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Seems to work well.", "excerpt": "I use Turso for a small project. Seems to work well. Hope this doesn\u2019t change", "context": "", "use_case": "small project database", "switched_from": "", "story": "Supabase is acquiring Turso"}, {"id": 747633488, "item_id": 46727093, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727093", "by": "rednafi", "date": "2026-01-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use them for stashing my llm usage logs all the time. Pretty neat.", "excerpt": "Turso is sqlite with a server client arch. I use them for stashing my llm usage logs all the time. Pretty neat. 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It should not be X times slower than SQLite. https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/issues/336 https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/pull/1009", "context": "", "use_case": "database benchmarking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Supabase is acquiring Turso"}, {"id": 748998704, "item_id": 46812419, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812419", "by": "rantingdemon", "date": "2026-01-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm not ready to entertain Turso as an alternative to something that is as battle tested as Sqlite.", "excerpt": "This is very shallow for a supposed deep dive. 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