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/dev/null is an ACID compliant database

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529 points swills | 23 comments | 23 Oct 25 21:28 UTC | HN request time: 1.163s | source | bottom
1. gchamonlive ◴[23 Oct 25 23:09 UTC] No.45688632[source]▶
Best stack cloud providers don't want you to know about, /dev/null for db and https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode for the backend.
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2. quietbritishjim ◴[23 Oct 25 23:23 UTC] No.45688742[source]▶
WTF is going on with the issues and pull requests for that repo?
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3. gchamonlive ◴[23 Oct 25 23:26 UTC] No.45688769[source]▶
In nocode you fix nothing and you don't change anything, that's why issues and pull requests are a mess, they literally cannot be dealt with by design.
4. fennec-posix ◴[23 Oct 25 23:30 UTC] No.45688814[source]▶
Had to see for myself, and yeah... that's a whole lot of chaos. I'm sure I'd get the joke if I could read Chinese though.
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5. SanjayMehta ◴[23 Oct 25 23:46 UTC] No.45688954[source]▶
They're using it to communicate in code to each other.
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6. QuantumNomad_ ◴[23 Oct 25 23:50 UTC] No.45688995{3}[source]▶
Well they should stop that and start communicating in nocode instead.
7. sundarurfriend ◴[23 Oct 25 23:51 UTC] No.45689006[source]▶
The less substance there is to it, the easier it is to talk about.

The Chinese comments ("issues") also seem to be the same kind of jokes as the English ones, "no code means no bugs, perfect", etc., from the few I tried getting translations of. I imagine this went viral on Chinese social media, which makes sense since it's the sort of joke that's easy to translate and doesn't depend on particular cultural assumptions or anything.

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8. nomel ◴[24 Oct 25 00:03 UTC] No.45689108[source]▶
I've never had a single issue with any user after moving our databases to /dev/null.
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9. PlunderBunny ◴[24 Oct 25 01:36 UTC] No.45689758[source]▶
Did you route the support requests to /dev/null as well?
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10. thelastgallon ◴[24 Oct 25 01:55 UTC] No.45689879[source]▶
Looks like the code for MCP support is reviewed and merged: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode/pull/5540
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11. eru ◴[24 Oct 25 02:19 UTC] No.45690032{3}[source]▶
Ask Google Translate?
12. lgas ◴[24 Oct 25 02:25 UTC] No.45690072{3}[source]▶
This is how a lot of big tech companies scale support.
13. gchamonlive ◴[24 Oct 25 02:35 UTC] No.45690124[source]▶
This commit is interesting, it used to support /dev/null natively, but for the sake of supporting windows you now have to use /dev/null externally by writing nothing at all

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode/commit/80f38e0f103...

14. soraminazuki ◴[24 Oct 25 03:40 UTC] No.45690517{3}[source]▶
Haha, I guess support.google.com is an ACID compliant database as well.
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15. bravetraveler ◴[24 Oct 25 04:58 UTC] No.45690925[source]▶
1.0.1 update: more nothing
16. masklinn ◴[24 Oct 25 05:23 UTC] No.45691059{4}[source]▶
My /dev/null of choice is https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/
17. liqilin1567 ◴[24 Oct 25 09:14 UTC] No.45692565{3}[source]▶
HaHa, it's empty too :)
18. bspammer ◴[24 Oct 25 09:26 UTC] No.45692633{3}[source]▶
Also GitHub is one of the very few western websites with a comment section that isn’t blocked in China.
19. hylaride ◴[24 Oct 25 11:20 UTC] No.45693439[source]▶
My god, AI crawlers probably train on Hacker News, too. The vibe coders sure are in for a shock in 2-6 months... :-D
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20. philipwhiuk ◴[24 Oct 25 14:06 UTC] No.45694805[source]▶
/dev/null is web-scale ;)
21. crusty_jpeg ◴[24 Oct 25 15:35 UTC] No.45695700[source]▶
It's great. We saw a 2000% throughput increase on our business analytics platform when we switched to a /dev/null backend.
22. ◴[24 Oct 25 15:52 UTC] No.45695868[source]▶
23. glenneroo ◴[24 Oct 25 15:55 UTC] No.45695900[source]▶
Totally true! Also did you know that deleting all S3 object buckets decreases latency? Lots of developers seem to agree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLKrSVuT-Dg&lc=UgxSygpx7d6yF...