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OrangeDelonge··on Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal
Are you in Germany by chance?
OrangeDelonge··on Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
Did it take 18 hours because Fable is comically slow?
OrangeDelonge··on Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods
Does this mean you are a human??
OrangeDelonge··on Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
Do you think Anthropic or OpenAI will eventually try to crack down on routing harnasses? Provide a more vertically integrated experience? They are already trying ro ship hardware products.
OrangeDelonge··on The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade
Makes sense they discontinued it given that the last 5 iphones have been almost exactly the same
OrangeDelonge··on The startup's Postgres survival guide
I think we live in very different realities, 6k a year is nothing, its a weeks worth of pay for 1 SWE. A 6k a year savings opportunity is not on any funded startups radar.

And RDS is doing a lot more for you than what you can set up in an afternoon w.r.t observability and features that are just a click away. I actually implemented some of those features when I worked there :)

OrangeDelonge··on The startup's Postgres survival guide
RDS gets you easy integration with the rest of the AWS services, which as a startup, you’re probably using quite a few of.

Also, if you are nickel and diming over expenses in the 50€ range, you’re probably at the wrong startup.

OrangeDelonge··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
People who claim that Postgres has some type of manifest advantage don't realize that Oracle has a huge advantage as well…etc
OrangeDelonge··on The log/event processing pipeline you can't have
Great article.

> (For some reason, when I search the Internet for "streaming mapreduce," I don't get programs that do this real-time processing of lots of files as they get written. Instead, I seem to get batch-oriented mapreduce clones that happen to read from stdin, which is a stream.

I suppose this could be a good fit for Flink?

OrangeDelonge··on Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents
This is awesome
OrangeDelonge··on Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus
I think all big cloud providers replaced etcd with a custom in house implementation in their K8s offerings for this reason
OrangeDelonge··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
You’re right but I think the US/Canada are just exceptions. Essentially every other nation on earth (not just Europe) is what you describe Europe to be.
OrangeDelonge··on Resetting Xbox
Agreed, this is vile
OrangeDelonge··on Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability
Do you need to do all these things in your dayjob or are you just doing them to comapare these models
OrangeDelonge··on Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
Curious as to how you would approach this. I have no experience in this area, anyone on this forum willing to share their expertise?
OrangeDelonge··on Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0
We evaluated it but chose RocksDB instead
OrangeDelonge··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
Just goes to show how profitable rent seeking is even after you’ve become irrelevant.
OrangeDelonge··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
“The truth is most of what you see in food photographs is real. FTC laws state that whatever you’re selling with a photo must be real in the image. To use a familiar example, if you’re selling corn flakes the flakes must be real. But then it gets interesting. You can use white glue instead of milk in your bowl of flakes because you’re not selling the milk, only the corn flakes.”
OrangeDelonge··on Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
Apple’s incentives will grow misaligned as their revenue from ads grows. (and that revenue is skyrocketing)
OrangeDelonge··on Siri AI
I think if you actually invested time into researching the DMA you will be able to understand why they are making certain decisions.
OrangeDelonge··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Large enterprises make deals and won’t be paying 2,180.16$ either. Just like with AWS
OrangeDelonge··on Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out
What is the Boeing culuture like?
OrangeDelonge··on Shooting down ideas is not a skill
> With all due respect, if the idea is good, then it will happen

Working in a corporate environment, I have not found this to be the case. Good ideas get nowhere without buy-in

OrangeDelonge··on Meta planning layoffs as AI costs mount
They are quite similar in the sense that both generate most of their revenue through ads.
OrangeDelonge··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
I’ve seen hundreds of PR’s produced by a junior and reviewed by a mid lvl go into prod. I don’t see any problem with that
OrangeDelonge··on Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers
Do you know you’re just talking to an LLM? Everyone else in this post also seem oblivious to it or maybe they just don’t care? Why do I even read comments anymore sigh
OrangeDelonge··on Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)
I generally like Swift, but async is a mess, it feels like they come up with a new async library every release
OrangeDelonge··on The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]
How does this compare to drbd?
OrangeDelonge··on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
Couldn’t they have used S3 express one zone?
OrangeDelonge··on Ask HN: What's your experience with using graph databases for agentic use-cases?
And GraphQL is related to Graph databases how exactly? Just because they both have the word graph in them?
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