Hacker News: horse666

New comment by horse666 in "Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18"

horse666 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:25:07 +0000

This is really cool, looking forward to trying it out.

Obligatory mention of Neon (https://neon.com/) and Xata (https://xata.io/) which both support “instant” Postgres DB branching on Postgres versions prior to 18.

New comment by horse666 in "Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18"

horse666 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:20:03 +0000

Aurora clones are copy-on-write at the storage layer, which solves part of the problem, but RDS still provisions you a new cluster with its own endpoints, etc, which is slow ~10 mins, so not really practical for the integration testing use case.

New comment by horse666 in "Better pre-commit, re-engineered in Rust"

horse666 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:07:26 +0000

Related https://github.com/jdx/hk/, from jdx, the author of Mise.

New comment by horse666 in "Mise: Monorepo Tasks"

horse666 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:23:06 +0000

No worries, thanks!

New comment by horse666 in "Mise: Monorepo Tasks"

horse666 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:55:18 +0000

Nice work @jdxcode, this looks great.

Is there any functionality in this release that might help with or be useful in features for sharing Mise config/tasks _across_ repos?

And do you have any thoughts on that idea in general?

https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/4562

New comment by horse666 in "The cryptography behind passkeys"

horse666 — Fri, 16 May 2025 07:33:23 +0000

I don’t understand what you mean, sorry. If you are manually copying a password, then you are not using passkeys? There is nothing to copy/accidentally leak with passkeys.

I guess it will be a while before passkeys are the _only_ option that websites accept

New comment by horse666 in "The cryptography behind passkeys"

horse666 — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:20:13 +0000

Phishing protection? Unlike passwords, passkeys are bound to a domain.

New comment by horse666 in "Databricks acquires Neon"

horse666 — Thu, 15 May 2025 14:42:01 +0000

Great, thanks for confirming

New comment by horse666 in "Databricks acquires Neon"

horse666 — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:26:11 +0000

Hi @tudorg - do the Xata copy-on-write branches work like Neon in that you effectively get an isolated Postgres cluster, allowing you to test roles, extensions, creating/dropping DBs, altering schema & data of existing DBs, etc? I looked in the docs but it wasn’t clear to me.

New comment by horse666 in "I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription"

horse666 — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:14:19 +0000

Obligatory mention of https://raindrop.io/

I switched from Pinboard a year or more ago after using it for many years, mainly because I found the iPhone app and integration (eg share feature, to save bookmarks) to be flaky.

Raindrop has been great - imported seamlessly from Pinboard and the iPhone and Desktop app work well for me.

New comment by horse666 in "Using short lived Postgres servers for testing"

horse666 — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:37:43 +0000

Until Neon can fix that, I found it on the Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20240524181543/https://neon.tech...

New comment by horse666 in "Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management"

horse666 — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:00:59 +0000

Yes, also definitely a big vote for Mise.

I’ve switched recently from asdf for managing language & tool versions and the ergonomics are much nicer (eg one command vs having to manually install plugins, etc., more logical commands) It’s also noticeably faster.

Regarding the env vars features, a couple of relevant Mise issues around people trying to integrate env var secrets using SOPS, 1Password, etc.

- https://github.com/jdx/mise/issues/1617

- https://github.com/jdx/mise/issues/1359

New comment by horse666 in "Using short lived Postgres servers for testing"

horse666 — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:39:19 +0000

I’d not heard of Neon, it looks interesting.

When you say “a copy-on-write version of your prod database”, from reading the docs, this includes both schema and data?

I couldn’t find anything on data anonymisation/obfuscation - how do you handle that?

New comment by horse666 in "Show HN: Elles – A nicer /bin/ls"

horse666 — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 13:45:27 +0000

Exa is unmaintained, but there’s a maintained fork called eza - https://github.com/eza-community/eza

New comment by horse666 in "YAML: Probably not so great after all"

horse666 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:43:21 +0000

I would suggest never doing that, because it makes it impossible, or at least very difficult, to:

1. Lint the code using ShellCheck, which IMO is essential for any shell

2. Run and test that code locally, or anywhere outside of the CI tool

It’s only marginally less convenient to externalise the code into a .sh file and load it in CI.

New comment by horse666 in "A Mindmap of Linux Commands"

horse666 — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 17:37:52 +0000

Looks like a decent list, but mostly not really Linux, just Unix/GNU?

New comment by horse666 in "Do not rug on me: Zero-dimensional Scam Detection"

horse666 — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:27:19 +0000

Is saying “most of something” a universal generalisation?

The comment didn’t say “you’re not a crypto enthusiast _unless_ you believe X”. It just made an assertion (which, for what it’s worth, I think is incorrect) that the majority have a certain belief.

New comment by horse666 in "GitHub Actions Pitfalls"

horse666 — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 21:18:33 +0000

There’s an awkward gotcha/incompatibility between “Required status checks” and workflows that get skipped [1], eg due to setting a “paths” property of a push/pull_request workflow trigger [2].

The checks associated with the workflow don’t run and stay in a pending state, preventing the PR from being merged.

The only workaround I’m aware of is to use an action such as paths-filter [3] instead at the job level.

A further, related frustration/limitation - you can _only_ set the “paths” property [2] at the workflow level (i.e. not per-job), so those rules apply to all jobs in the workflow. Given that you can only build a DAG of jobs (ie “needs”) within a single workflow, it makes it quite difficult to do anything non trivial in a monorepo.

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches...

[2]: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-...

[3]: https://github.com/dorny/paths-filter

New comment by horse666 in "Bouba/Kiki Effect"

horse666 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 22:05:28 +0000

Yes, absolutely! I loved listening to the Reith lectures many, many years ago, when Vilayanur Ramachandran gave them. You can still listen to them here, http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/

In Lecture 4 (Purple Numbers and Sharp Cheese) he talks about the Kiki / Bouba effect. His enunciation is amazing.

New comment by horse666 in "Launch HN: MergeQueue (YC S21) – Automate rebasing and merging for your codebase"

horse666 — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:26:23 +0000

How does this compare to Mergify? https://mergify.io/