[HN Gopher] Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed
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       Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed
        
       Author : AsyncBanana
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2025-07-27 21:12 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | preinheimer wrote:
       | Love it.
        
       | shmerl wrote:
       | Reminds A Ticket To Tranai.
        
       | snickerdoodle12 wrote:
       | Excellent. Now do 42,000x faster please.
        
         | mort96 wrote:
         | You never specified a baseline. They could undo their changes
         | and it's 42,000x faster again :)
        
       | vichyvich wrote:
       | I love this! It would be great to have follow-ups and series of
       | books about how to make things worse, as a way to learn to make
       | things better.
       | 
       | Maybe it could be like O'Reilly, except the covers could have
       | shittily-drawn fantasy animals, e.g. a 7-year-old's drawing of a
       | unicorn with a head on each side of its body both talking on
       | their AirPods giving away their money to scammers, making
       | PowerPoint slides, eating too much, doing hard drugs, live-
       | streaming on Facebook, and standing on the railroad tracks with a
       | train in the distance.
        
         | prisenco wrote:
         | I took a creative writing class and we had a portion where we
         | read and analyzed bad writing then took good writing and
         | rewrote it poorly and those were the most helpful writing
         | exercises I've ever done.
        
       | stephenlf wrote:
       | Love the B Sanderson shoutout
        
       | gerdesj wrote:
       | I think this is absolute genius.
       | 
       | If you are ever going to get to grips with optimizing something,
       | why not do the opposite first or as a foil?
       | 
       | How often do you really fenangle your database (or other system)
       | properly? Are your performance enhancements really based on
       | science or cargo culting or something else?
        
       | bramhaag wrote:
       | Very pleasant and entertaining writing style, glad to see this on
       | the front page instead of the usual LLM slop.
        
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