ND Do you really need foreign keys? (www.shayon.dev)
117 points by shayonj 811 days ago | 176 comments on HN ~lite vlite-2.0
Summary ~lite
The article discusses the use of foreign keys in database design, highlighting their impact on performance, migrations, and system complexity.
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Longitudinal · 4 evals
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Audit Trail 8 entries
2026-03-05 14:06 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.280 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-05 14:06 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.28 (Mild positive)
2026-03-05 13:56 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.280 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-05 13:56 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.28 (Mild positive)
2026-03-01 18:18 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-03-01 18:18 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral)
reasoning
ED, neutral tech tutorial
2026-03-01 18:16 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-03-01 18:16 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral)
reasoning
Technical post on database design