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		Humphrey 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite I know right! I'd never heard of HTTP Range requests until PMTiles - but gee it's an elegant solution.

keepamovin 25 days ago [–]

Hadn't seen PMTiles before, but that matches the mental model exactly! I chose physical file sharding over Range Requests on a single db because it felt safer for 'dumb' static hosts like CF. - less risk of a single 22GB file getting stuck or cached weirdly. Maybe it would work

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