hckrnws
samwillis
Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:34pm PST
Karma:
29831
about
Multidisciplinary Developer, Designer and Engineer. I invent products both online and offline.

Working on sync engines, local-first, PGlite, and Tanstack DB at ElectricSQL.

sam dot willis at gmail dot com

samwillis.co.uk

Twitter: @samwillis

submitted
Tues Sep 9, 2025 6:52pm PST
An Interactive Guide to TanStack DB
@samwillis
4
Fri Aug 15, 2025 7:44pm PST
Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda - Porffor can run on Lambda now
@samwillis
3
Tues Jul 29, 2025 5:48pm PST
Show HN: TanStack DB – Reactive DB with Differential Dataflow for TanStack Query
@samwillis
1
2
4
Thurs Jul 24, 2025 10:15am PST
Efficient Streaming of Markdown in the Terminal
@samwillis
2
Thurs Jul 17, 2025 4:14pm PST
We built a real-time service that handles 20k updates per second
@samwillis
5
Wed May 21, 2025 5:05pm PST
Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT
@samwillis
16
79
284
Wed Apr 9, 2025 5:19pm PST
Show HN: ElectricSQL Cloud – Postgres sync in 30 seconds
@samwillis
7
Sun Apr 6, 2025 7:58am PST
Biologist whose innovation saved lives wins $3M Breakthrough prize
@samwillis
6
Wed Jan 1, 2025 12:24am PST
Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity
@samwillis
2
Sun Dec 22, 2024 11:30am PST
Punch (1844) predicts LLMs: "The new patent novel writer"
@samwillis
3
3
3
Sun Dec 15, 2024 5:48pm PST
Bad Keming – Where kerning's so bad it's keming
@samwillis
4
1
8
Mon Nov 18, 2024 12:07pm PST
Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await
@samwillis
19
97
171
Mon Oct 14, 2024 7:50am PST
Let's unite the startup ecosystem in Europe with a standardized ‘EU Inc'
@samwillis
3
4
15
Tues Sep 17, 2024 9:37pm PST
Hybrid Search with PostgreSQL and Pgvector
@samwillis
1
1
35
Fri Sep 6, 2024 10:02am PST
CMA objects to Google's ad tech practices to help UK advertisers and publishers
@samwillis
3
Sat Aug 24, 2024 5:41pm PST
NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew
@samwillis
2
2
197
Fri Aug 23, 2024 1:47pm PST
UK's Browser and Cloud Investigation may fail to allow Web App competition
@samwillis
2