guessed that part of system actually depends on this one”.

My friend and I had a similar idea a few years ago, so we’ve built a prototype of a tool that converts personal data exports to a single SQLite database: https://github.com/bionic/…

Big fan of this series of lectures: https://youtu.be/h-94UhJLeck?si=0bEeB9VjmwRXIWTB .

I’ve recently listened to a talk from Jane Street about their review system: they use this method exactly with a helper tool that keeps track of what you’ve already reviewed in the…

It's very hard to understand what Foundry actually is from the provided landing page. Would you be able to describe it? Is it like Retool, but with more data sources and blocks? Ca…

If you are interested in tinkering with personal data exports using SQL, my friend and I made Bionic: https://github.com/bionic/bionic . The README includes an example of calculati…

The problem with these monetary estimates is that they involve current valuations, which are probabilistically based on future outcomes, not enterprise value. PG once formalized YC…

Given that enough people use this heuristic, there will be companies focusing on earning karma on HN, writing comments and voting for products they are getting paid for.

I believe Hacker News’s backend is written on a Lisp (or, more precisely, Arc). In this context, JavaScript, Python and C are being debated for a role of client-side language handl…

Does something like Automattic's P2 platform exist as a standalone product (preferably, open source)? If not, I'd be interested to create something like this. Presumably, things li…

My friend Alexey (@shekhirin here) and I often make small projects analyzing our personal data. For example, we counted popularity of words over time in our Telegram group chats an…

Thank you! At the moment, no, but we are planning to create inline mode soon