Hacker News: eatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eatonphilHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 23 Aug 2026 01:42:30 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by eatonphil in "Breaking the WAL"]]>> I'm only sad that I didn't put SQLite under test earlier in the year, or I would have found this issue right away

Unless you guys routinely add assertions to libraries I don't see how you would have caught this?

I mean for sure databases should guard against lost writes but how would you have known to add that particular assert?

]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:43:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394615eatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394615https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394615<![CDATA[The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6]]>Article URL: https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/16/transactions-in-cassandra.html

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]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:08:19 +0000https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/16/transactions-in-cassandra.htmleatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386877https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386877<![CDATA[New comment by eatonphil in "Mojo is now open source"]]>I did a review of Mojo a few months ago focused on Python compatibility if anyone's curious about that angle. Admittedly it is a narrow angle. I want to take another look at Mojo sometime not focused on Python.

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/03/12/mojos-not-yet-python.h...

]]>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:59:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376442eatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376442https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376442<![CDATA[New comment by eatonphil in "Git at any scale"]]>> The "fan-out" is synchronized with a classic consensus algorithm called 3PC (three-phase commit) so that a push is only accepted if a majority of the nodes acknowledge it.

Doesn't 3PC require all nodes to agree, not just a majority?

]]>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:34:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376108eatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376108https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376108<![CDATA[Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter]]>Article URL: https://stwipe.com/

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]]>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:04:46 +0000https://stwipe.com/eatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374738https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374738<![CDATA[Why I reimplemented LVM (with worse guarantees)]]>Article URL: https://depot.dev/blog/why-i-reimplemented-lvm

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]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:08:47 +0000https://depot.dev/blog/why-i-reimplemented-lvmeatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345871https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345871<![CDATA[Prefill vs. Decode in LLM Inference]]>Article URL: https://www.parasail.io/blog/prefill-vs-decode-llm-inference

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]]>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:22:28 +0000https://www.parasail.io/blog/prefill-vs-decode-llm-inferenceeatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299992https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299992<![CDATA[Video game lawyer says all her clients have anti-AI contracts]]>Article URL: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/echoing-palworld-dev-video-game-lawyer-says-all-her-clients-have-anti-ai-contracts-because-gamers-hate-it-and-its-a-copyright-landmine-i-think-were-going-to-see-lawsuits/

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]]>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:47:38 +0000https://www.gamesradar.com/games/echoing-palworld-dev-video-game-lawyer-says-all-her-clients-have-anti-ai-contracts-because-gamers-hate-it-and-its-a-copyright-landmine-i-think-were-going-to-see-lawsuits/eatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280926https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280926<![CDATA[UMD Computer Science Graduates Report 95% Job Placement Rate]]>Article URL: https://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2026/07/umd-computer-science-graduates-report-95-job-placement-rate

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]]>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:06:04 +0000https://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2026/07/umd-computer-science-graduates-report-95-job-placement-rateeatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275543https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275543<![CDATA[On Comments]]>Article URL: https://blog.helsing.ai/posts/on-comments/?from_theconsensus=1

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]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:18:49 +0000https://blog.helsing.ai/posts/on-comments/?from_theconsensus=1eatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260581https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260581<![CDATA[Pangram's Model Market Share]]>Article URL: https://www.pangram.com/blog/pangram-s-model-market-share

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]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:05:09 +0000https://www.pangram.com/blog/pangram-s-model-market-shareeatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260394https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260394<![CDATA[Chicken Scheme 6.0]]>Article URL: https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWS

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]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:24:15 +0000https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWSeatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251702https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251702<![CDATA[Estimating Branch Probabilities]]>Article URL: https://maskray.me/blog/2026-08-09-estimating-branch-probabilities?from_theconsensus=1

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]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:22:23 +0000https://maskray.me/blog/2026-08-09-estimating-branch-probabilities?from_theconsensus=1eatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251692https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251692<![CDATA[Almost consensus: ABD and the edges of quorum replication]]>Article URL: https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/02/almost-consensus.html

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]]>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:43:28 +0000https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/02/almost-consensus.htmleatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210281https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210281<![CDATA[Just One Function, 10x Faster? Reading a Rust Performance PR]]>Article URL: https://greptime.com/blogs/2026-07-31-prom-read-conversion-optimization

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]]>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:21:29 +0000https://greptime.com/blogs/2026-07-31-prom-read-conversion-optimizationeatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197072https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197072<![CDATA[How Elasticsearch's semantic field indexes and searches]]>Article URL: https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/semantic-field-multimodal-search-elasticsearch

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]]>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:20:50 +0000https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/semantic-field-multimodal-search-elasticsearcheatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183347https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183347<![CDATA[Wasps as an effective pest control for agriculture]]>Article URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2019/nov/wasps-effective-pest-control-agriculture

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]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:51:03 +0000https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2019/nov/wasps-effective-pest-control-agricultureeatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174077https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174077<![CDATA[Encoding or Compression: Why not both?]]>Article URL: https://cedardb.com/blog/encoding_vs_compression/

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]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:19:30 +0000https://cedardb.com/blog/encoding_vs_compression/eatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171041https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171041<![CDATA[Convex raises a $57M Series B]]>Article URL: https://news.convex.dev/convex-raises-57m/

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]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:41:31 +0000https://news.convex.dev/convex-raises-57m/eatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169671https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169671<![CDATA[Test the Email Verification Protocol with an origin trial]]>Article URL: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/email-verification-protocol-origin-trial

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]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:34:10 +0000https://developer.chrome.com/blog/email-verification-protocol-origin-trialeatonphilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133888https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133888