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abelanger
1,602karma·202submissions·July 2, 2019
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Co-founder of Hatchet (W24, https://hatchet.run), a task queue built on Postgres. Previously co-founder of Porter (S20, https://porter.run)
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My wife and I have been playing this game every day for the past few weeks or so. Some of the daily levels are incredibly satisfying. We have very different ways of approaching the harder problems; so…
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Hatchet | Product Engineer | NYC or SF or REMOTE (US and EU) | https://hatchet.run Hey HN! I'm Alexander, one of the founders of Hatchet. Hatchet is an open-source platform for runnin…
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> I do wish the guide was expanded a bit with lots of specific examples and details... a lot of it is hand-wavy blurbs. I appreciate the feedback; I'm usually someone who tends to go into way …
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OP here, I appreciate this. > in addition to minimizing locked records, make sure your locks are ordered deterministically across all queries (eg by id asc, always) or you’ll deadlock (but postgres…
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OP here, I appreciate the feedback! I tried to focus on things which could take down your database, so things like particularly slow reads and writes, autovacuum settings, reducing lock contention, pa…
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Hatchet | Full-Stack Engineer | NYC or SF or REMOTE (US and EU) | https://hatchet.run Hey HN! I'm Alexander, one of the founders of Hatchet. Hatchet is an open-source platform for run…
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> Our analysis revealed the fork-to-star ratio as the strongest simple heuristic for identifying potential manipulation. The logic is straightforward: a star costs nothing and conveys no commitment…
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Candidly we're still trying to figure that out: all of the plumbing is there in the open source, but the actual implementation of writes to S3 are only on the cloud version. This is partially bec…
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Author here - I'm also generally skeptical of coding agents, but with the right problem domain and approach they can produce quality output when paired with humans. There was a point in time in t…
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Hi, thanks! To be clear, the demo there is merely a WASM-based Ghostty build which is rendering the TUI on a web page, just so people could try it out without needing to install anything. The actual T…
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Hi everyone, I enjoyed building this TUI for myself and wanted to write down how I did it. I appreciate all the thoughts and feedback! The web app is our main investment, but I think there's a sl…
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You're right - I'll remove that now until we can get it more performant or drop it altogether. This wasn't something we caught during testing. I appreciate the feedback!