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New comment by r1290 in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

r1290 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:26:42 +0000

Right. Give the agent permissions to search across certain tables. Wonder why reinventing file based detect for the db side is just a current fad?

New comment by r1290 in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

r1290 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:25:44 +0000

Agree with this. Is this current world because llms are just trained on the file system? But in a year from now we move to the db?

New comment by r1290 in "Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]"

r1290 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:54:15 +0000

Wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole. What would you prefer over django of the listed above? Curious.

New comment by r1290 in "Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML"

r1290 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:15:32 +0000

What’s your opinion on react email?

New comment by r1290 in "How we give every user SQL access to a shared ClickHouse cluster"

r1290 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:38:35 +0000

How does it handle large tables like. 2b rows? And how does it stay updated?

New comment by r1290 in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

r1290 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:59:03 +0000

Looks good. Question - is it always better to use a monorepo in this new AI world? Vs breaking your app into separate repos? At my company we have like 6 repos all separate nextjs apps for the same user base. Trying to consolidate to one as it should make life easier overall.

New comment by r1290 in "Choose Boring Technology"

r1290 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:42:12 +0000

agreed. dealing with a complex polygot projeft. mumtiple mongodb, node hell, etc. hard to onboard.. or move fast

New comment by r1290 in "OpenAI's In-House Data Agent"

r1290 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:51:55 +0000

In regards to docs, data and repos. What are you looking for specifically? What entails a good vs bad architecture for a company?

New comment by r1290 in "Django 6"

r1290 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:47:58 +0000

This x1000.

I’ve tried every orm in node and nothing compares to Django orm. The way you can scaffold an apps data models is amazing.

New comment by r1290 in "UniFi 5G"

r1290 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:38:39 +0000

What do you recommend as an alternative?

New comment by r1290 in "Convex raises $24M to reinvent back ends"

r1290 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:18:25 +0000

Would love to get thoughts from others on convex who have used it.

New comment by r1290 in "Ask HN: What is the perfect tech stack for web development?"

r1290 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 02:30:18 +0000

Django, rails or laravel. Big 3? Seem to make it easy

New comment by r1290 in "Show HN: Qling – iOS podcast player with deep personalization"

r1290 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:52:36 +0000

Cool. Can you share more about the tech? Ingestion engine - is this a background task that scrapes the web? You download the mp4 and convert to transcripts then generate embeddings? For each embedding of an episode - how do you break it down? Summary the episode and embed it with metadata? Are you using pydantic ai for structured output? Celery for tasks? Just a curious dev

New comment by r1290 in "Web dev is still fun if you want it to be"

r1290 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 06:36:40 +0000

Same. I’m using Django with fast api. Then I have a nextjs front end. I do wish I could bake it all into Django but I’ve learned that it’s best to keep Django api first unless it’s a simple site/app. But with a lot of interaction, using react helps.

New comment by r1290 in "Fivetran to acquire Census"

r1290 — Fri, 02 May 2025 03:51:49 +0000

Fivetran should’ve done this a long time ago. I think that both etl and reverse etl is going open source route. With this ai world we live in now. You just need dagster or temporal - and a few lines of python.

New comment by r1290 in "Fivetran to acquire Census"

r1290 — Fri, 02 May 2025 03:45:19 +0000

Fivetran has been great. But in this new ai world. Something like dragster + dlt and sling. You can have your own fivetran developed in house. I haven’t dove too much into reverse etl- but it would be awesome to see a dtl like open source tool for reverse etl.