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New comment by friendly_deer in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

friendly_deer — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:12:03 +0000

In all seriousness, I’d take a “s3 is all you need for durable workflows” and use it in data processing applications that move data from s3 -> s3 with no other dependencies.

New comment by friendly_deer in "Show HN: MigraDiff – maintained fork of migra (PostgreSQL schema diff)"

friendly_deer — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:20:49 +0000

For a webapp I’m building I started out with migra and plain sql, but ended up going with sqlalchemy partly because the library was deprecated. Great to see someone picking it up! Thank you.

New comment by friendly_deer in "What life is like in Minneapolis now"

friendly_deer — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:46:16 +0000

I know this might be hard for some people to hear, but I want to share my thoughts to promote, in a small way, a common understanding of different perspectives.

My genuine trouble with this kind of post is that I don’t know if it is true.

How do I know the guy isn’t trying to get donations for local groups? Is that an odd question to ask after the dominant lens through which we analyze action is “cui bono?”

How do I know that this didn’t come from some Russian intel group? Is that an odd question to ask after Russian interference is all over the media during our elections?

It’s the problem of our society today: we don’t share a common view of reality.

New comment by friendly_deer in "Google is powering a new US Military AI platform"

friendly_deer — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:05:25 +0000

Thanks - I didn't know this but that makes sense!

New comment by friendly_deer in "Lessons from Building (and Closing) Double Finance (YC W24)"

friendly_deer — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:52:24 +0000

> But startups run on belief. Once you stop believing, the company is dead, even if the bank account isn’t. We had tried everything we set out to test. The data was clear: people weren’t switching. Grinding for another year hoping for a miracle wasn’t persistence; it was denial.

Big kudos to you for being honest with yourself. That kind of groundedness and self awareness is rare quality, and one I’d want in a leader of my company.

New comment by friendly_deer in "Google is powering a new US Military AI platform"

friendly_deer — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:39:50 +0000

I thought the same about xAI / Grok, and was surprised to see the Grok Code Fast 1 at the top of the list for number of reasoning tokens processed in Open Router’s state of AI report that came out this month:

https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai#reasoning-models-now-repre...

New comment by friendly_deer in "Ask HN: Those who applied to the OpenAI Grove program, did you ever hear back?"

friendly_deer — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:46:45 +0000

I applied and had the same experience you did—no confirmation and didn’t hear back.

If I recall correctly, it was explicit somewhere that they would only contact you if you were accepted. With the volume of applications they likely got, I give them some grace—I think it’s great they have a program like that at all.

New comment by friendly_deer in "Software CEO to Catholic panel: AI is more mass stupidity than mass unemployment"

friendly_deer — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:48:35 +0000

First Things[0] is one of my favorite magazines. It has perspectives I rarely see anywhere else, and generally well articulated and argued for (provided you accept Christian first-principles).

New Polity Podcast[1] also regularly features smart conversations.

[0] https://firstthings.com/

[1] https://newpolity.com/podcasts

New comment by friendly_deer in "Show HN: Grow and Monitor Your AI Search Traffic"

friendly_deer — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 01:54:18 +0000

Interesting! I can see this being valuable to retailers. One question I have after looking at the landing page--how does it work? Is this something like similarweb that tracks traffic and relevance? Or, is this something you put on your server to measure traffic? Something else altogether?

New comment by friendly_deer in "When the job search becomes impossible"

friendly_deer — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:56:47 +0000

Thanks for the details—Its encouraging to hear how you approached it, and I’m glad it worked!

New comment by friendly_deer in "When the job search becomes impossible"

friendly_deer — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:01:21 +0000

Can you share a little more? Because this is outside the norm I’m hearing and I’d like to know more.

New comment by friendly_deer in "Kpt.dev"

friendly_deer — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:00:11 +0000

kpt is a package-centric toolchain that enables a WYSIWYG configuration authoring, automation, and delivery experience, which simplifies managing Kubernetes platforms and KRM-driven infrastructure at scale by manipulating declarative Configuration as Data.

Kpt.dev

friendly_deer — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:00:11 +0000

Article URL: https://kpt.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252909

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by friendly_deer in "Open Sourcing Shaper: Minimal Data Platform for Embedded Analytics"

friendly_deer — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:36:52 +0000

Great work and I like the concept of Dashboards-as-Code. Thank you for building this.

New comment by friendly_deer in "Ask HN: Want to leave my job with nothing lined up"

friendly_deer — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 03:42:43 +0000

I know burnout can be extremely difficult.

Take a 2 week vacation first. Make sure it’s 2 weeks (or more, if you can swing it). One is not enough. Actually travel—it doesn’t matter where. Just get out of your normal environment and habits for a little while.

You’re not aiming to solve burnout with the vacation, but only getting some time and space to think and gain a little more perspective.

Kapp

friendly_deer — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:25:33 +0000

Article URL: https://carvel.dev/kapp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44741090

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

DuckDB 1.3.0

friendly_deer — Fri, 23 May 2025 01:22:27 +0000

Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2025/05/21/announcing-duckdb-130.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44068916

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by friendly_deer in "I've largely replaced Google with ChatGPT for looking things up"

friendly_deer — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 02:32:22 +0000

Same here - I regularly google things to see what the AI will say. I never used to do that a year ago.

Htmy – Async, pure-Python rendering engine

friendly_deer — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 01:10:53 +0000

Article URL: https://volfpeter.github.io/htmy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42251919

Points: 146

# Comments: 87

New comment by friendly_deer in "Show HN: Trilogy – A Reusable, Composable SQL Experiment"

friendly_deer — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:27:35 +0000

This is something I've never thought about before, and haven't had a use case for, so I'm genuinely interested in learning a little more about your use cases if you can elaborate a little futher.