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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RSS feed for DatabasesAlloyDB's new agentic database architecture
cloud.google.com · 4 points · 1 comments
Banker – CLI for your finances using Enable Banking and SQLite
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"
bookofrevenue.com · 11 points · 49 comments
Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe?
safenotsafe.dev · 24 points · 44 comments
Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks
cyberscoop.com · 38 points · 100 comments
How Trump Is Building a National Citizenship Database to Check Voters
nytimes.com · 7 points · 0 comments
Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale
dbos.dev · 3 points · 28 comments
Put a Run Button on the SQL in Your Blog Posts
seaquel.app · 4 points · 0 comments
Scalar.dev – Python/SQLite server-rendered starter app, no build step
getscalar.dev · 2 points · 0 comments
Novel Arbitrary Write in SQLite
gabdevele.dev · 4 points · 0 comments
Why didn't anybody tell me about Redis hash slots?
blog.verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.dev · 17 points · 10 comments
I built a macOS Quick Look app for Markdown, SQLite, ZIP, and 300 more
quicklookpro.com · 3 points · 0 comments
CatQueue-A zero-dependency PostgreSQL job queue for Node and TypeScript
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Blink – A 452KB decision model in C/WASM with no token generation
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Distributed SQLite on Modal
github.com · 4 points · 1 comments
DBison: Free Modern Database Explorer
dbison.app · 3 points · 0 comments
SQLBraid – Write SQL directly in TypeScript without a query-builder DSL
github.com · 8 points · 5 comments
Roundabouts Database
roundabouts.kittelson.com · 8 points · 2 comments
Tin: full-text search for Postgres
planetscale.com · 32 points · 98 comments
Content-aware PII redaction with Jev in Postgres
pg-redact.vercel.app · 3 points · 0 comments
Graph RAG in Postgres. New facts replace older facts
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Tin: full-text search for Postgres
planetscale.com · 6 points · 2 comments
Tin: full-text search for Postgres
planetscale.com · 11 points · 5 comments
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
rohanbansal.com · 674 points · 144 comments
Omni – Open-source workplace agent, built on Postgres
2 points · 0 comments
A search-and-inference database from scratch in pure Zig
antfly.io · 30 points · 19 comments
Warp – Run DeepSeek v4.1 Flash with 5 GB of RAM at 3.77 tok/s
github.com · 4 points · 6 comments
FlareDB – a Rust-based streaming database with Apache Beam as interface
2 points · 0 comments
Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
withcapsule.app · 97 points · 167 comments
PGSkiff – Connect IPv4 Clients to IPv6-Only Postgres
pgskiff.com · 3 points · 0 comments