Best of 2018

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2018. 187 posts.

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Atomic Commit in SQLite (2007)

An important feature of transactional databases like SQLite is "atomic commit". Atomic commit means that either all database changes within a single transaction occur or none of them occur. With atomic commit, it is as if many different writes to different sections of the database file occur instantaneously and…