Unix: An Oral History(princeton.edu)

105 points by zdw 3 years ago | 20 comments

A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers(nytimes.com)

20 points by karaokeyoga 3 years ago | 6 comments

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)

489 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 492 comments

A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.

Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking(tedium.co)

128 points by marban 3 years ago | 61 comments

The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)

70 points by swyx 3 years ago | 38 comments

Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists(seattletimes.com)

81 points by apwheele 3 years ago | 70 comments

What I wish someone told me about Postgres(challahscript.com)

389 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 161 comments

A blog post cataloging practical lessons and tips about working with PostgreSQL, including normalization, NULL handling, and making psql more useful.

PostgreSQL for Everything(raphaelbauer.com)

412 points by karlmush 2 months ago | 238 comments

A blog post by Raphael Bauer arguing for using PostgreSQL as the single backend for many workloads instead of specialized tools.

Making Postgres slower(byteofdev.com)

320 points by AsyncBanana 1 year ago | 35 comments

A ByteofDev blog post humorously exploring how to tune PostgreSQL configuration settings to make the database as slow as possible.

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales(dbos.dev)

351 points by KraftyOne 3 months ago | 68 comments

A DBOS blog post by Peter Kraft arguing that Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY can scale, contrary to common belief.

Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale(dbos.dev)

83 points by KraftyOne 1 month ago | 26 comments

A DBOS blog post by Peter Kraft explaining why Postgres SELECT DISTINCT queries perform poorly at scale.

PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key(maciejwalkowiak.com)

387 points by taubek 2 years ago | 296 comments

A blog post by Maciej Walkowiak discussing the use of UUIDs as primary keys in PostgreSQL, including storage and performance considerations, with Java examples.