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108points
19comments
#490of 2,533 in 2021
Top 20%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.32.
Idea: 4 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, interesting technique for scraping data
From 3 comments
Fascinating! Going to use this in one of my projects.
dasickis on HNI'm likely to use this to generate HTML / CSS for all previous versions of blog posts. Very nice work!
pdimitar on HNbuilt some hand tools for analyzing the covid data git repos in this way earlier in the pandemic. it was interesting in that it gave visibility into back corrections for old…
a-dub on HN
Objections
Git is slow and bloats with JSON data; delta encoding suffers
From 2 comments
It's unlikely to be the most performant since git is first and foremost designed to version control plain text source code for developing software. This is version controlling…
cerved on HNWould using Git for this be performant?
riskneutral on HN
Questions
Would using Git for this be performant?
From 1 comment
Would using Git for this be performant?
riskneutral on HN
Alternatives named
Dolt
From 1 comment
People who find this interesting might also like DoltHub: "Dolt marries two familiar concepts, Git and MySQL. The first and only SQL database that supports clone, branch, and…
harabat on HN
Apache Parquet with Arrow
From 1 comment
I also do this, but be weary of situations where you’re using ephemeral containers and you have to download, scrape, then reupload a bare repo.. Sure, you can use GitHub or…
awill88 on HN
Pandas
From 1 comment
Why not use Pandas?
omegalulw on HN