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19 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 5 stories, 14 comments · first 2020-04-19 · latest 2025-10-03

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  1. …10 comments in a single go. I wrote up some patterns for doing that in SQLite and PostgreSQL here: https://github.com/simonw/til/blob/main/sqlite/related-rows-... Here's an example PostgreSQL query that does this to fetch tags for posts:…
    comment by simonw · 2025-10-03 · in Litestream v0.5.0
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    Downloading every video for a TikTok account
    story by thunderbong · 2025-01-19 · 0 comments
  3. …I opened an issue on your TIL repo with the pip incantation that I think will get the GPU working. https://github.com/simonw/til/issues/69 I ran into that previously
    comment by UtahDave · 2023-04-13 · in Running Dolly 2.0 on Paperspace
  4. …65B model requires around 300GB of free disk space to prepare. I followed the instructions here: https://github.com/simonw/til/blob/main/llms/llama-7b-m2.md
    comment by johnthuss · 2023-03-22 · in Show HN: ChatLLaMA – A ChatGPT style chatbot for Facebook's LLaMA
  5. …site (and many other sites I run) is deployed like that, using GitHub Actions: https://github.com/simonw/til/blob/81fdedb8e9b047cb059ef22c6... See also the baked data pattern where I talk about this kind of deployment in a lot of detail:
    comment by simonw · 2023-01-18 · in Datasette is my data hammer
  6. …learned. Maybe this would be a good way to do it. Link to the GitHub repo for those interested: https://github.com/simonw/til
    comment by DonaldPShimoda · 2022-01-05 · in Problems once solved by a metaclass can be solved by __init_subclass__
  7. I suggest having both. My TILs site runs uses a GitHub repository where the notes live in markdown: https://github.com/simonw/til Plus a build script running in a GitHub actions workflow that compiles the notes into a SQLite file using my…
    comment by simonw · 2021-07-03 · in Using sqlite3 as a notekeeping document graph
  8. …) - https://til.simonwillison.net (data: https://til.simonwillison.net/tils code: https://github.com/simonw/til ) - https://www.niche-museums.com (data: https://www.niche-museums.com/browse code: https://github.com/simonw/museums ) They're
    comment by simonw · 2021-04-05 · in Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
  9. another activity that I found can help is starting a TIL collection similar to the one by @simonw: https://github.com/simonw/til still early but it is a start: https://github.com/tosh/til TILs are like little gardens you can visit…
    comment by tosh · 2020-10-26 · in Surviving Disillusionment
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    Programatically Accessing Heroku PostgreSQL from GitHub Actions
    story by chmaynard · 2020-08-19 · 0 comments
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    TIL: Enabling WAL mode for SQLite database files
    story by tosh · 2020-08-10 · 0 comments
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    Adding Project Links to PyPI
    story by polm23 · 2020-05-15 · 0 comments
  13. …working on things. I recently started keeping a TILs GitHub repo and it's already proved useful. https://github.com/simonw/til
    comment by simonw · 2020-05-08 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
  14. …the container. https://til.simonwillison.net/ is my most recent site to use this pattern, see https://github.com/simonw/til for how it works. I also wrote this tutorial describing the pattern a while ago:…
    comment by simonw · 2020-05-02 · in Static Sites with Elasticsearch
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    Restricting SSH connections to devices within a Tailscale network
    story by tosh · 2020-04-23 · 3 comments
  16. …that they may drop support for it some day though. My notes on running a Python app on Now v2: https://github.com/simonw/til/blob/master/zeit-now/python-as...
    comment by simonw · 2020-04-21 · in Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A
  17. …now: https://til.simonwillison.net/til/feed.atom?_feed_title=Simo... Implementation details here: https://github.com/simonw/til/compare/95d99f5bb7206948257195...
    comment by simonw · 2020-04-20 · in Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs
  18. I find the hard dependency on Github a bit disconcerting. Why not self host? What happens if https://github.com/simonw/til drops away? Love your work Simon.
    comment by hendry · 2020-04-20 · in Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs
  19. This inspired me to start doing this myself. I made a start here: https://github.com/simonw/til
    comment by simonw · 2020-04-19 · in I've been writing TILs for 5 years