Best of 2023

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2023. 341 posts.

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Modern Transactional Stack

Transactional databases have long been the most critical component of application design. Why? Because a steadfast database is generally the ultimate enforcement point for correctness in a messy, distributed world. Without them we’d overpay and undercharge. We’d lose riders trying to get home from the airport, and…