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You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News
You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News
I had a 20 GiB JSON file of everything that has ever happened on Hacker News, and I can just re-run the command above to “top it off” any time I need the latest. I spend most of my day wrangling a different database(there’s the plug my coworkers will be looking for) but I’ve been meaning to try DuckDB and it seemed perfect for this one-off task. Now that I have a local download of all Hacker News content, I can train hundreds of LLM-based bots on it and run them as contributors, slowly and inevitably replacing all human text with the output of a chinese room oscillator perpetually echoing and recycling the past.
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