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varun_chopra

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    Comment #48890131

    Thank you!

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    Comment #48887153

    Postkit: https://github.com/varunchopra/postkit This is basically my version of "what all could you throw into Postgres?" My problem with vibe coding/LLM assisted engineering is th…

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    Comment #48112051

    What does Google gain from this? They already struggle in hardware, or am I missing something - has something changed?

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    Comment #47875331

    Bhatti is a great name!

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    Comment #47820755

    I find it very odd that the rest of the comments are sort of... not agreeing with the findings in the article. I became a father recently (:D) and it's been an emotional rollercoas…

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    Comment #47582295

    The status page [1] has the actual root cause (enabling "Surrogate Keys" silently bypassed their CDN-off logic). The blog post doesn't. That's backwards. "0.05% of domains" is a va…

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    Comment #46940595

    Working on Postkit - auth, permissions, config, metering, and job queues as pure SQL functions inside Postgres. I've been using Claude Code to spin up apps quickly, and I kept need…

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    Comment #46523396

    It would be very interesting to see the outputs of his operations. How productive is one of his agents? How long does it take to complete a task, and how often does it require stee…

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    Comment #45577405

    Marketing is being done really well in 2025, with brands injecting themselves into conversations on Reddit, LinkedIn, and every other public forum. [1] CEOs, AI "thought leaders," …

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    Comment #44423320

    Oh man, I saw this once but forgot the name. Tried Googling, asked some LLMs—but alas, couldn’t find it again. Even an HN search didn’t turn up anything useful. So glad to come acr…

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    Comment #44301088

    At one point, when they made Gemini Pro free on AI Studio, Gemini was the model of choice for many people, I believe. Somehow it's gotten worse since then, and I'm back to using Cl…

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    Comment #44296519

    I think you do need to support being able to add more nodes to the Hetzner install. Then it'd be perfect.

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    Comment #44223279

    The writing is really strange. I'm not sure if this is AI or not. So many words, and so little has been conveyed... Example from the comments... > Great question. I haven’t found a…

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    Comment #43131930

    > You add add'l provisioners by writing Dockerfiles, you enforce pre-validations with JSON Schema That's really neat! Thank you for answering my questions and all the best with you…

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    Comment #43130463

    Oh boy, I have so many questions... * You want to simplify infrastructure, but there's a new learning curve here. Why did you decide to go with diagramming as a solution? What othe…

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    Comment #42469969

    Damn, reading all this makes me feel terrible. I wonder what goes on in somebody’s mind to make them self-sabotage their lives like Matt has over the past couple of weeks.

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    Comment #42297447

    Location: Delhi, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python and the Python ecosystem (Flask, FastAPI, ...), frontend (HTML, CSS, JS, Tailwind, and intermediate…