Hacker News: drchaim

New comment by drchaim in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

drchaim — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:05:26 +0000

Still with macmini m1 8gb here. still working OK taking care of space and RAM.

New comment by drchaim in "Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching)"

drchaim — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:27:53 +0000

2nd round: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/pull/2751

New comment by drchaim in "DuckDB Ducklake"

drchaim — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:14:05 +0000

i don't see how, enter my email and received a welcome email instead of a book.

New comment by drchaim in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

drchaim — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:10:33 +0000

I downloaded a copy of a movie I had previously purchased yesterday. Claude helped me remux it so I could play it on my TV. Will the FBI be knocking on my door tomorrow?

New comment by drchaim in "Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data"

drchaim — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:41:35 +0000

yeah, a this rate, we can assume all digital information will be public at some point.

New comment by drchaim in "Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill"

drchaim — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:54:44 +0000

in this case medium is relative to the projects I've worked. Bad expression anyway.

New comment by drchaim in "Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill"

drchaim — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:57:08 +0000

I threw 1M tokens for nothing in a medium codebase.

New comment by drchaim in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

drchaim — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:32:05 +0000

I’d love to know how much Google has made from accidental clicks since it started. I used to see my mum make a couple of mistaken clicks here and there on her computer; now on mobile it’s easily 10x worse. Sometimes because she doesn’t realize they’re ads, other times she tries to tap the X and it opens… It’s insane

New comment by drchaim in "Claude is no longer available for minors"

drchaim — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:32:27 +0000

the same way social networks are not available for < 13

New comment by drchaim in "Every Millisecond Counts"

drchaim — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:53:06 +0000

Good post, thanks for sharing. I discovered CH around 2018, and I knew it would change the analytics space. I spent countless hours studying it on my own and promoting it at work (when it made sense). I also tried to land a job at companies using it, but nothing happened :(.

I still check the monthly changelog, even though I do quite different things at work these days.

New comment by drchaim in "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"

drchaim — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:20:05 +0000

How I miss those NET stocks picked up at about 15$ after Covid…what a fail…

New comment by drchaim in "Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s"

drchaim — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:12:03 +0000

The idea of custom software on the fly is coming

New comment by drchaim in "Show HN: WaveHouse – Supabase for ClickHouse"

drchaim — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:57:51 +0000

Good one!

New comment by drchaim in "Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?"

drchaim — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:15:33 +0000

I do. I run Postgres in the same server as the app in some apps, with no pgbouncer, no regret at all after 10+ years.

New comment by drchaim in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

drchaim — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:25:21 +0000

How are you folks handling secrets in a simple way?

- sops , ansible vault and similar seems too weak given the agent is gonna read them at some point if you have the pass available. - proxy injection seems too complicated and doesn’t cover all use cases.

New comment by drchaim in "Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely"

drchaim — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:24:58 +0000

It's not clear to me whether this is being done with genuinely good intentions, or if it's just a way to put barriers in front of open-source models. We'll see.

New comment by drchaim in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

drchaim — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:07:01 +0000

i highly doubt you can make it faster than clickhouse, but happy to see it.

New comment by drchaim in "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"

drchaim — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:45:28 +0000

This is not my case. Today Claude code coded three features in my client saas just perfectly. Medium complex ones but perfectly from the plan, tests, linter and pr. A good CLAUDE.md is enough. Skills for auxiliary tools like sentry, grafana…

New comment by drchaim in "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments"

drchaim — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:25:24 +0000

too slow or broker right now

New comment by drchaim in "In praise of memcached"

drchaim — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:52:34 +0000

WHEN do you move to Redis/Memcached? None of my projects have exceeded 1000 rps at peak, and in none of them have I felt the need to move from unlogged PostgreSQL tables to Redis.

Just trying to get a sense of where people draw the line.