First screen, captured .
78 points by speckx | 15 comments
Blog post describing how the author got childhood Macromedia Director games running on modern hardware by working around old copy-protection mechanisms.
353 points by tacoooooooo | 132 comments
Blog post by Alex Jacobs arguing about the operational problems of running pgvector for vector search in production that typical posts omit.
358 points by pistolario | 226 comments
Blog post introducing jsongrep, a JSON query tool, explaining its automata-based search engine and benchmarks against jq, jmespath, jsonpath-rust, and jql.
29 points by polysaturate | 4 comments
Blog post by Rob Race, who sells programming education, arguing that traditional programming tutorials are dead.
59 points by Qem | 39 comments
Miguel Grinberg's blog post benchmarking Python 3.15 (rc3) performance against earlier interpreters back to Python 3.10.
531 points by lfittl | 140 comments
A pganalyze blog post by Lukas Fittl explaining the new asynchronous I/O subsystem for disk reads in the Postgres 18 beta and its performance implications.
146 points by saisrirampur | 148 comments
ClickHouse blog recap of a POSETTE 2026 talk arguing PostgreSQL performance at scale is limited by storage, with benchmarks and a local-NVMe production architecture.
695 points by pjmlp | 505 comments
Miguel Grinberg's blog post benchmarking the newly released Python 3.14 against earlier Python versions to measure performance gains.
412 points by karlmush | 238 comments
A blog post by Raphael Bauer arguing for using PostgreSQL as the single backend for many workloads instead of specialized tools.
118 points by martz | 40 comments
Blog post benchmarking VLC's Gaussian blur filter in C against a C# port via .NET Native AOT, across line-by-line, algorithmically optimized, and AVX2 SIMD versions.