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Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy
A major technological advance in DNA writing enables researchers to construct and create in the language of biology
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It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
Stop managing multiple databases. Postgres extensions replace Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB with BM25, vectors, JSONB.
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Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes
Using H3 indexes to greatly speed up geospatial SQL Queries. Orders of magnitude improvements can be gained with the right data structures
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Postgres Postmaster does not scale
Why Postgres postmaster contention becomes a bottleneck at scale, how connection bursts and worker churn trigger it, and which fixes helped in production.
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Bunny Database
Deploy globally, query over HTTP, and scale reads with low latency. Bunny Database lets you build fast without paying the serverless tax.
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Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena
We’re expanding Game Arena with Poker and Werewolf, while Gemini 3 Pro and Flash top our chess leaderboard.
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Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.
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Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”
I love Rust and I love SQLite, so you can guess. Iwas pretty excited when I lerned that "SQLite was rewritten in Rust" What is SQLite, actually? 2 things: a
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My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)
How I added Immich to my already robust photo management system to make it ridiculously robust.
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ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.
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Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems
Learn how to use PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) for event-driven systems. Case study from Wayfair showing how to handle failures in Kafka consumers with PostgreSQL.
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Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes
Who’s this for Basics How data is stored in disk How indexes speedup access to data Costs associated with indexes Disk Space Write operations Query planner Memory usage Types of Indexes Btree Hash BRIN GIN GiST & SP-GiST Conclusion Who’s this for This text is for developers that have an intuitive knowledge of what…
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Pandas 3.0
We're excited to announce the release of pandas 3.0.0. This major long-awaited release brings significant improvements to pandas, but also features some potentially breaking changes.
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Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives
New metrics of AI usage provide a rich portrait of interactions with Claude in November 2025, just prior to the release of Opus 4.5.
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Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users
An inside look at how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second using replicas, caching, rate limiting, and workload isolation.
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ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors
Our latest ANN release supports scales of 100+ billion vectors in a single search index, with 200ms p99 query latency at 1k QPS and 92% recall.
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The challenges of soft delete
Exploring alternatives to the archived_at column pattern: triggers, application events, and WAL-based change data capture.
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Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
Creative ideas for speeding up queries in PostgreSQL
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ClickHouse acquires Langfuse
Our goal continues to be building the best AI engineering platform
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Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation
Mandiant aims to lower the barrier for security professionals to demonstrate the insecurity of Net-NTLMv1.
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Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing
Why DuckDB has become my go-to tool for data processing, offering simplicity, speed, and powerful features.
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Native ZFS VDEV for Object Storage (OpenZFS Summit)
We presented MayaNAS at OpenZFS Developer Summit 2025, introducing objbacker.io—a native ZFS VDEV for object storage. No FUSE, direct kernel-to-SDK integration achieving 3.7 GB/s throughput.
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How much of my observability data is waste?
After a decade in observability, one question kept coming back: how much of your data is waste?
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Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)
Results and speed for other programs on enwik8 and enwik9 are available at the Large Text Compression Benchmark .
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Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024)
This guide explains message queues with analogies: databases, warehouses and post offices.
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Elasticsearch was never a database
Elasticsearch is a search engine, not a database. Here's why it falls short as a system of record.
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Generate QR Codes with Pure SQL in PostgreSQL
As my cat woke me up way too early for a Saturday morning, I decided to put all this extra time (and my ChatGPT Pro subscription) into good use and generated a QR-code generator for PostgreSQL, written as a single pure SQL statement. No external libraries or Postgres extension installation needed! The pqr.sql example…
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New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis
We discovered that entire sections describing domestic U.S. intelligence facilities were deliberately removed from two published documents, while equivalent foreign facilities remained visible. The evidence exists in an unexpected place - the PDF metadata of documents published by The Intercept in 2016, and by The…