Databases stories

Data storage and retrieval remain central to every serious system. This topic covers SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed systems, query engines, and the trade-offs teams make when choosing data infrastructure.

Postgres releases, SQLite appreciation threads, and NewSQL debates regularly dominate HN — this archive preserves them.

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Why Are Gay Bars Building Databases of Their Patrons?

eff.org · 30 points · 11 comments

Flashpaper – Self-destructing secret sharing with no database

flashpaper.app · 24 points · 6 comments

PBTune – Evolutionary auto-tuning for PostgreSQL (no ML required)

github.com · 4 points · 2 comments

Migrating 6.5B Rows from MongoDB

usefathom.com · 10 points · 0 comments

Etymology Database from Wiktionary

etymologue.com · 3 points · 2 comments

PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

nikolays.github.io · 155 points · 23 comments

SQLiteWatch – profile SQLite on Linux without code changes

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

QueryTuner – SQL diagnostics across 5 DBs, no database connection

querytuner.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Pg_stat_ch, a Postgres extension to export every metric to ClickHouse

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Stinkpot: SQLite-Backed Shell History

tangled.org · 3 points · 0 comments

Postgress in Rust

2 points · 1 comments

h5i-db: Fast Embeded Time-Series Database Written in Rust

medium.com · 3 points · 0 comments

GFQL: Run Cypher on Polars, CPU and GPU, no database required

graphistry.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

dbos.dev · 214 points · 38 comments

Die Zeit Built a Searchable Database of Nazi Party Members

gijn.org · 9 points · 2 comments

TQuel Paper: Implementing Temporal Operators in Postgres

illuminatedcomputing.com · 5 points · 0 comments

A Database Engine Written in SWI-Prolog

asa-db.kocoygroup.site · 3 points · 0 comments

Stinkpot: SQLite-Backed Shell History

tangled.org · 6 points · 1 comments

filtersql – a dependency-free JSON-to-SQL compiler for LLMs and WebAPIs

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Kimi K3 found 19 0days in latest Redis 8.8.0 in 1.5hrs

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

I poked at the golden ratio in SQL and solved an open math problem

blob.byteterrace.com · 6 points · 0 comments

SQL service for tables with billions of rows or up to 1M columns

4 points · 2 comments

Pip install Postgres – no Docker/Brew/apt

github.com · 29 points · 7 comments

Syncle – Open-source real-time database synchronization engine

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server

twitter.com · 14 points · 1 comments

ManiDesk – SQL workspace joining market, macro and fundamental analysis

mani-desk.com · 3 points · 2 comments

VibeSchema – database schema visualizer for large schemas

vibe-schema.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Any text-to-SQL benchmark should address difficulties of real-world data stores

cacm.acm.org · 60 points · 21 comments

SyncLite – An embedded synchronization layer for SQLite and DuckDB

github.com · 2 points · 4 comments

The startup's Postgres survival guide

hatchet.run · 497 points · 216 comments