Hacker News: OrangeDelonge

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "The startup's Postgres survival guide"

OrangeDelonge — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:28:33 +0000

I think we live in very different realities, 6k a year is nothing, its a weeks worth of pay for 1 SWE. A 6k a year savings opportunity is not on any funded startups radar.

And RDS is doing a lot more for you than what you can set up in an afternoon w.r.t observability and features that are just a click away. I actually implemented some of those features when I worked there :)

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "The startup's Postgres survival guide"

OrangeDelonge — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:15:45 +0000

RDS gets you easy integration with the rest of the AWS services, which as a startup, you’re probably using quite a few of.

Also, if you are nickel and diming over expenses in the 50€ range, you’re probably at the wrong startup.

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

OrangeDelonge — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:31:02 +0000

People who claim that Postgres has some type of manifest advantage don't realize that Oracle has a huge advantage as well…etc

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "The log/event processing pipeline you can't have"

OrangeDelonge — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:39:15 +0000

Great article.

> (For some reason, when I search the Internet for "streaming mapreduce," I don't get programs that do this real-time processing of lots of files as they get written. Instead, I seem to get batch-oriented mapreduce clones that happen to read from stdin, which is a stream.

I suppose this could be a good fit for Flink?

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents"

OrangeDelonge — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:52:57 +0000

This is awesome

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus"

OrangeDelonge — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:40:23 +0000

I think all big cloud providers replaced etcd with a custom in house implementation in their K8s offerings for this reason

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

OrangeDelonge — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:08:41 +0000

You’re right but I think the US/Canada are just exceptions. Essentially every other nation on earth (not just Europe) is what you describe Europe to be.

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Resetting Xbox"

OrangeDelonge — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:59:02 +0000

Agreed, this is vile

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability"

OrangeDelonge — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:37:11 +0000

Do you need to do all these things in your dayjob or are you just doing them to comapare these models

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

OrangeDelonge — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:07:17 +0000

Curious as to how you would approach this. I have no experience in this area, anyone on this forum willing to share their expertise?

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0"

OrangeDelonge — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:37:34 +0000

We evaluated it but chose RocksDB instead

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

OrangeDelonge — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:26:39 +0000

Just goes to show how profitable rent seeking is even after you’ve become irrelevant.

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

OrangeDelonge — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:36:57 +0000

“The truth is most of what you see in food photographs is real. FTC laws state that whatever you’re selling with a photo must be real in the image. To use a familiar example, if you’re selling corn flakes the flakes must be real. But then it gets interesting. You can use white glue instead of milk in your bowl of flakes because you’re not selling the milk, only the corn flakes.”

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

OrangeDelonge — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:09:36 +0000

Apple’s incentives will grow misaligned as their revenue from ads grows. (and that revenue is skyrocketing)

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Siri AI"

OrangeDelonge — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:46:52 +0000

I think if you actually invested time into researching the DMA you will be able to understand why they are making certain decisions.

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

OrangeDelonge — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:39:21 +0000

Large enterprises make deals and won’t be paying 2,180.16$ either. Just like with AWS

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out"

OrangeDelonge — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:57:11 +0000

What is the Boeing culuture like?

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Shooting down ideas is not a skill"

OrangeDelonge — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:22:01 +0000

> With all due respect, if the idea is good, then it will happen

Working in a corporate environment, I have not found this to be the case. Good ideas get nowhere without buy-in

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "Meta planning layoffs as AI costs mount"

OrangeDelonge — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:15:50 +0000

They are quite similar in the sense that both generate most of their revenue through ads.

New comment by OrangeDelonge in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

OrangeDelonge — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:12:29 +0000

I’ve seen hundreds of PR’s produced by a junior and reviewed by a mid lvl go into prod. I don’t see any problem with that