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The original[1][2] articles are a better read IMO. The link is just a summary of the two with added spelling and grammatical errors that materially impact the m

The original[1][2] articles are a better read IMO. The link is just a summary of the two with added spelling and grammatical errors that materially impact the meaning. 1. https://www.uber.com/blog/how-ledgerstore-supports-trillions-of-indexes https://www.uber.com/blog/how-ledgerstore-supports-trillions... 2. https://www.uber.com/blog/migrating-from-dynamodb-to-ledgerstore/ https://www.uber.com/blog/migrating-from-dynamodb-to-ledgers...

intunderflow 2y ago
Seems to happen with all our blog posts that appear on here (I work at Uber) - I don't get why the originals don't get upvoted but these rehashes do - are our titles just not as good?
- gronky_ 2y ago
  Yes, that’s definitely the main reason. It’s called “burying the lede”. Saving $6M is key information that makes this story interesting. It’s buried all the way at the bottom of the first blog and is completely missing from the second blog which focuses specifically on the migration
  - dboreham 2y ago
    TaaS : title as a service
    - k1t 2y ago
      People have done this, eg https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/comments/k20g42/ai_tool_for_choosing_the_best_hacker_news_title/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/comments/k20g42/ai_to... However that appears to be defunct now
  - alexchantavy 2y ago
    I'm usually guilty of this. The hands-on person involved in a highly technical project gets excited and bogged down in the details of the project that they end up not being the most compelling storyteller about it.
    - ComodoHacker 2y ago
      Don't blame yourself. Not everyone is here for the money, many of us are here for the tech.
- masklinn 2y ago
  > I don't get why the originals don't get upvoted Because they were never submitted? I looked for the first one, it doesn't seem to be on HN.
- brushfoot 2y ago
  Personally, yes, the rehash's title is stronger. It tells a story whose ending piques your curiosity to read more. "Uber Migrates" (beginning: company that I'm interested in does something) "1T records" (middle: that's a lot of records; I wonder what happened) "from DynamoDB to LedgerStore" (hmm, how do they compare?) "to Save $6M Annually" (end: that's a good chunk of change for me, but was it worth it to Uber? Why did it save that amount? Let me read more) It's a simple and engaging "there and back again" story that paves the way for a sequel. Versus: "How LedgerStore Supports Trillions of Indexes at Uber" (ah, okay, a technology supports trillions of indexes. Moving on to the next article in my feed) "Migrating a Trillion Entries of Uber’s Ledger Data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore" (ah, a big migration. I'm not sure who did it or whether anything interesting came of it, or even whether it happened or is just theoretical because of the gerund, and moving one trillion of something is cool but not something I probably need to read about right now, so let's move on) YMMV. Some probably prefer the more abstract/less narrative titles, but the first one is more of an attention grabber for me.
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- beanjuiceII 2y ago
  i mean it could use a few "blazing fast" sprinkled about
  - barfbagginus 2y ago
    And you can't have blazing fast without rust, and a little kvetching about lifetimes
    - vsnf 2y ago
      While your broader point is well taken, isn’t Uber a famous Go shop?
      - barfbagginus 2y ago
        Lol I was not being on topic or constructive - just repeating the meme that rust is synonymous with "blazing fast", because of endless statements to the effect of "rust is blazing fast," or "if you want blazing fast code, use rust," or the endless blazing fast rust libraries: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blazing+fast+rust https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blazing+fast+rust Now I'm not an expert in either rust or go. But I know my deductive meme logic: 1. Uber's solution is not blazing fast 2. They are a Go house Then the meme implies: 3. Their solution is slow because they did not use rust! Q.E.M. (Quod Erat Memonstrandum)
        beanjuiceII 2y ago
        i thought it was fun :D
- IanCal 2y ago
  Other than the comments about titles, the entire blogpost doesn't show for me with ublock. So I'll open it, see a picture of some birds, scroll around for a bit then give up.
  - pests 2y ago
    That's probably because you are running software that is meant to hide content on a page.
    - IanCal 2y ago
      What's the purpose of this comment? My point is that a random dev running a pretty plain adblock (aren't we all?) simply cannot view their post. This is down to uber, their practices, an external developer and how uber create their blog (they don't just have the content in the page). If I'm not a special case with extremely weird luck, a bunch of devs seeing links to their posts will open them and not see any actual content. They will then, I assume, be less likely to upvote them. Given that they are seeing problems with posts being upvoted this seems somewhat relevant.
      - pests 2y ago
        I have no issues reading their blog with uBlock Origin. You are running software that is blocking content you want to read. That is my point. If I put on blinders and then complain I can't see your stuff, that's my fault not yours - regardless if your stuff is good or the worst annoying spam ever. If I want to see it for some reason, maybe I should take off the blinders
        IanCal 2y ago
        > You are running software that is blocking content you want to read. That is my point. Yes. It's my point too. I am running very standard software for a dev and it is stopping their dev blog posts being visible. > If I put on blinders and then complain I'm not complaining. I'm explaining, given the evidence I have, why they may be seeing poor results on HN. If I'm not alone (and since I have no custom setup designed to keep our their blog posts that would be a surprise) then there are other developers who cannot see their posts.
- ckluis 2y ago
  Just put all your articles into a customGPT with the examples from the rehashes for each one and then ask the GPT to rewrite your title to the a “rehash” like title for the new posts ;)
dang 2y ago
Ok, we've changed to the second link from https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/05/uber-dynamodb-ledgerstore/ https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/05/uber-dynamodb-ledgerstore.... Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

intunderflow 2y ago

Seems to happen with all our blog posts that appear on here (I work at Uber) - I don't get why the originals don't get upvoted but these rehashes do - are our titles just not as good?

gronky_ 2y ago
Yes, that’s definitely the main reason. It’s called “burying the lede”. Saving $6M is key information that makes this story interesting. It’s buried all the way at the bottom of the first blog and is completely missing from the second blog which focuses specifically on the migration
- dboreham 2y ago
  TaaS : title as a service
  - k1t 2y ago
    People have done this, eg https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/comments/k20g42/ai_tool_for_choosing_the_best_hacker_news_title/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/comments/k20g42/ai_to... However that appears to be defunct now
- alexchantavy 2y ago
  I'm usually guilty of this. The hands-on person involved in a highly technical project gets excited and bogged down in the details of the project that they end up not being the most compelling storyteller about it.
  - ComodoHacker 2y ago
    Don't blame yourself. Not everyone is here for the money, many of us are here for the tech.
masklinn 2y ago
> I don't get why the originals don't get upvoted Because they were never submitted? I looked for the first one, it doesn't seem to be on HN.
brushfoot 2y ago
Personally, yes, the rehash's title is stronger. It tells a story whose ending piques your curiosity to read more. "Uber Migrates" (beginning: company that I'm interested in does something) "1T records" (middle: that's a lot of records; I wonder what happened) "from DynamoDB to LedgerStore" (hmm, how do they compare?) "to Save $6M Annually" (end: that's a good chunk of change for me, but was it worth it to Uber? Why did it save that amount? Let me read more) It's a simple and engaging "there and back again" story that paves the way for a sequel. Versus: "How LedgerStore Supports Trillions of Indexes at Uber" (ah, okay, a technology supports trillions of indexes. Moving on to the next article in my feed) "Migrating a Trillion Entries of Uber’s Ledger Data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore" (ah, a big migration. I'm not sure who did it or whether anything interesting came of it, or even whether it happened or is just theoretical because of the gerund, and moving one trillion of something is cool but not something I probably need to read about right now, so let's move on) YMMV. Some probably prefer the more abstract/less narrative titles, but the first one is more of an attention grabber for me.
- smohare 2y ago
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beanjuiceII 2y ago
i mean it could use a few "blazing fast" sprinkled about
- barfbagginus 2y ago
  And you can't have blazing fast without rust, and a little kvetching about lifetimes
  - vsnf 2y ago
    While your broader point is well taken, isn’t Uber a famous Go shop?
    - barfbagginus 2y ago
      Lol I was not being on topic or constructive - just repeating the meme that rust is synonymous with "blazing fast", because of endless statements to the effect of "rust is blazing fast," or "if you want blazing fast code, use rust," or the endless blazing fast rust libraries: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blazing+fast+rust https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blazing+fast+rust Now I'm not an expert in either rust or go. But I know my deductive meme logic: 1. Uber's solution is not blazing fast 2. They are a Go house Then the meme implies: 3. Their solution is slow because they did not use rust! Q.E.M. (Quod Erat Memonstrandum)
      - beanjuiceII 2y ago
        i thought it was fun :D
IanCal 2y ago
Other than the comments about titles, the entire blogpost doesn't show for me with ublock. So I'll open it, see a picture of some birds, scroll around for a bit then give up.
- pests 2y ago
  That's probably because you are running software that is meant to hide content on a page.
  - IanCal 2y ago
    What's the purpose of this comment? My point is that a random dev running a pretty plain adblock (aren't we all?) simply cannot view their post. This is down to uber, their practices, an external developer and how uber create their blog (they don't just have the content in the page). If I'm not a special case with extremely weird luck, a bunch of devs seeing links to their posts will open them and not see any actual content. They will then, I assume, be less likely to upvote them. Given that they are seeing problems with posts being upvoted this seems somewhat relevant.
    - pests 2y ago
      I have no issues reading their blog with uBlock Origin. You are running software that is blocking content you want to read. That is my point. If I put on blinders and then complain I can't see your stuff, that's my fault not yours - regardless if your stuff is good or the worst annoying spam ever. If I want to see it for some reason, maybe I should take off the blinders
      - IanCal 2y ago
        > You are running software that is blocking content you want to read. That is my point. Yes. It's my point too. I am running very standard software for a dev and it is stopping their dev blog posts being visible. > If I put on blinders and then complain I'm not complaining. I'm explaining, given the evidence I have, why they may be seeing poor results on HN. If I'm not alone (and since I have no custom setup designed to keep our their blog posts that would be a surprise) then there are other developers who cannot see their posts.
ckluis 2y ago
Just put all your articles into a customGPT with the examples from the rehashes for each one and then ask the GPT to rewrite your title to the a “rehash” like title for the new posts ;)

dang 2y ago

Ok, we've changed to the second link from https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/05/uber-dynamodb-ledgerstore/ https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/05/uber-dynamodb-ledgerstore.... Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html