Light Cone Consistency: Closure, Ordering, and the Single-Observer Boundary · HackerPapers discussions

Light Cone Consistency: Closure, Ordering, and the Single-Observer Boundary — mentioned by withinboredom

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:16:30 GMT

They are indeed quite challenging. We literally wrote a paper about it (https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09114) ... you almost describe some of our original architecture too! You might find it interesting -- or not. https://getswytch.com

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Light Cone Consistency: Closure, Ordering, and the Single-Observer Boundary — HN submission

Tue, 12 May 2026 14:43:15 GMT

Show HN: Self-hosted Spanner-like database that speaks Redis

Almost 10 years ago, I was working on two projects: a space game that simulated relativity and a "dead man's switch" in case I died. I realized two things back then: 1. If I wanted to leave a message for my son in 30 years, I couldn't make any assumptions about technology in the future. 2. No database is unkillable. Over the coming decade, I set out to figure out how to build a leaderless database that could go "holographic" -- any partition could create a completely independent cluster -- while simultaneously acting like any other database. It was a long journey with a lot of dead ends and…

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Light Cone Consistency: Closure, Ordering, and the Single-Observer Boundary — HN submission

Tue, 12 May 2026 08:48:12 GMT

LCC: Toward a Unified Theory of Consistency in Message-Passing Systems

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