I’m working on extending Postgres to run on top of FoundationDB. The goal would be turning Postgres into a distributed, horizontally scalable database with automatic sharding and replication. Hoping to share a first version of it soon. It’s been absolutely fascinating digging into Postgres internals!
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#132No app required!
We took all of the complexity of issuing MIFARE DESFire enabled NFC credentials and made it extremely developer friendly. SDKs in most major languages (python, ruby, csharp, js, etc), developer console with request logs, and more.
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#133Here’s a a detailed write up of the process: https://samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle/
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#134The first ever SQL debugger – runs & visualizes your query step-by-step, every clause, condition, expression, incl. GROUP BY, aggregates / windows, DISTINCT (ON), subqueries (even correlated ones!), CTEs, you name it. You can search for full or partial rows and see the whole query lineage – which intermediate rows from which CTEs/subqueries contributed to the result you're searching for. Entirely offline & no usage o…
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#135I am working on an open-source insurance application platform.
The main goal is to accelarate time-to-market for insurance and insurtech innovations, providing all these "boring" enterprise features (like multitenancy, role-based security, audit trails, etc.) out of the box, so that you can focus on building the actual product.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#136The first ever SQL debugger – runs & visualizes your query step-by-step, every clause, condition, expression, incl. GROUP BY, aggregates / windows, DISTINCT (ON), subqueries (even correlated ones!), CTEs, you name it. You can search for full or partial rows and see the whole query lineage – which intermediate rows from which CTEs/subqueries contributed to the result you're searching for. Entirely offline & no usage o…
Is this postgres only? What an interesting idea!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#137A Markdown-first CMS and website builder for blogs, newsletters and documentation websites.
I've been blogging since more than 10 years, and the only thing that made it possible is Markdown. That's why I've decided to build a complete publishing platform to replace the complex and fragile setups of bloggers and startups. Do you really need a CI/CD pipeline, static site builder, hosting, CDN and analytics just for a website? :/
The platform is currently 100% operational and I'm now working to Open Source it.
The best thing? You can publish directly from the CLI:
$ mdninja publish
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#138Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#139Slowly building an open-source Data Lakehouse management utility application for local development, scratching my own itch and trying to accelerate development workflows with customers developing for Databricks.
For now it only supports Delta Lake (using delta-rs + duckdb), only supports table metadata inspection and querying, but in the near future will add dashboards as code, simple Markdown notebook like mode, and Apache Iceberg support.
For now it's an enabler for me and others, hopefully I can turn it into a product somehow at some point.