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Vsevolod Solovyov
Personal blog · vsevolod.netprogrammingdataai
Vsevolod Solovyov's personal blog at vsevolod.net covers programming, data and ai. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Why can’t you buy a good webcam?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in one Opal Camera thread as a possible source for the story, pointing to a post about good webcams. No commenter judges the writing itself.
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.
Vsevolod Solovyov's blog
Most-linked posts?
- Why can’t you buy a good webcam?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-12-22
- How not to use jsonb fields and their indexes in PostgreSQL3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-23
- ORM Database Migration Tools2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-14
- The Owl, the Scientific Method, and Claude Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-23
What Hacker News says?
I use a simple framework-agnostic tool for tracking and applying migrations, it also supports dependencies between migrations. Migrations are automatically applied on deploy to stage/production, so you don’t forget to do it. I prefer this approach very much and even wrote about it here https://vsevolod.net/migrations/
Comment linking /migrations/
on “Surviving Django, if you care about databases”Submitted Why can’t you buy a good webcam? as a story · 783 points
HN discussionIt's enabled by default since Postgres 12, and in some cases can be harmful, I mentioned it in my blog post about JSONB indexes [1]. I found it hard to make Postgres reuse JIT-compiled plans, and quite often JIT compilation can kick in when it thinks that there will be many results and spend more time in compilation than executing a non-compiled query. Postgres needs a setting to increase JIT compilation threshold b…
Comment linking /postgresql-jsonb-index/
on “JIT-Compiling SQL Queries in PostgreSQL Using LLVM”Submitted ORM Database Migration Tools as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI think this might be the story: https://vsevolod.net/good-webcams/
Comment linking /good-webcams/
on “Opal Camera”Submitted How not to use jsonb fields and their indexes in PostgreSQL as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fix your fraud problems with this simple trick as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why can’t you buy a good webcam? (2020) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quickly Looking for Developers? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indexing Jsonb Columns in PostgreSQL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Owl, the Scientific Method, and Claude Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why can’t you buy a good webcam? (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indexing Jsonb Columns in PostgreSQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ORM Database Migration Tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Owl, the Scientific Method, and Claude Code: A Debugging Story as a story · 1 points
HN discussion