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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 185 posts.
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You can't just assume UTF-8
How to infer character encodings with statistics
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LlamaCloud and LlamaParse
LlamaIndex introduces LlamaParse and LlamaParse for production-grade RAG. Unlock complex PDF data to improve LLM response quality. Discover how today.
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RavenDB 6.0.2 (A Jepsen Report)
RavenDB is a distributed document database which repeatedly advertises its support for ACID transactions. 1 It’s intended for OLTP workloads, and offers a variety of ETL paths for exporting data to other systems. Its transactional API revolves around a session handle, which “represents a single business transaction on…
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Preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL
Learn all about Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs in Grafana 11 and Loki 3.0 without writing LogQL.
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Difference between running Postgres for yourself and for others
At Ubicloud, our managed cloud service enables us to run PostgreSQL for others. We open sourced our implementation, so we thought this was a good opportunity to talk about its features. This blog post summarizes features commonly available in a managed service. It also describes interesting differences between running…
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DuckDB 1.0.0
The DuckDB team is very happy to announce that today we’re releasing DuckDB version 1.0.0, codename “Snow Duck” (anas nivis).
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pg_duckdb: Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA
Introducing the DuckDB + Postgres Extension: You can have your analytics and transact them too with pg_duckdb by DuckDB Labs, MotherDuck, Hydra, Neon and Microsoft. | Reading time: 8 min read
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Running Durable Workflows in Postgres Using DBOS
Technical deep dive into the new DBOS integration for Supabase
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Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use
Access Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera OpenUSD Data Set
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An Introduction to the WARC File (2021)
Want to know more about a tool in our web archiving toolbox? Your suggestions or questions for future posts about Archive-It technology are very welcome here .
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A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting
Posted by Rajat Sen and Yichen Zhou, Google Research Time-series forecasting is ubiquitous in various domains, such as retail, finance, manufacturi...
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PostgreSQL Streaming Replication (WAL); What It Is and How to Configure One
What is Streaming replication in PostgreSQL?Streaming replication in PostgreSQL is an efficient method for maintaining a near real-time replica of a primary database on one or more standby servers.The primary server continuously sends data to replica
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Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques
Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques: An Ultimate Data Wonderland
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We sped up time series by 20-30x
This is a follow up post that dives into how we managed to achieve such huge performance gains for time series (among other things), and why it was so hard in the first place.
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How we built ngrok's data platform
At ngrok, we manage a ~100TiB, 500+ table data lake, managed by a very small team. Here's a look at how we built it and what unique challenges we solved.
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ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down
The ElephantSQL team announces that ElephantSQL will discontinue its services.
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The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases
Time series databases are essential tools in any software engineer’s toolbelt. Their development has been shaped by user needs and countless open source contributors, leading to the healthy ecosystem of options we see today. In this article, you’ll see how time series databases came about, and why so many are open…
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Postgres Webhooks with Pgstream
Trigger HTTP webhooks on every INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE in PostgreSQL. Open-source CDC setup with pgstream, no polling required.
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Tokens, n-grams, and bag-of-words models (2023)
This post covers Natural Language Processing fundamentals that are essential to understanding all of today’s language models.
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Client libraries are better when they have no API?
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
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Cloudflare R2 IA storage tier
We’re excited to announce three new features for Cloudflare R2: event notifications, support for migrations from Google Cloud Storage, and an infrequent access storage tier
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How we made Jupyter notebooks load faster
When we received feedback our Notebooks UI was taking too long too load, our engineers dove into ways to improve the developer experience — bringing some load times from 30 seconds down to less than one.
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Pg_parquet: An extension to connect Postgres and parquet
Crunchy Data is excited to release a new extension so you can write Postgres data to Parquet and or pull data from Parquet to Postgres. Craig has the details and sample code.
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How JPEG XL compares to other image codecs
The JPEG XL is a powerful codec – find out how it compares to other codecs, including JPEG XL vs HEIC and JPEG XL vs JPEG.
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Introducing pgzx: create PostgreSQL extensions using Zig
We are excited to introduce pgzx, a framework for creating Postgres extensions using the Zig programming language.
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Using Postgres for Everything
What Postgres for Everything means to a dev deploying all sorts of databases. Spoiler: it’s about collapsing your stack and keeping it simple.