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New comment by assface in "Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns"

assface — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:42:44 +0000

> Just chiming in to say I don't care at all about accessibility

See Rawls 'Original Position' on why you should care: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position

New comment by assface in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

assface — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:45:13 +0000

Has anybody recently interviewed Ian Curtis to get his thoughts about their shirt sales?

New comment by assface in "Show HN: Firebolt – The Productive React Framework"

assface — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:21:07 +0000

Bad name. Try again: https://www.firebolt.io/

New comment by assface in "Best Databases for Python Projects in 2024"

assface — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:19:40 +0000

This list is useless. What are the salient aspects of Python programs versus other programming langs/environments (e.g., Javascript, C++) that imposes different demands on a database system?

The answer is 'nothing'. So just use Postgres.

New comment by assface in "Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP"

assface — Tue, 16 May 2023 16:35:18 +0000

This professor has a PhD in lactating pigs, not computer science / ai. He should stay in his lane:

https://inside.tamuc.edu/academics/cvsyllabi/cv/MummJared.pd...

New comment by assface in "Show HN: CozoDB, Hybrid Relational-Graph-Vector Database"

assface — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 02:35:45 +0000

Is it called "CozoDB" or Cozo? Your README is inconsistent.

New comment by assface in "Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org"

assface — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:29:25 +0000

> Shades of Basho

Can you please explain? They just ran out of money. They never did a SPAC.

New comment by assface in "PRQL: a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement"

assface — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 13:37:22 +0000

> I'm wondering if it would be worth skipping the SQL layer and compiling straight to the execution plan level.

You have to join five tables in a query. What join order will you pick in your execution plan? Will you use the same ordering for different WHERE clause parameters? What if you add an index?

What you're proposing was tried in the 1970s (see CODASYL) and it was a terrible idea.

New comment by assface in "Ask HN: Anyone here from the RethinkDB founding team? Why was it shutdown?"

assface — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 17:04:50 +0000

Stuff like this didn't help:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201204090050/https://twitter.c...

New comment by assface in "Are you sure you want to use MMAP in your database management system? [pdf]"

assface — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:38:56 +0000

RavenDB's response to this paper: https://ayende.com/blog/196161-C/re-are-you-sure-you-want-to...

New comment by assface in "Comparing ClickHouse to PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB for time-series data"

assface — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 04:08:20 +0000

Just ignore it.

New comment by assface in "PostgreSQL 14"

assface — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:35:22 +0000

> maybe zheap will help?

According to Robert Haas, the zheap project is dead.

New comment by assface in "Fake animal rescue videos have become a new frontier for animal abuse"

assface — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 21:49:00 +0000

Pig Rescues Baby Goat

https://youtube.com/watch?v=g7WjrvG1GMk

New comment by assface in "Who Owns My Name?"

assface — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:03:43 +0000

> Pretty much every film based on real people and events takes liberties in service of narrative flow and drama.

Blood on the Blackboard: The Bart Simpson Story

https://youtu.be/02-U9fHefPI

New comment by assface in "EdgeDB: EdgeQL"

assface — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 19:43:10 +0000

Everything you said sounds like Britton-Lee's database. What is new?

New comment by assface in "EdgeDB: EdgeQL"

assface — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 18:03:45 +0000

> that aims to surpass SQL in querying power.

What makes your approach likely to succeed versus all previous attempts to supplant SQL in the last 40 years?

New comment by assface in "Goldman seems to be running networking software from 2008"

assface — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 14:04:24 +0000

If this is shocking wait until you find out that a lot of banks still use IBM IMS. That's IBM's first database that they built for the government to track rocket parts for the Apollo moon mission.

New comment by assface in "Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series will cost at least $465M for first season"

assface — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 15:22:08 +0000

> the lack of compelling Christian art in general the past 50 or 60 years

What about all those Mel Gibson movies that you guys have?

New comment by assface in "Bernie Madoff has died"

assface — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:28:22 +0000

Gold has material use. You can make things with it.

New comment by assface in "Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)"

assface — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 14:55:01 +0000

> Rather than a query planner, an interesting approach would be to expose the more stable part of the internals with a new language and let people roll their own query plans.

Those that are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.

Go read Stonebraker's "What Goes Around Comes Around"

https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/papers/01-intro/...