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Feifan Zhou
Personal blog · feifan.blog/postsprogrammingstartups
Feifan Zhou's personal blog at feifan.blog covers programming and startups. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The Database Inside Your Codebase”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts about prototyping database-based programming interfaces and the future of IDEs, such as a Tanagram post. One commenter links it and asks other readers for their thoughts on the direction.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Feifan Zhou | Exploring uncommonly interesting ideas, thinking clearly, and tinkering with software through long-form writing.
Most-linked posts?
- The Database Inside Your Codebase3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-02-13
What Hacker News says?
I've been thinking about/prototyping some programming interfaces in this direction. I'd be interested in getting your thoughts on this! https://feifan.blog/posts/tanagram-creating-a-database-based...
Comment linking /posts/tanagram-creating-a-database-based-codebase
on “What's the Future of IDEs?”Submitted The Database Inside Your Codebase as a story · 145 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computers Aren't Fun Anymore (2020) as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Database Inside Your Codebase as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Database Inside Your Codebase as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feature-Less Software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Database Inside Your Codebase as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SF Founder 1 Year Reflections as a story · 1 points
HN discussion