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`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

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Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints
L: https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/bigints-are-cool/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45325610
posted on 2025.09.21 at 14:58:51 (c=0, p=5)

Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints | Jonathan's Blog

Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints This is a short note to document storing data in JS’s bigint type. I tried this out in a project recently, and it’s not obviously a terrible idea, as long as you take into account all the caveats that make it only useful for very specific cases. Why This is a performance1 thing. In the project where I was exploring this, we had a large amount of objects representing configuration values. The possible configuration keys were the same, but different objects had different keys set. This approach was causing some issues:

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