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Making Postgres slower

news.ycombinator.com Jacob Jackson 2026-01-03 22:12:59

July 27, 2025 Everyone is always wondering how to make Postgres faster, more efficient, etc, but nobody ever thinks about how to make Postgres slower. Now, of course, most of those people are being paid to focus on speed, but I am not (although, if you wanted to change that, let me know). As I was writing a slightly more useful guide, I decided someone needed to try to create a Postgres configuration optimized to process queries as slowly as possible. Why? I am not sure, but this is what came o

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Katharine Graham: The Washington Post

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 12:47:24

The Knowledge Project Podcast When Katharine Graham took over the Washington Post in 1963, she was a shy socialite who’d never run anything. By retirement, she’d taken down a president, ended the most violent strike in a generation, and built one of the best-performing companies in American history. Graham had no training, no experience, not even confidence. Just a newspaper bleeding money and a government that expected her to fall in line. Public Release: July 29. Members have access now .

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Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack

news.ycombinator.com Zack Whittaker 2026-01-03 23:49:23

U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its customers, financial professionals, and employees during a mid-July data breach. When reached by TechCrunch, Allianz Life spokesperson Brett Weinberg confirmed the breach. “On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat actor gained access to a third-party, cloud-based CRM system used by Allianz Life,” referring to a customer relationship management (CRM) database containing

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Itch.io is the latest marketplace to crack down on adult games

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-01-04 00:12:36

Indie video game marketplace Itch.io announced this week that it has “deindexed” adult and not-safe-for-work games, removing them from its browse and search pages. The move, the company said, was in response to a campaign by Collective Shout (an advocacy group that has previously criticized video games, rap music, and lingerie commercials) targeting both Itch.io and Steam for selling “No Mercy,” a game that depicts rape and incest. In an open letter addressed to executives at PayPal, Mastercar

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Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees

news.ycombinator.com Chris Simms 2025-12-30 04:13:52

Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone in 1995, over 60 years after their eradication from the national park. Yellowstone's wolves are helping a new generation of young aspen trees to grow tall and join the forest canopy — the first new generation of such trees in Yellowstone's northern range in 80 years. Gray wolves (Canis lupus) had disappeared from Yellowstone National Park by 1930 following extensive habitat loss, human hunting and government eradication programs. Without these top predat

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Breaking From Tradition, ThinkPad X9 Offers a Cheap Path to OLED Ultraportable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 22:00:11

7.8 / 10 SCORE Lenovo ThinkPad X9 14 Aura Edition $1,337 at Lenovo Pros Thin, sturdy design Includes OLED display for a great price Excellent haptic touchpad Great battery life Cons So-so performance Keyboard isn't up to ThinkPad standard Heavier than it looks Aura Edition stuff is more marketing fluff than anything actually useful For a laptop line steeped in tradition like the ThinkPad, one that goes back before Lenovo acquired IBM's computer business, the Lenovo ThinkPad X9 14 Aura Ed

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Millet mystery: A staple crop failed to take root in ancient Japanese kitchens

news.ycombinator.com University Of York 2025-12-30 20:47:45

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Yayoi pottery confirm that both crops were present in early farming settlements in Northern Kyushu. Credit: Fukuoka City Education Board New research into ancient Japanese rice farming suggests that significant technological development does not always mean the abandonment of cultural practices, particularly culinar

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16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 08:12:35

Sixteen Colors is an online archive for ANSI and ASCII artpacks. The artform was originally intended for display on computer textmode consoles. It gained popularity in the early nineties with the rise of dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). At one point artists started to group together and release their work in collections released monthly, these collection are called artpacks. Rivalry resulted in fierce competition between these artgroups which only boosted activity. ACiD and iCE are example

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Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 00:38:27

Since the inception of solid-state drives (SSDs), there has been a choice to make—either use SSDs for vastly superior speeds, especially with non-sequential read and writes (“random I/O”), or use legacy spinning rust hard disk drives (HDDs) for cheaper storage that’s a bit slow for sequential I/O and painfully slow for random I/O. The idea of caching frequently used data on SSDs and storing the rest on HDDs is nothing new—solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs) embodied this idea in hardware form, wh

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Allianz Life confirms data breach impacts majority of 1.4 million customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-03 20:00:55

Insurance company Allianz Life has confirmed that the personal information for the "majority" of its 1.4 million customers was exposed in a data breach that occurred earlier this month. "On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat actor gained access to a third-party, cloud-based CRM system used by Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life)," an Allianz Life spokesperson told BleepingComputer. "The threat actor was able to obtain personally identifiable data related to the majorit

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What went wrong for Yahoo

news.ycombinator.com Dave Farquhar 2026-01-03 20:25:13

Reddit calls itself the front page of the Internet. But for a good decade or even a decade and a half, Yahoo had as legitimate of a claim as any to the title of front page of the Internet. On July 25, 2016, Yahoo met an inglorious end as an independent company, selling out to Verizon for $4.8 billion. That makes today as good of a day as any to look at what happened to Yahoo, the first front page of the Internet. How far Yahoo fell At the time, Forbes called it the saddest $5 billion deal in t

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‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Finally Comes Out Next Year, and We’ve Seen Footage

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-03 20:30:34

Two years ago, Coyote vs. Acme was a victim of Warner Bros. Discovery’s cost-cutting cancellation wave. Despite public outcry, it initially seemed like it’d never see the light of day. But things have worked out in its favor: it’s coming to theaters next year, and San Diego Comic-Con offered a first look at what’s to come in the Looney Tunes’ latest movie and, more importantly, a release date: August 28, 2026. A mix of live-action and animation, the film sees Wile E. Coyote finally becoming fed

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Gets Muppet Fever In Season 4

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-03 21:43:31

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has done a lot of odd things in the course of its five-season mission. We’ve had musicals, fantasy episodes, full-on horror adventures, and even a murder mystery is on the horizon. Now, the show is boldly going in another kooky direction: a puppet episode. Announced today during Trek‘s blockbuster Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Jordan Canning (who directed season 2’s “Charades”, but perhaps more crucially here, also directed seven episodes of the Fraggle Rock

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Astronomer winks at viral notoriety with ‘temporary spokesperson’ Gwyneth Paltrow

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-01-03 21:40:33

After spending the past week-plus in the headlines due to a seemingly inescapable social media scandal, data operations startup Astronomer is trying to shift the narrative with a tongue-in-cheek video starring actress and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow was, of course, previously married to Coldplay singer Chris Martin. And it was at a Coldplay concert in Massachusetts that the company’s CEO Andy Byron and Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot were apparently caught dancing together on the “

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Scientists Find Evidence That Original Life on Earth Was Assembled From Material in Space

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-03 16:00:55

The molecules that form the building blocks to life may be far more common in space than once thought, according to researchers from the Max Planck Institute. Their work, published in The Astrophysical Journal, reports the detection of over a dozen types of complex organic molecules swimming closely around a protostar in the constellation Orion, suggesting that the chemicals can survive the violent processes that give birth to stars and thus may abound in space, instead of having to wait for a

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1Password subscriptions are on sale for 50 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-03 18:00:35

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . That brings the price of the Individual plan down to $18 for a year. A password manager is a crucial tool for anyone, really, but especially students going back to school in the fall. If you're one of them, you probably have more logins to remember now than ever before. 1Password is h

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Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 03:48:17

We’re excited to announce a new integration that will bring Instapaper to all Rakuten Kobo eReaders. The integration will provide Kobo readers with a seamless way to save and read web articles directly on their Kobo eReaders. In close partnership with Kobo, we’re working diligently on the integration, and we’re aiming to launch at the end of this summer. The new Kobo Instapaper integration will replace Kobo’s previous integration with Pocket which shut down earlier this month. Since the Pocket

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The Greek Small-Town Doctor Who Knows AI’s Secrets

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-03 20:25:28

On vacation in Greece since July 17, I figured it was a good opportunity to see how artificial intelligence was perceived in this small European Union country, which sits at the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. My curiosity was amplified by the fact that I was far from the famous islands like Santorini or Mykonos, which are typically overrun by tourists. The first four days of my trip took me to Ioannina, a town in the country’s northwest, a region of mountaineers and shepherd

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No, Reed Richards Won’t Lead the Avengers in ‘Doomsday’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-03 20:45:34

We may not know much about Avengers: Doomsday right now, but we’ve known for months the Fantastic Four will be a core part of it. Now, we know something else about it: Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards isn’t taking of the whichever Avengers team he winds up meeting. Earlier in July, Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman described Reed to Variety as a man who “goes from being a nerdy scientist to the husband and father who’d do anything to protect his family, to the guy who’s leading the

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How to Watch Liverpool vs. AC Milan From Anywhere: Stream Pre-Season Friendly Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 17:12:00

Liverpool's Premier League title defense preparations step up a gear today as the Reds begin their tour of Hong Kong and Japan with a tricky test against Serie A heavyweights AC Milan. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to watch this friendly match as it happens, wherever you are in the world. We'll also explain how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are, along with a full match list. The Reds have been one of the most active teams in the transfer window

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New Speed Test Results Reveal the Fastest Internet Service Provider in the US

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 21:00:00

There's been a lot of talk about internet speed lately. From various company taglines -- "Don't take slow for an answer" -- to the latest news about Japan's internet data transmission record, it's all about the speed. This week, Ookla released its Speedtest Connectivity Report for the first six months of 2025, and AT&T Fiber topped the list as the country's fastest fixed internet service provider. (Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) What does that mean? Does it tell

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Microsoft to stop using China-based teams to support Department of Defense

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-03 17:00:21

Last week, Microsoft announced that it would no longer use China-based engineering teams to support the Defense Department’s cloud computing systems, following ProPublica’s investigation of the practice, which cybersecurity experts said could expose the government to hacking and espionage. But it turns out the Pentagon was not the only part of the government facing such a threat. For years, Microsoft has also used its global workforce, including China-based personnel, to maintain the cloud syst

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Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2026-01-03 20:40:16

U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its customers, financial professionals, and employees during a mid-July data breach. When reached by TechCrunch, Allianz Life spokesperson Brett Weinberg confirmed the breach. “On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat actor gained access to a third-party, cloud-based CRM system used by Allianz Life,” referring to a customer relationship management (CRM) database containing

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I tested Panasonic's new affordable LED TV model - here's my brutally honest buying advice

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-01-03 20:45:14

Panasonic W70B ZDNET's key takeaways The Panasonic W70B is available for $549 (65-inch) and six other screen sizes. It's an entry-level LED TV that gets the job done. Slow loading times and subpar images are discouraging. View now at Amazon It's unusual, but for this review, I tested a 50-inch version of Panasonic's 2025 W70B Fire TV. (Usually, I test 65-inch models.) At $349 for this screen size, I spent some time testing the W70B, and here's what I can tell you about it. Also: The best Sam

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The best password managers for Android of 2025: Expert tested

zdnet.com Emily Long 2026-01-03 21:00:17

Bitwarden consistently features as one of my top password manager recommendations across numerous platforms, and Android is no different. Why we like it: With Bitwarden, you can sync unlimited credentials across as many devices as you want for free, so it's easy to access your logins, credit cards, identities, and notes wherever you need them. Saving and autofilling work well in mobile apps and browsers via biometric unlock with your fingerprint or face. Review: Bitwarden Bitwarden is open so

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China’s Smart Glasses Are Once Again Going All the Way Off

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-01-03 22:00:14

There are officially too many wild pairs of smart glasses coming out of China to keep track of. First, it was Xiaomi with its Ray-Ban-stomping pair of glasses that can record 45 minutes of consecutive video and boast an 8.5-hour battery life. Then, just last week, a company called Wigain announced a breakthrough in making mass-producible smart glasses with optical waveguide lenses. Those, I might add, also feel very Meta-killing. Now, it’s Alibaba’s turn, or it’s about to be if rumors are to be

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SAVE Student Loan Borrowers, You Have Only a Few Days Left Before Interest Restarts. Should You Move to IBR?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 18:30:03

Interest will restart for SAVE borrowers whose loans remain in a general forbearance on Aug. 1. Viva Tung/CNET If you're a student loan borrower enrolled in SAVE, you have about a week left to switch repayment plans before interest will begin accruing on your loans. But although interest payments will kick in, the change doesn't mean you have to switch repayment plans yet. Earlier this month, the Department of Education announced that on Aug. 1 interest would resume for the nearly 8 million bo

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Tesla plans 'friends and family' car service in California, regulator says

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2026-01-03 23:18:01

A vehicle Tesla is using for robotaxi testing purposes on Oltorf Street in Austin, Texas, US, on Sunday, June 22, 2025. In an earnings call this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased an expansion of his company's fledgling robotaxi service to the San Francisco Bay Area and other U.S. markets. But California regulators are making clear that Tesla is not authorized to carry passengers on public roads in autonomous vehicles and would require a human driver in control at all times. "Tesla is not allow

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Google in 1999: Search engines escape the portal matrix

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 11:06:06

Google in 1999: Search Engines Escape the Portal Matrix Like Morpheus in The Matrix, Google gave web users a stark choice in 1999: take the red pill and experience a new world of search quality, or choose the blue pill and stick with the bloated world of portal search. Google founders, 1999; photo by William Mercer McLeod. "Aren’t you rather late to the game?" It's January 1999 and that question was put to Google's young founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The interviewer was Karsten Lemm

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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

news.ycombinator.com Jono Alderson 2026-01-04 12:08:00

It’s time for modern CSS to kill the SPA Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites. The app-like fallacy “Make it feel like an app.” At some point during the scoping process, someone says the words. A CMO. A digital lead. A brand manager. And with that single phrase, the architecture is locked in: it’ll be an SPA. Probably React. Maybe Vue. Almost certainly deployed on Verce

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Latest Tech News

Making Postgres slower

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Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack

Itch.io is the latest marketplace to crack down on adult games

Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees

Breaking From Tradition, ThinkPad X9 Offers a Cheap Path to OLED Ultraportable

Millet mystery: A staple crop failed to take root in ancient Japanese kitchens

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What went wrong for Yahoo

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Astronomer winks at viral notoriety with ‘temporary spokesperson’ Gwyneth Paltrow

Scientists Find Evidence That Original Life on Earth Was Assembled From Material in Space

1Password subscriptions are on sale for 50 percent off right now

Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration

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New Speed Test Results Reveal the Fastest Internet Service Provider in the US

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Tesla plans 'friends and family' car service in California, regulator says

Google in 1999: Search engines escape the portal matrix

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

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