Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME(posixcafe.org)

113 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 15 comments

Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age(nullprogram.com)

167 points by fovc 2 days ago | 118 comments

Chris Wellons announces Prospero, a lightweight C++ Dear ImGui coding harness for LLM agents, describing its features, configuration, design principles, and editions.

The soloists and populars of the software world(mihaiolteanu.me)

5 points by molteanu 3 years ago | 0 comments

LinkedIn Fanfiction(marginalia.nu)

33 points by marginalia_nu 5 months ago | 4 comments

Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November

23 points by curiousaboutml 5 days ago | 18 comments

A Tell HN thread where a tech worker calls for a November 2026 strike against user-hostile software, ad-driven tech, forced office returns, and AI slop, with commenter replies.

New responsibilities(hadess.net)

128 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 69 comments

Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix(theregister.com)

148 points by magoghm 17 days ago | 56 comments

The Register article reporting that PostgreSQL 19's release was pushed to November and up to 10 features reverted after AI review tools surfaced more bugs than developers could fix.

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.

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.

Go ahead, self-host Postgres(pierce.dev)

635 points by pavel_lishin 10 months ago | 373 comments

A blog post on pierce.dev arguing that self-hosting PostgreSQL is a reasonable alternative to managed database services.

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.

Postgres isn't slow, your storage is(clickhouse.com)

146 points by saisrirampur 21 days ago | 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.