whitepoplar

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• Ask HN: Would you use Apple's Lockdown Mode when traveling to Taiwan?

  by whitepoplar on 12/21/2024, 3:35 PM with 7 comments

• Ask HN: What's the best book/resource to learn web application security?

  by whitepoplar on 4/14/2024, 8:29 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: What's the most comfortable reading chair?

  by whitepoplar on 3/30/2024, 6:15 PM with 2 comments

• Why Zig When There Is Already C++, D, and Rust?

  by whitepoplar on 1/22/2024, 2:07 AM with 204 comments

• Shipping Multi-Tenant SaaS Using Postgres Row-Level Security

  by whitepoplar on 1/11/2024, 3:49 AM with 0 comments

• I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH'd data on power loss (2022)

  by whitepoplar on 11/21/2023, 10:26 PM with 253 comments

• iPhone 15 Pro Max Camera Review: Depth and Reach

  by whitepoplar on 10/4/2023, 6:17 PM with 0 comments

• by whitepoplar on 6/26/2023, 5:48 PM with comments

• 13 Years Later – Does Redis Need a New Architecture? (2022)

  by whitepoplar on 3/21/2023, 5:33 PM with 0 comments

• “I'd put ~20% chance that we are in the beginning stages of a banking crisis.”

  by whitepoplar on 3/14/2023, 12:00 AM with 27 comments

• Citus 11.2 Released

  by whitepoplar on 2/10/2023, 4:31 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What's the best Cloudflare alternative for cheap DDoS protection?

  by whitepoplar on 1/3/2023, 6:26 PM with 2 comments

• Google Chrome Adding Memory and Energy Saver Modes

  by whitepoplar on 12/8/2022, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• Sign in with Google, Apple, and other providers and save it in 1Password

  by whitepoplar on 12/1/2022, 4:39 PM with 0 comments

• SSH Agent Explained

  by whitepoplar on 8/27/2022, 5:32 PM with 0 comments

• What's behind the FDA's controversial strategy for evaluating new COVID boosters

  by whitepoplar on 8/21/2022, 3:19 PM with 5 comments

• Ask HN: Which global cities offer the best quality of life per dollar?

  by whitepoplar on 6/29/2022, 12:46 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: How can I fix my sleep schedule?

  by whitepoplar on 6/21/2022, 9:41 PM with 13 comments

• by whitepoplar on 6/21/2022, 9:34 PM with comments

• Ask HN: What's the best resource for existing programmers to learn JavaScript?

  by whitepoplar on 6/5/2022, 4:04 PM with 6 comments

• PostgreSQL 15 Draft Release Notes

  by whitepoplar on 5/18/2022, 2:53 PM with 4 comments

• The Case of the Eleven Blue Men (1948)

  by whitepoplar on 4/29/2022, 2:52 PM with 1 comments

• How Retool upgraded its 4 TB main application PostgreSQL database

  by whitepoplar on 4/16/2022, 4:31 AM with 0 comments

• Update on the Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community

  by whitepoplar on 4/12/2022, 2:12 PM with 0 comments

• Power Failure Testing with SSDs (2015)

  by whitepoplar on 2/22/2022, 4:34 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How do you read technical books in order to achieve maximum retention?

  by whitepoplar on 2/18/2022, 8:49 PM with 7 comments

• Single dependency stacks

  by whitepoplar on 2/8/2022, 7:27 PM with 0 comments

• Postgres on ZFS: Optimizations from various papers and talks

  by whitepoplar on 12/18/2021, 9:57 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?

  by whitepoplar on 11/26/2021, 8:50 PM with 972 comments

• Ask HN: What makes Chrome use so much memory?

  by whitepoplar on 9/27/2021, 5:20 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: What's the most “well-crafted“ piece of software you use?

  by whitepoplar on 9/25/2021, 12:06 AM with 21 comments

• Ask HN: What're some great cities to live for $2k USD per month?

  by whitepoplar on 9/22/2021, 12:24 AM with 77 comments

• Ask HN: How can one determine which PostgreSQL extensions play nice together?

  by whitepoplar on 9/10/2021, 3:59 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What are the best books on relational database modeling in SQL?

  by whitepoplar on 8/22/2021, 5:18 PM with 3 comments

• Short lease in a slick machine: a personal essay about apartments

  by whitepoplar on 8/8/2021, 5:45 AM with 0 comments

• Apple Makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID Available for Purchase

  by whitepoplar on 8/3/2021, 6:06 PM with 143 comments

• Ask HN: Have you successfully treated Thoracic Outlet Syndrome?

  by whitepoplar on 7/30/2021, 11:42 PM with 1 comments

• Postgres 14 Preliminary Release Notes

  by whitepoplar on 5/19/2021, 12:25 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How can I best secure an Android phone?

  by whitepoplar on 5/17/2021, 9:04 PM with 4 comments

• Postgres 14 Release Notes (Preliminary)

  by whitepoplar on 5/17/2021, 8:57 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How have you cured your RSI?

  by whitepoplar on 3/31/2021, 6:35 PM with 116 comments

• Speeding up recovery and VACUUM in Postgres 14

  by whitepoplar on 3/25/2021, 5:42 PM with 1 comments

• Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (2018)

  by whitepoplar on 3/22/2021, 12:13 AM with 77 comments

• Why Consumer SSD Reviews Are Useless for Database Performance Use Case

  by whitepoplar on 3/20/2021, 11:26 PM with 0 comments

• How I Cured my RSI Pain (2010)

  by whitepoplar on 3/7/2021, 11:44 PM with 0 comments

• Citus 10 brings columnar compression to Postgres

  by whitepoplar on 3/6/2021, 6:16 PM with 58 comments

• DigitalOcean Launches Premium Droplets with AMD EYPC CPUs and NVMe SSDs

  by whitepoplar on 3/4/2021, 10:07 PM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: Which city/country has the best cafe culture for working remotely?

  by whitepoplar on 2/20/2021, 7:14 PM with 5 comments

• Ask HN: What's the best tiling window manager in 2021?

  by whitepoplar on 2/18/2021, 1:34 AM with 8 comments

• Ask HN: Is there any way to purchase PPO health insurance as an individual?

  by whitepoplar on 2/1/2021, 8:39 PM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: Where are some good cities to live with housing priced under $100k?

  by whitepoplar on 12/2/2020, 5:40 PM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: How reliable is an old, but barely-used server motherboard?

  by whitepoplar on 11/20/2020, 6:10 PM with 5 comments

• Ask HN: How can I best secure an Android phone?

  by whitepoplar on 11/11/2020, 6:57 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Which banks have the best credit card security implementations?

  by whitepoplar on 11/5/2020, 7:51 PM with 0 comments

• Power Failure Testing with SSDs (2015)

  by whitepoplar on 10/27/2020, 3:05 PM with 0 comments

• Ninja: A simple way to do builds

  by whitepoplar on 10/26/2020, 7:53 PM with 0 comments

• Introducing Cloudflare WARP for Desktop and Cloudflare for Teams

  by whitepoplar on 10/15/2020, 6:40 PM with 2 comments

• Pg_squeeze: Optimizing PostgreSQL Storage

  by whitepoplar on 10/14/2020, 3:06 PM with 0 comments

• Fermi Estimates on Postgres Performance

  by whitepoplar on 8/16/2020, 5:58 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?

  by whitepoplar on 7/17/2020, 12:11 AM with 0 comments

• Why Use ECC Memory?

  by whitepoplar on 6/20/2020, 11:20 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Are banks/brokerages equipped to handle an EMP?

  by whitepoplar on 6/20/2020, 11:02 PM with 0 comments

• Why Use ECC Memory?

  by whitepoplar on 5/30/2020, 2:49 PM with 2 comments

• ZFS Focus on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: What’s New?

  by whitepoplar on 5/26/2020, 4:19 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Any tips/advice for a Mac user jumping ship to Windows?

  by whitepoplar on 5/22/2020, 7:09 PM with 2 comments

• A Modern Space Cadet (2012)

  by whitepoplar on 5/15/2020, 2:55 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: What's the current state of Android vs. iOS security?

  by whitepoplar on 1/12/2020, 3:12 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What are some good cities to live in while hacking on a project?

  by whitepoplar on 11/14/2019, 8:23 PM with 5 comments

• T-Mobile Now Offers Home Internet for $50 Per Month with No Data Cap

  by whitepoplar on 10/31/2019, 3:36 PM with 31 comments

• Fidelity Is Latest to Cut Online Trading Commissions to Zero

  by whitepoplar on 10/10/2019, 4:06 PM with 0 comments

• Warp, Cloudflare's Free VPN, Is Now Publicly Available for iOS and Android

  by whitepoplar on 9/25/2019, 6:21 AM with 19 comments

• PSA: Cloudflare Warp is now publicly available for iOS and Android

  by whitepoplar on 9/25/2019, 4:28 AM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: What's the best JavaScript book for programmers?

  by whitepoplar on 8/25/2019, 10:23 PM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?

  by whitepoplar on 8/23/2019, 10:28 PM with 158 comments

• Apple employs an in-house philosopher but won’t let him talk to the press

  by whitepoplar on 4/22/2019, 6:21 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What are the most effective ways to learn something quickly?

  by whitepoplar on 3/13/2019, 5:33 PM with 3 comments

• TV actresses among 40 people charged in college exam cheating plot

  by whitepoplar on 3/12/2019, 4:35 PM with comments

• Ask HN: How do you/your company handle host security updates in production?

  by whitepoplar on 3/1/2019, 6:19 PM with 3 comments

• Comcast Used '0000' as Default Pin for Xfinity Mobile Customers, Open to Attacks

  by whitepoplar on 2/28/2019, 9:50 PM with 0 comments

• Samsung Unveils New $1,980 Galaxy Fold Smartphone

  by whitepoplar on 2/20/2019, 7:23 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How do you get over the initial fear of learning something hard or new?

  by whitepoplar on 2/8/2019, 12:45 PM with 74 comments

• Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store

  by whitepoplar on 1/19/2019, 9:42 PM with 325 comments

• A Letter From Our Founders

  by whitepoplar on 12/15/2018, 3:45 AM with comments

• Ask HN: What is your preferred physical position when programming?

  by whitepoplar on 12/9/2018, 12:17 AM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: Do you set goals?

  by whitepoplar on 11/28/2018, 2:28 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Does your adblocker break the web?

  by whitepoplar on 11/14/2018, 10:55 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Which CSS framework would you use for a new project today?

  by whitepoplar on 11/9/2018, 6:57 PM with 4 comments

• Give a portion of your Amazon purchases to charity at no cost to you

  by whitepoplar on 10/31/2018, 2:07 AM with 10 comments

• Ask HN: Does anyone have experience using Aiven hosted Postgres on DigitalOcean?

  by whitepoplar on 10/12/2018, 3:37 PM with 0 comments

• California becomes first state to require women on corporate boards

  by whitepoplar on 10/1/2018, 1:53 PM with 0 comments

• by whitepoplar on 9/24/2018, 5:08 PM with comments

• Ask HN: What's your favorite email client for iOS and why?

  by whitepoplar on 9/22/2018, 10:02 PM with 4 comments

• Ask HN: How to reduce the complexity of software interfaces?

  by whitepoplar on 8/30/2018, 6:31 PM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: What's your favorite monitor for programming?

  by whitepoplar on 8/23/2018, 11:27 PM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: What're your favorite nutritious, cheap, and tasty recipes?

  by whitepoplar on 7/30/2018, 11:23 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: What're your favorite cities and why?

  by whitepoplar on 7/27/2018, 4:34 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: How much money would you need to feel comfortable never working again?

  by whitepoplar on 7/25/2018, 3:24 PM with 43 comments

• Ask HN: Do you password protect your SSH keys?

  by whitepoplar on 7/20/2018, 4:53 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Does using a VPN meaningfully increase security on public networks?

  by whitepoplar on 7/19/2018, 12:17 AM with 2 comments

• The Overselling of Gratitude

  by whitepoplar on 7/11/2018, 5:43 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the US?

  by whitepoplar on 6/23/2018, 2:14 PM with 173 comments

• The Telltale Chart (2002)

  by whitepoplar on 6/21/2018, 5:17 PM with 23 comments

• MacOS 'Quick Look' Bug Can Leak Encrypted Data Through Thumbnail Caches

  by whitepoplar on 6/19/2018, 1:03 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Hackers of NYC, where is your favorite place to work?

  by whitepoplar on 6/18/2018, 5:02 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Which IoTs/smart home devices are useful and aren't gimmicks?

  by whitepoplar on 6/10/2018, 5:12 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Why does the Eastern Bloc produce so many good programmers?

  by whitepoplar on 6/2/2018, 5:04 PM with 28 comments

• Best Practices for Deploying Elixir Apps

  by whitepoplar on 5/31/2018, 6:31 PM with 0 comments

• Deploying your Phoenix app to Digital Ocean for beginners

  by whitepoplar on 5/31/2018, 7:59 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What is the most comfortable chair for laptop computing?

  by whitepoplar on 5/24/2018, 1:04 AM with 0 comments

• by whitepoplar on 5/10/2018, 3:51 PM with comments

• Ask HN: Which U.S. wireless carrier best protects from phone number hijacking?

  by whitepoplar on 5/4/2018, 3:52 PM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: Help me choose a REST API to build

  by whitepoplar on 5/2/2018, 9:53 PM with 1 comments

• Berlin's N26 Bank Is Coming to the US

  by whitepoplar on 4/20/2018, 10:04 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What are the best designed/most usable SaaS products?

  by whitepoplar on 4/19/2018, 9:18 PM with 2 comments

• Robinhood Launches Free Options Trading (2017)

  by whitepoplar on 4/5/2018, 2:59 PM with 0 comments

• Venezuelans report big weight losses in 2017 as hunger hits

  by whitepoplar on 2/22/2018, 10:12 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What's the state of Stripe vs. Braintree in 2018?

  by whitepoplar on 2/15/2018, 8:09 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Do you ever feel trapped by the ideas of books/people you learn from?

  by whitepoplar on 2/10/2018, 8:00 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Why has Apple's software quality steadily gone downhill?

  by whitepoplar on 2/5/2018, 10:04 PM with 49 comments

• Ask HN: Which VPS/dedicated server providers let you bring your own IP blocks?

  by whitepoplar on 1/26/2018, 8:29 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Improvements to a SaaS product to reduce customer support requests?

  by whitepoplar on 1/5/2018, 2:38 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: How do you keep a record of your application's features?

  by whitepoplar on 12/17/2017, 4:30 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: ELI5 how is the HW encryption in iMac Pros better than standard Macs?

  by whitepoplar on 12/14/2017, 9:52 PM with 1 comments

• Unlikely places and untangled goals

  by whitepoplar on 12/11/2017, 3:56 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What's the best indoor air quality monitor?

  by whitepoplar on 11/11/2017, 4:05 PM with 2 comments

• How Did You Afford That Place?

  by whitepoplar on 10/18/2017, 4:57 PM with 0 comments

• Status of APFS support in SuperDuper

  by whitepoplar on 9/23/2017, 11:27 AM with 0 comments

• European city maps from Airbnb location ratings

  by whitepoplar on 8/9/2017, 2:25 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: I've lost the ability to concentrate. How can I fix this?

  by whitepoplar on 8/1/2017, 6:59 PM with 25 comments

• Ask HN: Where's a great place to travel if you want to just code?

  by whitepoplar on 8/1/2017, 12:59 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Do you use earplugs and/or headphones to better concentrate?

  by whitepoplar on 7/30/2017, 3:27 PM with 43 comments

• Ask HN: How can I learn more about info that ad companies gather?

  by whitepoplar on 7/20/2017, 9:12 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Are Chrome extensions a security risk?

  by whitepoplar on 7/16/2017, 10:40 PM with 1 comments

• Facebook, Google obliged to decrypt online messages to help gov fight terrorism

  by whitepoplar on 7/13/2017, 10:57 PM with 18 comments

• Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth so unreliable?

  by whitepoplar on 7/12/2017, 2:24 PM with 261 comments

• Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price?

  by whitepoplar on 6/19/2017, 6:03 PM with 33 comments

• Ask HN: How secure is the encryption offered by OS X's Disk Utility?

  by whitepoplar on 6/18/2017, 6:59 PM with 40 comments

• French artist submits 3D rendered image of his face for a national ID card

  by whitepoplar on 6/14/2017, 9:23 PM with 1 comments

• Students berate prof. who refused to participate in no-whites ‘Day of Absence’

  by whitepoplar on 5/25/2017, 7:44 PM with comments

• Ask HN: What's the most comfortable bed you've ever slept on?

  by whitepoplar on 4/19/2017, 8:54 PM with 30 comments

• Ask HN: How do you deal with MBA-types who degrade what you do?

  by whitepoplar on 4/18/2017, 12:55 AM with 4 comments

• Ask HN: Do you like modern, Squarespace-style websites?

  by whitepoplar on 4/5/2017, 4:57 AM with 4 comments

• Ask HN: How important is the absence of forced user account creation to growth?

  by whitepoplar on 3/21/2017, 7:18 PM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: What's the best investment strategy for a highly volatile market?

  by whitepoplar on 3/12/2017, 5:50 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Is the internet less interesting today, or am I just getting older?

  by whitepoplar on 3/8/2017, 6:39 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What are the alternatives to CloudFlare for DDoS protection?

  by whitepoplar on 3/7/2017, 6:23 PM with 1 comments

• The London Whale Resurfaces: Bruno Iksil Speaks Out

  by whitepoplar on 3/7/2017, 3:47 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What are the most useful iOS apps for those who live in NYC?

  by whitepoplar on 3/1/2017, 3:20 AM with 0 comments

• Why Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Poor?

  by whitepoplar on 2/27/2017, 7:12 PM with 97 comments

• by whitepoplar on 2/27/2017, 4:03 PM with comments

• Ask HN: What are some examples of minutiae that aren't?

  by whitepoplar on 2/26/2017, 6:11 PM with 1 comments

• Truefactor – Replacement for passwords/2FA

  by whitepoplar on 2/26/2017, 5:31 AM with 0 comments

• Writing a Blog Engine in Phoenix and Elixir

  by whitepoplar on 2/26/2017, 2:15 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: What steps can one take to increase security and privacy online?

  by whitepoplar on 2/24/2017, 8:36 PM with 9 comments

• Ask HN: Would you use a site that explains complicated topics in plain English?

  by whitepoplar on 2/23/2017, 5:40 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What addition or change would improve your quality of life?

  by whitepoplar on 2/22/2017, 8:13 PM with 49 comments

• Ask HN: How few employees could major tech companies get by on?

  by whitepoplar on 2/22/2017, 6:33 AM with 6 comments

• Therapy Experience Associated with Negative Changes in Personality

  by whitepoplar on 2/21/2017, 7:59 PM with 58 comments

• Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?

  by whitepoplar on 2/19/2017, 11:43 PM with 1064 comments

• Ask HN: What's your Git workflow for production systems?

  by whitepoplar on 2/17/2017, 9:25 PM with 9 comments

• Ask HN: What's your favorite news source?

  by whitepoplar on 2/16/2017, 7:54 PM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: What's your favorite blogging software? (as of Feb. 2017)

  by whitepoplar on 2/15/2017, 6:06 PM with 36 comments

• Algorithmic Design – The Future of Architectural Theory

  by whitepoplar on 1/10/2017, 8:14 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Is your significant other supportive of your entrepreneurial tendencies?

  by whitepoplar on 12/14/2016, 4:56 AM with 17 comments

• Ask HN: What's your Git workflow?

  by whitepoplar on 12/13/2016, 6:16 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Bootstrapped founder seeking advice from people who've done it before

  by whitepoplar on 12/2/2016, 3:53 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Why do established companies continue to screw up password hashing?

  by whitepoplar on 11/30/2016, 2:48 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: What's your favorite monitor for dev work?

  by whitepoplar on 11/29/2016, 12:01 AM with 2 comments

• The Ramp Down to Real

  by whitepoplar on 11/24/2016, 8:01 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What's the best way to learn frontend development nowadays?

  by whitepoplar on 11/1/2016, 4:17 AM with 6 comments

• Ask HN: Help me pick out a weekend project.

  by whitepoplar on 10/28/2016, 6:15 PM with 13 comments

• Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

  by whitepoplar on 10/28/2016, 3:11 AM with 1021 comments

• Ask HN: What are the most well-made iOS apps?

  by whitepoplar on 10/11/2016, 10:15 PM with 14 comments

• Ask HN: How do manufacturers ensure the absence of hardware backdoors?

  by whitepoplar on 10/6/2016, 2:51 PM with 0 comments