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__son RIP, vector database

I literally had opening slide about Worse is Better when adding mysql support to peerdb. Lots of things in mysql have v1 as stupidest thing that works, then v2 fixes issues

There's a bunch of internal types like decimal vs newdecimal, binlog started out statement based until they realized uuid generation is random so added data replication on top. CDC offset started as filepos before GTID was made so offset could survive failover

There were aspects of the design I appreciated (logical slots in postgres have a bunch of drawbacks avoided by just appending to 2nd serial log which has an expiry date instead of tracking clients' offsets), but developing against protocol you learn to not try build a consistent mental model

__son Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available

yy.mm

__son Platform-independent SIMD in Go

Writing to maps is common

__son Platform-independent SIMD in Go

I'm fine with Go, worked on peerdb & wal-g in Go. I enjoy programming in C too which lacks memory safety. I just don't claim otherwise

__son Platform-independent SIMD in Go

Java data race doesn't segfault

__son Platform-independent SIMD in Go

Yes, writing to maps isn't threadsafe, hence sync.Map. I learned this the hard way

__son Platform-independent SIMD in Go

go data races aren't memory safe

__son Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4352861484/smart-glasses-led...

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__son Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees

> Other municipalities in the province, including Quebec City, Laval, Longueuil and Sherbrooke, already have similar bylaws.

apparently it can be

__son WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL

yes toast is a pita. we're currently working on 3 modes:

1. disabled

2. clickhouse, stores toast chunks on clickhouse then pulls them to resolve

3. shadow, stores toast in shadow catalog, obviously less latency than clickhouse but demands disk space

__son WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL

we require wal_level=logical, would be nice to support looser in future

agreed that there's a huge complexity cost to going this route

__son Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'

This was under Jean Chrétien who recently gave a speech: https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/episode/jean-chretien-...

He supported US in Afghanistan, but refused to support war in Iraq since he didn't consider there to be sufficient evidence of WMD

__son Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

This weekend I threw together a randomizer for Death Howl. Having done a few challenge runs I wanted more out of custom mode

https://github.com/serprex/RandomHowl

__son Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter

Meanwhile Nintendo announced Ocarina of Time remake out November

__son IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_Starbucks

__son Neki – Sharded Postgres

https://x.com/samlambert/status/2083235983336865916 very funny

__son Neki – Sharded Postgres

m8gd local nvme

__son Codex on GPT6 Astra Low launched a rocket into space in Factorio Space Age 2.1

There's vod: https://m.twitch.tv/videos/2867906622

__son It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies reports anubis effectiveness falling off

__son Pnpm 12.0

https://pnpm.io/benchmarks yes

__son AI Is a Harsh Mistress

Was recently explaining to my father how the free AI people interact with is completely different than the AI products we're burning cash with. That instead of hitting some critical mass of transistors we hit a critical mass of parameters which we then loop into themselves for reasoning

Other old sci-fi I've been thinking of is The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Where claude is chew-z with its alien intelligence & when you start interacting with some code or writing you start noticing that the writer has steel teeth & feel like "damnit, this is palmer eldritch blogging again"

__son Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium

Years ago I was doing internal login pages for pay day loan insurance saas. Decided to put their logos to avoid mixups. Just googled. One was named Vision, copied logo from https://www.visions.ca figuring they did land on the side. Couple years later I realized my mistake & fixed, nobody else had said anything

__son Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

If only things were zero sum stick-in-bicycle meme decision making would benefit others

__son PostgreSQL for Everything

In theory yes, just need s3 fdw

I demonstrated this with ClickHouse: https://github.com/ClickHouse/pg_clickhouse/blob/main/doc/of...

We're working on a chdb based mechanism to copy to/from s3, maybe with fdw on top we can back table in s3

You can try similar things with pg_duckdb & pg_lake

__son Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules

This is a film, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_(2026_film)

__son Qwen 3.8 27B

Using it to get real work done:

* https://github.com/HarbourMasters/Shipwright/pull/7047

* https://github.com/HarbourMasters/Shipwright/pull/7070

just need to give it clear direction, guide it about how to properly use hooks / preserve decomp code, rewrite all the comments, go back & redo things when it spits out some ugly hack, ...

but this does save time, especially considering this is working with decomp code where many functions are random hex addresses

__son The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here

I have an adept, it does not. Hold button to scroll while turning

__son The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here

Took about a year for my Kensington slimblade to start double clicking. Many others reporting the same

__son NP-overrated

Same with c++ stl unordered_map

__son Introducing Toast 1

ime google ai is wrong often enough that I'm still doing that to verify its results

At least validation seems faster than without, but you get what you pay for when it comes to llm intelligence