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by dvko 1y ago
Never forget! Crazy to see how far it's come. And how lackluster the initial reception on HN was back then.
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by dvko 2y ago
I got my first 99 after a 15 year break. Farming, obviously!
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by dvko 3y ago
I’m a bootstrapped founder but hard disagree with this take. Surely it can’t be the founder taking home a healthy salary from day 1 despite the company being far away from any revenue at all that is taking the risk in your book?
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by dvko 3y ago
My daily crontab at just after midnight UTC did not run yesterday. I wrote it off as a server hiccup, but now you got me thinking it might be related to leap years…
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by dvko 3y ago
Hetzner VPS + nginx works fine and goes a looong way. Alternatively, SourceHut pages or GitHub pages is okay too. If it’s been a while since you did any server work: https://www.dannyvankooten.com/blog/2024/static-
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by dvko 3y ago
> It says it is free but where is the github page for it? Not sure if serious, but you do realise that free is not at all about having a GitHub page? Maxim has been working on nginx for years and just forked the project so that he can co
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by dvko 3y ago
I never even knew this was an option, despite relying on them for well over 10 years now for well over half of my business' revenue (with 0 issues whatsoever, fwiw). Just enabled it.
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by dvko 3y ago
Sounds like any static site generator supporting Markdown will do. - Jekyll: the OG, but requires a ruby toolchain. - Hugo: compiles to a single static binary, but you may have to get used to its (Go text/html) templating. - Zola: also
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by dvko 3y ago
This is inspiring to me, as I'm in a similar boat and while I'm pretty okay at my job in practical terms, I often feel as if I lack a certain mathematical foundation. May I ask how old you are, whether you are enrolled in a full-t
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by dvko 3y ago
On most Linux distributions and when the file is mmap'd, if you run it a second time the data will still be in RAM and not have to be read from disk. This gets the runtime down to 1.1s for this AMD 2950x ( https://github.com&
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by dvko 3y ago
> I love C. You and me both. I'm also a polygot but I originally started on interpreted languages like PHP and Python. I then learned some C, which was quite frustrating before I learned how to reason about memory ownership and hold
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by dvko 3y ago
There’s an implementation in C which should run in well under 2 seconds on your M3. https://github.com/dannyvankooten/1brc
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by dvko 3y ago
I tried the linear search by station name in my first naive approach. Using a hashmap was at least 2-3x as fast with the ~415 distinct keys in the 1BRC dataset.
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by dvko 3y ago
You can run the bin/create-sample program from this C implementation here: https://github.com/dannyvankooten/1brc It’s just the city names + averages from the official repository using a normal distribution to gen
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by dvko 3y ago
There are a handful of implementations in other languages already. Here’s mine in C99: https://github.com/dannyvankooten/1brc I’ve also seen versions in Rust, Go, Python, Clickhouse and DuckDB. The discussions tab on t
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by dvko 3y ago
Very fun challenge that nerd sniped me right away. Had to do a C version in standard C99 with POSIX threads. It[1] clocks in at just under 4 seconds on my AMD Ryzen 4800U Laptop CPU. Should run about 10-20% faster than that on the mentioned
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by dvko 3y ago
You say database book, I say Klepmann.
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by dvko 3y ago
Not this again. This is a number that has been doing the rounds but can be dismissed as false after less than 30 seconds of using Google and a tiny bit of brainpower. That I had to read this on Hacker News saddens me. It’s at least 33%, not
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Popular websites not compressing their HTML responses(dannyvankooten.com)
2 points by dvko 3y ago|1 comments
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by dvko 3y ago
As a fun experiment I grabbed a list of the top 10.000 most popular domains on the internet (according to their Alexa rank) and checked each of them for compression on their HTML responses. Some of them are leaving quite substantial reducti
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by dvko 3y ago
Have been running Mailinabox since 2018 on a €5 VPS. 0 issues with email deliverability. Or anything really. It just works.
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by dvko 3y ago
> Now, I'm one of the fortunate ones, because I didn't keep all (or even most) of my savings in GUSD and Earn; I keep most of my savings in the form of low-risk ETFs (VOO and VTI) Is this a US thing or what? Don’t keep money yo
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React to SSR+snabbdom to reduce total page weight by over 90%(kokoanalytics.com)
1 points by dvko 3y ago|0 comments
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by dvko 3y ago
Very happy to see this. Another Netherlands based project (now company) absolutely killing it with regards to databases. Wishing Ritchie and the rest of the Polars team the best of luck and will gladly be following along on their journey!
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by dvko 4y ago
You asked why people talk about flying. This is a problem that can’t be solved at just a single angle. > And we certainly don’t want people driving 1000 miles instead of flying Not necessarily true. A single person in a gasoline car, ye
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by dvko 4y ago
Driving in Amsterdam is much worse than cycling there… But yes, planning a city to support safe cycling while also having decent public transportation is important, I guess. We just need less car centrism.
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by dvko 4y ago
Easy - because it’s a luxury endeavor.
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by dvko 4y ago
Nice work! I’d also like to chime in and advise against skipping college. Like you, I learned to program on my own through primary and middle school but it wasn’t making me any money when I started Uni. Starting Uni allowed me to get a gove
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by dvko 4y ago
Spot on. The author acknowledges that cookies are actually more privacy friendly, but then concludes with “it is what it is”. Kind of disappointing. This is my major gripe with all the privacy friendly analytics (disclaimer: I authored two,
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by dvko 4y ago
Meh. I think too much reliance on a single entity like CloudFlare isn’t good but your reply isn’t helping at all. I’d reconsider the approach it you really care about a decentralized internet. @userbinator sets a good example elsewhere in t

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