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Béla Tarr Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/movies/bela-tarr-death.html
1•jihadjihad•41s ago•0 comments

Building the Brain of Your Accessibility AI

https://www.last-child.com/build-ai-brain-a11y.html
1•ohjeez•2m ago•0 comments

How to Handle Unsolicited Idea Submissions

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/how-to-handle-unsolicited-idea-4654516/
1•WaitWaitWha•2m ago•0 comments

LLM's shouldn't always land the plane

https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/llms-shouldnt-always-land-the-plane./
1•jakelsaunders94•4m ago•0 comments

Cameroon and Tanzania rulers clung to power – but look more vulnerable

https://theconversation.com/autocracies-in-transition-in-2025-cameroon-and-tanzania-rulers-clung-...
1•PaulHoule•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FlipHN – A Tinder-like way to browse Hacker News

https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/fliphn-hacker-news-reader/id6757187877
1•mtyz•6m ago•0 comments

Operationalizing Machine Learning: An Interview Study

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09125
1•Anon84•7m ago•0 comments

Mastering Nginx Logs with JSON and OpenTelemetry

https://www.dash0.com/guides/nginx-logs
1•ayoisaiah•7m ago•0 comments

PayDroid universal checkout layer for chat, bots, and AI commerce

https://stripe.paydroid.ai/
1•freebzns•11m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Shoot-em-up Deck Building game

https://muffinman-io.itch.io/spacedeck-x
2•stanko•11m ago•0 comments

Urban World: Meeting the Demographic Challenge [pdf]

https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/featured%20insights/urbanization/urban%20world%20meetin...
1•toomuchtodo•12m ago•0 comments

Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket

1•akhnid•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Roma Data Pipeline – Open-Source Ancient Rome Data

https://github.com/thomaspalaio/roma-data-pipeline
1•smurfysmurf•12m ago•0 comments

Crackhouse, co-living for cracked engineers

https://crackhouse.xyz
1•cedel2k1•13m ago•1 comments

How A Young Nation Shaped the Modern World

https://uberpub.com/posts/how-a-young-nation-shaped-the-modern-world
1•pcbmaker20•13m ago•0 comments

About the "Trust-Me-Bro" Culture

https://carette.xyz/posts/influentists/
3•LucidLynx•14m ago•0 comments

18k Reasons for Causal Learning in Space

https://nervousmachine.substack.com/p/18000-reasons-for-causal-learning
1•nervousmachine•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Claws – Terminal UI for AWS resources (k9s-style)

https://github.com/clawscli/claws
1•yimsk•16m ago•0 comments

HP Keyboard Full PC Eliteboard G1A

https://www.hp.com/us-en/desktops/business/eliteboard.html
2•Fake4d•16m ago•0 comments

DatBench: Cut VLM eval compute by >10× while INCREASING signal

https://www.datologyai.com/blog/datbench-discriminative-faithful-and-efficient-vision-language-mo...
1•hurrycane•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dokku-multideploy – Deploy and migrate multiple apps between servers

https://github.com/benmarten/dokku-multideploy
1•benmarten•18m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ledger – A private workspace for Engineering Managers

https://www.l3dger.com/
1•caiobzen•19m ago•0 comments

U-Haul Migration Trends

https://www.uhaul.com/About/Migration/
2•tbruckner•19m ago•0 comments

Apitrace Goes Vroom (2025)

https://www.supergoodcode.com/apitrace-goes-vroom/
1•nateb2022•20m ago•0 comments

The Validation Machines

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/validation-ai-raffi-krikorian/684764/
1•herbertl•21m ago•0 comments

Interactive tour of upcoming Go 1.26 features

https://antonz.org/go-1-26/
4•nateb2022•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Capture website screenshots from your terminal. No browser needed

https://screenshots.sh
3•erikpau•26m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Simboba – Evals in under 5 mins

https://github.com/ntkris/simboba
1•ntkris•26m ago•0 comments

Chess isn't fair–so rearrange the pieces

https://www.popsci.com/science/how-to-make-chess-fair/
2•Brajeshwar•28m ago•0 comments

Seven-Million-Year Biped May Be the Earliest Human Ancestor

https://modernengineeringmarvels.com/2026/01/05/seven-million-year-biped-may-be-the-earliest-huma...
1•Brajeshwar•28m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: MockBlast – Local-first mock data generator (SQL, Mongo, JSON)

https://mockblast.com
2•lotfijbe•1d ago

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lotfijbe•1d ago

    I built this because I got tired of the 1,000-row limit on existing tools like Mockaroo, and I didn't want to upload my database schemas to the cloud just to generate seed data.

    MockBlast is a local-first generator that runs on a $5 VPS using Dockerized Postgres and Next.js.

    It supports: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB (native ObjectId/ISODate), JSON, and CSV.

    The Technical Details:

        Parsing: It uses a regex engine to parse raw CREATE TABLE statements to auto-detect types like UUID, JSONB, and BOOLEAN.

        Streaming: To handle 1M+ rows without crashing the browser or server RAM, it uses Web Streams API to pipe generated data row-by-row directly to the response.

        Integrity: It performs a topological sort on your schema to generate parent tables first, caching IDs to ensure Foreign Key integrity in child tables.

    It generates 10,000 rows for free (no signup required for basic generation).

    I'm giving a Lifetime Pro status to the users who want to help me stress-test the streaming architecture and who sign up before 31st January. So grab it fast.

    Would love feedback on the SQL parsing logic—it's the hardest part to get right for edge cases.