GoKawiil - Tech News

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SpacetimeDB: a short technical review (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Principal Systems Engineer | tags: spacetimedb, database, benchmarks

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SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Principal Systems Engineer | tags: spacetimedb, database, benchmarks

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Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | by Terence Eden | tags: ukip, bruce schneier, police state

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Rethinking Database Programming (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: database programming, software development, sql

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Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: nature, biological databases, infrastructure

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How to ship a database every day (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: turbopuffer, aws, gcp

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Time to Move On: Querying Without Nulls and Bags (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: null handling, bag data structure, database queries

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Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: tailscale, sqlite, wal-reset

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Cascading continental-scale floods across Europe in 1342–1343 (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-12 | by Kiss | tags: flood database, europe floods, 1342–1343

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We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: connections, database, inventory

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Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: connections, database, inventory

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Atari ST Public Floppy Database now open for everyone — online archive originally designed for ST flash cart packed with classics and homebrew (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Mark Tyson | tags: atari, atari st, database

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Hackers run khunt post-exploitation toolkit from Oracle database (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: attackers, commands, database

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Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | by Ham Vocke | tags: task runners, code repositories, dependency management

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Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: clickhouse, clickhouse labs, simd

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Andy Pavlo Joins ClickHouse to Establish ClickHouse Labs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: clickhouse, andypavlo, cplusplus

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ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | by Dhruv Mehrotra | tags: ice, dna collection, immigration enforcement

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ExfilSquad hackers leak info of over 100,000 UK police officers, staff (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: exfilsquad, pnld, police national legal database

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IBM i (OS/400) the Database Operating System (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Kamil Pytliński | tags: ibm i, os/400, system/38

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Authorize, don't authenticate (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Adam Marcus | tags: personal database, oauth, web application

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Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Brandur Leach | tags: pgtestdb, postgresql, template databases

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PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: postgresql, psql, distributed systems

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PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | by Radim Marek | tags: postgresql, mvcc, vacuum

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Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | by Mariella Moon | tags: alphafold, google deepmind, protein folding

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Show HN: Flashpaper – Self-destructing secret sharing with no database (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: flashpaper, self-destructing, secret sharing

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What I Learned Building a $107 Billion Market That Nobody Believed In (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-27 | by Matt Domo | tags: amazon web services, aws, cloud computing

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AIs don't do what you want. This is bad (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: github, hacker news, llm classifier

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Confirmed: Samsung’s new foldables have major battery health downgrade (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: samsung, galaxy z fold 8, silicon-carbon batteries

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Slater – Low-memory graphdb designed for read-heavy graphs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: neo4j, graph database, memgraph

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The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: biometric databases, visa waiver, european commission