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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Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability

research.jfrog.com · 146 points · 372 comments

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

404media.co · 3 points · 0 comments

swsql – A PostgreSQL client for the terminal, written in Swift

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

DRM-CLI – open-source release manager for MSSQL/PostgreSQL/Oracle

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners

nytimes.com · 49 points · 24 comments

I added a client-side SQL sanitizer so schema never touches our servers

querytuner.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores

github.com · 75 points · 29 comments

IBM i (OS/400) the Database Operating System

osadmins.com · 53 points · 36 comments

PostgreSQL and the Linux OOM Killer: A Better Default

clickhouse.com · 8 points · 1 comments

The Database Is Not the Data Model

practicaldatamodeling.substack.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Massively Parallel Postgres Backups

planetscale.com · 120 points · 16 comments

Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s

github.com · 44 points · 166 comments

Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption

lwn.net · 86 points · 128 comments

Widen – Open-source Mac Postgres GUI with local or cloud text-to-SQL

widen.dev · 7 points · 0 comments

Making Postgres queues scale

dbos.dev · 126 points · 34 comments

CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB

wiz.io · 71 points · 17 comments

Run Full Kimi K3 with 29 GB of RAM

github.com · 9 points · 2 comments

After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres

theregister.com · 20 points · 3 comments

Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite

kedge.dev · 135 points · 25 comments

Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite's creator

cesium.com · 39 points · 15 comments

PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's

boringsql.com · 33 points · 22 comments

Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite

tracewayapp.com · 87 points · 57 comments

SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers

micrologics.org · 258 points · 77 comments

PostgreSQL Autovacuum Internals and Benchmark

percona.community · 5 points · 0 comments

Why Are Gay Bars Building Databases of Their Patrons?

eff.org · 41 points · 11 comments

Flashpaper – Self-destructing secret sharing with no database

flashpaper.app · 25 points · 12 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 · 914 points · 91 comments