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A recap on May/June stability at Neon

news.ycombinator.com Nikita Shamgunov 2026-01-17 16:22:57

Details of incidents and what we did to prevent more in the future Starting in May, we had a series of feature launches with agentic AI partners that gained far more momentum than we predicted. In two short timespans, the rate of new database creation increased more than 5x, and the rate of branch creation increased more than 50x. While we were humbled by the uptick, the significant burst in operational load caused a lot of strain in the Neon platform, manifesting as more incidents over the cou

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Crypto rises on renewed optimism House will pass key stablecoin legislation this week

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2026-01-18 04:23:06

Cryptocurrencies and several stocks tied to the blockchain ecosystem rallied Wednesday after the House approved a procedural vote to consider three key bills governing crypto regulation after Republican lawmakers halted their passage Tuesday. Bitcoin was last higher by 2% at $119,293.86, according to Coin Metrics, while ether surged more than 10% to $3,382.95. Shares of stablecoin issuer Circle jumped 19% and crypto services firm Coinbase gained about 2% after both closed lower Tuesday. Ether

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A Recap on May/June Stability at Neon

news.ycombinator.com Nikita Shamgunov 2026-01-18 04:22:57

Details of incidents and what we did to prevent more in the future Starting in May, we had a series of feature launches with agentic AI partners that gained far more momentum than we predicted. In two short timespans, the rate of new database creation increased more than 5x, and the rate of branch creation increased more than 50x. While we were humbled by the uptick, the significant burst in operational load caused a lot of strain in the Neon platform, manifesting as more incidents over the cou

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Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-18 15:15:28

Active-active Replication Extension for PostgreSQL (pgactive) pgactive is a PostgreSQL replication extension for creating an active-active database. Overview Database replication is a method that copies changes between databases instances, and is a key component for use cases like high availability, reducing latency between an application and its source data, moving data between systems such as production and test, infrastructure migration, and others. Relational databases such as PostgreSQL

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AWS open-sourced Postgres active-active replication extension

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-19 15:15:28

Active-active Replication Extension for PostgreSQL (pgactive) pgactive is a PostgreSQL replication extension for creating an active-active database. Overview Database replication is a method that copies changes between databases instances, and is a key component for use cases like high availability, reducing latency between an application and its source data, moving data between systems such as production and test, infrastructure migration, and others. Relational databases such as PostgreSQL

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The base model Kindle is the e-reader most people should buy. Here's why

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-01-21 05:12:50

ZDNET's key takeaways Amazon's base model Kindle promises quicker page-turning, a brighter display, and a fun matcha green colorway (alongside the classic black) The e-reader is more reactive and vivid, and reading anything on the lightweight, portable device is convenient. This model has the shortest battery life out of the entire lineup, but it's still six weeks long. $109.99 at Amazon $109.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Unlike an iPad or tablet competitor, a Kindle's sole purpose is to

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6 reasons why I've stuck with Ubuntu-based Linux distros for the last 20 years

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-22 15:39:25

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET It was October 2004, and I'd been using Red Hat Linux (way before it became Fedora) for years. I was fairly certain that would be my distribution until the world ended. I'd become comfortable with Red Hat. Sure, it had its quirks and was sometimes a bit more difficult than it needed to be (remember, it was over 20 years ago), but it was stable and I'd grown to know it well. But then a new distribution arrived on the scene... Ubuntu. Oddly enough, the

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Nearly Half of Americans Budget Based on Vibes. Should You?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-22 15:00:00

Your feelings about the economy can help you set a smarter money strategy. Massonstock/Getty Images Potential romantic partners. Your next vacation spot. Whether you should leave a party early. A vibe check can help you evaluate lots of things, including your money strategy. A June study by Intuit Credit Karma found that 44% of Americans surveyed have done "vibe-based budgeting." Gen Zers and millennials, in particular, are adjusting their spending and savings habits according to how they feel

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M.2 SSD Can Self-Destruct by Giving Itself a Burst of Voltage

news.ycombinator.com About Michael Kan 2026-01-24 00:24:03

Worried your data could fall into the wrong hands? A company has developed an M.2 SSD storage drive that can self-destruct by frying its own memory. The product, the P250Q Self-Destruct SSD, is engineered to instantly wipe its memory at the push of a button —either through a software-based erasure or a hardware method that's supposed to physically destroy the flash chip. The product comes from the Taiwanese memory vendor Team Group, which is marketing the SSD to customers working in sensitive

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This compact laptop dock streamlined my workspace - and it's buy one get one

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2026-01-25 14:00:19

ZDNET's key takeaways The Baseus Nomos NU1 Air Spacemate is on sale for $79. It's a compact docking station that's ideal for both Windows or macOS users on the go. Unlike its predecessor, however, it only supports two monitors at 4K resolution instead of three. View now at Baseus View now at Amazon more buying choices Sometimes the best updates are incremental, and not a complete top-to-bottom overhaul. That's how I feel about the Baseus Nomos NU1 Air Spacemate 12-in-1 Docking Station. It's a

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These wireless ANC earbuds from Baseus are on sale for under $30

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-28 11:00:16

If you’re in the market for new earbuds with future-proof features at an affordable price, Baseus is offering a limited-time deal worth checking out. The newly launched Baseus Bass BP1 Pro (sold as the EP10 Pro in the EU) is now just $27.99 on Amazon US — down from its original $39.99 price. It’s rare to find active noise canceling (ANC) in affordable wireless earbuds, but the Bass BP1 Pro earbuds promise to deliver in this regard. Baseus says the real-time adaptive active noise cancelation is

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FOKS: Federated Open Key Service

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-28 20:49:21

A Simple Key Hierarchy To power applications like the Git and KV-Store shown above, FOKS needs a shared symmetric key for all readers and writers of the data, available only to the authorized devices, teams users and keys that the authors specify. FOKS achieves this natural application requirement with a simple key hierarchy. Everything starts with base-level keys, like user device keys, backup keys, or YubiKeys. Device keys are generated on user devices and never leave the machine they are ge

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Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 08:05:06

At Recall.ai, we run an unusual workload. We record millions of hours of meetings every month. Each of these meetings generates a large amount of data we need to reliably capture and analyze. Some of that data is video, some of it is audio and some of it is structured data – transcription, events and metadata. The structured data gets written to our Postgres database by tens of thousands of simultaneous writers. Each of these writers is a “meeting bot”, which joins a video call and captures the

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FOKS: The Federated Open Key Service

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-29 20:49:21

A Simple Key Hierarchy To power applications like the Git and KV-Store shown above, FOKS needs a shared symmetric key for all readers and writers of the data, available only to the authorized devices, teams users and keys that the authors specify. FOKS achieves this natural application requirement with a simple key hierarchy. Everything starts with base-level keys, like user device keys, backup keys, or YubiKeys. Device keys are generated on user devices and never leave the machine they are ge

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Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines

news.ycombinator.com Miguel Salinas 2026-01-26 22:55:04

How the analysis was done I used camelAI with a ClickHouse database of every HN story to do all analysis. You can use it for free with no login here to explore the data interactively yourself. 18 years • 1.8 million headlines • 13 database engines Hacker News is a real-time barometer of developer excitement. I mined every story title from February 2007 to June 2025 and asked three questions: How has headline volume for each database changed over time? Which engines are accelerating the fast

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Analyzing Database Trends Through 1.8M Hacker News Headlines

news.ycombinator.com Miguel Salinas 2026-01-27 04:55:04

How the analysis was done I used camelAI with a ClickHouse database of every HN story to do all analysis. You can use it for free with no login here to explore the data interactively yourself. 18 years • 1.8 million headlines • 13 database engines Hacker News is a real-time barometer of developer excitement. I mined every story title from February 2007 to June 2025 and asked three questions: How has headline volume for each database changed over time? Which engines are accelerating the fast

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The jank programming language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-27 05:56:42

The jank programming language jank is a general-purpose programming language which embraces the interactive, value-oriented nature of Clojure as well as the desire for native compilation and minimal runtimes. jank is strongly compatible with Clojure and considers itself a dialect of Clojure. Please note that jank is under heavy development; assume all features are planned or incomplete. Where jank differs from Clojure JVM is that its host is C++ on top of an LLVM-based JIT. This allows jank to

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Neobank Revolut seeks $65B valuation, a year after its $45B deal

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-02-01 05:57:39

In Brief Europe’s fintech darling Revolut is looking to raise a new funding round that would give it a $65 billion valuation, the Financial Times reports. The UK-based company is reportedly in talks to raise around $1 billion by issuing new shares and selling existing ones. The US-based firm Greenoaks is said to be leading the round, though the deal has not been finalized, and terms could change. TechCrunch reported in April that the company saw a 72% increase in revenue last year, netting $1

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Jank Programming Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-28 17:56:42

The jank programming language jank is a general-purpose programming language which embraces the interactive, value-oriented nature of Clojure as well as the desire for native compilation and minimal runtimes. jank is strongly compatible with Clojure and considers itself a dialect of Clojure. Please note that jank is under heavy development; assume all features are planned or incomplete. Where jank differs from Clojure JVM is that its host is C++ on top of an LLVM-based JIT. This allows jank to

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This $85 Kindle deal is the one most people should buy for Prime Day

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-02-03 10:13:00

ZDNET's key takeaways Amazon's base model Kindle promises quicker page-turning, a brighter display, and a fun matcha green colorway (alongside the classic black) It's on sale for $85 during Prime Day The e-reader is more reactive and vivid, and reading anything on the lightweight, portable device is convenient. This model has the shortest battery life out of the entire lineup, but it's still six weeks long. View now at Amazon The base model Kindle is on sale during Prime Day for $85, $20 les

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Supabase MCP leaks your entire SQL Database, a lethal trifecta attack

news.ycombinator.com Simon Willison 2026-02-04 04:46:55

Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database (via) Here's yet another example of a lethal trifecta attack, where an LLM system combines access to private data, exposure to potentially malicious instructions and a mechanism to communicate data back out to an attacker. In this case, General Analysis identify all three components in a single MCP - the Supabase MCP. They imagine a scenario where a developer asks Cursor, running the Supabase MCP, to "use cursor’s agent to list the latest support

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The Kindle most people should buy is majorly discounted for Prime Day

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-02-05 05:40:26

ZDNET's key takeaways Amazon's base model Kindle promises quicker page-turning, a brighter display, and a fun matcha green colorway (alongside the classic black) It's on sale for $85 during Prime Day The e-reader is more reactive and vivid, and reading anything on the lightweight, portable device is convenient. This model has the shortest battery life out of the entire lineup, but it's still six weeks long. $109.99 at Amazon $109.99 at Target $109.99 at Best Buy more buying choices The base

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WebAssembly: Yes, but for What?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-04 23:34:43

June 30, 2025 Volume 23, issue 3 PDF WebAssembly: Yes, but for What? The keys to a successful Wasm deployment Andy Wingo WebAssembly (Wasm) turns 10 this year, which, in software terms, just about brings it to the age of majority. It has been polished, prepared, explored, and deployed, but in the language of American speculative fiction author William Gibson, we are now as ever in the unevenly distributed future: WebAssembly has found a niche but not yet filled its habitable space. This ar

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Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 00:42:19

The last few pgstream releases have focused on optimizing snapshot performance, specifically for PostgreSQL targets. In this blog post, we’ll walk through the key improvements we made, share the lessons we learnt, and explain how they led to significant performance gains. But first, some context! What is pgstream? pgstream is an open source CDC(Change Data Capture) tool and library that offers Postgres replication support with DDL changes. Some of its key features include: Replication of DDL

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Rocket Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might Expect

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-09 22:45:46

AI Kirk Despite being stumped by simple children's games and uncontrollably hallucinating, AI models could perform surprisingly well when put in charge of navigating space inside a simulated spacecraft, researchers have found. As Live Science reports, a team of scientists from MIT and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, instructed OpenAI's blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT to "operate as an autonomous agent controlling a pursuit spacecraft." To their amazement, as detailed in a paper s

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Microsoft layoffs hit 830 workers in home state of Washington

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-02-11 05:42:39

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Axel Springer building in Berlin on Oct. 17, 2023. He received the annual Axel Springer Award. Among the thousands of Microsoft employees who lost their jobs in the cutbacks announced this week were 830 staffers in the company's home state of Washington. Nearly a dozen game design workers in the state were part of the layoffs, along with three audio designers, two mechanical engineers, one optical engineer and one lab technician, according to a documen

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