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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 2,337 posts.
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Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers
This article is the first installment of a two-post series on Building a machine reading comprehension system using the latest advances in deep learning for NLP.
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Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
The Redict community is pleased to announce the release of Redict 7.3.0, the first stable version of our copyleft fork of Redis® OSS 7.2.4.1 You can download the release on Codeberg, or download one of our official container images from registry.redict.io. We have written comprehensive documentation detailing our…
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Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object
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Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (2014)
With the release of Elasticsearch 1.1.0, there is a new metric aggregation available to users: the Percentile metric. Percentiles tell you the value at which a certain percentage of your data is incl...
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Shareable Jupyter Notebooks That Run on Free Cloud GPUs
Gradient Community Notebooks provide free GPUs with pre-configured environments for machine learning and deep learning projects.
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Machine Learning in Google Bigquery
Posted by Umar Syed and Sergei Vassilvitskii, Research Scientists, Google AI, NYC Google BigQuery allows interactive analysis of large datasets, ma...
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Supabase Vault
Today we're announcing Vault, a Postgres extension for managing secrets and encryption inside your database.
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How We Built a Cost-Based SQL Optimizer
CockroachDB 2.1 includes a brand-new, built-from-scratch, cost-based SQL optimizer. This post explains what a cost-based SQL optimizer is, and tells the story of how we decided we really, really needed one.
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Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)
Quick reference guide for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data with Python Polars.
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AWS Babelfish: The Elephant in the PostgreSQL Room?
Fundación PostgreSQL
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Do you need Redis? PostgreSQL does queuing, locking, and pub/sub (2021)
It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019
A problem that would have been discovered in the future would now be captured by the SMART stats when the process reads that section of disk today.
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A bird's eye view of Polars
Read how Polars executes your query from planning, optimizing to execution.
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Search at Slack
On average, 20% of a knowledge worker’s day is spent looking for the information they need to get their work done. If you think about a typical work week, that means an entire day is dedicated to this task! To help our users find more time in their day, the Search, Learning, and Intelligence team set…
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SQLite Release 3.8.11.1
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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Implementing "seen by" functionality with Postgres
Different approaches for tracking visitor counts with PostgreSQL.
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SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust
Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data. Sedona extends existing cluster computing systems, such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Snowflake, with a set of out-of-the-box distributed Spatial Datasets and Spatial SQL that efficiently load, process, and analyze large-scale…
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Extra security measures for next week's releases
The core committee has decided that one of the security issues due to be fixed next week is sufficiently bad …
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