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AsyncBananaon Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

You have no idea how long I have been waiting for adaptive planning. One of my biggest annoyances with the Postgres core team has been their reluctance to implement any sort of adaptive planning despite it, at this point, being a well-established technique that has been implemented in multiple production databases. I hope this, at the very least, proves the viability of this model outside of academic/niche contexts.

AsyncBananaon Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?

The more I read about LLMs and more complex ML in general, the more I realize nobody really knows what is going on.

AsyncBananaon The AI Aesthetic

A lot of these things are continuations of previous trends too. The shimmering text effect is strongly reminiscent of skeleton UI, only repurposed for chat interfaces. As always, design is more continuous evolution than discrete shifts.

AsyncBananaon Show HN: Port Zero – how I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0

I have never really needed something like this. The cloud aspect is a bit different, but Tailscale already does that better at a way lower price.

AsyncBananaon China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines

China is still far behind modern lithography. It took ASML almost 2 decades to get from immersion DUV (and EUV prototypes) to commercial EUV machines.

AsyncBananaon NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements

I don't love the increasing move towards industry research instead of traditional academia. It is just going to mean more closely-held, proprietary advancements.

AsyncBananaon Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude

"prompt engineering" in general just boggles my mind. It is amazing how all of this investment has just created software that doesn't follow instructions well.

AsyncBananaon U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

At this point, most people likely associated the word "phone" with something closer to a modern smartphone than a landline. Language can change. From my point of view, the problem is more that Apple set a precedent of these restrictions due to them being the first mover, and few mainstream phone companies have tried to break out of this idea (even though other phones are technically more flexible if you try hard enough).

AsyncBananaon Paul Graham on NFTs

True, although people need to make green NFTs more mainstream if they want NFTs to be more supported.

AsyncBananaon The fastest object diff library in JavaScript

I agree it can be pretty easy to set up a basic version of this, but eliminating edge cases, optimizing, and unit testing can make it take significantly longer.

AsyncBananaon The fastest object diff library in JavaScript

Thanks for your interest! Currently, Microdiff does not have a patching functionality by default, and the API is different. If there is enough interest, though, I might make a compatibility layer to ease the differences, and it probably would not be hard to do yourself too.

AsyncBananaon The fastest object diff library in JavaScript

For a bit of info on why it is often faster, you can look at https://github.com/AsyncBanana/microdiff/issues/2. I will probably add something to the README about that soon too.

AsyncBananaon Study: Better sleep habits lead to better college grades (2019)

This was not surprising, as many people already knew sleep helps your brain remember things. However, it is good data to back this up for people skeptical of the benefits and the "cutoff" time was interesting.

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