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chronode··on Show HN: voidDB – A transactional key-value DB written in Go for 64-bit Linux
This is a cool effort but their claims are wildly misleading as their benchmarks aren't fair across the board:

For example:

- BenchmarkVoidPut runs a single O(n) sized transaction

- BenchmarkLMDBPut runs a single O(n) sized transaction

- BenchmarkBadgetPut runs O(n) O(n) sized transactions (!!!)

I made a local change so that all Put benchmarks ran O(n) O(1) sized transactions and the results were quite different: Void was the slowest, followed by LMDB, Bold, LevelDB, then Badger.

I'd also wager the LMDB author would also (lovingly!) tell us we're holding it wrong

chronode··on Teen Becomes First Hacker to Earn $1M Through Bug Bounties
Trail of Bits has a nice summary[0] on that (they're discussing this[1] book).

> As productive as the top 1% are, their earnings are equally depressing. The top seven participants in the Facebook data set averaged 0.87 bugs per month, earning an average yearly salary of $34,255; slightly less than what a pest control worker makes in Mississippi.

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[0] https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/01/14/on-bounties-and-boff...

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/new-solutions-cybersecurity