(I've merged the extra bit from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612005 into this comment so people can read everything you wrote. If you don't like that, let me know and I'll reopen the comment so you can change it.

I will move the replies here as well.

But please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34614429. This sort of surgery is time-consuming!)