russellthehippo

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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
Happy to hear from you, I'm a delighted customer. In fact I am building a database company on top of Tigris focused on exactly that use case. I'll reach out on X if that works.
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
Rewrite on every checkpoint. The manifest is small (a few hundred KB for a million pages), so a single PUT is fine. The PUT is the atomic commit point - old page groups become garbage, cleaned up later by gc(). The SQLite engine fetches upd
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
the comment history speaks for itself
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
No. Turbolite is explicitly read-write, and it’s genuinely hard to balance availability against local query speed. Those tradeoffs are real. I don’t think your response is describing this project very accurately.
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
rqlite does this well but it’s still server based
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
Thanks! I think the hole punching is the key one, as it is important for "this delete has happened but we need to free the space without a vacuum".
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
Yeah I mostly agree, and another comment brought up this idea kind of. If you can keep SQLite local, that’s usually the better answer. Local reads are insanely hard to beat, and Litestream is the canonical “keep SQLite local and ship durabi
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
Cost really depends on your workflow, your durability needs, prefetch aggression (how quickly you need all the data locally), and how aggressively you cache. The storage is what it is, and it's cheap. The variation comes in transaction
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
It's funny, I did consider that and put some work into doing it. I moved that work into a different project, https://github.com/russellromney/haqlite that focuses on high-availability SQLite. Like Litestream but f
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
Also it’s super easy to add them, it’s definitely on the roadmap. The manifest tracks the data locally and could quickly evict on any operation that accesses it. Very safe post-checkpoint
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
Thanks for your kind words!
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
Very cool, thanks. I hadn’t seen Graft before, but that sounds pretty adjacent in a lot of interesting ways. I looked at the repo and see what I can apply. I've tried out all sorts of optimizations - for free pages, I've considere
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
Great question. I have some eviction functions in the Rust library; I don’t expose them through the extension/VFS yet. The open question is less “can I evict?” and more “when should eviction fire?” via user action, via policy, or both.
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
Also I want to acknowledge the other projects in adjacent parts of this space — raw SQLite range-request VFSes, Litestream/LiteFS-style replication approaches, libSQL/Turso, Neon, mvsqlite, etc. I took a lot of inspiration from th
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by russellthehippo 7mo ago
A bit more color on what I found interesting building this: The motivating question for me was less “can SQLite read over the network?” and more “what assumptions break once the storage layer is object storage instead of a filesystem?” The
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Show HN: Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3(github.com)
185 points by russellthehippo 7mo ago|43 comments
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by russellthehippo 9mo ago
Whoa, this is sick. Like adversarial chess training but inverted for model evaluation. The model has to be both correct and fast at code while managing tactics and strategy well. I wonder if it should extend to general-soldier models, like
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Show HN: redb-turbo: redb with page-level compression and encryption(github.com)
2 points by russellthehippo 9mo ago|0 comments
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by russellthehippo 10mo ago
Confirmed - strike on Venezuela and capture of Maduro. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/03/trump-us-operation-captured-...
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by russellthehippo 10mo ago
Anthropic is very focused on AI safety. It makes LLMs safe by shutting down anyone from using them
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Kuzu Graph DB is archived:((github.com)
4 points by russellthehippo 11mo ago|1 comments
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by russellthehippo 11mo ago
Super sad to see this project get archived. I've really enjoyed working with it, it's been an amazing addition to projects where node-based data structures are obviously the move but I don't want to use server-based approache
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by russellthehippo 1y ago
https://archive.ph/5b4wu
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What Are MCP Servers?(fly.io)
3 points by russellthehippo 1y ago|2 comments
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by russellthehippo 1y ago
Answer - MCP servers are APIs, basically. Nice.
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by russellthehippo 2y ago
Congrats on the more official launch! Super promising, first product that shares dbt-type data organization/orchestration capabilities with a compute layer worthy of replacing existing data warehouses/python environments.
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The Ethical and Mechanical Brokenness of the Elkay EzH2O Bottle Filler(connect.law.columbia.edu)
1 points by russellthehippo 2y ago|0 comments
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by russellthehippo 3y ago
nice
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Has anyone been charged with a crime committed in space?(law.stackexchange.com)
2 points by russellthehippo 3y ago|0 comments

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