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New comment by tdrz in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

tdrz — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:35:31 +0000

PGlite - Postgres in WASM https://pglite.dev

We're very close to 10M weekly downloads https://www.npmjs.com/package/@electric-sql/pglite

Lots of ideas in the pipeline on where to take it next.

New comment by tdrz in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

tdrz — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:27:47 +0000

If you get acquihired, you don't get to walk away.

New comment by tdrz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

tdrz — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:28:54 +0000

This rule needs to be expanded to include top level comments:

> Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

New comment by tdrz in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

tdrz — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:03:04 +0000

I find galaxus.com (European store) far better than any other store, American or otherwise.

New comment by tdrz in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

tdrz — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:29:19 +0000

You'll need to fake much more than just that. Usually the bank website will ask you to confirm the transaction by opening the banking app on your mobile phone.

Prepopulated FS for PGlite

tdrz — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:36:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/tree/main/packages/pglite-prepopulatedfs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196466

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tdrz in "I am building a cloud"

tdrz — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:06:05 +0000

I'm very happy with my k8s setup for my small startup. I believe it would have been much harder for me to get it off the ground, manage it etc. without it.

New comment by tdrz in "PostGIS for PGlite"

tdrz — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:51:52 +0000

Hi HN,

PostGIS has been one of the most requested extensions for PGlite and we've recently ported it. For now, it doesn't contain some optional libraries like json-c and GDAL, but we see a path in adding those as well.

You can try it directly in our REPL https://pglite.dev/repl

We're very interested in seeing what people build with it.

PostGIS for PGlite

tdrz — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:51:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@electric-sql/pglite-postgis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743709

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by tdrz in "Germany's Solar Boom Eases Power Costs as Gas Price Jumps"

tdrz — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:03:02 +0000

We absolutely need more investment in renewables and proven nuclear. But it is not only about this, more high-voltage inter-connections are needed. My understanding is that there is an EU initiative on this, just can't find the source right now.

Regarding nuclear, how much money did the ITER member states dump into something that is always 10 years away? That money could go into solar/batteries or fusion.

New comment by tdrz in "The only moat left is money?"

tdrz — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:26:20 +0000

OK, say you build a Whatsapp clone in a week. How many Whatsapp users will switch to your app?

New comment by tdrz in "Open source is not about you (2018)"

tdrz — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:02:47 +0000

One of the issues is that even if you do write documentation, some people that say they want to contribute will not search for it and directly proceed to ask the overworked maintainer to point them to the exact page of the documentation of their interest.

New comment by tdrz in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

tdrz — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:19:52 +0000

https://pglite.dev

I'm one of the maintainers of PGlite - PostgreSQL in WASM.

We have lots of updates in the pipeline, just listing some of them:

- making it easier to upgrade PostgreSQL's version

- PostGIS - this is one of our most requested extensions and although we have it running server side (ie node, bun, deno) Chrome is holding us back from releasing it

- multi-connection multiplexing over a single instance

Native library is also on our radar, just needs more time...

New comment by tdrz in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

tdrz — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:10:58 +0000

Really cool, I want something like that for Railroad Tycoon 2.

New comment by tdrz in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

tdrz — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:50:27 +0000

There's /e/OS, a fork of Android

New comment by tdrz in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

tdrz — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:25:06 +0000

Teams is not better than Slack, but here we are ...

New comment by tdrz in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

tdrz — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:21:46 +0000

> It’s great yes, but if we in the US weren’t proving so untrustworthy, EU startups and tech giants could focus on building things that actually might out innovate us and everyone else. Which would be a win-win. Instead they will spend a lot time duplicating tools where only US companies are providing options, and maybe not innovating much if anything in those areas. Or not enough to matter much.

You could apply this to Slack vs Teams as well. Slack was already good, Microsoft just duplicated their work, came out with an inferior product and won. So, was it worth it?

New comment by tdrz in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

tdrz — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:55:51 +0000

An integrated European payments system should be very high up on the priorities list of the European Commision. I believe every EU country already has its own version of a QR code payment, I don't know why can't they connect "easily" connect them.

New comment by tdrz in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

tdrz — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:15:42 +0000

> That's a matter of prompting.

So when I introduce a bug it's the PM's fault.

New comment by tdrz in "What happened to WebAssembly"

tdrz — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:15:33 +0000

One thing that happened to WebAssembly is that it allowed for npm packages like PGlite to be created. With a simple `npm install` you now have a PostgreSQL instance in your web or node app, no (connection) strings attached (pun intended). Full disclosure: I am one of the maintainers.